{"id":6715,"date":"2010-01-26T03:12:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T03:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6715"},"modified":"2010-11-13T03:03:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T03:03:15","slug":"strange-attractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/01\/26\/strange-attractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Attractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.lib.washington.edu\/cdm4\/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=\/fishimages&amp;CISOPTR=38570&amp;CISOBOX=1&amp;REC=5\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/squid.jpg\" alt=\"squid.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Giant Squid of the Newfoundland Banks. From a painting by Herbert B Judy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Giant Squid comes to you courtesy of the University of Washington&#8217;s Digital Collection and their <a href=\"http:\/\/content.lib.washington.edu\/fishweb\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Freshwater and Marine Image Bank<\/a>. This <a href=\"http:\/\/content.lib.washington.edu\/cdm4\/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=\/fishimages&amp;CISOPTR=38570&amp;CISOBOX=1&amp;REC=5\" target=\"_blank\">book plate<\/a> is from <em>Sea-shore Life; The Invertebrates of the New York Coast and the Adjacent Coast Region<\/em> (1905) by Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, and the Internet Archive happens to have copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/seashorelifeinve00mayo\" target=\"_blank\">the entire book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kenhollings.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/strange-attractor-salon-site-report.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sasalon.jpg\" alt=\"sasalon.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which facts have nothing whatsoever to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/kenhollings.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/strange-attractor-salon-site-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Hollings&#8217; photos<\/a> of the Strange Attractor Salon which is in its final week at <a href=\"http:\/\/viktorwyndfineart.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Viktor Wynd Fine Art<\/a>, London. I was pleased to see the picture above which shows my pieces on the same wall as work by Julian House whose covers for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostbox.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost Box<\/a> CDs I&#8217;ve enthused over in the past. Strange Attractor curator Mark Pilkington has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/strangeattractor\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted further photos<\/a> on his Flickr pages as has artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alihutch\/tags\/strangeattractorsalon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Hutchinson<\/a> whose beautiful work is also featured there.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/12\/22\/strange-attractor-salon\/\">Strange Attractor Salon<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/31\/readouts\/\">Readouts<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/16\/welcome-to-mars\/\">Welcome to Mars<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/06\/24\/the-seance-at-hobs-lane\/\">The S\u00e9ance at Hobs Lane<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/28\/saj-again\/\">SAJ again<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/11\/30\/strange-attractor-journal-three\/\">Strange Attractor Journal Three<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/10\/26\/ghost-box\/\">Ghost Box<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/29\/the-major-arcana\/\">The Major Arcana<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant Squid of the Newfoundland Banks. From a painting by Herbert B Judy. Today&#8217;s Giant Squid comes to you courtesy of the University of Washington&#8217;s Digital Collection and their Freshwater and Marine Image Bank. This book plate is from Sea-shore Life; The Invertebrates of the New York Coast and the Adjacent Coast Region (1905) by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/01\/26\/strange-attractions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strange Attractions&#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":[2,42,4,3,16,13],"tags":[957,958,1952,172,956,954,953,955,98,8729,3033],"class_list":["post-6715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-music","category-occult","category-science","tag-alfred-goldsborough-mayor","tag-ali-hutchinson","tag-cephalopods","tag-ghost-box","tag-herbert-b-judy","tag-julian-house","tag-ken-hollings","tag-mark-pilkington","tag-strange-attractor","tag-the-seance","tag-viktor-wynd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Kj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715","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=6715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}