A screenshot of an old video project that I found on a hard drive from 2000.
Meant to post this before, and surprised it didn’t end up here anyway. Matador has put up an MP3 from the upcoming A.C. Newman record, which is due out in two weeks.
A bike map of Portland, Maine from my favorite Portland-based clothing company.
Some of those sweatshirts are a step away from tribal tattoo patterns.
Yuichi Hibi moved to New York from Japan in 1987, when he was 22. Walking the streets from midnight to dawn, he captured these images.
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Futurist Meals
Some pointers for dining from the Futurists, from Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s Manifesto of Futurist Cookery (1930):
- No more pasta, as it causes lassitude, pessimism and lack of passion
- A prevalence of sculpted foods, including meats whose main appeal is to the eye and imagination
- Abolition of the knife and fork
- Use perfumes to enhance the tasting experience
- A perfect meal requires originality and harmony in the table setting (crystal, china, décor) extending to the flavours and colours of the foods
- Some food on the table should not be eaten, but only experienced by the eyes and nose
- Food should arrive rapidly and contain many flavors, but only a few mouthfuls in size
- All political discussion and speeches are forbidden
- Music and poetry should be forbidden except during certain intervals
These were probably a bit more shocking in 1930. Sadly, the book is out of print. You can find more in this Artforum piece and at Cabinet Magazine.
Next time you feel like preparing some pasta, remember:
“The defenders of pasta are shackled by its ball and chain like convicted lifers or carry its ruins in their stomachs like archaeologists.”
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Flickr set of the spirit photographs of William Hope shared by the National Media Museum.
The group became renowned as the “Crewe Circle” with William Hope as its leader. During their early efforts, the circle destroyed all of the negatives of the photos they took for fear of being suspected of witchcraft. However, when Archbishop Thomas Colley, a lifelong enthusiast of both the supernatural and Spiritualism, joined the circle, they began to make their work public.
Ironically, Hope’s first brush with exposure as a fraud came when Archbishop Colley arranged his first sitting. According to the story, Hope doctored the photograph with the wrong spirit extra, substituting another elderly woman for Colley’s mother.
When Hope tried to confess his fraud to Colley, the other man dismissed his confession as “nonsense”– he would recognize his mother when he saw her and the extra in the photo was certainly his mother, he stated. To prove his case, he even put a notice in the local newspaper and asked that all of those who remembered his mother should call at the rectory. No fewer than 18 people selected Hope’s mistake from among several others and said that it definitely showed the ghost of the late Mrs. Colley.
Arthur Conan Doyle was a proponent of Hope’s, and his book The Case for Spirit Photography was written in support, after a separate controversial incident involving suspected fraud.
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Again and again he peoples his singular fictions with novelists and poets, both aspiring and famous, both accomplished and hopeless, both politically oblivious and committedly extremist, whether right or left. By a marvelous sleight of hand writers are omnipresent in Bolaño’s world, striding the stage as romantic heroes and feared as imperious villains, even aesthetic assassins — yet they’re also persistently marginal, slipping between the cracks of time and geography, forever reclusive, vanished, erased.
—Jonathan Lethem's review of Roberto Bolaño's 2666
To wit, Meeting with Enrique Lihn.
She had a glossy brochure spread open on the table, Tally Isham smiling up from a dozen photographs, the Girl with the Zeiss Ikon Eyes.
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Edith Macefield’s tiny house, built in 1900, surrounded by development in the Ballard neighborhood in Seattle. She refused offers of $1 million to sell it to developers.
She passed away in June and left some mysteries behind, including her novel, Where Yesterday Began.
The book is 1,138 pages long, not counting the musical references, from Scottish folk songs to a 1915 work by the English composer Albert W. Ketelbey, and a 16-page glossary of the French, German and Italian phrases sprinkled throughout.
The book is dedicated to “B. Robert Aigner, M.D.,” with no explanation why. Reached by phone at his home in a Seattle suburb, Dr. Aigner, 80, said he remembered Ms. Macefield was a patient, but nothing more.
Dr. Aigner, a neurologist, was amazed and amused that Ms. Macefield would have dedicated her ambitious work to him. He had never heard of it.
An ecotopian fighter plane with tensile hang-glider wings on hydraulic “fingers,” husband-and-wife teams in the cockpit, and composite construction of titanium and bamboo with teflon-coated fiberglass wings.
One of Craig Hodgetts’ 1978 drawings for a proposed adaptation of Ecotopia.
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