Found this on the web whilst looking for something else, nice idea, no idea where the original picture comes from, presumably an ancient sci-fi novel. Not sure if Avatar would be quite so action packed with this director at the helm.
Oddities
Things that don’t quite fit
Tuff Times, Non Stop, Hell Raisers – The Pit, Ladbroke Grove, London, ’80s
Funké – CazBee, under the Westway, Ladbroke Grove, London, ’80s
Non Stop Are World Destruction – Kilburn, London, 80s
Enigma 137 – Rebel, under the Westway, Ladbroke Grove, London, ’80s
JUSTICE / MUM, The Pit, Ladbroke Grove, London, ’80s
I’ve been going through stuff, more info on the individual pieces plus a few more on my Flickr (click any picture)
‘The Earth’s Edge’, Trellick Tower, London, UK, ’80s
‘It’s Time 4 War’ – All Star Kings, The Pit, Ladbroke Grove, London, ’80s
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I’ve been going through stuff, more info on the individual pieces plus a few more on my Flickr (click any picture)
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Around this time of year some of us are thinking about getting new calendars to plan our way through the next 12 months. I’ve just sold several OLD calendars, very beautiful ones designed by Vaughn Oliver at V23. Below are some examples of various months I’ve picked out. The V23 calendars were always very obscure, you couldn’t write on them and you could hardly tell which day or month it was on some, but that wasn’t the point.
I recently sold a pile of nearly 40 issues of Music Week from the end of ’83 and throughout ’84. Reading the news and ongoing concerns back then, nearly 30 years ago, seems like another world next to today’s download culture. Cassette piracy was still a concern, compact discs were only just being introduced, MTV and video promos were the hot item with VHS releases a much hyped format.
No eBay – Adrians‘ weekly listings in the back of the music press was as near as you got. No iPods – Sony Walkmans and boom boxes were the carrier of choice. No YouTube – only Top of The Pops, Whistle Test or MTV (if you had cable). No Discogs, Wikipedia or search engines to find out about your music – The NME, Melody Maker, Sounds, No.1, Record Mirror or Music Week every Wednesday or Thursday with Smash Hits, The Face, and i-D (surely the first emoticon?) monthly.
Here are some choice headlines from the issues:
‘Chrysalis sends promo video to NY via satellite’
‘Linn set to challenge CD quality claims with vinyl label’
‘Computer games industry woos record retailers’
‘High hopes for CD’
‘CD set for 1/2m sales in 1983’
‘City reports predicts CD will be ‘household item’
‘Japanese tape 8bn songs a year’
‘Weller to support home-tapers on TV’
‘Dealers angry at the £3 12″ single’
‘No moves on Sunday trading ‘in this season”
‘Quo: End of the Road’ (apparently Status Quo played their last ever gig in ’84!!)
I’ve scanned in the leaflets you get with the Sesame Street turntable I recently sold. Some lovely graphics there, especially the Concept 2000 logo and the batch of LPs on the offer envelope. Click the images for (much) larger versions.
Got a lovely email from Ken Nordine yesterday with this image he’d done attached. Good to know he’s still going strong at 90 + years old. 
Some Dreams You Never Forget (An Experience In 3 Acts)
Get this quick before the lawyers move in, I was lucky enough to have a preview of this in NYC a few weeks ago but was told to keep schtum. Blow Your Headphones!
I’m currently listening to this amazing piece of art / packaging / engineering. There is no CD in the case, just a series of electrical components that make the music you hear when you plug your headphones into the mini-jack inserted in the spine. A battery, on/off switch, selection pad (to jump to the next track) a volume wheel and a mini headphone jack sit connected to something that chucks out the 1-bit code programmed into it. It’s basic, as the sound capabilities are obviously limited – imagine Phillip Glass played on a Nintendo – but it’s enjoyable nevertheless, also the volume seems to lose the bass as you decrease it. Beware, the last track is infinite, I sat there for a while before checking the packaging and saw a loop logo – doh!
More info at 1-bit symphony.com and you can still buy a copy although it’s not cheap, as a work of art it’s more than worth it I think. If anyone has a copy of Perich’s ‘1-Bit Music’ CD they want to sell I’d be interested.
This is pretty excellent, another take on the YouTube-clip-makes-a-song idea, managed to produce some lovely tracks very quickly and easily. Click to image to be taken to the site.
Police Squad, Airplane, Naked Gun, all favourites back in the day.
Also, his little cameo on Boards of Canada’s ‘Dandelion’
I found these on my mobile yesterday, I was playing around with the focus on my phone’s camera as the sun came up in Hong Kong airport. Really like the blurred out one but you kind of need the context of the other one to appreciate it.
[singlepic id=220 w=320 h=240 float=left] I’ve just dug the master DAT for the DJ Food mixtape I compiled in the late 90’s out, cleaned it up and stuck both sides on Soundcloud. This collection of radio show, gig and other recordings was put together to sell on tour in the States, Canada and Japan mainly. It includes some jams with Squarepusher (one of which he ended up sampling part of), DJ Krush and Ollie Teeba from the Herbaliser amongst answerphone message from DJ Vadim and aftershow banter.
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DJ Food – Sunday at Bundy’s (Side A.) by DJ Food
It’s rough and ready, all live, no edits or overdubs, sub-titled an ‘audio scrapbook’, it’s exactly that, little sections torn out of sets played around the world in the mid 90’s. There were around 500 made I think, all long gone now but you can hear a bit of what went down at clubs like Stealth back in the day and all the early Ninja Tune DJ package tours.
DJ Food – Sunday at Bundy’s (Side B.) by DJ Food
Original cassette artwork and info here.
I made this with Mr Trick some years back and have just put it up on Soundcloud after a few requests. There’s a long and winding tale about it’s creation and the reasons for etc. (with pictures) in the Download section (click above) or HERE if you’re lazy. If you’re familiar with it there’s nothing new here but if you like the KLF and have a spare 30 minutes it’s an entertaining read and listen.
I logged on to Mixcloud the other day (or tried) and got this – lovely!
‘Trailer’ for a new album by I, The Phoenix, the CD comes with a 3D booklet and glasses.
Love stuff like this but you’ll need red and blue glasses to view it properly
I, the phoenix // stereoscopic trailer from I, the phoenix on Vimeo.
The Dynamic Duo have been on fire of late. Yesterday, on the bus whilst going up into town (dressed as Batman and Spiderman as per the previous post), we were discussing superheroes and their powers. It turns out that A has a made-up hero called ‘Dr Pork Chop’ whose special power is doing absolutely nothing. On being asked if he had a made-up super hero, T gazed out of the window, clearly searching for a quick comeback as he had no such creation himself. We had pulled up at some traffic lights and a bunch of trees hung close to the window of the bus, ‘Leaf Tree’ was his instant creation, with the power to grow leaves on everything.
Whilst up in town we passed a shop window with an Eames Lounge chair and Otterman footstool and I casually remarked that this was my favourite chair and that, one day, I would have one of my own hopefully. This morning, as I got up, T rushed up and excitedly said, “Daddy, come and see what I’ve made, it’s in the living room!”. Entering the room I saw this.
Not bad for a nearly 5 year old, now that’s what being a parent is all about.
My boys, the greatest crime fighting duo on planet earth.
I’ve been picking up old Jack Kirby comics over the last year or so just because I like their throwaway-ness. The man was an art juggernaut, churning out pages like nobodies business, often copied, never bettered. What strikes you when you read the scripts from the 70’s is how basic they are and some of the language, in today’s context, verges on double entendre. Some is just plain odd, like this one.
Saw this earlier in issue 5 of LSD (London Street-Art Design) magazine and it made me chuckle, next to it is the original image it was copied from. Click for larger verrsions
