Above: His Imperial and Royal Highness Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, Prince Imperial and Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia
Interesting write up and images about Mexican history from the Nevada Observer.
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Friday, May 05, 2006
Feliz Cinco de Mayo
Above: His Imperial and Royal Highness Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, Prince Imperial and Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia
Interesting write up and images about Mexican history from the Nevada Observer.
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Wax Poetics // Re:Discovered
Above: Honey Cone (Hot Wax) 1973 "Woman Can't Live by Bread Alone"
Following the tremendous success of their 1971 "Want Ads" single, Honey Cone seemed unable to resist anthems of female empowerment, flipping scripture into feminism for "Woman Can't Live by Bread Alone." Resident Hot Wax songwriter/ producer Greg Perry swathes Honey Cone's vocals in gossamer strings and helps to drive their message home with some relaxed proto-disco vamping.
Re:Discovered: a great series of audio samples and write ups about obscure 45s by groups from "Ripple" to "100 Proof Aged in Soul" that you will not be hearing on your local radio station (unless, that is, they've been sampled into the latest hit). From the always wonderful journal of funk, jazz, soul and vinyl, Waxpoetics
Wax Poetics // Re:Discovered
Illustration for Waxpoetics Magazine "Banda Black Rio"
I created this illustration for an article about Brazilian soul music for Waxpoetics April 2006. The image shows the connections between various musicians and groups in the Brazilian soul music scene, centered around Banda Black Rio.
Waxpoetics is a great journal about Hip hop, Jazz, Funk & Soul.
www.waxpoetics.com/
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Spellbound - Siouxsie et les Banshees
Above: Take them by the legs/and throw em down the stairs!
Energetic video for Spellbound by Siouxsie and the boys. Running through a forest, even goths need exercise!
Revolting Cocks - Do ya think I'm sexy?
Above: You just know/exactly what they're thinking
Revolting Cocks was an early 90s side project of industrial pop band Ministry, and this psychotronic video is for their sneering cover of Rod Stewart's "Do ya think I'm sexy" Instead of seventies playboy glitz, here we find machine guns, explosions, vixens who become corpses, and lots of black clothes and cowboy hats. This is in the same vein as the Coil remake of "Tainted Love". Vive Alain!
Blüme by Einstürzende Neübauten
Above: The boys from Berlin do the high culture thing
Great video from the legendary German noise group Einstürzende Neübauten for the song "Blüme" on Tabula Rasa. The set is a recreation of a famous photo (posted earlier on this blog) of the Futurist Marinetti and his assistant with their Intonarumori (noise-makers) in their turn of the century studio. Combine that with a constantly rotating woman (women), botanical names, and a dandyish Blixa Bargeld, and you've got a winner.
Monday, May 01, 2006
Category:Queensites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Above: Just some of the Queens folk out there: Christopher Walken, Jam Master Jay, Lucy Liu, Richard Feynman, Hank Azaria, Ron Jeremy, Roxanne Shante.
I grew up in Queens, NY, and I'm always on the look out for fellow 718ers that have become notable. Above are just a few who are well known. See the partial Wikipedia list below for even more Queens residents (Queensites isn't really used)
Category:Queensites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Pages in category 'Queensites'"
selectparks - Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006
Above: 8-bit ass kicking!
Wow. This is a completely amazing animation--8 bit grayscale , a violent and hyper adventure in which two heroes rescue a princess from the evil Pirate baby. Great character design and emulation of classic videogame fx (think flashing). Flawless!
selectparks - Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006
Saturday, April 29, 2006
YouTube - Kraftwerk - Tanzmusik (1973)
Ralf und Florian period Kraftwerk performing "Tanzmusik" on German television. Niceee
YouTube - Kraftwerk - Tanzmusik (1973)
YouTube - Serge Gainsbourg - Requiem Pour Un Con
YouTube - Serge Gainsbourg - Requiem Pour Un Con: "
Above: Boom boom bak bak bak Boom boom bak bak bak!
