{"id":10225,"date":"2011-10-23T01:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T00:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=10225"},"modified":"2013-02-02T15:46:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T15:46:44","slug":"weekend-links-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/10\/23\/weekend-links-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beautifulcentury.tumblr.com\/post\/11762826705\/andrew-l-von-wittkamp-black-cat-on-a-chair\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"wittkamp.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/wittkamp.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Black Cat on a Chair (1850\u20131860) by Andrew L Von Wittkamp.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;A little bit of acid, lots of weed, and too much Castaneda and I was ready to move from the magical realm of Middle Earth into a world that was much stranger than any involving hairy dwarves and white wizards&#8230;&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/toomuchtodream.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Too Much to Dream<\/em> by Peter Bebergal<\/a>, &#8220;a psychedelic American boyhood&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This year&#8217;s Booker prize isn&#8217;t about the power of the new \u2013 there&#8217;s no experiment with form or strangeness of imagination. The winner may get on the bedside tables of middle England, but that&#8217;s not as important as changing the way that even one person dreams.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/oct\/18\/booker-prize-readability-test-literature\" target=\"_blank\">Jeanette Winterson<\/a> throws the cat among the pigeons.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2022 50 Watts continues to show us things you&#8217;d be hard-pressed to find elsewhere: <a href=\"http:\/\/50watts.com\/#2102341\/Les-Chants-de-Maldoror\" target=\"_blank\">illustrations by TagliaMani<\/a> from a new edition of <em>Les Chants de Maldoror<\/em>, and <em>War Is a Verb<\/em>, collages by <a href=\"http:\/\/50watts.com\/#2177590\/War-Is-a-Verb\" target=\"_blank\">Allan Kausch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Don&#8217;t go in the swimming pool! <a href=\"http:\/\/coilhouse.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coilhouse<\/a> directs us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.premiere-heure.fr\/directors\/jeremie-perin\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fantasy<\/em><\/a>: music by French outfit DyE with a weird and nasty animation by J\u00e9r\u00e9mie P\u00e9rin.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ace album cover designer and photographic Surrealist Storm Thorgerson is having another exhibition at <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.ideageneration.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">IG Gallery<\/a>, London.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/leo-and-diane-dillon.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Art of Leo and Diane Dillon<\/a>, an art and illustration archive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/10\/john_turturro_reads_italo_calvinos_animated_fairy_tale.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Turturro<\/a> reads a short story by Italo Calvino.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/domusweb.it\/en\/news\/spaceport-america-by-foster-+-partners\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spaceport America<\/a> by Foster + Partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em>Your Body of Work<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/weblog\/cat\/10\/view\/17100\/olafur-eliasson-your-body-of-work.html\" target=\"_blank\">Olafur Eliasson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatkatiedoes.net\/2011\/08\/two-new-etsy-prints.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wonder-Cat cures all ailments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.common-place.org\/vol-12\/no-01\/jones\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blogging Moby-Dick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zJ_piEWzJVg\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Krazy Kat<\/em><\/a> (1927) by Frankie Trumbauer &amp; His Orchestra with Bix and Lang | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=naeMRd3qmTA\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pussy Cat Dues<\/em><\/a> (1959) by Charles Mingus | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ikT-VpNjAYY\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Katzenmusik 5<\/em><\/a> (1979) by Michael Rother | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O_kk8mGqBj8\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Big Electric Cat<\/em><\/a> (1982) by Adrian Belew | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oM6KxqrlSWo\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Purrfect<\/em><\/a> (1996) by Funki Porcini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Cat on a Chair (1850\u20131860) by Andrew L Von Wittkamp. \u2022 &#8220;A little bit of acid, lots of weed, and too much Castaneda and I was ready to move from the magical realm of Middle Earth into a world that was much stranger than any involving hairy dwarves and white wizards&#8230;&#8221; Too Much to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/10\/23\/weekend-links-81\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 81&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,8,2,42,1029,4,851,7,48,3,44,12,17,41,18,15],"tags":[2329,3013,3008,3005,3006,1944,1292,3009,3012,3014,504,407,408,3010,3011,510,2179,589,1671,2077,1714,1018,429,3007],"class_list":["post-10225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-collage","category-design","category-drugs","category-film","category-illustrators","category-music","category-painting","category-photography","category-psychedelia","category-sculpture","category-surrealism","category-technology","tag-50-watts","tag-adrian-belew","tag-allan-kausch","tag-andrew-l-von-wittkamp","tag-carlos-castaneda","tag-charles-mingus","tag-coilhouse","tag-dye-group","tag-frankie-trumbauer-his-orchestra-with-bix-and-lang","tag-funki-porcini","tag-herman-melville","tag-italo-calvino","tag-jeanette-winterson","tag-jeremie-perin","tag-john-turturro","tag-lautreamont","tag-leo-diane-dillon","tag-leo-and-diane-dillon","tag-michael-rother","tag-norman-foster","tag-olafur-eliasson","tag-peter-bebergal","tag-storm-thorgerson","tag-tagliamani"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2EV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}