{"id":16972,"date":"2015-07-05T01:06:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T00:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16972"},"modified":"2021-11-12T01:32:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T00:32:44","slug":"weekend-links-266","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/07\/05\/weekend-links-266\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 266"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spine and cover art by John Schoenherr for the first American edition of Dune, 1965.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “[Herbert] had also taken peyote and read Jung. In 1960, a sailing buddy introduced him to the Zen thinker Alan Watts, who was living on a houseboat in Sausalito. Long conversations with Watts, the main conduit by which Zen was permeating the west-coast counterculture, helped turn Herbert\u2019s pacy adventure story into an exploration of temporality, the limits of personal identity and the mind\u2019s relationship to the body.” Hari Kunzru<\/a> on Frank Herbert and Dune<\/em>, 50 years on. Related: “To save California, read Dune<\/em>,” says Andrew Leonard<\/a>. There’s a lot more Dune<\/em> cover art at ISFDB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Embedded in Adam\u2019s footage were several dark forms, human-ish in outline, unidentifiable but unmistakable, visible within the leaves or the shadows.” Holloway<\/em><\/a> is a short film by\u00a0Adam Scovell based on the book by Robert Macfarlane, Dan Richards and Stanley Donwood.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Library of the Lost: In Search of Forgotten Authors<\/em><\/a> by Roger Dobson; edited and with an introduction by Mark Valentine. Roger and Mark were my first publishers in 1988 when their Caermaen Books imprint produced the large-format edition of The Haunter of the Dark<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “…over the years he created a series of \u2018Pharmacies\u2019: rows of glass bottles filled not with medicines to cure the body…but objects to stimulate the mind.” Clare Walters<\/a> reviews Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust<\/em><\/a>, an exhibition at the Royal Academy, London.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “The sound machines we build today are invariably one-offs, made from salvaged parts, with all the precariousness of a prototype.” Sarah Angliss<\/a> on the art of making music machines.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mission Desire<\/em> is a new single by Jane Weaver<\/a> whose video is “set to scenes from Marie Math\u00e9matique<\/em><\/a> \u2013 the French 1960s mini-series about Barbarella\u2019s younger sister”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ghost signs, ginnels and hidden details: an alternative guide to Manchester by Hayley Flynn aka Skyliner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “I want to be despised,” says John Waters<\/a> who has a new art exhibition at\u00a0Spr\u00fcth Magers, London.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sonic Praise<\/em>, an album of “Krautprogbikermetal” by Ecstatic Vision<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Evolution of the Great Gay Novel: an overview by Rebecca Brill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0At Biblioth\u00e8que Gay: more homoerotic drawings by Jean Cocteau<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wyrd Daze<\/em><\/a> Lvl2 Issue 3 is a free download.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nicolas Winding Refn<\/a>: vinyl collector.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Art With Naked Guys In It<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Caladan<\/em><\/a> (2011) by Roly Porter | Giedi Prime<\/em><\/a> (2011) by Roly Porter | Arrakis<\/em><\/a> (2011) by Roly Porter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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