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Month: April 2006
The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones
Owen Jones’ landmark study of the world’s decorative history was published in 1856. I have a facsimile edition from the 1980s and it’s a beautiful volume even besides its value as a reference work. Now illuminated-books.com has made high-res scans of the pages available for free. They do the same for a number of other books, including other titles by Owen Jones and his contemporaries William Morris and Walter Crane. Crane’s Decorative Illustration is recommended for anyone interested in the history of book design.
Film by Samuel Beckett
Film (1965)
Directed by Alan Schneider
Written by Samuel Beckett
Buster Keaton: The Man
Nell Harrison: Passerby
James Karen: Passerby
Duration: 20 minutes
Tokyo Gotham
HDR photos of Tokyo. This page explains HDR.
The Drift by Scott Walker
Coming to cast a giant shadow across your fuzzy warbles on the May 8th. The progression that runs from Scott 4 to Nite Flights to Climate of Hunter to Tilt is here continued in a quite extraordinary manner, leaving Scott looking down on the rest of the music world from very rarefied heights indeed. Impossible to describe although Momus does his best here. Think of Coil jamming with Penderecki or something. The cover art is very apt, this is a journey across a rusted landscape into darkness.