Image of a Spherical Black Hole with Thin Accretion Disk (1979) by Jean-Pierre Luminet. Via.
• “I would be willing to bet that every student of fantastic fiction has at some point in his or her career read a book with the name EF Bleiler printed on its cover.” Brian J. Showers of Swan River Press talked to EF Bleiler in 2005.
• “You have to be ready to see it”: Abel Ferrara and Catherine Breillat on why Pasolini’s Salò is a gift that keeps giving.
• At Dennis Cooper’s: Kosten Koper presents…Bill Nelson: Acquitted By Mirrors (1982–1987).
• At Skurrilsteer: Ongoing research into the life, work and legacy of Edward James.
• At The Daily Heller: All that jazzy record cover design.
• Cygnus X-1 (1977) by Rush | Blackhole Dropout (1979) by Tod Dockstader | The Competition Of Supermassive Black Holes And Galactic Spheroids In The Destruction of Globular Clusters (1999) by Jah Wobble
It’s brave of Heller to admit never having heard of Prestige. I wonder if he’s heard of and more importantly seen Blue Note covers? There’s some great artwork on those Prestige sleeves. The way he describes the act of playing a record makes me feel ancient, but then it was a long time ago when that was a common experience.
From what I know of Heller’s career history he seems to have been more of a rock enthusiast. I imagine he’d know about Blue Note, however, those covers have been very influential:
https://www.discogs.com/lists/Blue-Note-tribute/437296
Yes, indeed! I hadn’t seen a lot of those. Some artists lending themselves an air of sophistication which, I’m guessing, is hardly warranted.