Tag: Pop art
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RC 320: Coronanation Pt 1: You Can’t Outrun A Virus
Broadcasting on pirate satellite from Lockdown UK, REMAIN INDOORS! This town is all under lock down…bands don’t play no more (or indeed does anyone, least of all the kids in playgrounds). It seems an eternity since the last podcast and I said glumly that the Bond film had been cancelled due to this new virus.…
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Mashup Academia
Interesting when academics and music theorists (or in this case philosophers) talk about mashups, something I know very well if you are a frequent reader (if not: this blog started at the second mashup podcast ever – the first fizzled out – for the first year or so, broadening out into DIY remix and music…
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The Art of Atari
I’m not sure if today’s generation realise the wonder of arcade and home console/computer game art, travelling into a world of Chris Foss and pulp sci-fi covers crossed with D&D fantasy, cutesy pop art and plain Robert Crumb psychedelic strangeness. The thrill of seeing new worlds, and being able to travel to them on your…
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Czech film posters
Not often I discover a whole genre of films due to a film poster (it’s usually soundtracks which are the gateway drug) but these trippy 1960’s-70’s and 80’s Czech posters have made me check out (ho ho) the Czech New Wave films, like Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Fireman’s Ball, Cassandra Cat aka When…
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Dose of Buckley on T-Swizzle
Good point about poor little Taylor Swift and her war on Spotify by A Dose of Buckley. Her work isn’t rare art, I would dispute it is art at all, apart from the pop-art sense. But certainly it’s not as special or wonderful as she thinks (I notice that Shake It Off makes his Top…
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Derek Boshier and The Clash
In response to my Pop Goes the Easel post, Paul Gormanis posted images from the songbook that Derek Boshier illustrated for The Clash’s second album. It’s amazing stuff, I didn’t know there were links from the pop artists to The Clash, apparently Derek taught Joe Strummer on Foundation, and they bumped into each other later…