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Friday, March 14, 2014
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
The amazing Codex Seraphinianus
By Jack Brummet, 20th century lit. ed
Codex Seraphinianus is a stunning book. Hilariously baffling, beautiful, and delightful all at once. This book has been out of print for decades and you could only find copies for $250-$600. A new edition was released late in 2013, but it's, alas, out of print already. The language is incomprehensible (Serifani wrote it in an invented language...possibly). He claimed once that the language is intended to convey the same feeling a child has when reading an illustrated book before they can actually read words.
This is a beautiful alternate world, and one of the greatest art books of all time (not books about art; books that are themselves art). But it also delves into history, math, a lot of flora and fauna and some of the most bizarre contraptions you've ever seen. Thanks for bringing this out again Luigi! I'm enjoying this so much I'm rationing myself to 20 pages a day. I want to make this last. You can find out more about the Codex on Amazon, or on this Wikipedia page.
Codex Seraphinianus is a stunning book. Hilariously baffling, beautiful, and delightful all at once. This book has been out of print for decades and you could only find copies for $250-$600. A new edition was released late in 2013, but it's, alas, out of print already. The language is incomprehensible (Serifani wrote it in an invented language...possibly). He claimed once that the language is intended to convey the same feeling a child has when reading an illustrated book before they can actually read words.
This is a beautiful alternate world, and one of the greatest art books of all time (not books about art; books that are themselves art). But it also delves into history, math, a lot of flora and fauna and some of the most bizarre contraptions you've ever seen. Thanks for bringing this out again Luigi! I'm enjoying this so much I'm rationing myself to 20 pages a day. I want to make this last. You can find out more about the Codex on Amazon, or on this Wikipedia page.
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Constellation haiku
By Jack Brummet
The Big Dipper hangs
Dead center, over Ballard,
Like a question mark
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Photo: an early meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club (circa 1930)
An early meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club at a theater in Ocean Park, CA. By 1932, the Club had 1 million members in the U.S. Disney pulled the plug on the clubs in 1935.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Phil Wood's beautiful alto saxaphone solo on Steely Dan's Dr. Wu
By Jack Brummet, 20th Century Music Ed.
I know people have a lot of other candidates, and that a group of folks can't countenance the saxaphone at all, but the sweetest sax solo I've heard in a rock song is Phil Woods' turn on the Steely Dan song Dr. Wu. The solo kicks in at 1:30 and runs to 2:12. a) it's sweet the Dan gave Woods a 40 second solo on a four minute song; b) I just love the alto anytime at all; and c) the Dan were a spotty group, and while I held them on a pedestal for a few years in my youth, really, what they did was deliver four great songs on every album (some with, say, six) and then a handful of what you might charitably call less stellar tunes ('though perhaps not in the realm of Phil Spector's legendary "two hits and eight pieces of s**t."
I know people have a lot of other candidates, and that a group of folks can't countenance the saxaphone at all, but the sweetest sax solo I've heard in a rock song is Phil Woods' turn on the Steely Dan song Dr. Wu. The solo kicks in at 1:30 and runs to 2:12. a) it's sweet the Dan gave Woods a 40 second solo on a four minute song; b) I just love the alto anytime at all; and c) the Dan were a spotty group, and while I held them on a pedestal for a few years in my youth, really, what they did was deliver four great songs on every album (some with, say, six) and then a handful of what you might charitably call less stellar tunes ('though perhaps not in the realm of Phil Spector's legendary "two hits and eight pieces of s**t."
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Faces #641 - Director and crew
Drawing by Jack Brummet
[hand drawn and tweaked in PhotoShop].
[hand drawn and tweaked in PhotoShop].
click to enlarge
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