Spencer Thomas

Author of "Leaves and Circles," a cross-genre, speculative fiction book set in Brooklyn, New York. Updates are on Twitter. Read a preview: https://bit.ly/leavesandcircles. Creator of the Opir political music project.

[amoneti]

[opir]

As of this writing, it’s been nearly a decade since 2008 financial crisis that shook the world, and nearly half a decade since the rise of Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, Podemos, the rise of the Greek Left, and other social movements concerned with issues of power and economic inequality, official malfeasance and incompetence, and general disdain for the status quo along multiple dimensions. Since then, things have only deteriorated; though those in charge have had one opening after another to rectify their individual failures, undo austerity and switch toward expansion and investment, accept and help those that have lost out from the Globalization of Capital, and contend with the effects of, and extreme dissatisfaction with, our current economic system, Neoliberalism (particularly the American version), they’ve done shockingly little to truly absorb, much less correct them. Even today in the West, our current elite attempts to give us, at most, warmed-over non-solutions to these enormous problems. The gap between the size and scope of said problems mirrors the gap between their lived experience and the experience of so much of the rest of society.

This song deals with these issues.

Lyrics and full explanation: goo.gl/6mqnHU

[opir]

“Hideout” - an animation commissioned for my book/art project, Leaves and Circles. Read a preview: bit.ly/leavesandcircles-preview

Animation by the incredibly talented Meredith Nolan

Learn more about the book at the website.

View a full quality version of the animation

[opir]

“Cloaked” - an animation commissioned for my book/art project, Leaves and Circles. Read a preview: bit.ly/leavesandcircles-preview

Animation by Joe Mortell

Learn more about the book at the website.

View a full quality version of the animation

[opir]

An unused photo (taken just outside Prospect Park) from a shoot for my speculative fiction novel, Leaves and Circles. 

Read a preview of it now: http://bit.ly/leavesandcircles

[opir]

“Deep Red” - an animation commissioned for my book/art project, Leaves and Circles. Read a preview: bit.ly/leavesandcircles-preview

Animation by Joe Mortell

Learn more about the book at the website.

View a full quality version of the animation

[opir]

“So Distant Now,” an instrumental song inspired by The Walking Dead. Art by Carl Huber 

[opir]

My song about the pre-Trump/non-Trump Republican party. Full lyrics and explanation: https://medium.com/@spencer_th0mas/a-graveyard-of-elephants-song-1e89faa2d49

[aurahack]

crystal

[zandraart]

lightning rod

[opir]

Excited to announce the launch of my speculative fiction novel / art project, Leaves and Circles. 

In the style of Saramago’s Blindness or Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, everything here is almost as you know it, but slightly different. A modern combination of mystery, sci-fi and horror strongly with influences from Gibson to Sarte, with an Anne Frank-style narrative, Leaves and Circles mentions Girls, Jay-Z and Seamless in the same breath as ancient faux-Wiccan rites; AirBnB and listicles occupy the same space in William’s mind as the philosophy of struggle and empathy. Literary, uncompromising, regional, and inventive, you will finish this book as William does, wondering what could possibly happen next. Read a full preview here: bit.ly/leavesandcircles

Leaves and Circles is a multimedia art and book project featuring writing, photography, photo composites, music, and animation. Read a full preview here: bit.ly/leavesandcircles

[nythroughthelens]

Philadelphia. This weekend. Magic. (at Addison Street)

[opir]

Me in @nythroughthelens’s photo

[opir]

Leaves and Circles, my speculative fiction novel / art project set in Brooklyn, is now available. 

Read a preview right now: https://medium.com/@spencer_th0mas/leaves-and-circles-book-full-preview-72f2a51709aa#.p4dlfg56i

[opir]

“Hideout” - an animation commissioned for my book/art project, Leaves and Circles. Read a preview: bit.ly/leavesandcircles-preview

Animation by the incredibly talented Meredith Nolan

Learn more about the book at the website.

View a full quality version of the animation

[opir]

“Tunnel” - an animation commissioned for my book/art project, Leaves and Circles. Read a preview: bit.ly/leavesandcircles-preview

Animation by the incredibly talented Meredith Nolan

Learn more about the book at the website.

View a full quality version of the animation

[opir]

“Statue” - an animation commissioned for my book/art project, Leaves and Circles. Read a preview: bit.ly/leavesandcircles-preview

Animation by Joe Mortell

Learn more about the book at the website.

View a full quality version of the animation

[aurahack]

timelapse

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