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A painting by Ed Emshwiller for the cover of Fantastic Stories of Imagination, July 1962, illustrating The Singing Statues by JG Ballard .<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 This week in the Bumper Book of Magic<\/em>: my comments about the creation of the book’s cover and magical alphabet have been posted at Alan Moore World<\/a>. At (Quasi)<\/a>, Smoky Man (in Italian) looks at other parts of the book, and includes my answers to his questions about the creation of The Soul, a character originally planned for a comic strip that Alan Moore and I were working on. I’ve been trying recently to find the first sketches I made of The Soul back in 2000 or 2001, without success. If I do find any of them I’ll post them here.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Juk-Shabb<\/em><\/a> by Cryo Chamber Collaboration is this year’s installment in the Lovecraft-themed album series (previously<\/a>) from Cryo Chamber. Also this week: Xerrox Vol. 5<\/em><\/a> by Alva Noto; Nocturne (Soundtrack for an Invisible Film)<\/em><\/a> by Avi C. Engel; and Cat Location Conundrum<\/em><\/a> by Moon Wiring Club.<\/p>\n \u2022 Code: Damp: An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms<\/em><\/a> by Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, being “an alternative occult and esoteric history of England told through one of its most popular cultural forms: the comedy sitcom”.<\/p>\n …the joy of art isn\u2019t only the pleasure of an end result but also the experience of going through the process of having made it. When you go out for a walk it isn\u2019t just (or even primarily) for the pleasure of reaching a destination, but for the process of doing the walking. For me, using AI all too often feels like I\u2019m engaging in a socially useless process, in which I learn almost nothing and then pass on my non-learning to others. It\u2019s like getting the postcard instead of the holiday.<\/p>\n Brian Eno<\/a> at Boston Review<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 “The typographic choices that Godard made were thematic and not only chosen for their stylistic properties.” Arijana Zeric<\/a> looks inside the design world of Jean-Luc Godard.<\/p>\n \u2022 Coming soon from Strange Attractor: The Stammering Librarian: Essays by Timothy D\u2019Arch Smith<\/em><\/a>, edited by Edwin Pouncey & Sandy Robertson.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Public Domain Review: Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri<\/a> (1887\u201388).<\/p>\n \u2022 At the BFI: Michael Brooke offers suggestions for where to begin with Guy Maddin<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At The Quietus: The Strange World of…Dennis Bovell<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mix of the week: A mix for The Wire<\/em> by KMRU<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Steven Heller’s font of the month is Gigafly<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Fantastic Cat<\/em><\/a> (1996) by Takako Minekawa | Fantastic Analysis<\/em><\/a> (2001) by Mouse On Mars | Fantastic Mass<\/em><\/a> (2016) by Time Attendant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"