Dean Whitbread

12/01/2025

Today's love recipe: https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/do-what-you-love

"If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love."

as you love what you do

01/01/2025

Happy '25

1969..... #1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #1 U.S. Cash Box Top 100, #1 UK Singles Charts, #1 Canada, #2 Australia, #1 New Zealand, #1 IsraelOriginal video edited a...

19/12/2024

Found an OOOOOLD playlist from the 20th Century and made it public for your ears. I still like the tunes 🙂 Don Ratto playing his electronic sticks, Big Kev doing the bass riffage, Michele Drees doing the proper drums.. sweet innocence and a love of music. Happy Solstice (in two days time) 😃

Original pop-rock-soul from the 20th century

12/12/2024

"I will tell you what you are" is a bold claim, but it's a three minute read about writing music. Dance around the supermarket.

https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/the-writing-drug

28/11/2024

"I used to go to church as a child, sent there with lower-aged siblings by my parents to sing in the choir while they had three hours of uninterrupted breakfast in bed."

The rest of this is decent. Enjoy!

the new words are lovely - where did you find them?

14/11/2024

Creativity is inherently revolutionary. Business is inherently exploitative. These thoughts have been rolling around my mind like a marble in a sweet jar for some time now, as I ponder my own paths in creativity and commerce.

https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/creativity-and-business-priceless

19/10/2024

Thought I'd write about a thought. It's about having a good idea when you've been feeling rough as, then realising it's a good idea, and being more cheerful because of it. If you get my drift. Enjoy.

much more than if I hadn't

27/09/2024

I decided to serialise the book I published nineteen years ago, Ozzie Rozzie, ISBN: 978-1-4116-6420-3 [CAUTION: THIS STORY CONTAINS PROFANITY AND TRACES OF NUTS] - so you'll probably enjoy it :) https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/ozzie-rozzie

06/09/2024

With Pleasureland Band – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

06/09/2024

Something for the Mashup fans

https://ideaplus.ai/index.php/2024/09/05/mashups-altered-or-synthetic-content/

04/09/2024

This morning - how days begin. Thought I'd write about it, so I did.

https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/this-morning

Thanks to Caryn Wilson for the illustration 🙂

how days begin

26/08/2024

Back in 2011 I had sold up and left Blighty. 2009 had been a depressing year, lost father, followed by girlfriend. London was full of blood and I’d been there 27 years. So I figured I could decide on another country to live in, having various options based on work, friends, a love of other countries.

I found my way to the Gamlebyen, the Old Town in Fredrikstad, Norway which had once been a fort. Here I began to loosen up. I lived in a tiny flat, my landlord a British artist whose work I admired. I had time to sit by the Glomma, a deeply gouged, ice-age river, the biggest in Norway on its way to the sea, just before it gets brackish. During this precious time of being a nobody with very few friends around, I found liberty.

https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/too-ecstatic-to-be-yours

19/08/2024

Do you know what AI is and how to use it creatively without plagiarism? Scannerian aka Ian George from Cosmic Oak Media does. Here's a lengthy, detailed interview which includes his work with 3D and 4D scans, Photogrammetry and Generative AI, as well as fascinating details on his background, early influences, and how he became the skilled visual expert he is.

https://ideaplus.ai/index.php/ian-george/

27/07/2024

Midscale Neutrino gives us his truth via meanings hidden until today. Suitable for small animals.

random occasional district provocation

29/06/2024

A tale of two insects..

a tale of two insects

27/06/2024

What's that Britney song? Oops!…I Did It Again

This day heralds a new Substack joint, dear friends, and like all good buses, there is another one coming right after this one. I got dragged into my past, had to edit it for a few weeks. All done, hope you enjoy it. In the end I wrote two, the second one too big for your email. Substack, eh? Here's the first.

the first of two

12/06/2024

Bloody marvellous by the "Coulsdon Peculiars" Unio and Petitio - a well special new album called Infinity Biscuits

9 track album

05/06/2024

My friend Deek wrote about how he collaborated with the late 1980s band Habit, and how good is the new version of one of their songs, Shotgun City (see below). Have a gander.

A track from the 1988 Habit debut album 'Medicine Man'