A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Gay
The Adam Kozik Studio was in touch earlier this week with news of Danseur Noble, a photo-series of male dancers posed indoors and out. See the rest of the series here.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The tights have it
• Torero
• Eonism and Eonnagata
• Tiger Lily
• Chris Nash
• Peter Reed and Salomé After Dark
• Felix D’Eon
• Dancers by John Andresen
• Youssef Nabil
• Images of Nijinsky
Simulation No. 136 (1973); From the Archigram Revival Project.
• Scientific American looks at DMT: “the only psychedelic known to occur naturally in the human body”. Related: Hofmann’s Elixir: LSD and the New Eleusis, a book from the Beckley Foundation Press.
• “People weren’t quite sure what this guy was doing.” Colin Marshall talks to Eno biographer David Sheppard.
• LA FAN presents its debut group show, Eve in the Garden of Lost Angels, curated by Milla Zeltzer, at Optical Allusion Gallery, downtown Los Angeles, from May 15 to June 12, 2010.
• Masturbation: literature’s last taboo. The words “last” and “taboo” should never be used together; taboos don’t vanish, they migrate.
• Announcing the Text: Development of the Title Page, 1470–1900.
• The Anachronism is an award-wining Steampunk short about two children who discover the wreck of a giant squid submarine on a beach near their home.
• Out There is a brand new, bi-annual, international magazine for gay men and their friends.
• The Big Picture looks at the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull.
• Expo 2010 opens in Shanghai on May 1st.
• (Walter) Benjamin in Extremis.
• Nathalie returns to Bomarzo.
• Acronymic songs of the week: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (1967) by The Beatles; The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice (1967) by The Jimi Hendrix Experience; London Social Degree (1968) by Billy Nicholls; Love’s Secret Domain (1991) by Coil.
Panneaux decoratifs (1900) by Manuel Orazi at NYPL.
• Ghostsigns: “a collaborative national effort to photograph, research and archive the remaining examples of hand painted wall advertising in the UK and Ireland.”
• Golden Age Comic Book Stories posts some Alphonse Mucha.
• Voyage Fantastique – An illustrated guide to the body and mind at A Journey Round My Skull.
• The gallery of the International Exhibition of Calligraphy.
• Trevor Wayne Pin-Up Show, a new photo collection of the tattooed Mr Wayne which includes photos and a foreword by Clive Barker.
• Phallophonies, a gallery exploring the penis in religious art. Related: “Churchgoers are outraged over a crucifix in a Catholic church that they say shows an image of genitalia on Jesus.”
• Hollingsville: “Expect live and unscripted wanderings around voodoo science parks, examinations of cities as battle suits and thoughts on pods, capsules and world expos.”
• Phantom Circuit #33 is a Ghost Box special featuring an interview with Jim Jupp (Belbury Poly) and Julian House (The Focus Group). Related: Ghost Box films at YouTube.
• Eldritchtronica and Wyrd Bliss, a mixtape by Simon Reynolds.
• Avant garde music and cinema meet at The Sound of Eye.
• Make your own newspaper with Newspaper Club.
• Drawdio: A pencil that lets you draw music.
• Yoko Ono collects rare books.
• Song of the week: The Four Horsemen (1972) by Aphrodite’s Child.
The White Album by Flickr user Fab.C.
April 17th is Record Store Day in the UK and the US, a celebration of the importance of small record shops. In the spirit of this {feuilleton} encourages you to show some love to your local music merchant if you can. There’s a website for the US side of things with details of special releases that bands have produced in support of the day. FACT Mag ran an A–Z of similar releases which will be available in the UK and the Guardian has an article interviewing Johnny Marr, Tracey Thorn, Jon Savage and others about their favourite places past and present. No surprise to see Manchester shops highlighted given the contributors; Johnny Marr plugs Piccadilly Records and Beatin’ Rhythm (the latter a great source for obscure psychedelia, among other things) while Mr Savage also recommends Kingbee out in the wilds of Chorlton, the place where he discovered The Tornados’ Do You Come Here Often, one of the songs on his Queer Noises compilation.
One of a number of vintage ads and ephemeral items at this Flickr set.
• From 1971: The Anthony Balch/William Burroughs/Jan Herman video experiment.
• The NYT reports on World on a Wire, a neglected science fiction drama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
• “While some of the technology industry’s brightest minds were inventing the first PCs and developing groundbreaking software, they were also feeding their heads with LSD.”
• The archive of author and illustrator Mervyn Peake has been acquired by the British Library for £410,000.
• Thames & Hudson are publishing I Wonder, a book by the wonderful Marian Bantjes, later in the year. Her site has a preview. I want.
• The gays: It’s election season in the UK so My Gay Vote looks at how the three main parties have supported LGB issues. (No data for the graphs, however.) Is theatre finally glad to be gay? Yet more Tumblrs: I heart skinny boys & Cute boys with cats.
• Trend-spotter, “svengali”, Situationist and the man who named the Sex Pistols: RIP Malcolm McLaren. The Guardian ran a number of memorial pages. Related: Anarchy in Gardenstown.
• Dublin’s One City, One Book choice for April 2010 is The Picture of Dorian Gray.
• The Catastrophist: Christopher Hitchens on JG Ballard.
• Steampunk Taxidermy by Lisa Black.
• LIFE looks back at Aleister Crowley.
• Groovy songs of the week: Julie Driscoll (with Brian Auger & The Trinity), a pair of songs by Bob Dylan—This Wheel’s On Fire—and Donovan—Season Of The Witch—and sets which look like a collaboration between Verner Panton and Marcel Duchamp. Amazing.