December 2011
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“I’ve always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the...”
– GEORGE A. ROMERO
September 2011
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Jacqui Oakley - I Put a Spell on You
Jacqui’s awesome compilation for designers.mx, an unlikely mix of Krautrock, Ethiopian Jazz, Cambodian Pop, Surf Rock, Exotica & Louisiana-swamp-voodoo-chants, combine to conjure rhythms of a primal journey – sometimes fragile, sometimes violent.
One Thousand Tears Of A Tarantula - Dengue Fever
Dancing Drums - Ananda Shankar
Love Dance - Les Baxter
Yègellé Tezeta - Mulatu...
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Jamie Lawson - Arcade
Jamie’s second mix for designers.mx. Some quieter & prettier tunes here, but still alien, psychedelic & cinematic* enough to keep your brain kindled. Lots of strings, twangs, la-la-las & ooo-ooo-ooos. Was looking to get some of that weird dreaminess across in the art too – apologies if anyone was expecting something a little more proggy…
*Les Fusées by Alain Goraguer is from...
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August 2011
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May 2011
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Jamie Lawson - Memory of Fire
Jamie made a badass mix of psychedelic metal madness for designers.mx.
1. Cross Builder - The Secret
2. A Rush of Blood - Cleric
3. Exterminating Angel - Secret Chiefs 3: The Holy Vehm
4. The Crystal World - Locrian
5. Dub kuolleen porton muistolle - Oranssi Pazuzu
6. Mysteries of the Organ - Burning Star Core
7. The Invisible Mountain - Horseback
8. Vastness and Sorrow - Wolves...
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Jamie Lawson - Synæsthesia Text Project 15
Originally posted on it’s all gone potatoes.
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WatchNels Cline / William Winant Duo - Wrong Path In A Garden Maze
Amazingly spooky & engaging improvisation between Nels Cline (Nels Cline Singers, Wilco, etc.) & William Winant (John Zorn, Mr. Bungle, etc.) - sounds more like badass soundtrackery than any other improv noodles you’re likely to hear today.
Outtakes from the documentary The Reach Of Resonance by Steve Elkins. Candela...
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Milton Glaser - DOUBT IS BETTER THAN CERTAINTY.
Milton Glaser, Beatrice, from Dante’s Purgatorio.
8. “Everyone always talks about confidence in believing what you do. I remember once going to a class in yoga where the teacher said that, spirituality speaking, if you believed that you had achieved enlightenment you have merely arrived at your limitation. I think that is also true in a practical sense. Deeply held beliefs of any kind...
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Jamie Lawson - Synæsthesia Text Project 14
“And now came this Isabel with that red smear for a mouth…”
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov was a gift from a good friend - the inscription reads, “…the best Russian synæsthete for Jamie and Jacqui…”. I’d somehow never read Nabokov before, and I chose this book to use for this piece as a good excuse to correct that.
I flipped to the page my magical musical process determined, and was...
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Metal-faced printing blocks found at Wayzgoose.
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“Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.”
– J.G. Ballard
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Jamie Lawson - SYNÆSTHESIA TEXT PROJECT 13
“All these motions meant parts of time and fate.” From Hamlet’s Mill by Giorgio de Santillana & Hertha Von Dechend
Synæsthesia Text Projects are an ongoing series of text-based posters revolving around Jamie’s experience of grapheme (letter/number) - colour synæsthesia. Grapheme - colour synæsthesia on Wikipedia
Below is the letter/colour breakdown – each square corresponds with...
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“The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see...”
– JOHN CAGE
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“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
– SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE thecabinet.com
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Dushan Milic - Park Legends
“Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived”
Frankenstein - by Mary Shelley
Art by Dushan Milic
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“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she...”
– FRANCISCO DE GOYA
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VERNER PANTON, 1926-1998
DESIGNER / COLOUR THEORIST OF THE 20TH CENTURY
“The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives housing in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to new ways, to try to encourage people to use their fantasy...
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Jamie Lawson - Synæsthesia Text Project 12
“(Toleration has often been absent in the great monotheistic religions, which have tended to) regard non-orthodox beliefs as idolatry, heresy (or apostasy). Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs and Religions, from the section titled Tolerance.
The Dictionary of Beliefs and Religions has been a pretty handy book over the years. It was required course reading for a Comparative Religion class I was...
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Charles Ribart - Elephant Triomphal
Big thanks to Bibliodyssey.
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New Cornucopia
A FUTURE WORLD - JACQUI OAKLEY
This was an illustration for Theme Magazine. Artists were asked for their vision of the future and my topic was concerning the food supply. So, why not focus on genetically modified food, and paint a retro-futuristic vision of giant vegetables? Below the final ink & oil painting is the process…painting, inking, and pencil drawing.
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Disobedience
“Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and “progress,” everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority....
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SUSPIRIA
1977, DIR. DARIO ARGENTO
One of the few Argento films with a supernatural theme, Suspiria treads in the land of dark fairytales & witches covens.
The film emphasizes vivid primary colours–especially reds–which create a nightmarish surreal quality to the film. Supposedly it was the final feature film ever to be produced in Technicolor before the processing plant was closed. This process...
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“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is...”
– H. G. WELLS, ‘THE DISCOVERY OF THE FUTURE,’ 1901
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds....”
– RAY BRADBURY
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Henrique Oliveira
via henriqueoliveira.com
Tapumes - Casa dos Leões - 2009
VII Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
(site specific installation) – wood and PVC
photo: Eduardo Ortega
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Heinrich Lefler & Joseph Urban
Vintage Children’s Illustrations / Marienkind (1914)
Illustrations from a collection of fairytales, which were originally published around 1904 by German publisher “Scholz Verlag”, and have been reprinted by “Verlag Neues Berlin” in 1981.
Heinrich Lefler (1863-1919) and his brother-in-law, Joseph Urban (1872-1933) are Austrian artists associated with the...
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J.G. Ballard / J Bennett Fitts
Excerpts from The Drought / No Lifeguard on Duty
“The birds had gone. Everywhere light and shade crept on slowly. No longer cooled by the evaporating water, the dunes around the oasis reflected the heat like banks of ash. Ransom rested quietly in the ruined loggia beside the swimming pool. His complete surrender to Quilter had left him with a feeling almost of euphoria. The timeless...
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“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something...”
– William S. Burroughs
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The Great Work
“The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.” Henry Miller
Henry Miller portrait by Jamie Lawson.