{"id":1812,"date":"2007-04-26T01:35:03","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T00:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2008-07-15T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T18:14:18","slug":"new-things-for-april-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/04\/26\/new-things-for-april-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"New things for April II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tahtivaeltaja.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/squid.jpg\" alt=\"squid.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By an odd coincidence my work manifests in two different forms in Finland this month. Above is the Finnish reprint of &#8216;King Squid&#8217; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffvandermeer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff VanderMeer<\/a>, part of his <em>City of Saints and Madmen<\/em> fantasy novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/city.html\">which I designed<\/a> as a self-contained work. SF magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tahtivaeltaja.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>T\u00e4htivaeltaja<\/em><\/a> has produced this as a supplement to their latest issue and done a great job of maintaining the look of the original printing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turisas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/turisas.jpg\" alt=\"turisas.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And in the music world there&#8217;s a new CD design for Finnish metal band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turisas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Turisas<\/a>. This is their second album, <em>The Varangian Way<\/em>, a concept affair that describes the journey taken by Viking explorers from the Gulf of Finland to Byzantium via the rivers of Russia. Very bombastic stuff, with choir and orchestra backing the band so it&#8217;s probably fitting that I again referenced (ie: swiped) the bloated sun from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobpeak.com\/artpage.cfm?artid=1\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Peak&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Apocalypse Now<\/span> poster<\/a> for the cover.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/04\/10\/the-poster-art-of-bob-peake\/\">The poster art of Bob Peak<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/04\/02\/new-things-for-april\/\">New things for April<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/03\/02\/city-of-saints-and-madmen\/\">City of Saints and Madmen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By an odd coincidence my work manifests in two different forms in Finland this month. Above is the Finnish reprint of &#8216;King Squid&#8217; by Jeff VanderMeer, part of his City of Saints and Madmen fantasy novel which I designed as a self-contained work. SF magazine T\u00e4htivaeltaja has produced this as a supplement to their latest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/04\/26\/new-things-for-april-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New things for April II&#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":[42,21,3,23],"tags":[2088,1320,142,2819],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-music","category-work","tag-apocalypse-now","tag-bob-peak","tag-jeff-vandermeer","tag-turisas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-te","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","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=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}