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Published November 5, 2009 Art , Fashion , Film , Models , Photography , Sculptures 2 CommentsTags: Gemma Arterton
like today
Published November 4, 2009 Art , Illustration , Paintings , literature Leave a CommentTags: Children's Literature, Illustrations, Story Telling
Some ol’ books I found in the shed
everyones favorite, The Very Hungry Caterpillar written & illustrated by Eric Carle,1969. This a 1988 print editon.
The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Written by Judith Kerr 1968 (1991 edition)
these books actually give some good life teachings, even for older audiences
cool as
Published November 4, 2009 Art , Culture , Jazz , London , Music , Paintings Leave a CommentTags: Charles Mingus, Joan Miro, Ornette Coleman quartet, Painting 1925, The Cool, The Shape of Jazz to Come
the BBC are really belting them out at the moment!
iPlayer Picks
Arena Cool | 1959: The Year that Changed Jazz | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | The Jazz Baroness| Trusadh-14. A Ghealach (The Moon) |
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Published November 3, 2009 Art , Illustration , Photography 1 CommentTags: Jermaine Jackson, light boxes shane jones, Michael Jackson, Screen Printing
just playing around no intention for results, though somewhere apparent =0
this one for instance, the drip work underneath their capes?
or this one, the second guys face got inked out, but gives the overall image some depth.
‘we don’t get bad mistakes, we get beautiful accidents’
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Published November 2, 2009 Art , Hip Hop , Music , Photography Leave a CommentTags: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ramellzee, Stephen Torton
fission
Published November 2, 2009 Art , Culture , Music Leave a CommentTags: experimental, German Music, Jazz Fusion, Krautrock, Madlib, Mind Fusion, Music, Progressive Rock, psychedelic, The Rebirth of Germany, World Music
Whilst listening to a ‘Mind Fusion’ compilation, there was this track with vocals that sounded very much the same to a young Michael Jackson. First thoughts where, this might of been a Jackson 5 song that I’ve missed, but then the sound of the band wasn’t quite 70s Motown. There was more ‘Rock’ to their already present jazzy sound and more ‘freeness’ in the way they played. (Motown didn’t allow much or even any creative control with the Jackson’s, hence their move to CBS) Further on into the track an expressive, psychedelic guitar solo hit and I knew that this wasn’t the work of (Motown) the Jackson brothers.
I later learned that the track was called ‘Pick Your Feet off the Ground’ and the vocalist who I’d thought to be an adolescent Jackson, (or other guy at least!) was actually a young woman called Sarah Archer also known as Rush Winters. Sarah Archer and the instrumentalists where german group called ‘The Real Ax Band’ and the song that I’d heard was sadly from their only LP release ’Nicht Stehenbleiben/Move Your Ass In Time’. And as for that unique, psychedelic, jazzy, rock sound they produced, it had a name. Krautrock. Which was a movement prominent in the late 60s to the 70s.
kind of blue
Published November 1, 2009 Art , Exhibitions , Photography , Sculptures Leave a CommentTags: Anish Kapoor, Royal Academy of Arts
Red has fantastic darkness in it. And it’s a kind of darkness when you close your eyes… That’s what I am really after, the interiority of colour
-Anish Kapoor, Art World, Issue 12, 2009
For me the highlight of the show, not the wax shooting cannon, but the guy that operated it. never have i seen so much enthusiasm. Class
Shout to Bobby for the photographs
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Published October 26, 2009 Advertisments , Art , Culture , Fashion , Models , Photography Leave a CommentTags: Advertisements, African, American, Coca Cola Adverts, Consumerism, Retro, The Golden Age of Advertising, Vintage
Some really nice African- American print advertisements from 50/60s.
notice how directly coaxing some of these ads’ where back then, not to say that they aren’t now, you could say they tend to use more subtle methods.
the ad above is one of my favorites, ‘it reminds me of an episode of the Simpson’s when’(the amount of times I say that in conversation) Homer & Marge are watching an old clip of ‘itchy & scratchy’. In reference to the era’s ironic style of advertising tobacco, midway through the show stops for a cheesy commercial;
itchy is brought a cigarette from the director, later joined by scratchy. The director the then comments on the taste of the smokes ,’I don’t know what’s in ‘em, I just know I can’t stop smoking ‘em!’ and ends abruptly with the three all laughing chronically coughing up their insides!
Check out B Vikki Vintage
(via black nerds network)
See Also ‘The Golden Age of Advertising“
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Published October 25, 2009 Art , Culture , Music , Photography 1 CommentTags: Matthew Rainwaters, Photographs, Portraits
