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a text about slow art, and also My Year of Rest and Relaxation, and Tehching Hsieh, and sickness, but mostly slowness -- u can find the text version here & u can find book pre-order link here

This is a text about a specific painting: The Unbearable Lightness of Forgetting My Name by Noorain Inam, that I saw a couple months back at Noorain's solo show, Go back to sleep, it’s just the wind at Indigo + Madder. It's also a text about painting and imagining, your mind's eye and clarity, about feeling like things are over there but then also within you.

read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/noorain-inam-TULOFMN

& if u don't know, now u know: you can pre-order our book, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Poor Artists, here⁠⁠⁠⁠ (& ⁠⁠⁠⁠here if ur in the US⁠⁠⁠⁠).

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I have been writing about problems for a while so I think it is time to talk about solutions. This episode is about a project by Cassie Thornton that is about to make my life better. You can find the text version here, the Hologram here, our book pre-order link here if you're in the UK and here if you're in the US 🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️

This week's text is a review of SHE KEEPS ME DAMN ALIVE, a game by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. This text is (tbh) less a review, more a document or journal entry of my experience playing through, a way for me to write through my feelings and hold on to the intensity of this game. 

You can read the written version of this on our website here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/she-keeps-me-damn-alive/

You can watch Gab & Danielle's conversation here: gdlp.co.uk/posts/arebyte-interview/

You can support us on Patreon here: patreon.com/thewhitepube (& thank you to our patrons!!!)

This week's text is a review of the new Pokémon: Legends Arceus game. When the game came out, I literally sat down and played it for 5 days without moving, having the time of my life. But when it came to writing about it, I started to think about what I really want from a Pokémon game and how Arceus did and didn't match up. 

Written version of this review is available on our website here :)

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This week's text is a review of Gut Feelings Meri Jaan, a show at Touchstones by Jasleen Kaur and a group of collaborators from Rochdale. 

The written version of this text is available on thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/gutfeelingsmerijaan/

And as usual, thank you to our Patreon gang for supporting our weekly writing! Hope u all have a cute n happy Valentines weekend, here r some kisses from us, 2 u xxxxxx

This week's review is on Unpacking, a small pixel art puzzle game about unpacking items into rooms, available now on Switch, Xbox, PC/Mac. And so, I... didn't love it. But this text is about how, actually, I don't even want to love everything I play. Do you know what I mean? Sometimes love is too much, sometimes I only want things to be fine. 

The written version of this text is available on thewhitepube.com/games/unpacking

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This week's text is a Very Embarrassing essay about why i love period dramas & yearning. tl;dr, they've got Hot Vibes. and other things have those same vibe. And i think i'm toxic femininity. down catastrophically bad, send help. 

You can read this text on thewhitepube.com/art-thoughts/perioddramas

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This week's review on Apex Legends considers the narrative value of an elaborate first person shooter, or why I have just sunk 557 hours into a game that goes bang bang. I love it. This was the easiest review to write in the world, the most enjoyable. The only problem was it took me away from the game for a few hours. Okay, posting this review and then going back to where I belong, the world of Apex Legends. 

The written version of this text is available here.

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Well, it's been a year. In today's episode, Gabrielle and Zarina sit down to talk about the impact Long Covid has had on Gabrielle's life, body, head, whole world. It's been a year of learning about the instability of chronic illness, trying to find stability through it, and failing over and over again. There is so much more to say on the matter but this is all the poison I could suck out of the wound for now. 

You can find the transcription for this episode here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/year-of-long-covid

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