Ryan Spencer
@ryanspencerphoto.bsky.social
photographer, etc | https://www.ryanspencerphoto.com
sometimes drums | @devourtheair.bsky.social
new book out now from TBW | https://tbwbooks.com/products/there-is-no-light-in-the-tunnel-because-the-tunnel-is-made-of-light
sometimes drums | @devourtheair.bsky.social
new book out now from TBW | https://tbwbooks.com/products/there-is-no-light-in-the-tunnel-because-the-tunnel-is-made-of-light
Happy Friday from your friends DEVOUR THE AIR!
TODAY IS THE DAY! Our debut LP DESTROYERS has been unleashed. It's on all major streaming platforms, but more importantly it's BANDCAMP FRIDAY, so artists get 100% of the profits. We also have handmade CDs for the real heads. ✌️🖤🤘Ben + Ryan
devourtheair.bandcamp.com/album/destro...
devourtheair.bandcamp.com/album/destro...
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy Friday from your friends DEVOUR THE AIR!
Hey photo book friends - my book, and all the great TBW titles, are 25% for Black Friday, use discount code: BLACKFRIDAY25 at checkout 🖤📚🤘
There Is No Light at the End of the Tunnel Because the Tunnel Is Made
Paperback with colored edges272 pages, 124 plates4.25 x 7 in. / 108 x 178 mmEssay by Rebecca BengalIllustrations by Chummy Alexanian2024ISBN 978-1-942953-63-0 In 1996, rock band The Afghan Whigs relea...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hey photo book friends - my book, and all the great TBW titles, are 25% for Black Friday, use discount code: BLACKFRIDAY25 at checkout 🖤📚🤘
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Good morning, friends! We're so grateful to Carol and our pals at @wfmu.bsky.social for playing our new song DESTROYERS! Some great jams here for your Sunday morning on the Serious Moonlight Sonatas show 🖤 wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Vision Moontra: Serious Moonlight Sonatas with Carol
Audio & playlist from November 16, 2025
wfmu.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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We used to have it all: Once upon a time in NYC on Houston between 1/2 Ave there was a bar with full-on airplane decor, including tiny airplane bathroom and in seat ashtrays (*ciggies: $6/pack*), called Idlewild. I grabbed this menu in 2001 or 02.
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
We used to have it all: Once upon a time in NYC on Houston between 1/2 Ave there was a bar with full-on airplane decor, including tiny airplane bathroom and in seat ashtrays (*ciggies: $6/pack*), called Idlewild. I grabbed this menu in 2001 or 02.
Made some CD-Rs for you guys like it's 2003. 🤘
Your humble servants at DTA HQ have completed the super limited edition handmade bootleg CDRs of our new LP DESTROYERS, available 12/5. Only 25 for sale!
devourtheair.bandcamp.com/album/destro...
devourtheair.bandcamp.com/album/destro...
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Made some CD-Rs for you guys like it's 2003. 🤘
For those who observe:
HAPPY GODZILLA DAY from your pals DTA! Fun fact: the 1954 film is sampled on the first song, DARKEST LIGHT, on our first EP, SILVER MOUNTAIN. Hear him stomping and screaming here (or on streaming): devourtheair.bandcamp.com/album/silver...
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
For those who observe:
For all the real ghouls, my band @devourtheair.bsky.social is releasing our first LP. I printed, sliced, stickered and burned all the CDs. Imperfect, maybe, but made with love 🖤
🦇 HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM DTA 🎃 Our new LP DESTROYERS drops on 12/5! You can preorder (including very limited handmade bootleg CDs) from bandcamp now and get the title track: devourtheair.bandcamp.com/album/destro...
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
For all the real ghouls, my band @devourtheair.bsky.social is releasing our first LP. I printed, sliced, stickered and burned all the CDs. Imperfect, maybe, but made with love 🖤
I know Shelto, and he's never been lighter.
Our fellow Power Hour alum and CEO of Luftmensch Records Marshall / Shelto has released a brilliant collection of toe-tappers today. Like seltzer for your ears...
