Once Lindsay Adler’s photo shoot arrived here, there was still plenty of work to do to get the 25th anniversary cover just right, says Jack Yan […]
Behind the scenes of our 25th anniversary cover
January 17, 2023/22.25
Category: publishing
Five from 1999: a more experimental, optimistic time
January 10, 2023/3.42
Uploading five old articles (originally removed for space reasons when server hard drives were smaller) reminds Jack Yan of the internet culture of the late 1990s […]
Our year in tech: how different 2023 looks from 2022
January 7, 2023/21.34
Technology has always impacted on what we do at Lucire, and 2022 saw some big changes. Jack Yan looks at the last 12 months […]
Our Mastodon account was suspended, then reinstated—here’s what we learned
November 17, 2022/22.15
That was a learning experience that was positive overall, as our five-year-old home at Mastodon.art was temporarily suspended—revealing the pros and cons with having an account on a Mastodon instance, or server, writes Jack Yan […]
November 8, 2022/3.45
Founder and publisher Jack Yan on why Lucire will use its Mastodon account more for social media going forward […]
Reviving some of our 1998–9 articles
September 13, 2022/0.14
In the 1990s, storage space for websites was limited, and expensive. It was the norm for us, before the turn of the century (and occasionally afterwards) to remove articles to prioritize ones that were more popular or current. With one of our 25th anniversary articles being prepared for print, we dug out a handful of […]
Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures to be released October 18
September 5, 2022/12.23
Reel Art Press’s latest celebrity volume is by Pattie Boyd, herself a talented photographer who was right in the centre of ’60s pop culture, and had been married to Beatle George Harrison and guitarist Eric Clapton. She inspired Harrison’s ‘Something’ and Clapton’s ‘Layla’ and ‘Wonderful Tonight’. It has been 15 years since her autobiography, […]
Panos Papadopoulos interviewed on TV4 about his autobiography
August 20, 2022/23.37
On August 17, Nyhetsmorgon, the morning show on Swedish network TV4, had an in-depth, eight-minute interview with Panos Papadopoulos about his autobiography, Panos: My Life, My Odyssey. In the interview, he talks about his trip from Greece to Sweden for the first time in the 1970s, and how he was inspired to start his […]
Our search box is back in action, and continues to respect your privacy
July 18, 2022/12.10
Switching from Duck Duck Go, which appears to have lost thousands of our pages from its results, to Mojeek, means our search is now with an independent company that has had a longer history of not tracking its users […]
June 23, 2022/13.11
In another entry for our 25th anniversary, Jack Yan recalls some of the people who helped get us to this milestone […]
