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Ancient Egyptian capitals from The Grammar of Ornament<\/a> (1856) by Owen Jones at Egyptian Revival<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Golden Age Comic Book Stories has been pulling out all the stops recently with entries for Will Bradley<\/a>, Alphonse Mucha’s Documents Decoratifs<\/em><\/a> (a companion volume to Combinaisons Ornementales<\/em><\/a>), and pages from My Name is Paris<\/em><\/a> (1987) illustrated by Michael Kaluta, an Art Nouveau-styled confection which features scenes from the Exposition Universelle of 1900. Related: Alphonse Mucha<\/a> in high-resolution at Flickr.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Sinking Of The Titanic<\/em><\/a> by Gavin Bryars at Ubuweb, the first release on Brian Eno’s Obscure label<\/a> in 1975. Bryars’ Titanic<\/em> is an open composition which has subsequently been reworked and re-recorded as more information about the disaster has come to light. The accompanying piece on that album, Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet<\/em>, is the only version you need unless you want Tom Waits ruining the whole thing in the later recording<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hayley Campbell claims to have the worst CV in the world<\/a> but she has a better way with words than most people with bad CVs. She’ll be giving a talk with Tim Pilcher entitled Sex, Death, Hell & Superheroes<\/em><\/a> at The Last Tuesday Society, 11 Mare Street, Bethnal Green, London, on April 8th. Just don’t shout “Xena!” if you attend.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Monolake live<\/a> at the Dis-Patch Festival Belgrade, Serbia, 2007; 75 minutes of thumping grooves. Related: A video by Richard De Suza<\/a> using Monolake’s Watching Clouds<\/em> as the soundtrack.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “I preached against homosexuality, but I was wrong<\/a>.” Related: Gay Cliques<\/a>, a chart, and Sashay shantay \u00e9p\u00e9e<\/a> at Strange Flowers<\/a>, the last (?) duel with swords fought in France.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixtapes of the week: Electronica from John Foxx and Benge<\/a> at The Quietus, and Ben Frost<\/a> mashing up early Metallica, Krzysztof Penderecki, and late Talk Talk for FACT.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A 40 gigpixel panorama<\/a> of the Strahov Philosophical Library, Prague, described by 360 Cities as the world’s largest indoor photo.<\/p>\n

\u2022 How Hollywood Butchered Its Best Movie Posters<\/a>; Steven Heller on Saul Bass.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Back issues of Coilhouse<\/em><\/a> magazine are now available to buy in PDF form.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Absinthe minded: The ruin of bohemians is back in all the best bars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fade Into You<\/em><\/a> (1993) by Mazzy Star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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