Great series. BBC Radio 4 The Spark Leading thinkers posit solutions to the structural problems of our age. bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m…

Robert Capa - the rare 1947 radio interview: youtube.com/watch?v=MYe4yn…

'My worst nightmare is a passive audience'. Jason Fulford.

VIEWS. A new #wip project utilising Instagram’s audience poll function. Skip over to my current IG story to participate. ‘Are you the same person you were yesterday?’ #johnmaclean clogging the culture machine and hedging the attention economy since 2008. instagram.com/john_maclean_p…

Beautifully written and narrated series about William Hogarth: youtube.com/watch?v=D2l50m…

‘I touched culture, really lightly with a feather, but I touched culture’. Larry Sultan

Charlotte Cotton interviewing the great Brandon Lattu youtube.com/watch?v=nnhIxD…

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'When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.' Ed Ruscha.

“The war, the brutality of the world. What kind of man am I, sitting at home, reading magazines, going into a frustrated fury about everything – and then going into my studio to adjust a red to a blue?” Philip Guston 1977.

Paul Graham Gives Advice to Young Photographers youtube.com/watch?v=PzQGkN…

My work is in the exhibition ‘No Place is an Island’ opening tomorrow at Photo50 curated by Rodrigo Orrantia tinyurl.com/283w79u2

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‘Destiny 29.3.22’. From my polarizing participatory art project: VIEWS. I combine my high-resolution, digital photographs (using an AI filter to detect the ‘subject’) with the Instagram Story’s ‘audience poll function’ to create algorithmic snapshots of a masked zeitgeist.

From my new photo-typology of McDonald’s restaurants in England. #johnmaclean #mcdonaldsart #typology #bechers #mocktudor #goldenarches #McDonalds

The first digital camera.

30.12.22. From VIEWS: my polarising, participatory photography series, which employs the Instagram Story opinion-poll-function. 180cm x 100cm, archival inkjet. #johnmaclean turning up the Turing heat and toppling the origami crane since 2008.  jmaclean.co.uk

Hugely enjoyable interview with Saul Leiter: youtube.com/watch?v=GLUwFf…

Have your photographs or artworks been used as learning material by AI? This website will tell you: haveibeentrained.com

Wait. 'Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking'... by Bayles and Orland is an audiobook? Best book I've ever read on the obstacles artists put in front of themselves to avoid the pain of making new work.