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Michael Brunström 🎄
@michaelbrunstrom.bsky.social
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Surrealist comedian
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Death to tyrants!* Down with the algorithm! Buy tickets to my Leicester Comedy Festival show!

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*Not intended as an incitement to crossbow violence.
A poster for my show: WILLIAM TELL VERSUS THE ALGORITHM Sunday 22 February, 1.20pm Duffy’s Bar Leicester
January 6, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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PAREIDOL-ISH (things that look only slightly like faces) 6/? #pareidolia #pseudopareidolia #parapareidolia #pareidolish
The ends of two park benches at an angle
January 6, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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My first zine is here. It’s a good first effort.
Haven’t worked out how best to distribute (sell?) it yet.
If you want it, I’ll send you one.
#zine
Front cover of my zine TRUMPETS with a crude line drawing of a trumpet.
January 5, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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PAREIDOL-ISH (things that look only slightly like faces) 5/? #pareidolia #pseudopareidolia #parapareidolia #pareidolish
Close-up of the back of a German glasses wipe packet
January 5, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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Typewritten note: I've just finished making my first zine. Tomorrow I will print and fold it so you can see it properly. I can't wait. This medium is so ideal for me I don't know why I've waited so long to start making zines.
January 4, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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PAREIDOL-ISH (things that look only slightly like faces)
4/? #pareidolia #pseudopareidolia #parapareidolia #pareidolish
The base of a brick structure
January 4, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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A 1980 cover version of Ivor Cutler’s song ‘Trouble Trouble’, by Finnish ska band SE.

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Riitaa, riitaa, riitaa
YouTube video by se - Topic
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January 4, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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Neil Ardley + Ivor Cutler + Edward Lear.

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The Dong With A Luminous Nose
YouTube video by Neil Ardley - Topic
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January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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PAREIDOL-ISH (things that look only slightly like faces) 3/? #pareidolia #pseudopareidolia #parapareidolia #pareidolish
The bolt of a locked gate
January 3, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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Typewritten note: I like beginners. I sometimes think artists produce their best work before they become any good at what they do.
January 3, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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This could go badly for me.
150g tubs of brandy butter on the supermarket shelf at 1p each.
January 3, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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PAREIDOL-ISH (things that look only slightly like faces)
2/?
#pareidolia #pseudopareidolia #parapareidolia #pareidolish
A close up of some railings.
January 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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PAREIDOL-ISH (things that look only slightly like faces)
1/?
#pareidolia #pseudopareidolia #parapareidolia #pareidolish
A parking ticket machine
January 1, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Typewritten note: Happy New Year (NB feeling unhappy is an equally valid coping strategy.)
January 1, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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A photograph of a tree every day 365/365
FINISHED
#tree #treephotography
A close up of the stem of the Christmas tree with a fairy light.
December 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Coming to your postbox in 2026: a series of monthly zines, beginning with Issue no. 1: TRUMPETS.
#trumpet #zine #2026 #artproject
Front cover of a zine. Jan. 26. TRUMPETS Crude sketch of the business end of a trumpet. Sketch of a broken heart, captioned: 60% have had their HEART BROKEN by a TRUMPET
December 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I considered “a photograph of a different part of my body every day for a year” but I thought that might make people upset, even if I restricted myself to decent areas.
December 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Next year’s photographic project will be a variant on the concept of PAREIDOLIA: “things that might possibly look like faces, but not really”. Here’s an example.
This needs an technical title. Some options:
• Quasipareidolia
• Pseudopareidolia
• Patapareidolia
Any suggestions?
#pareidolia
The lid of my coffee cup.
December 31, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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A thought.
Typewritten note: The algorithm will always be biased in favour of photorealism and art that demands less time to interpret and engage with. Let's all do weird abstract stuli.
December 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Last one. Mini Christmas project: illustrations of the thirteen Icelandic Yule Lads.
13 Kertasníkir
#yulelads #kertasníkir #forkhandles
Drawing of head tipped back with four candles in the mouth.
December 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Unpopular opinion: Die Hard is an Easter movie.
December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Opinion: Violet is a more evil Christmas villain than Scrooge, the Grinch or Hans Gruber.
Violet complaining in A Charlie Brown Christmas.
December 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Mini Christmas project: illustrations of the thirteen Icelandic Yule Lads.
12 Ketkrókur
#yulelads #ketkrókur
Line drawing: a diagrammatic hook against a fractured geometric background.
December 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Typewritten note: Looking back on my life, a gruesome truth becomes clear: everything I've ever achieved was done in a panicky scramble the night before it was due.
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Mini Christmas project: illustrations of the thirteen Icelandic Yule Lads.
11 Gáttaþefur
#yulelads #gáttaþefur
Simple pencil outline of an enormous nose and a tiny door.
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM