A tattooed version of the Flandrin pose—and a fine tattoo it is—from photographer Rory Desmond. There’s more from his photo set here. Thanks to Thom for the tip!
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• The recurrent pose archive
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Sumer Is Icumen In but you wouldn’t have known it today, it being cold and wet, O my brothers. The picture above is the work of David Owen whose Ink Corporation does a splendid job of updating the iconography of the folk music world. Via Electric Eden.
• Biting the hand that feeds: designer Jonathan Barnbrook’s contribution to the Biennale of Sydney takes a dig at the whole enterprise. The art market is impervious to criticism (or shame) but the gesture is an amusing one.
• Emanuel Schongut’s book covers of the 1960s and 1970s on the artist’s own Flickr pages. Via A Journey Round My Skull.
• Owen Freeman on illustrating William Burroughs. Related: Reality Studio interviews Victor Bockris.
• RIP Jack Birkett, Derek Jarman’s Caliban and the Pope in Caravaggio. And RIP Dennis Hopper, actor, director and photographer.
“Sea Nettle” (1873), a costume design by the Mistick Krewe of Comus. From this BibliOdyssey posting of New Orleans Mardi Gras designs.
• Chris Summerfield’s surfer boys at Lulu.
• Homotography also has a Tumblr page.
• The Ghost Box Study Series Singles.
• More 3D projection on buildings.
• John Foxx interviewed at FACT.
Song of the week: Ineffect (1989) by Material.
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One of the entries from the Greenpeace competition to rebrand BP.
• What Kenneth Anger was doing inside the Pentagon, October 1967.
• Ghosts Of The Future: Borrowing Architecture From The Zone Of Alienation. Jim Rossignol on Stalker: the film, the game and the reality.
• Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s visionary music. A blog and a forthcoming book by Rob Young.
• Lesbian filmmaker Kiana Firouz isn’t wanted in the UK thanks to the iniquitous asylum laws of the previous administration; the Home Office intends to return her to Iran where gay people are flogged and executed. Coilhouse has details including recommendations of how people can help. Related: Britain’s immigration system is guilty of “institutional homophobia”, according to a new report.
• Cameron Carpenter, a prodigiously talented (and sequinned) concert organist.
• No Barcode: Javier Garcia’s graphic design blog.
• Shapeways: 3D printing from your own designs.
• Spintriae: brothel coins from Ancient Rome.
• Winq magazine: “global queer culture”.
• A steam-powered synthesiser.
• Among The Trees, Michael Chapman on the Whistle Test in 1975.
Vintage swordplay #4
The Crusader by George Quaintance (1943).
Continuing an occasional series, I was hoping to find the original photo which George Quaintance used as a model for this painting but failed dismally. I did find the photo below, however, a piece of Roman camp by beefcake photographer Alonzo Hanagan, aka ‘Lon of New York’ on this Boy Culture post where Hanagan is interviewed about his work.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The men with swords archive
• The gay artists archive
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A drawing by Eric Fraser from the Radio Times, 1947. From this Flickr set.
• I helped put together the design for the Pursuit Grooves album recently. FACT magazine interviewed Vanese Smith about her work.
• One of the books whose interiors I designed last year for Tachyon was The Secret History of Science Fiction, a story collection edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. (And a book which I’ve yet to add to my web pages, I’m still behind with updates.) The LA Times has a piece about the anthology here, focusing on the Don DeLillo contribution, Human Moments in World War III.
• It’s been another week of Facebook hate; being a self-satisfied refusenik I can’t help but find this amusing. Too many good pieces to list but Gizmodo had more reasons why you should still quit Facebook, Jason Calacanis gathered lots of links to other stories on his blog while social media expert Danah Boyd got to the heart of the matter with a very cogent polemic.
• If you want an alternative to Facebook, Diaspora is “the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network”.
• David Toop has a new book out next month. “Sinister Resonance begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location is ambiguous and whose existence is transitory. The intangibility of sound is uncanny – a phenomenal presence in the head, at its point of source and all around. The close listener is like a medium who draws out substance from that which is not entirely there.”
• Coilhouse looks at the late Decadent artist and designer Hans Henning Voigt (1887–1969), better known as Alastair.
come, been and gone.
• “After a sold out season at the Barbican in 2009 Michael Clark Company returns with the next instalment of his critically acclaimed production made primarily to the music of David Bowie. come, been and gone also embraces the work of Bowie’s key collaborators: Lou Reed , Iggy Pop , Brian Eno and touches on some of his influences; The Velvet Underground , Kraftwerk and Nina Simone……This production contains loud music and graphic images.” I should hope so.
• “Why should boys always be boys, and girls always be girls?” Brutal/Beautiful, photography by Austin Green.
• John Foxx, Iain Sinclair and others appear at Short Circuit 2010 next month.
• Black, Brown, and Beige: Duke Ellington’s music and race in America.
• Jane Siberry has made all her albums available as free downloads.
• Ruth Bayer photographs people after they’ve inhaled poppers.
• Swiss artist catalogues mutant insects around nuclear plants.
• Pompeii’s X-rated art will titillate a new generation.
• The Happy, Haunted Island of Poveglia, Venice.
• The Art of American Book Covers, a blog.
• Kanellos, the Greek protest dog.
• Song of the week: Twiggy Twiggy (1994) by Pizzicato Five.