{"id":29860,"date":"2026-03-21T19:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=29860"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:20:44","slug":"weekend-links-822","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2026\/03\/21\/weekend-links-822\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 822"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Untitled (2013) by Fred Tomaselli.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 The latest book from A Year In The Country is Ghost Signals: The Shadowlands of British Analogue Television 1968\u20131995<\/em><\/a>, an exploration of “a shadowland of terrestrial TV hidden in plain sight across the unmediated and unmarketed corners of the internet”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 New music: After The Rain, Strange Seeds<\/em><\/a> by The Leaf Library; Music For Intersecting Planes<\/em><\/a> by Leila Bordreuil + Kali Malone.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP airbrush artist Philip Castle<\/a>. Steve Mepstead<\/a> talked to Castle in 2011 about his work for Stanley Kubrick and others.<\/p>\n

Strassman began to see patterns in these encounters and created a typology: aliens; guides and helpers; clowns, jokers and jesters; elves and dwarves; or reptilian or insect-like figures. Variations and outliers notwithstanding, this spectrum remains remarkably consistent with DMT studies today. Strassman also looked into the historical literature and found similar descriptions as far back as Sz\u00e1ra, who wrote that one of his subjects reported meeting \u201cdwarfs or something.\u201d Forty years later and a continent away, one of Strassman\u2019s participants put it succinctly: \u201cThat was real strange. There were a lot of elves.\u201d<\/p>\n

A long read by Joanna Steinhardt<\/a> on the history and nature of hallucinated spirit guides and \u201cself-transforming machine elves\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Ben Cardew<\/a> on the pivotal role of Stereolab’s Super-Electric<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Colossal: Pejac<\/a> transforms basic graph paper into detailed, trompe-l\u2019\u0153il tableaux.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sixty finalists from the 23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At BLDGBLOG: The landscape architecture of auroras on demand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: Float V<\/a> mix by DJ Food.<\/p>\n

\u2022 We Have Always Been Here<\/em><\/a> (1995) by ELpH vs Coil | 5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyl- (5-MeO-DMT)<\/em><\/a> (1998) by Time Machines\/Coil | Machine Elves<\/em><\/a> (2024) by Polypores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Untitled (2013) by Fred Tomaselli. \u2022 The latest book from A Year In The Country is Ghost Signals: The Shadowlands of British Analogue Television 1968\u20131995, an exploration of “a shadowland of terrestrial TV hidden in plain sight across the unmediated and unmarketed corners of the internet”. \u2022 New music: After The Rain, Strange Seeds by … Continue reading “Weekend links 822”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 822","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,42,851,48,25,3,44,12,17,31,13,19],"tags":[6350,10686,2272,4941,8322,312,14491,11858,14489,14492,2224,8112,3040,2407,14490,10242],"class_list":["post-29860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-drugs","category-illustrators","category-kubrick","category-music","category-painting","category-photography","category-psychedelia","category-religion","category-science","category-television","tag-a-year-in-the-country","tag-ben-cardew","tag-coil-group","tag-dj-food","tag-elph","tag-fred-tomaselli","tag-joanna-steinhardt","tag-kali-malone","tag-leila-bordreuil","tag-pejac-artist","tag-philip-castle","tag-polypores","tag-stanley-kubrick","tag-stereolab","tag-steve-mepstead","tag-the-leaf-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7LC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}