{"id":3469,"date":"2008-09-04T01:10:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T00:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/09\/04\/reasons-to-be-cheerful-part-2\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T11:12:18","slug":"reasons-to-be-cheerful-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/09\/04\/reasons-to-be-cheerful-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons To Be Cheerful, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/bb_badges.jpg\" alt=\"bb_badges.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Four Hawkwind badges and a Nik Turner badge based on designs by Barney Bubbles. From the Coulthart archives. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Readers who&#8217;ve been waiting for <em>Reasons To Be Cheerful<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rockpopfashion.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Gorman<\/a>&#8216;s landmark study of the life and work of artist and designer Barney Bubbles, may like to know that Paul was in touch today with the suggestion that some pages of the book be previewed here closer to the release date on November 7th. I&#8217;d be more than happy for that, of course, so thought I&#8217;d mention it now in order to whet the appetite. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/06\/reasons-to-be-cheerful-the-barney-bubbles-revival\/\">As mentioned earlier<\/a>, the book is published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelita.co.uk\/reasons\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Adelita<\/a> and its launch will be accompanied by an exhibition at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonprintstudio.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">London Print Studio<\/a> opening on October 23rd. Watch, as the saying goes, this space.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/loveyourblog.jpg\" alt=\"loveyourblog.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Also this week, Yvonne at <a href=\"http:\/\/nemeton.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/i-love-your-blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nemeton<\/a> picked { feuilleton } as one of her nominations for the I Love Your Blog award. While I&#8217;m going to sidestep the difficult choice of having to pass the award on (which would require nominating a new group of people) I can at least add Nemeton\u2014described as &#8220;musings on philosophy, politics, mysticism, geeky stuff, literature, news and ideas&#8221;\u2014to the blogroll. Thanks Yvonne!<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/06\/27\/arte-y-pico-award\/\">Arte y pico award<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/06\/reasons-to-be-cheerful-the-barney-bubbles-revival\/\">Reasons To Be Cheerful: the Barney Bubbles revival<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/20\/barney-bubbles-artist-and-designer\/\">Barney Bubbles: artist and designer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Hawkwind badges and a Nik Turner badge based on designs by Barney Bubbles. From the Coulthart archives. Readers who&#8217;ve been waiting for Reasons To Be Cheerful, Paul Gorman&#8216;s landmark study of the life and work of artist and designer Barney Bubbles, may like to know that Paul was in touch today with the suggestion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/09\/04\/reasons-to-be-cheerful-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reasons To Be Cheerful, part 2&#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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4,11,3],"tags":[86,222,821,1467],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","category-miscellaneous","category-music","tag-barney-bubbles","tag-hawkwind","tag-nik-turner","tag-paul-gorman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-TX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","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=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}