Hello, my name is Michael PickThinking, not winking.
Slight nausea as autocorrect decides to capitalize the verb formerly known as trump.
January 12, 2017
Dub x Afrofuturism x black²face x slave/bot ontology & etymology x bootleg meds x 808 x trashdump tech x space echo
September 12, 2016
Your negotiations with mediocrity end in savage, naked, porcine squealing. Drinks are spilled. Shoes are thrown. Defecate abounds.
July 18, 2016
Journalists: should today look remotely bright or hopeful, please enjoy this audio-visual suicide induction lozenge:
June 21, 2016
TIL: using on a laptop/desktop unlocks fugly-distraction-bullshit-free mode
June 6, 2016
Consciousness, sphincter of experience. That half numb, meat buffered, eighties echo unit response to anything crucial, visceral, vital.
April 16, 2016
All of the tiny, paper-thin houses murmuring heartfelt muffled playlists into the night, rain, and traffic.
April 14, 2016
Make a splash at any social gathering by bellowing (TWEET IT) at the end of your most memorable sentences. Consider air quotes for emphasis.
May 21, 2014
Manufacture a toddler: mix one pack of rabid wolves with a swirling metric vortex of LSD; encase in a rubbery gnome of lesser-demonic visage
May 10, 2014
Next – parabiotic boomers draining the kindertots grafted onto their thighs, like so many wailing youth-batteries:
May 4, 2014
(Visions of Ballardian garden centre allegory replete with CCTV footage of class war, listless buggery, and cocaine addled lawn mowing)
May 4, 2014
Twitter's passive aggressive stream-hijack swipe at my being >35? Next: bingo, bifocals, and euthanasia spa resorts.
May 4, 2014
Half burnt out pier of coin operated “thought leader” automata silently waiting to lay 25 cent baubles of disruption on the barren ocean bed
May 4, 2014
A life-sized Bob van Asperen GIF-Tattoo, fingering harpsichord keys over your rippling flesh in restrained, mathematically exquisite arcs.
May 3, 2014
Keep just enough assholes in peripheral vision as to aid in circumnavigating your own inevitable descent into assholism.
February 27, 2014
That uncanny moment when your infant dances hypnotically to the Wicker Man soundtrack’s ominous Maypole number.
January 29, 2014
I dreamed a cubist apocalypse; people and streets falling afoul of displaced geometry & gravity, hurtling misaligned into the maw of stars.
January 24, 2014
Zombies are the last humiliating vestige of our slack jawed lust for life.
January 7, 2014
Annual barely conscious, gin-drenched, post-beast Totoro viewing complete. From here chaos, peanuts, entropy. Good tidings &c., one and all.
December 25, 2013
Somehow missed that Ben Wheatley is making a film out of Ballard's High Rise. That's a deliriously beautiful pairing.
December 23, 2013
DymaXmas Geodesic gingerbread RT @noel:
December 22, 2013
Also has "civil and military applications", so potentially ideal for those larger Amazon deliveries *and* dousing rioters with neurotoxins
December 20, 2013
Autonomous flying ED209esque dronebot "uniquely suited to flight inside of cities and other obstructed environments"
December 20, 2013
Buried, ominous, 40 pages deep in your "wish list", the glistening remains of desultory urges toward a richer complement of kitchen utensils
December 11, 2013
Fending off the relentless cranial embuggerment of kaiju-flu with Mark Cousins' Story of Film and a side of hot toxic lemon numbness
December 11, 2013
"How a deformed, child-murdering, wife-beating, psychopathic hand puppet became a cultural icon"
September 12, 2013
Squealing porcine sonic assault hey nonny nonny time travel wonder jaunt:
September 11, 2013
UK neuropharma research yielding “novel ways of degrading human performance using chemicals” for “riot control”
September 3, 2013
Apparently in the pocket universe of hotel bars, Coldplay is still a thing.
July 11, 2013
"The skies are a time machine" –
June 29, 2013
First day post-job; watching a beautiful car crash of ideas collide and crackle across my brain. Today's not the day to tame or shape them.
June 29, 2013
Friends before airports.
June 28, 2013
Cavaliers, Roundheads, alchemy & psychoactive meltdowns – looking forward to this dropping on the 5th:
June 25, 2013
Probably the most amazing dollar I've ever spent:
June 13, 2013
AdWords campaign: "Cloacal respiration in animals"
June 1, 2013
Kickstarter: randomly assigned, unlabelled vials filled, alternately, with transcendentally sweet and existentially dreadful puffs of breath
June 1, 2013
Startup: fingerless gloves that issue, upon handshake, the eldritch honking made by kaiju, end times, & the most nightmarish of fog horns.
June 1, 2013
And an "A Field in England" trailer to boot. Double mindfrack cinema day:
May 22, 2013
Bare knuckle boxing children, buckets of blood, dogs in human drag. Welcome back Jodorowsky!
May 22, 2013
Either way, the designers of TubeBeach should probably have skimmed Ballard's High Rise to see how this is going to end.
May 19, 2013
.@Fishbooom It's a design fiction pop quiz. Is it: (a) JAWS as arena based reality TV show
May 19, 2013
Consciousness modulated by the pulsing light of darkened room TV screenburn, occasionally punctured by ebullient 70s cinema foley work.
May 15, 2013
"Creatives are temperamental and need calm handling." Failing that, perhaps they should be put out of their misery:
May 11, 2013
Who doesn't enjoy the vertiginous thrill of racing Google Authenticator's refresh counter in the act of two-step verifying oneself? #NoReply
May 10, 2013
Kraftwerk Fight Club. Dead face, bare chested 808 snare roll pummelling. Blood-spattered Japanese taxi driver gloves. Accented commentary.
May 9, 2013
"A harpsichord in every home!"
May 4, 2013
Dead/Cold
January 12, 2017
December 30, 2016
Old man toys <3
December 24, 2016
Bit snowy out
December 24, 2016
Post-apocalyptic patchwork playground
November 24, 2016
One of those Silent Hill autumn mornings
November 24, 2016
Yeah
July 22, 2016
The kid, transfixed, getting his 4 year old mind blown by the @davidoreilly Adventure Time episode. Next stop, Everything.
May 9, 2016
May 1, 2016
May 1, 2016
May 1, 2016
Algorithm X Van Gogh X Pineapple Redux
April 30, 2016
For those choice moments when standing in an oversized, soundproof coffin to talk to yourself trumps the sonic hey nonny nonny of modern life.
April 29, 2016
We catch our Z's in the shadow of the same mountain
April 27, 2016
April 27, 2016
Brutalist pyramid
April 27, 2016
Matcha White Russian O' Clock
April 14, 2016
April 14, 2016
Miro's moderately disturbed pineapple
April 3, 2016
You move house; you fix shōji.
March 31, 2016
August 3, 2013
Miro digs books
July 6, 2012