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East Totem West head shop poster, from DJ Food<\/a>‘s latest delve into the psychedelic poster auctions.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 The week in science-fiction illustration: Joachim Boaz<\/a> on Rodger B. MacGowan\u2019s “approachable New Wave art”; and Andrew Liptak talks to Adam Rowe<\/a> about Rowe’s Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At The Wire<\/em>: Philip Brophy<\/a> sets out his intentions for the return of his long running column on film music.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Public Domain Review: Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder\u2019s Twelve Proverbs<\/a> (1558).<\/p>\n Though the project\u2019s genesis predated Roeg\u2019s involvement, Cammell said that his codirector \u201cneedled\u201d him: \u201cHe provoked me, made me focus more and more clearly on what I was trying to say.\u201d It was Roeg\u2019s visual sensibility, Cammell graciously admitted, that \u201cmobilized\u201d and \u201cimproved\u201d his own concepts. It\u2019s appropriate that the movie concerns two men who become fully realized only in meeting and merging with each other. Turner, said Cammell, \u201cbelieves himself to be at the end of his creative life. He\u2019s a man in despair. And then destiny brings him his mirror image, Chas, the man in whom he sees what he was and what he could be again.\u201d<\/p>\n Roeg and Cammell were hardly in despair in 1968; both were novices in the foothills of their own artistry. It is not fanciful, though, to see in their collaboration something like the same lightning connection that forms between Turner and Chas. Cammell said that he set out \u201cto make a transcendental movie.\u201d In achieving that goal, he stretched and challenged not just himself but cinema too. Even as Performance<\/em> closed the lid definitively on the sixties, it opened the door to a radical new way of making films.<\/p>\n Ryan Gilbey<\/a> on Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg’s Performance<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 At A Year In The Country: Broadcast and Pathways Through Otherworldly Villages<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Pilot<\/a> is an elegant and expressive display serif,” says Kim Tidwell.<\/p>\n \u2022 Winners of the 2025 World Nature Photography Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Forgotten Worlds<\/em><\/a> by Rodrigo Passannanti.<\/p>\n \u2022 Janus Rose presents her Digital Packrat Manifesto<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Jamie Muir<\/a> and Gene Hackman<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Pilots Of Purple Twilight<\/em><\/a> (1981) by Tangerine Dream | Pilots<\/em><\/a> (2000) by Goldfrapp | I’m With The Pilots<\/em><\/a> (2001) by Ladytron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" East Totem West head shop poster, from DJ Food‘s latest delve into the psychedelic poster auctions. \u2022 The week in science-fiction illustration: Joachim Boaz on Rodger B. 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