Posted by Chris on February 27, 2010 at 9:18 am
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sounds like… comic book colours display on a black and white tv…
gappy ranks rides swizz beatz’s riddim…
gappy ranks – nothing from them
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transformer riddim
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Posted by Chris on February 23, 2010 at 5:28 am
bright sunlight
asparagus
aeroplane to london
stamina udon
swamp water
beard trimmers
cross breeze
no coat
parasite – strong like a lion // detail
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Posted by Chris on February 21, 2010 at 11:57 am
sitting outside
jumping fish
dogs wearing trousers
naked dogs
a man burning plastic
writing group
dead languages
the birds that followed them out to sea
Desire – Colorless Sky // detail
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Posted by Chris on February 20, 2010 at 8:10 am
the possibility of aeroplanes
the olympic opening ceremony
re-building
the passage of time as felt by children
letter writing
flammable sportswear
nail scissors
Tara Cross – TempusFugit // detail
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Posted by Chris on February 19, 2010 at 11:13 am
music as lack of detail
greek pistachios
optimism
super 8 camera with broken focus
rhubarb crumble
guitars with chorus pedals
fairytale as spectacle
pointed boots
broadcast and the focus group – i see so i see so // detail
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Posted by Chris on February 11, 2010 at 11:54 am
I have. been on a bit of a blog purge recently. i have 8 feeds left in the thing that reads. these are 2 of them:
Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis is a british documentary maker whose films tackle his high concept obsessions with power, rationality, identity and cold war psychology. all of his films are on archive where you can stream and download them. of the more recent ones, the trap deals with the political use of the idea of freedom and the power of nightmares deals with terrorism. both are brilliant, but i’ve just been pouring over the mayfair set which charts the rise to dominance of the free market in britain and america. Curtis is a fantastic storyteller, you often hear him directing interviews from behind the camera and he is not shy to contextualise things with amusing tangential details. episode 3 of the mayfair set about the insanity of wall street in the 80s is a case in point (no spoilers here).
most of Curtis’ documentaries were made for the bbc, whose archives of footage are one of his main sets of source material. now he blogs (and embeds archive footage from and) for the bbc too. he’s been writing about afghanistan’s history with the west. it’s good – you should read it.
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montage of images of musician Ahmad Zahir.
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the second blog is
A Journey Round My Skull
A Journey Round My Skull is curated from america but takes in design and illustration from around the world. there’s a heavy focus on book covers and children’s illustrations. frequently amazing. here’s a sample:
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Takeo Takai’s birds (this image 1974)
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Carlo Farneti, illustrations for Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, published 1935
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Peter Barker-Mill, wood-engraving for A Voyage round the World by Sparrman, 1944
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Long Neck Deer by Djamsheed Sepahi , illustrated by Yoota Azargeen (from a third post of illustrations from Iranian childrens’ books)
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Russian elementary school textbook on The Miracle of Life, 1992
