Tag: Visual Arts
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Know Your History Part 4: Bushwhacked
Thanks to Boris B a bit of important cutup/mashup history has been now added to the Bootleg Archive one of the first political mashup compilations, 2004’s Bushwhacked against Bush and the Iraq war. I recently added Twinkleboi who put this together to the Archive and asked him if he still had it – he said…
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Another Green World
Fascinating documentary on Brian Eno by BBC’s Arena (he provided the music for their famous floating bottle logo) about how he works and his life. I especially love the whole thing about coming from family of postmen ‘we’re in communications!’ and him going fossil hunting as a kid. But the thing it seems people remember…
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My new art site
I’ve recently started life drawing, collaging and painting again, you can see some of the results of that on the latest podcast and also on a new site here. Going to add more of my ‘skratchbook’ in future as well, as soon as I dig out the scanner.
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Henry Moore: Big Business Whore
https://soundcloud.com/thevinylfactory/scott-king-youre-my-favourite Heard this song from artist Scott King via Jeremy Deller’s stand in for Iggy Pop, a great show of music made by artists and art-school graduates from Throbbing Gristle to The KLF, Add N To (X) to Beta Band, Roxy Music to Frank Sidebottom and David Shrigley. Love the lines ‘intellectual Meccano’ and the…
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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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Cybernetic Serendipity and the Eccentricity Electric
Fascinating clip from 1968 about the ICA’s 1968 Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition, which currently has a retrospective at the ICA, and the album, claimed to be the first electronic music compilation (not sure about that, I thought Music From Mathematics from 1962 had that title?) has been re-released, although it seems you can download it here.…