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Steve Block

Steve Block

@blockie.bsky.social

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e.g. Artist, cat-lover and avid reader

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Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · Jul 10

Just posted Be There When? on my Substack... a wander through Oasis, nostalgia, and what it means to look back without losing yourself.

Read, reflect, reply if it moves you.

open.substack.com/pub/psychoblockie/p/be-there-when

#memory #nostalgia #britpop #oasis #substack

Berwick Street, London, 2024. A man walks towards the camera

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · Jul 1

Boots in Kerry, Ireland. Nikon d750 f/8.0 1/60 24mm af-d ISO 400
#BootsOfBluesky #WetLeather #MournfulExpression #IGuessThatsWhyTheyCallItTheBlues #IrelandPhotography #KerryIreland #LeatherBoots #MoodyAtmosphere #WalkingShoes

From above, the image shows two pairs of feet standing on a gravel surface. The top feet wear purple shoes, while the bottom feet wear brown boots. Both wear blue jeans.

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · Jun 25

Boots, car footwell, Renault Clio. Driving through Wales.

#BootsPoetry #FootwellFeverDream #DustAndDoubt #DocumentaryOfTheSole #BlueskyRoads

Tan boots and blue jeans in the shadow of a dashboard, carrying the weight of a man and a journey he only half understands. Somewhere between Pembroke and the void. Possibly sentient. Photographed from the passenger’s side. Charging cable photobombs the scene.

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · Jun 23

Fuck, what if AI smooths me out like a stone in a river?
I wrote this because I’m scared it’ll eat my voice — that weird, messy, “fuckity fuck” Steve-ness.
Read it if you want to keep your edges rough.
psychoblockie.substack.com/p/fuck-what-...
#AI #VoicePreservation #WritingCommunity #KeepItWeird

Fuck, What If It Eats Me?

please leave this sentence broken

psychoblockie.substack.com

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · May 27

Boots, Cafè Nero, Hammersmith.

Google Pixel 7 Pro 51.493200,-0.223581

Mood: Nonchalant Musing with anxious undercurrent
Coffee: Skinny Flat White
Walk Score: 5/10

#May2025 #BootsOfTheDay #HammersmithMoments #CafeChronicles #WanderingFeet #UrbanPilgrimage #WalkingAsPractice #VisualDiary

Tan boots and blue jeans, worn by photographer, photo from shin down, square crop. Boots in centre of image on a semi-engineered floor, running at a small angle from bottom right to top left across the frame, a metal table leg protrudes into the right hand side of the frame lower two thirds.

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · May 22

Boots, National Portrait Gallery, on the occasion of my photograph being exhibited as part of Photo Portrait Now...

Tan boots and blue jeans with by photographer shot from shin down, on a red and maroon carrier in a lecture theatre at the National Portrait Gallery

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · May 20

Boot, Dungarven #bootsofbluesky #doctormartenboots #cracksandgravel

A DM Boot on a foot of a leg clothed in a navy suit trouser, suspended above gravel at a party in a garden on a sunny day, celebrating a communion after a fourteen hour drive and ferry

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · May 20

Oh wow, I didn't know a lot of this, fascinating. Thanks for the information, hope the day goes well. I hadn't realised there was legs to the idea the princes survived...

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · May 19

Like the laces big time 😎

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · May 19

Lot going on there, I wanna get all like what did you use but that's not the point...

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · May 19

ooh, nice. I can never get my gang to give Into the odd a try. Got electric bastionland but passed on mythic because if we'll never play it...😢

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · May 19

Okay, I'll bite. Why is he so mysterious?

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · May 19

New Substack: #ZineLife A zine/book stall becomes a meditation on truth, memory, and #working-class awkwardness in art spaces.

There’s glue. There’s ghosts.

Read it here 👉 psychoblockie.substack.com/p/pop-ups-im...