Shelto Lightens Up, by Shelto Marx
8 track album
sheltomarx.bandcamp.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I know Shelto, and he's never been lighter.
Tomorrow night in Brooklyn!
The next Ditmas Lit is Wed. Oct. 22! We’re excited to welcome readers @megancummins.bsky.social, Tierney
Oberhammer, @kaileepedersen.bsky.social, and Anna Rasche. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Oberhammer, @kaileepedersen.bsky.social, and Anna Rasche. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Ditmas Lit | The Urbane
A monthly reading series in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, dedicated to showcasing a diverse range of emerging and established writers in all genres. Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm.
www.urbanebrooklyn.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Tomorrow night in Brooklyn!
we used to have it all
October 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
we used to have it all
New DEVOUR the AIR (me + Ben Lasman) record DESTROYERS drops 12/5! Listen to our new song, buy a handmade CD.
"Set my blood on fire, watch me devour the air..."
DEVOUR the AIR presents DESTROYERS
DEBUT LP: 12/5/2025
Pre-order super limited bootleg edition handmade CDs and listen to our new song 'Destroyers' below.
✌️🖤🤘Ben + Ryan
devourtheair.bandcamp.com/album/destro...
DEVOUR the AIR presents DESTROYERS
DEBUT LP: 12/5/2025
Pre-order super limited bootleg edition handmade CDs and listen to our new song 'Destroyers' below.
✌️🖤🤘Ben + Ryan
devourtheair.bandcamp.com/album/destro...
Destroyers, by Devour the Air
5 track album
devourtheair.bandcamp.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
New DEVOUR the AIR (me + Ben Lasman) record DESTROYERS drops 12/5! Listen to our new song, buy a handmade CD.
'Where to Land' is a gift for my real Hal Hartley heads out there. Great interview in @slantmagazine.com
"I think a lot of the time people equate irony with cynicism, which I’ve never been involved with. Irony is interesting because it highlights contradiction, and that’s what I’m interested in."
"I think a lot of the time people equate irony with cynicism, which I’ve never been involved with. Irony is interesting because it highlights contradiction, and that’s what I’m interested in."
Hal Hartley on 'Where to Land' and Making Movies His Own Way
Hal Hartley discusses the origins of 'Where to Land,' fundraising, drawing from his own life, and plenty more.
www.slantmagazine.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
'Where to Land' is a gift for my real Hal Hartley heads out there. Great interview in @slantmagazine.com
"I think a lot of the time people equate irony with cynicism, which I’ve never been involved with. Irony is interesting because it highlights contradiction, and that’s what I’m interested in."
"I think a lot of the time people equate irony with cynicism, which I’ve never been involved with. Irony is interesting because it highlights contradiction, and that’s what I’m interested in."
T O M O R R O W - Saturday, 10/3, 3-4pm, I'll be at the TBW BOOKS table at the ICP PHOTO BOOK FEST signing books and hanging out. This will be my last NYC event for the foreseeable future so, I dunno, come say hi :)
October 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
T O M O R R O W - Saturday, 10/3, 3-4pm, I'll be at the TBW BOOKS table at the ICP PHOTO BOOK FEST signing books and hanging out. This will be my last NYC event for the foreseeable future so, I dunno, come say hi :)
Thanks, Public Books! The brilliant A/S/L is available now from @sohopress.bsky.social!
New at PB: @ryanspencerphoto.bsky.social interviews @jeannethornton.bsky.social about her new novel A/S/L (@sohopress.bsky.social), a book that reminds us: Forgetting isn’t freedom, forgiveness isn’t redemption, and in life there are no resets.
“Conjuring and Reality”: An Interview with Jeanne Thornton - Public Books
“Pronouncing a sentence about a person, wrapping them up in your narrative, can be a very gracious action, or a cruel one, or probably most often both.”
www.publicbooks.org
October 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Thanks, Public Books! The brilliant A/S/L is available now from @sohopress.bsky.social!
A/S/L is at the top of my favorite books of 2025, so I was thrilled to engage @jeannethornton.bsky.social in conversation for our friends at @publicbooks.bsky.social. A must read for my real heads and the soon to be converted alike. Thanks, Jeanne!
