The stories of two women in Nottingham who discovered videos of themselves on Tik Tok which had been secretly recorded using Meta smart glasses and uploaded without their knowledge or consent. I also explore the motives, attitude, and Discord server of "Carlos", the man behind the glasses. That's him in the cover art.

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An investigation into ubiquitous stock imagery used to depict cyberspace, technology and the 1980s. I examine the pop culture of the 80s, the influence of technology, certain cities, and synthwave.

🔗LINKS:

📰 Useful articles on the subject:

https://www.psd-dude.com/tutorials/resources/80s-font.aspx

https://medium.com/@cywjoel/outrun-the-aesthetic-deconstructed-dbd3cd8679b7

https://wearethemutants.com/2017/02/16/vanishing-point-how-the-light-grid-defined-1980s-futurism/

https://indieground.net/blog/80s-grid-history/

📕 Michel Tcherevkoff's book: https://archive.org/details/tcherevkoffimage0000tche/page/n151/mode/2up

🎥The Rise of the Synths documentary website: https://theriseofthesynths.com/

🎥My documentary, Follow the Stickers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_6Q4uOLIY4

📼The 77-Year-Old Giga-Chad Boomer who loves GIFs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9SO7cZU_nM

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A summary of the month of January 2025 told via unseen snippets of mundane video in an audio collage that I narrate. Yeah, it's an odd one, but give it a chance.

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My Roosevelt documentary: https://youtu.be/uxyP0ue681A

👱‍♂️ MORE ABOUT MATT

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