It gets no cooler than this: mid-60s clip of Serge Gainsbourg et le band smoking cigarettes and playing the classic "Requiem Por Un Con", which features a mammoth drum break. Whoever Serge's band was during this period (see also "Bonnie and Clyde") were really amazing. Enjoy!
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Serge gives the drummer some! This was originally posted on the Monkeyfunk Audioblog (http://monkeyfunk45.blogspot.com).
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Friday, April 28, 2006
Kaz's Underworld
Above: Elementary math, Underworld style
I've been following Kaz's work since the late eighties, when I first became aware of the comics revival around RAW magazine. Nearly 20 years later, he still is the king of the underworld. Enjoy!
Kaz's Underworld: "News"
Barbican - Os Mutantes & Nacao Zumbi
Above: Os Mutantes are back!
Barbican - Os Mutantes & Nacao Zumbi:
Os Mutantes & Nacao Zumbi + special guest Devendra Banhart
22 May 2006 / 19:30/Barbican Hall/London
Part of Tropicalia
Thursday, April 27, 2006
deltasleep: A Very Special Treat
Post 3 in my vintage electronic music series: mp3s from a RCA Mark II synthesizer demo record.
The RCA Mark II was the main instrument at the famous Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1950s, and the first programmable electronic music synthesizer. Cheers!
deltasleep: A Very Special Treat
Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else: HAL's father??
Post two in a three-part series of cool vintage electronic music records: This is a great bell telephone labs 7" from 1963 which includes synthesized speech. Bell Labs was interested in synthesized speech to improve telephone call quality, but this technology, including the Vocoder, would soon be turned to creative purposes like being used on Electro records. Enjoy!
Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else: HAL's father??
First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival
Above: Computer Music '79!
Here's a cool record of the 1978 First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival, featuring mp3s you can download of various
composers, playing on obscure synths like the RCA Cosmac, ALF, SSM, or NOTRAN. This record is a surprisingly late issue of traditional academic electronic music (think Columbia-Princeton). It is weird to hear old chestunts like the Mexican Hat Dance played on synths several years after Kraftwerk had written Autobahn and Cabaret Voltaire were unleashing electronic squalls in Sheffield. Anyway, a great find and a generous post.
First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival
Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance . Home | PBS
Above: Vasari: Cosimo I consults battle plans
First part of a great docudrama on pbs last night called "Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance". Sumptous period pieces and dramatizations of
a 15th century Sopranos-style clan--that is, if the Sopranos supported people like Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Boticelli, and Donatello as well as making deals and bumping off rivals. This family had major ups and downs, assassinations, triumphs, papal power, exile, and still found time to pour extravagant cash on the tender shoots of the Renaissance. There are lots of interesting historical details included, like how one of the Medici was fed a mixture of crushed jewels and pearls on his deathbed, or how the painter Boticelli, despite his sensual depictions of pagan mythology and physical beauty, succumbed to religious fanaticism and consigned some of his work to a bonfire. Even though the narrator strays a bit into Burgess Meredith territory with his breathy delivery, this show is an inspiring example of how history can be brought to stunning life. Highly recommended!
Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance . Home | PBS
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
UVa-HSL :: Historical Collections : 19th Century Medical Caricature
Above: headache!!
Nice collection of 18th century British and French medical illustrations. Lots of interesting
caricatures and arcance practices (bloodletting, anyone?)
UVa-HSL :: Historical Collections : 19th Century Medical Caricature
HAWAIIAN NUMBERS
Just in time for your summer trip to the Big Island, the Hawaiian numbers from
Ekahi to Umi!
courtesy of mefi
HAWAIIAN NUMBERS
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Dave Wright of Not Breathing and his circuit bent instruments of doom (you tube)
Cool clip with Dave Wright of not breathing and carrion sound demonstrating the use of various circuit bent instruments. If you're not familiar, Circuit Bending is a technique developed by Reed Ghazala in the 70s in which one takes an existing electronic sound generator, the classic example being a speak n spell, open it up, and resolder the parts, add various switches, and uncover the atonal monsters in the circuitry. Dave makes & sells some beautiful circuit bent instruments, which he gives cool names and nice finishes to.