“Conjuring and Reality”: An Interview with Jeanne Thornton - Public Books
“Pronouncing a sentence about a person, wrapping them up in your narrative, can be a very gracious action, or a cruel one, or probably most often both.”
www.publicbooks.org
October 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A/S/L is at the top of my favorite books of 2025, so I was thrilled to engage @jeannethornton.bsky.social in conversation for our friends at @publicbooks.bsky.social. A must read for my real heads and the soon to be converted alike. Thanks, Jeanne!
Doing some long overdue maintenance on my archive, I came across some photos from (I think?) 1999 seeing Wesley Willis in Denver. I will cherish his head butt forever. Rock N Roll Will Never Die!
September 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Doing some long overdue maintenance on my archive, I came across some photos from (I think?) 1999 seeing Wesley Willis in Denver. I will cherish his head butt forever. Rock N Roll Will Never Die!
Hey gang it's been a minute. But TODAY, SATURDAY SEPT. 13, I'll be at the PRINTED MATTER NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR at MoMA PS1 hanging out with the TBW BOOKS crew and signing books from noon until 1pm (or so). Come say hi :)
September 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Hey gang it's been a minute. But TODAY, SATURDAY SEPT. 13, I'll be at the PRINTED MATTER NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR at MoMA PS1 hanging out with the TBW BOOKS crew and signing books from noon until 1pm (or so). Come say hi :)
Great interview with the filmmakers in @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy. This great film is now on MUBI!
“America is Desperate for a Narrative”: Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez on <em>Invention</em> - Filmmaker Magazine
Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources.
filmmakermagazine.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Great interview with the filmmakers in @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy. This great film is now on MUBI!
“That’s what is so awesome about art: that we deeply flawed creatures can sometimes do extraordinary things. A.I. just doesn’t have any of that stuff going on. Ultimately, it has no limitations, so therefore can’t inhabit the true transcendent artistic experience.”
As we grow older, “loss becomes the primary condition of living,” Nick Cave says. “That doesn’t mean you’re in a hopeless, grief-stricken state all the time; it just means that you carry a deeper understanding of what it is to be human.”
Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life
The singer-songwriter believes that we are deeply flawed, impermanent creatures who can sometimes do extraordinary things.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
July 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
“That’s what is so awesome about art: that we deeply flawed creatures can sometimes do extraordinary things. A.I. just doesn’t have any of that stuff going on. Ultimately, it has no limitations, so therefore can’t inhabit the true transcendent artistic experience.”
Raven Chacon’s incredible installation “Aviary” is up through July 3 at the Academy of Arts and Letters at Audubon Terrace.
June 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Raven Chacon’s incredible installation “Aviary” is up through July 3 at the Academy of Arts and Letters at Audubon Terrace.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it.
Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.
Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.
June 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it.
Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.
Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.
Icon of icons, Grace Jones, at the Celebrate Brooklyn kickoff last night.
June 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Icon of icons, Grace Jones, at the Celebrate Brooklyn kickoff last night.
Hey Philly, @devourtheair.bsky.social will be playing a special joint set with Shelto Marx TODAY at 4!
WEST PHILLY PORCHFEST TODAY! DTA will be playing a joint set with our pal Shelto Marx at 4810 Florence Ave starting at 4pm. Let's get weird 🤘
westphillyporchfest.com/pages
westphillyporchfest.com/pages
May 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Hey Philly, @devourtheair.bsky.social will be playing a special joint set with Shelto Marx TODAY at 4!
T O M O R R O W ! Sunday, May 18 - I'll be doing a book signing in Pasedena at the Printed Matter LA ART BOOK FAIR - TBW BOOKS Booth F5, 2-3 pm. Sunday is pay what you want at the fair, so come hungry for art books... ✌️
May 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
T O M O R R O W ! Sunday, May 18 - I'll be doing a book signing in Pasedena at the Printed Matter LA ART BOOK FAIR - TBW BOOKS Booth F5, 2-3 pm. Sunday is pay what you want at the fair, so come hungry for art books... ✌️