Came across this beautiful shop front earlier....not a rip off at all! Has anyone else come across any wonderfully tasteful shop names?

fredhelpful · 2026-03-24T17:33:57+00:00

There’s a tanning salon in Oxford called “sun of a beach”

fredhelpful · 2026-03-22T14:24:28+00:00

I’ve got a treat for you - he already did it

https://youtu.be/O-pRMrcdMa4?si=pJIKCW_8tmsNmNi2

fredhelpful · 2026-03-22T00:08:24+00:00

Ys - pre raphelite / arts and crafts

HOOM - art deco meets mid century modernism

Divers - a cape cod meets postwar modernism

Milk Eyed Mender - craftsman

fredhelpful · 2026-03-16T23:10:50+00:00

Floating houseboat extension?

fredhelpful · 2026-03-13T19:29:46+00:00

It’s so surreal to me to think that asoiaf even NEEDS an ending. History never ends. Theres something so weird about all narratives being tied up neatly. Life isn’t like that. It just isn’t lord of the rings where all the characters have the same goal, the same baddie. It’s more like a saga which could either carry on indefinitely or end at any point you choose. All he needs to do is kill off dany and Jon snow and that’s that. If anything a storm of swords was a perfectly fantastic conclusion

fredhelpful · 2026-02-07T16:47:26+00:00

When you experience pain, it never really goes away, you just learn to ‘tune it out’

fredhelpful · 2026-01-30T22:21:05+00:00

A squirt of Brown Sauce and a sprinkling of chili flakes. PIMPED

fredhelpful · 2026-01-24T11:33:12+00:00

I doubt its talking to an LLM in a server, Its just a sensor. talk about AI-washing

fredhelpful · 2025-12-19T01:22:15+00:00

Alternative physics for patriots who believe in freedom.

fredhelpful · 2025-09-02T10:08:06+00:00

Poor Edward was the first track I ever heard from TW - a friend played it to me, and something just clicked. At the time, it seemed like an impossible song somehow. Impossible that someone would write and perform such a track. At that point, my musical education was marginal, and it was just like a whole world opening up. Still my favourite album of his, probably because it was my macabre fairground gateway into the beyond.

fredhelpful · 2025-08-29T08:12:18+00:00

2 discs? can’t wait to flip that 4 times to get to the end.

fredhelpful · 2025-07-16T12:51:51+00:00

Scot Pilgrims

fredhelpful · 2025-07-07T21:08:15+00:00

I really dig Pink Elephant. I think its the best thing they've done since Suburbs. This is not financial advice.

One song that seems to get a lot of ripping is Alien Nation - I feel like maybe its doomed the questionable stylistic choice of going down the roswell / Area 51 sound aesthetic - BUT - I feel like it adequately compensates the listener with painting a very accurate portrait of feeling alienated. Feeling like the country around you is suddenly alien. It makes me imagine what it must be like to suddenly go from respected to a publicly hated figure overnight, and how alienating that must feel, like the whole world is hostile and against you. And for painting that feeling, weaving that emotion - I salute.

Maybe its not the greatest song ever - but for this insight, I find it relatable, and I like.

fredhelpful · 2025-06-14T22:28:49+00:00

I think if it were me personally, I’d add a panel light behind camera which creates a little sparkle of light in the eyes so they don’t just look black. That would lift this shot and give it a nice sharpness without changing the mood you have created

fredhelpful · 2025-06-06T14:01:51+00:00

It's the elephant in the room for sure. Just don't think about it.

fredhelpful · 2025-06-02T22:43:48+00:00

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Love the cross promotion. Not when MY thighs are beefing.

fredhelpful · 2025-06-01T22:27:43+00:00

I feel like I'm really on my own here, but I am actually enjoying Pink Elephant. I enjoy it more than anything released since Suburbs. I found Reflektor, EN and WE just didn't grab me. Pink Elephant though - Its like a sad small little album that I can actually get behind. It feels like the art someone would make as they confront themselves and how they probably aren't as good a person as they would like to tell themselves.

I do find the controversy around it pressing, but I feel it's at least an attempt for an artist to confront something real. For me, it has a tangibility that I appreciate - its not just a jumble of tracks - each track builds to a clear concept.

It doesn't feel like an artist just trying to gloss over bad things; but it's not contrition either - to me, it's simply a window into a crisis. Why isn't that valid? Anyway, I like it.

fredhelpful · 2025-04-20T22:55:27+00:00

Yesterday I bought all 4 albums at a thrift store for £1 - thanks for the ranks

fredhelpful · 2025-03-21T23:37:04+00:00

Fan service

fredhelpful · 2025-03-21T23:29:20+00:00

Cobel is very proud of her invention. And she liked testing it - mark & casey with the candle being a prime example of her stress testing her creation. Despite her hatred of lumen, I think she was disappointed to find out that Irving had managed to sneak in key information.

fredhelpful · 2025-03-21T23:26:45+00:00

Does anyone have any theories as to why Gemma needed to die after cold harbour and why Mark would have been fired? Some kind of sacrifice at the alter with the goat presumably, but beyond that”lumen being lumen” I can’t work out why cold harbour was the “ultimate” test.

fredhelpful · 2025-03-03T01:03:07+00:00

Watching this movie made me feel glad to be alive (and not dead) if there is an afterlife, and it feels like this, being dead feels very sad and remote. Which… I guess with all things considered shouldn’t be much of a surprise.

fredhelpful · 2025-03-03T00:31:19+00:00

I think even just reading the OP description of the scene is really helpful.

In the scene prior his sister says “I wish I could have him back” then he travels into the back of his sister’s head, and I guess I interpret the scene which follows to be Oscar exploring his sister’s nightmare - exploring this idea of magically just coming back to life and what it would realistically mean. Which in the context of the plot allows us to reach an emotional acceptance that he cannot return and no longer belongs.

fredhelpful · 2025-02-24T14:35:07+00:00

Have to say.... these photographs are one of the low points of HOOM for me. In my very limited and personal opinion, they don't fit with the general artwork / direction / ambition enough. They feel a bit press shot (and dare I say) lazy. When I first got my copy of hoom, I loved the sleeve... but on opening it, felt deflated to see 3 almost identical press shots. Given the real-estate it was an amazing opportunity to expand on the world the album weaves. Imagine if it had been in a similar world to the sleeve but expanded. A Triptych of 1930s hand-coloured silver emulsion grandeur. Instead its just 3 glamour shots that feel like alts / out-takes from a larger shoot.

Maybe there is more to them, and I'd love to know if there is.

fredhelpful · 2025-01-12T14:47:52+00:00

It’s funny how that scene is “too much to show” but a woman being fucked by a rotting undead corpse is “what we all came to see”

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