Introductions and explanations

So, here’s the thing, You may notice from my avatar that I appear to be someone you might know. You might recognize some of the content I’m going to be posting especially if you are or have been a member of what I considered to be my home on the internet, the Facebook group Glitch artists collective. I Had to leave there and Instagram, which broke my heart , because Gac really was/is great . But being me I got to arguing with certain people and realized that there is something of a gold rush, land grab going on and I wanted no part of that given that I primarily work with opensource software and advocate and publish my work under creative commons licenses.

I’m slowly pivoting my online presence into the Fediverse and away from those other spaces. A lot of the posts I will be making in the next while will be copies of my blog from another space so bear with me while I get up to date.

I should explain that I’m primarily an artist working with digital media, old software and hardware and I also circuit bend cameras and devices

Why crash-stop as a username and title for this ? I love science fiction and especially the work of Iain.M.Banks and his Culture series . In the Culture ships have both consciousness and agency, a crash stop is the most ruinous thing a ship can do to itself , it has consequences and that Is essentially what I have done.