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When I crashed out of academia in early 2017, I had been working on an article comparing Good Vibrations (dirs. Lisa Barros D'Sa & Glenn Leyburn, 2012) and No (dir. Pablo Larraín, 2012) as part of a process of expanding my research on film and visual culture in contemporary Northern Ireland out to other post-conflict or post-dictatorship societies. I would guess that at that time with my brain working the way it could, a solid couple of weeks' peace to concentrate on it would have seen the completion of a presentable draft. But the illness from stress was pervasive and debilitating, and the topic re-traumatising, so I have struggled to return to it in a meaningful way.  Wanting to maintain my blog as a regular but not-too-strenuous output stream to keep writing, I figured I'd look at my abandoned projects to see if there was anything worth mining to put out there in case the ideas were useful to others. I would also like to return to my video essay plans that became si

21 August 2020 Notes from 12 August 2020 I haven't blogged or written for a few weeks for sad reasons. My partner's brother's partner died. It's not my story to tell so I've largely steered clear of my personal social media and tried to maintain the podcast and its accounts. Words for the situation oscillate between none and far too many, so, publicly at least, I have opted for none until jotting down these thoughts. On top of difficulties in expression, the circumstances led us to travel unexpectedly to the 30+°C heat in the West Midlands. It's like moving through warm treacle. In many respects, I realise that humans are at an awkward stage of evolution where we're at once overdeveloped and not nearly developed enough. Adults feel compulsions to do things in response to their emotions that are only socially acceptable to enact when you're much younger, and only to a point. All of this language at our disposal and it's still inadequate. Yet we moral

  Rachel Brook joins me from her Placeholder Studio to talk about her #creativerecovery and career transition. Includes some discussion points concerning abusive work cultures that some may find difficult or upsetting. Music: commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703 Recorded with Zoom Edited by Paula Blair with Kdenlive Please support via: https://www.patreon.com/avcultures https://www.buymeacoffee.com/peablair https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/peablair https://liberapay.com/peablair

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Michelle Myrick talks about how her creative work across writing, painting and song inform her practice as a life coach. Slip me a fiver at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/peablair .

Preview of episode 71 of Audiovisual Cultures Podcast with artist and life coach Michelle Myrick. Slip me a fiver at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/peablair .