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Pygar the angel, Barbarella (1968).
John Phillip Law, who died on Tuesday, was featured here last year in a look at Mario Bava’s crazy live action fumetti, Danger Diabolik (below). Law made that film the same year as he played a blind angel in an equally crazy slab of Sixties’ decadence, Barbarella. In a more serious […]

Retroactive I (1964).
My youthful enthusiasm for art acquainted me with the name of Robert Rauschenberg (who died two days ago) earlier than most. Surrealism and Pop Art held an appeal that was immediate, if rather superficially appreciated at the time, and it was seeing works from both those movements which were the most memorable aspect […]

Tribute to Michael Moorcock
| In which the writer achieves Grandmaster status.

Brave new worlds
| Moorcock remembers Arthur C Clarke. A great piece.

Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90

Going through stacks of old artwork today turned up a photocopy of a drawing I did in 1990, my sole attempt to illustrate HP Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. By the time I did this I was pretty exhausted by Lovecraft’s world and was already at work on the first phase of the Lord […]

Vote for Lint!
| Otherwise your life is a hollow sham. A World Book Day poll.

Via Ballardian:
In 1984 J.G. Ballard called for a ‘Festival of Home Movies’ and 24 years on we’re happy to oblige: announcing our latest competition, to promote JGB’s forthcoming autobiography, Miracles of Life. Presented by ballardian.com and HarperCollins UK, the competition will utilise ‘modern electronics’ as specified above, of an especial type that Ballard with […]

Michael Moorcock: His own private multiverse
| Andrew McKie reviews The Metatemporal Detective.

left: tits t-shirt by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren.
right: the Hipp Chronoscope via io9.
A new year brings new blogs which is perhaps just as well seeing as the old year drew a line under some regular reads.
The Look, “Adventures in pop and rock fashion”, began posting a couple of weeks ago, spinning off from Paul […]