Littler: Scarfolk is more like a half memory. This means popular or stereotypical imagery from the period is ignored—there are no lava lamps, discos, or garish fashion and interior design. Scarfolk often invokes involuntary memories of long-since forgotten things, which didn’t have a life outside of the period or were taken for granted, like municipal designs, household products, TV station idents, and library music. It had not been my intention at the outset to toy with the boundary between the 1970s and present day,” says Littler. “I thought it might be interesting to mirror/juxtapose modern day events using ephemera of the 1970s—a decade the values of which we are supposed to have transcended.” “Foreigner Identification Badges” also resonate in the real world. Enrolment in such organisations became mandatory when a government study revealed that parents were only putting forward their least favourite children. This was a serious issue for the government because it diverted workloads away from, and reduced target quotas of, state child recycling facilities, which had been set up at great cost to deal specifically with processing unwanted, less-valuable offspring. My daughter is a musician. I get the feeling that we are in a period of intense incubation drawn out longer than usual by the glut of choices. There probably will be another artistic eruption similar to that of the 60’s eventually and perhaps accompanied and energized by social unrest too. A 1973 county survey showed that, after all deaths and births had been accounted for, there was a surplus of citizens, approximately 665 in total.

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By 1977 the numbers of puppeteers and ventriloquists roaming Scarfolk's sewers had reached crisis point. Albion Estate was built in 1970. It was described as "strong and stable public housing that proudly secures our future and makes Britain the envy of the world." A Scarfolk television series, co-written by English writer and comedian Will Smith, was described as "in the works" in 2018, [9] but ultimately did not enter production. [27] See also [ edit ] This is a rather comprehensive tourist guide (for those tourists who have NOT been quarantined), featuring all of Scarfolk's attractions, such as the police flea market which sells forensic evidence, Scarpark, where all foliage is constructed of the finest British concrete, the Outsider's Zoo and Slaughter Gardens and the Scarfolk Drop, a popular destination for despondent visitors, it is open more than 7 days a week, 367 days a year. (Please avoid the Kill Bush underground station which was recently closed due to poltergeist activity.) Daniel Bush makes a dreadful mistake when he stops off at Scarfolk, and when his two sons are abducted he must overcome the town’s totalitarian leadership, the paranoia of its brainwashed inhabitants and the dark secrets at the town’s malevolent heart.A researcher finds the account and collected paraphenalia from a person who was held against his will in a small northern english town in the 1970s. The town no longer exists and it seems to have been covered up.The man tells the account of his twin sons being kidnapped and replaced by doppelgängers, while he encounters a large devil-like beast who has a great affinity for stationery. The victim undergoes years of brainwashing conducted by the local government. In his review of The Advisory Circle 's From Out Here ( 2014), musician DJ Food remarked both From Out Here and Discovering Scarfolk define "a good portion of the visual stimulus associated with the hauntological genre." [23] Scarfolk Annual [ edit ] Scarfolk Annual Country

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The orphans were children of disgraced artists, academics and other intellectuals who disappeared during the New Truth Purges of September 1977**. Once the heart had been placed in its new host body, over which a medi-legal incantation had been recited, the object would become imbued with the personality of the deceased. However, there were often side effects, for example not being able to say certain words such as 'artichoke', 'help' and 'please kill me, I did not give my consent for this', to name but a few. The Scarfolk created by Littler is a queasy, unsettling provincial place – aspects of which will be familiar to many British 40-somethings.

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An ordinary town with electrified water and after-school activities for the kiddies like Thump-Chums. (The first rule of Thump-Chums is you can talk about Thump-Chums to whoever you like as long as you thump them.)

1970s was the most terrifying decade - The Telegraph Why the 1970s was the most terrifying decade - The Telegraph

But over the past year or so, “world events and politics have slid away from the suggestively dystopian towards the blatantly and unashamedly dystopian,” he says. Sometimespeople mistake his satire for real material, which he loves.”Not a day goes by without some political event or figure rivaling the absurdity of anything a satirist can create.” The Let's Think About... booklet was published by Scarfolk Council Schools & Child Welfare Services department in 1971. It was designed for use in the classroom and encouraged children between the ages of five and nine to focus on a series of highly traumatic images and events. Specially trained police officers patrolled streets, public and private buildings, and handed out on-the-spot fines for various misdemeanours such as not standing up straight, running in corridors and not paying attention. At the officer's discretion, the fines could be substituted for corporal punishment with a slipper, belt, cane or rabid Alsatian. The Opportunity Doorway scheme for women was launched in 1976. Here's an excerpt from the council's literature: Brilliant graphics! I couldn’t help but think about Welcome to Nightvale, reading this. And of Stranger Things to a certain level. The vision of dystopian, time-distorted towns in the 70’s and 80’s does seem to be something that’s trapped in the collective consciousness of this generation…I primarily study the ancient world. I only live in the modern one! Ancient rulers were heavily into “sacred” roles and patterns. These took the form of rituals, at first to help remember, but later because the underlying science/knowledge associated with those patterns/roles was for the most part forgotten. However, even the rote repetition of traditional roles and patterns produced predictable results. This must be why we are so reluctant to discover the origins of our belief systems. It’s not much, but it’s all we’ve got. Superstition is preferred to chaos, and those that rule the world exploit it to the max. Enlightenment of the masses is not the policy of the upper classes! Peace in the 3rd World is not the “foreign policy” of the 1st World. a b c Simon Usborne (17 April 2013). "How to wash a child's brain: Designer Richard Littler creates fictional world based on terrifying public service films – Features – Films – The Independent". The Independent . Retrieved 14 October 2014. Cory Doctorow (14 August 2014). "Scarfolk: creepy blog will be an amazing book - Boing Boing". Boing Boing . Retrieved 2 November 2014. Jeff Johnson; David Roth; Drew Magary; Mark Byrne; Andrew Richdale; John Surico; Alex French; Jennifer Schwartz & Lu Fong (May 2013). "The 100 Funniest Things in the History of the Internet". GQ Magazine . Retrieved 14 October 2014.