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The Byrds (1967) by Wes Wilson.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Wes Wilson<\/a>, one of the first of the San Francisco psychedelic poster artists of the 1960s, and also one of the more visible thanks to the popularity of his compressed type designs, some of which were derived from a style developed by Alfred Roller<\/a> for the Vienna Secession circa 1900. When Playboy<\/em> magazine wanted a cover that reflected the psychedelic art trend in late 1967 it was Wilson they called<\/a>. Related: Wes Wilson’s posters<\/a> at Wolfgang’s.<\/p>\n \u2022 “In the ’70s, New Age music offered listeners, trapped in the urban rat-race, audio capsules of pastoral peace to transform their homes into havens. Today the Internet and social media form a kind of post-geographic urban space, an immaterial city of information whose hustle ‘n bustle is even more wearing and deleterious to our equilibrium.” 2010\u201319: Back To The Garden: The Return Of Ambient And New Age by Simon Reynolds<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 “This pointed-finger symbol goes by many names: mutton fist, printer\u2019s fist, bishop\u2019s fist, pointer, hand director, indicule, or most unimaginatively as \u2018a hand\u2019. Scholarly consensus has pretty much settled on the word \u2018manicule\u2019, from the Latin maniculum<\/em>, meaning \u2018little hand\u2019.” John Boardley<\/a> on the typographic history of the pointing hand.<\/p>\n \u2022 Tales Of Purple Sally<\/em><\/a> (1973) by Alex. All instruments by Alex Wiska apart from bass by Holger Czukay, and drums by Jaki Liebzeit. The latter pair also produced the album. Related: Jah Wobble<\/a> talking to Duncan Seaman about working with Czukay and Liebeziet.<\/p>\n \u2022 “On Jan 25, 2020, tired of negative film lists on Twitter, I asked people for ‘obscure [or] underseen films you adore and think more people should know about.’ This was the result<\/a>.”<\/p>\n \u2022 Flash Of The Spirit<\/em> by Jon Hassell & Farafina “hails from a time when the possibilities of music seemed less well-defined, and borders felt more open,” says Geeta Dayal<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Art Of Computer Designing: A Black and White Approach<\/em><\/a> (1993) by Osamu Sato. There’s more of Sato’s print work at the Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At the Morgan Library: Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect<\/a>. Drawings from the Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France.<\/p>\n \u2022 New from Strange Attractor: Inferno: The Trash Project: Volume One<\/em><\/a> by Ken Hollings.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Storm de Hirsch<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n \u2022 Celeste<\/em><\/a> by Roger Eno & Brian Eno.<\/p>\n \u2022 Ben Watt<\/a>‘s favourite music.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Inferno<\/a><\/em> (1968) by The Inferno | Inferno<\/a><\/em> (1990) by Jah Wobble’s Invaders Of The Heart | Inferno<\/a><\/em> (1993) by Miranda Sex Garden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"