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Cover painting by Kelly Freas for Mayenne (1973) by EC Tubb.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 “The kamishibai<\/em> (literally \u201cpaper play\u201d) is a Japanese form of storytelling that involved a narrator using illustrated paper boards to tell stories. As the story would progress, a new board would replace the previous board, propelling the story forward. This concept served as the inspiration for graphic designer Katsuhiko Shibuya and his class of students at Joshibi University of Art and Design. The task, however, was to deconstruct fairy tales even further using only graphic symbols.” Graphic design kamishibai<\/em> tell visual fairytales<\/a> at Spoon & Tamago. Great stuff.<\/p>\n \u2022 “If it’s not magical it’s not worth doing it… Without magic there’s no quality.” Musician\/producer\/catalyst Bill Laswell<\/a> in conversation.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Public Domain Review: Lara Langer Cohen on the emancipatory visions of a sex magician: Paschal Beverly Randolph\u2019s Occult Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Smithsonian Magazine: Nicola Jones on the scientific history of cannabinoids<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Deep beneath the streets of London, musical wax cylinders reveal lost histories<\/a>.”<\/p>\n \u2022 “The Moon smells like gunpowder<\/a>.” And all that fine dust is bad for your lungs.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Aquarium Drunkard: Guiding Light : A Tom Verlaine Appreciation<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Sacred Tonalities<\/em><\/a> by Mike Lazarev.<\/p>\n \u2022 Supernatural Fairytales<\/em><\/a> (1967) by Art | X-Rated Fairy Tales<\/em><\/a> (1985) by Helios Creed | The Fairy Tale<\/em><\/a> (1991) by Biosphere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cover painting by Kelly Freas for Mayenne (1973) by EC Tubb. \u2022 “The kamishibai (literally \u201cpaper play\u201d) is a Japanese form of storytelling that involved a narrator using illustrated paper boards to tell stories. As the story would progress, a new board would replace the previous board, propelling the story forward. This concept served as … Continue reading “Weekend links 660”<\/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 660","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":[2,4,851,29,21,3,16,14,20,13,15],"tags":[12663,466,883,12657,1716,12658,910,12659,12662,12661,12660,12652],"class_list":["post-22460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-drugs","category-electronica","category-fantasy","category-music","category-occult","category-politics","category-science-fiction","category-science","category-technology","tag-art-group","tag-bill-laswell","tag-biosphere-musician","tag-ec-tubb","tag-helios-creed","tag-katsuhiko-shibuya","tag-kelly-freas","tag-lara-langer-cohen","tag-mike-lazarev","tag-nicola-jones","tag-paschal-beverly-randolph","tag-tom-verlaine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5Qg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22460","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=22460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}