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\"niteflights.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Nite Flights (1978) by The Walker Brothers. Cover design by Hipgnosis.<\/em><\/p>\n

something attacked the earth last nite
\nwith a kick that man habit-eye
\ncut the sleep tight boys who dreamed and dreamed
\nof a city like the sky<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Scott Walker quotes Brion Gysin<\/a> (and who knows what else) in Shutout<\/em><\/a> (see below), one of the four remarkable songs he wrote for the final Walker Brothers album, Nite Flights<\/em><\/a>. That album cast a shadow over David Bowie’s Lodger<\/em> a year later, and led Bowie to try his hand at a cover of the title track<\/a> in 1993.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chaubin’s photographs of what he calls Cosmic Communist Constructions<\/a>. Also a new book from Taschen<\/a>, and an exhibition at the Karlsruhe Museum of Contemporary Art<\/a>. PingMag interviewed Chaubin<\/a> back in 2006.<\/p>\n

\"chirnoaga.jpg\"<\/p>\n

From Disparate works<\/a> by Romanian artist Marcel Chirnoaga (1930\u20132008). See also the Virtual Museum of Marcel Chirnoaga<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The immense size of modern databases gives us a feeling of meaninglessness. Information in such quantities reminds us of Borges\u2019s library extending infinitely in all directions. It is our task as humans to bring meaning back into this wasteland.<\/p>\n

Freeman Dyson on The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood<\/a> by James Gleick.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 In the Tumblr labyrinth this week: Mr Rossignol<\/a>, the Elephant House<\/a> for Edward Gorey, and Brion Gysin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Related to the last, Mutate or Die<\/a> is “a bioart project being conceived of and executed by Tony Allard and Adam Zaretsky”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Barry Miles’s top 10 counterculture books<\/a>. Related: Rick Poynor on Richard Neville’s Playpower<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The sooner literary fiction recognises & accepts its generic identity<\/a>, the sooner it can get help.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Is YouTube user “Kosinski<\/a>” the ever-elusive Chris Marker<\/a>? “All signs point to yes<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Internet Archive<\/a> is making its books available to US libraries.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Castle of Shadows<\/a> at BLDGBLOG.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Light Painting Pool<\/a> at Flickr.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Scott Walker (with the Walker Brothers): Shutout<\/em><\/a> |Nite Flights<\/em><\/a> | The Electrician<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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