Pop-ups, imperfections, and truth in art

This is my truth... or something like it

psychoblockie.substack.com

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · May 2

Dang, head says Splash but as a huge western fan my heart says News Of The World

a man with a beard wearing a hat and sweater says make no mistake

Alt: Tom Hanks says make no mistake in the film News of the World

media.tenor.com

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · May 1

Come find us in the light…
Thursday 8th May, 11–5
📍 The Hub, London South Bank Uni
📍 100, 116 London Rd, SE1 6LN

Pop-up zines, prints, posters…
PULP, BRICKS & more...
Bring coins, curiosity… leave with ghosts.

#LSBU #PhotographyZine #ZineFair #LondonEvents #PhotoBook #PsychoblockiePress

4 posters in a loose 2 by 2 grid on a green cutting mat

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · May 1

I do love a good brick photo, although currently my bluesky is devoted to boots...

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · Apr 30

Nice, love that imagery, can almost see the picture

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · Apr 30

Boots, Clapham Junction, returning from The Telegraph with thanks to @canewman.bsky.social
#PortraitOfTheUnseen
#EphemeralElegance
#FootnotesFromTheNetwork
#WornPathsAndWaningLight
#TransitAndTransience
#SmilesThatNeverLanded
#BootsOfBluesky

Woodland boots on the platform at Clapham Junction, worn by photographer, also wearing blue jeans, seen, and a screwed up smile courtesy of the sun, unseen.

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · Apr 29

Ta, that would be awesome. I was talking to a lecturer recently about a national portrait gallery of things...currently trying to decide whether/how to crack soles apart and extract derrida...either that or push harder at a brick obsession...but I have an essay to write...may life treat u well today

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · Apr 29

The Legend of psychoblockie... unfolds
South London’s ghost son walks backwards into the future with a brick in his boot and a camera in his hand.
psychoblockie.substack.com/p/the-legend...
#psychoblockie #hauntology #futility #ennui #substack #brickpunk

The legend of the psychoblockie...unfolds (Again)

Rambling about who I am and why I'm wandering through here

psychoblockie.substack.com

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · Apr 28

Searching for light, losing focus.

Walked the beach
sun too sharp,
lost my focus
chasing texture
the sea had already stolen.

April slipping into May.

#BootsOfBluesky
#WalkTheWorld
#StepInStyle
#BootChronicles
#TalesOfTheSole
#ScuffedAndProud
#WoodlandBoots
#AdventureInEveryStep

Boots on Goring beach, a shingle beach. Walking on a pathway into which, alongside the shingle, a brick has been embedded. Photograph captured using a Nikon d750, 85mm f1.8d

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · Apr 25

Boots, gravel, brick

Tan boots on a gravel path into which a stray brick has been sunk

Steve Block @blockie.bsky.social · Apr 1

Boots. Train.
51.377400,-0.387495

Tan Boots and blue jeans on a dark blue train carriage floor, the dark blue floor speckled with cream and white flecks.

Reposted by Steve Block

Zero Hour for the Climate & Nature Bill @zero-hour.bsky.social · Mar 25

🌍 Steve Reed wanted the Climate & Nature Bill to proceed. Ed Miliband promised to work on the #CANBill's objectives. Mary Creagh pledged to deliver “binding nature commitments”.

🚨 Labour Ministers are speaking out.

⏳ What’s the delay for new, joined-up, science-led climate and nature legislation?

🌿 Steve Reed MP on Climate and Nature Bill | Environmental Audit Committee, 24 March 2025

YouTube video by Zero Hour: Climate and Nature Bill

www.youtube.com

Reposted by Steve Block

Zero Hour for the Climate & Nature Bill @zero-hour.bsky.social · Mar 30

❌ This is abhorrent as it is chilling. Many climate, environment and grassroots groups meet in #Quaker Meeting Houses—including Zero Hour. This aggressive violation of a place of worship must be called out. This is about freedoms of speech, assembly, public debate—the very basis of our democracy.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Mar 29

You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House

Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

www.quaker.org.uk