A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Bookplate of Charles P. Searle (1904) by Sidney Lawton Smith. • “If Minute 9 is the first time we hear the names Deckard and Blade Runner, it’s also the first time we meet the plainclothes cop who will play a key role in LAPD surveillance of Deckard—and in the changed emphasis of four subsequent versions … Continue reading “Weekend links 717”
The Vision of Endymion (1902) by Edward John Poynter. • The Art and History of Lettering Comics by Todd Klein. Eight of the pages in the forthcoming Moon & Serpent book have been lettered by Todd. • At Igloomag: Chang Terhune looks for music to help you sleep. No mention of an obvious (and superior) … Continue reading “Weekend links 716”
Portrait d’Arthur Rimbaud (1933) by Valentine Hugo. • Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft. • Retro-Forteana is “Andrew May’s Forteana Blog, focusing on the weirder fringes of history (and other old-fashioned stuff)”. • Mixes of the week Bill Laswell … Continue reading “Weekend links 715”
An Exceptional Occurrence (1950) by Eileen Agar. • New music: The Endless Echo by Pye Corner Audio, coming soon from Ghost Box. PCA continue to fly the flag for the original Ghost Box mission of bringing various forms of weirdness to electronic music. The new album “draws inspiration from scientific and science-fictional notions about the … Continue reading “Weekend links 714”
Black Cat (1910) by Shunso Hishida. • “A duck goes quack quack in English but coin coin in French. In Spanish a dog goes guau-guau, not woof woof, while in Arabic it goes haw haw, and in Mandarin wang-wang. In Japanese cats go nyaa, and bees—having no access to the zz sound—go boon-boon.” Caspar Henderson … Continue reading “Weekend links 713”