If you’re from the UK then you’ve undoubtedly run across Argos at some point in your life. For the unfamiliar they’re a nationwide chain of shops where you go inside, pick items from a catalogue, and have the items brought to you from a warehouse. They recently released all their old catalogues. As I’m sureContinue reading “Book Of Dreams”
Author Archives: John
Sayonara Wild Hearts
I’ve given the free month’s Apple Arcade a whirl and Sayonara Wild Hearts is the stand out game so far. It’s a little hard to describe so I’ll leave it up to the creators: A POP ALBUM VIDEO GAME Sayonara Wild Hearts is a dreamy arcade game about riding motorcycles, skateboarding, dance battling, shooting lasers,Continue reading “Sayonara Wild Hearts”
Comedy with purpose
This is a fascinating interview with Chris Morris. A lot of people may only know him from the IT Crowd’s Denholm Reynholm, but he’s been involved in a lot of satire, and after a long absence it will be interesting to see his new work.
Hilda
One side-effect of having a young daughter is that you get to see things that would otherwise be out of your normal world view. We’ve both been enamoured lately with the Hilda graphic novels. These are a bunch of books about a girl, Hilda, who lives in a semi-Scandinavian world where fairy tale like creaturesContinue reading “Hilda”
The Electric State
This is a lovely fan animation for Simon Stålenhag’s The Electric State, including music composed by Simon himself: Apparently there’s a film adaptation in production, as well as an Amazon TV series for Tales from the Loop, his books set in Sweden. I look forward to watching them all.
