{"id":15498,"date":"2014-08-10T02:39:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T01:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15498"},"modified":"2014-08-10T02:42:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T01:42:32","slug":"weekend-links-220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/08\/10\/weekend-links-220\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 220"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Untitled painting by Aleksandra Waliszewska<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Ben Wheatley’s forthcoming film of High-Rise<\/em> by JG Ballard now has its own Tumblr. <\/a>This will no doubt be spoilerific so I won’t keep on visiting but it’s there if you require it. More Ballardianism: “Worshipping the Crash” at BLDGBLOG<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Aickman wandered through the sixties fantasy landscape like some curmudgeonly fetch, returning from the fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> heyday of the ghost story.” Boyd Tonkin<\/a> profiles Robert Aickman, writer of peerless “strange stories”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dangerous Minds<\/a>: “Raise a glass to Cthulhu at the Lovecraft Bar”. Looks more like a Captain Nemo bar to me (not that there’s anything wrong with that) but I appreciate the gesture.<\/p>\n

But to demand that a work be \u201crelatable\u201d expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective of, the experience of the reader or viewer. The reader or viewer remains passive in the face of the book or movie or play: she expects the work to be done for her.<\/p>\n

Rebecca Mead<\/a> on The Scourge of Relatability<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 “Space as a paranoid, static rumble featuring: 20jfg, Ben Frost & Dan\u00edel Bjarnason, Coil & Eduard Artemiev”. 20 Jazz Funk Greats<\/a> on the pleasures of the Solaris<\/em> soundtrack.<\/p>\n

\u2022 What do Hawkwind, Harry Nilsson, Stereolab and The Supremes have in common? David Stubbs<\/a> examines the legacy of Neu! and Klaus Dinger’s “Dingerbeat”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A reminder that A Year in the Country<\/a> features a host of worthwhile links and associations for the Hauntologically persuaded.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rouge Louboutin<\/em>, an ad by David Lynch<\/a>. Related: An improptu biscuit ad by the Eccentronic Research Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week (a year old but no matter): JG Ballard Zoom Lens Mix by Bernholz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At 50 Watts<\/a>: More illustrated sheet music covers by Einar Nerman.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Five book cover designers and the books that inspire them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tove Jansson<\/a> would have been 100 this week.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pangaea with modern borders<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Solaris: Dream<\/a><\/em> (1990) by Edward Artemyev [sic] | Solaris<\/a><\/em> (2000) by Photek | Simulacra I<\/a><\/em> (2011) by Ben Frost & Dan\u00edel Bjarnason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Untitled painting by Aleksandra Waliszewska. \u2022 Ben Wheatley’s forthcoming film of High-Rise by JG Ballard now has its own Tumblr. This will no doubt be spoilerific so I won’t keep on visiting but it’s there if you require it. More Ballardianism: “Worshipping the Crash” at BLDGBLOG. \u2022 “Aickman wandered through the sixties fantasy landscape like … Continue reading “Weekend links 220”<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,42,4,29,7,22,48,3,44,20,13],"tags":[2329,6350,6344,214,2421,4936,6352,1841,6345,2272,104,3555,3144,265,6349,4314,3722,289,136,6347,222,1687,137,1568,976,6351,6346,2947,2407,3995,6348,797],"class_list":["post-15498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-horror","category-illustrators","category-music","category-painting","category-science-fiction","category-science","tag-50-watts","tag-a-year-in-the-country","tag-aleksandra-waliszewska","tag-andrei-tarkovsky","tag-ben-frost","tag-ben-wheatley","tag-bernholz","tag-bldgblog","tag-boyd-tonkin","tag-coil-group","tag-cthulhu","tag-dangerous-minds","tag-daniel-bjarnason","tag-david-lynch","tag-david-stubbs","tag-edward-artemiev","tag-edward-artemyev","tag-einar-nerman","tag-fin-de-siecle","tag-harry-nilsson","tag-hawkwind","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-jg-ballard","tag-klaus-dinger","tag-neu","tag-photek","tag-rebecca-mead","tag-robert-aickman","tag-stereolab","tag-the-eccentronic-research-council","tag-the-supremes","tag-tove-jansson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-41Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498","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=15498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}