There are two new DIY book out about circuit bending: this one and this one
and a documentary
YouTube - Dave Wright's Wall of Sound
YouTube - The Cat Came Back (1988) Cordell Barker Vhs
Cute animation by Cordell Barker about a cat that just won't stay away. I first saw this at the Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted animation festival in NY around 1990. The song is pretty catchy too!
YouTube - The Cat Came Back (1988) Cordell Barker Vhs
Ten auf der Turntable
Above: The immortal CAN
"Matmos" by Matmos
"Flat Pack Philosophy" by the Buzzcocks
"The Runk Focker Edits" by Romanowski
"Rough Trade Post Punk 1 & 2" by Various
"Music Meets Poetry" by Len Sousa
"Blowout Comb" by Digable Planets
"BBC Radiophonic Workshop Effects" by Various
"Gilgamesh - A New Translation" by Stephen Mitchell
"Incognitos Redux" by Various
"Cabaret Manana" by Esquivel
Monday, April 24, 2006
Tattoo Art
Tattoo Art
amazing, glo-in-the-dark tattoo. Would be cool to see a face version of this. You could just flash a black light on your face and scare the hell out of people.
Typography of the Electric Company - a photoset on Flickr
My flickr set of the Typography of the Electric Company, part 1.
Not only was The Electric Company (1971-1977) a hugely successful show aimed at improving kid's reading skills, with a stellar cast including Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, and Rita Moreno, psychedelic early video effects, and funky music, but it was a program in love with letters. Every episode was filled with various type and lettering, and I believe it planted a seed in my mind that would flourish years later as a love of lettering and found typography. Enjoy!
Typography of the Electric Company - a photoset on Flickr
YouTube - Switchblade Sisters Trailer
Teenage girls + switchblades + urban guerilla warfare exploitation flick. The
Legendary Switchblade Sisters. I saw this in Honolulu, Tarantino introduced it
and talked about how it was one of his favorite movies. Here's the trailer.
YouTube - Switchblade Sisters Trailer
YouTube - Rezillos - Destination Venus #2
This should get your Monday morning started: Hi octane Scottish Space Pop from Scotland! The criminally overlooked Rezillos!
YouTube - Rezillos - Destination Venus #2: "
Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC TV 1978
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Thursday, April 20, 2006
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
YouTube - Dictator Octopus
who needs drugs when you have this??!??
I think this explains why Octopi should not be allowed to become
dictators.
YouTube - Dictator Octopus
YouTube - Maakies Drinky The Crow
One of 6 animations of the amazing "Maakies" cartoon on you tube.
see Maakies website for more insanity.
YouTube - Maakies Drinky The Crow
Germano Facetti | Self and Others by RD Laing
Germano Facetti | Self and Others by RD Laing
Germano Facetti, art director at Penguin from 1961 to 1972, died last weekend. Below are a handful of the iconic jacket designs that allowed Penguin to set the benchmark for exemplary design in the publishing world.
Courtesy of MeFi
http://books.guardian.co.uk/gallery/0,,1752252,00.html
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Friday, April 14, 2006
Monday, April 10, 2006
Fantastic Then Press
Spend the weekend at the Ape Expo with Ted Jalbert of Fantastic Then Press. Cool to see the show from behind the tables. See http://www.cafepress.com/pantufla for tees and postcards.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Friday, March 10, 2006
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Illustration Friday 24: Tea
A Japanese myth about the meditative Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma, describes how he cut off and threw his drooping eyelids to the ground in frustration at his inability to say awake. Tea bushes sprang up where the eyelids fell. The leaves of these new bushes miraculously cured his fatigue.
Tea is not native to Japan, so this myth does at least provide an explanation for its sudden appearance on the islands. The reality is less colourful: early in the ninth century, a far-sighted Japanese monk called Dengyo Daishi brought tea seeds back with him from China.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Illustration Friday 21: Chair
My latest IF entry. drawing, illustrator. I am making a gocco print of this.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Illustration Friday 20: Glamour
A pat on the back for me for my 20th consecutive Illustration Friday Illo! This one was mainly Illustrator.
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