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Archive for March, 2006

Australian government censors satire

Australian government censors satire

I wrote about the great Oz magazine a couple of weeks ago. Former editor Richard Neville has maintained his anti-authoritarianism and sense of mischief since the 1960s and this week provoked more controversy with a fake website, johnhowardpm.org, that includes an “apology” for his part in the Iraq war supposedly written by egregious Australian PM […]

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Surrealist cartomancy

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Reworking the illustrations of the standard fifty-two card playing deck has become quite a common thing in recent years with numerous themed decks being produced in costly limited editions. The same goes for decks of Tarot cards which have now been mapped across a number of different magical systems and produced in sets that often […]

Posted in {surrealism}, {occult}, {art} | 1 comment »

The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

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ANNOUNCING THE AKASHIC RECORD DVD SERIES – A BASTET EXCLUSIVE
“THE INVASION OF THUNDERBOLT PAGODA” DVD FEATURING “BRAIN DAMAGE” & “FROM THE MYLAR CHAMBER” SLIDESHOW
BASTET, in collaboration with SATURNALIA and THE IRA COHEN AKASHIC PROJECT, is proud to announce the launch of THE AKASHIC RECORD DVD SERIES.
Celebrated internationally for more than 40 years, and screening this […]

Posted in {psychedelia}, {film} | 2 comments »

They’re back…

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The Sopranos, season 6.

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The art of Thomas Eakins, 1844–1916

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The Wrestlers.
Born in Philadelphia, Eakins studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he would later teach, from 1862, before travelling to Paris where he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts. His final six months in Europe were spent in Spain. Returning to Philadelphia in July 1870, he set himself up as a portrait […]

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The Triangular Lodge

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England is filled with curious buildings, follies as they’re commonly known, most of them the creation of wealthy landowners with time on their hands and a degree of imagination. Many of them are fake ruins, imitations of antiquity or classical architecture intended to add a degree of romance to a picturesque landscape. Some buildings are […]

Posted in {architecture} | 8 comments »

Cosmic zooms

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Cosmic Zoom was a short animated film by made by Eva Szasz in 1968 for the National Film Board of Canada.
This film probes the infinite magnitude of space, and its reverse, the ultimate minuteness of matter. Animation art and animation camera achieve this journey to the farthest conceivable point of the universe and then into […]

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The male nude in art

The male nude in art

Today, probably nothing so alienates us from the high art of the European past as its most prestigious subject - the male nude. Visit any old European museum, from Naples to Bloomsbury, and they have more marble statues of disrobed gods and heroes than they can reasonably display. Once these nudes were considered the apex […]

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The art of Jean-Pierre Ugarte

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Posted in {painting}, {fantasy}, {art} | 1 comment »

Pyramid mausoleum

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Blickling Park, Norfolk, England. Built by Joseph Bonomi in 1796–7.

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