{"id":22406,"date":"2023-01-28T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=22406"},"modified":"2023-01-28T19:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T19:00:38","slug":"weekend-links-658","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/01\/28\/weekend-links-658\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 658"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ein-dor.jpg\" alt=\"ein-dor.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Also Sprach Zarathustra (1972), a blacklight poster by Asher Ein Dor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;<em>Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)<\/em> is a reasonably informative, if rather dry, look at a subject with much more potential for exploration,&#8221; says <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/794771\/hipgnosis-design-duo-behind-pink-floyd-iconic-aesthetic-squaring-the-circle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Shindel<\/a>, reviewing Anton Corbijn&#8217;s feature-length documentary about the album-cover design team. Sounds like a missed opportunity, on the whole, although the history of Hipgnosis has been so thoroughly explored over the course of several books (including a very recent one by Aubrey Powell) that any documentary seems almost superfluous. What I&#8217;d most like to see is something we&#8217;ll never have, a film about the company directed by the late Storm Thorgerson. And on that note, Thorgerson&#8217;s two-part documentary about art and drugs, <em>The Art of Tripping<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/01\/29\/the-art-of-tripping-a-documentary-by-storm-thorgerson\/\">previously<\/a>), has resurfaced on YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ig3ulicu2X0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W-pyMe7pTKw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;LunaNet consists of a set of rules that would enable all lunar satellite navigation, communication and computing systems to form a single network similar to the Internet, regardless of which nation installs them. Setting lunar time is part of a much bigger picture. &#8216;The idea is to produce a Solar System internet,&#8221; says Gramling. &#8216;And the first part would be at the Moon.'&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-00185-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elizabeth Gibney<\/a> reports on plans to create a consistent time zone for the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Listening to <em>12<\/em>, one cannot help but be struck by this deep expression of Sakamoto\u2019s pain, of his human frailty, strength, and uncertainty about the future.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/4columns.org\/dayal-geeta\/ryuichi-sakamoto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geeta Dayal<\/a> on Ryuichi Sakamoto&#8217;s latest album.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Public Domain Review: Illusory Wealth: Victor Dubreuil\u2019s Cryptic Currencies by <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/essay\/illusory-wealth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dorinda Evans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Aquarium Drunkard: Journey to inner space with <a href=\"https:\/\/aquariumdrunkard.com\/2023\/01\/26\/journey-to-inner-space-with-the-groundhogs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Groundhogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 DJ Food investigates the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djfood.org\/high-meadows-psychedelic-poster-site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High Meadows<\/a> psychedelic poster site.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 New music: <a href=\"https:\/\/ohljod.bandcamp.com\/album\/sub-photic-scenario\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sub-Photic Scenario<\/em><\/a> by Runar Magnusson.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Wyrd Daze: <a href=\"https:\/\/wyrddaze.wordpress.com\/2023\/01\/23\/disco-rd-23-pages-23-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disco Rd: 23 pages 23 minutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/articles\/32538-chris-watson-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Strange World of&#8230;Chris Watson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G5BtuebZ6oQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Lunar Musick Suite<\/em><\/a> (1976) by Steve Hillage | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qw16slRa5WA\"><em>Lunar Cruise<\/em><\/a> (1990) by Midori Takada &amp; Masahiko Satoh | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T1t14bHyX_g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Luna Park<\/em><\/a> (2006) by Pet Shop Boys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also Sprach Zarathustra (1972), a blacklight poster by Asher Ein Dor. \u2022 &#8220;Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) is a reasonably informative, if rather dry, look at a subject with much more potential for exploration,&#8221; says Dan Shindel, reviewing Anton Corbijn&#8217;s feature-length documentary about the album-cover design team. Sounds like a missed opportunity, on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/01\/28\/weekend-links-658\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 658&#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":"New blog post: Weekend links 658","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":[2,851,29,7,3,44,17,13,15],"tags":[1434,12638,1987,1609,12639,12642,12640,1393,430,12643,8784,3302,12608,1412,4006,429,9158,12641,5379],"class_list":["post-22406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-drugs","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","category-painting","category-psychedelia","category-science","category-technology","tag-anton-corbijn","tag-asher-ein-dor","tag-aubrey-powell","tag-chris-watson","tag-dan-shindel","tag-dorinda-evans","tag-elizabeth-gibney","tag-geeta-dayal","tag-hipgnosis","tag-masahiko-satoh","tag-midori-takada","tag-pet-shop-boys","tag-runar-magnusson","tag-ryuichi-sakamoto","tag-steve-hillage","tag-storm-thorgerson","tag-the-groundhogs","tag-victor-dubreuil","tag-wyrd-daze"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5Po","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22406","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=22406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}