The Silver Hero.
One of a number of homoerotic works by this Russian artist, very similar in places to George Quaintance. Oh, and with swords, of course…
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The gay artists archive
• The men with swords archive
Month: June 2010
Krazy Kat animations
Krazy Kat – Bugologist (1916).
Among the films at the Library of Congress YouTube channel are a number of shorts from the early days of animation including several of the first Krazy Kat films. George Herriman apparently had nothing to do with these, they were Hearst corporation spin-offs, which perhaps explains their lack of Herriman’s eccentricities. They’re necessarily crude, of course; cartoon animation had barely begun in 1916 and Walt Disney was yet to make a film. It’s curious watching a cartoon which transcribes the comic strip conventions so literally, with speech balloons growing from the characters mouths. Also at the LoC channel is one of the later Gertie the Dinosaur films and the very strange The Centaurs, both by Winsor McCay and son.
The specimens of Alex CF
Artist Alex CF makes beautifully detailed—and very authentic—cases for cryptozoological specimens. I think I’d seen examples of these before but not the Lovecraft exhibits like this collection which presents samples and studies retrieved from the Mountains of Madness. Among other Lovecraftiana there’s also a case devoted to artefacts from R’lyeh. These would have been ideal additions to the Lovecraft show at Observatory which (as a reminder) opens this Friday.
Via ~Wunderkammer~. (I think. If it wasn’t, it should be…)
Previously on { feuilleton }
• At the Mountains of Madness
• Walmor Corrêa’s Memento Mori
• The art of Ron Pippin
• Custom creatures
• Cryptozoology
• The Museum of Fantastic Specimens
The Thorns of Love by Antoni Maiovvi
The Thorns of Love CD cover.
One of the consequences of having been so productive of late is having less time to update my web pages. The CD design section is now a year out of date so I’ll be trying to amend the situation as time allows.
The Thorns of Love by Antoni Maiovvi was released last month and is another of my designs for the Caravan label. The attention-grabbing photos are by Liz Eve whose work adorned earlier designs for 2562 and Pinch. It’s great to work with quality images like these, and Liz’s gory pictures are an ideal match for Maiovvi’s music, a series of lengthy compositions in a style which might be described as Giorgio Moroder scoring a Dario Argento horror movie. This is a fantastic album and the CD’s fourth track, Class Dagger, is one of the best new electronic pieces I’ve heard this year.
The Thorns of Love vinyl sleeve.
The Thorns of Love was released on double-12″ vinyl as well as CD so I’ve also posted the vinyl art, something I need to go back and do for previous designs. Vinyl isn’t dead by any means, and it’s a pleasure to work for the larger format.
• Antoni Maiovvi interviewed at Electrofreaks
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The album covers archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Dead on the Dancefloor
Weekend links 17
Aladdin Sane (1973). Cover photo by Brian Duffy who died this week.
• Among the obituaries this week: artist Louise Bourgeois; poet and partner of Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky; film director Joseph Strick, a man who dared to film James Joyce’s Ulysses; photographer Brian Duffy.
• The dustbin of art history: “Why is so much contemporary art awful? We’re living through the death throes of the modernist project—and this isn’t the first time that greatness has collapsed into decadence.” Admirable sentiments but galleries and dealers have far too much invested in the corrupt edifice to let it collapse any time soon.
• Edinburgh film festival to screen ‘lost and forgotten’ British movies including the director’s cut of Jerry Cornelius film The Final Programme.
Delectable Bawdville burlesque boy Chris “Go-Go” Harder. Via EVB who have more pics.
• Homobody by Rio Safari, “a scrappy diy zine about queerness”. Obliquely related: Lizzy the Lezzie, animations at the Sundance Channel.
• Richard Norris aka Time and Space Machine puts together a psychedelic mixtape for FACT. Fab stuff.
• Diamanda Galás has a message for critics: “Stick to reviewing plant life and leave the Witches alone.”
• Brion Gysin: Dream Machine will be the first US survey of Gysin’s work in NYC next month.
• Geeta Dayal’s study of Another Green World by Brian Eno reviewed at Ballardian.
• For type-heads: font anatomy wallpaper by Sigurdur Armannsson.
• If it was my home: visualising the BP oil disaster.
• Antony Gormley’s Breathing Room III.
• The Paris Review has a new blog.
• Bizarre juxtaposition of the week: John Martyn’s sublime Small Hours with, er… The Clangers.