Monday, May 30, 2011

A Resumption of a Semi-Regular Edition of a Few, Good, Borrowed Images

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From: Old Time Religion: Faith Healers, Radio Preachers, and Evangelists! Graphics of Revival, the Apocalypse and the Afterlife by Jim Linderman

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UFO DUSK TO DAWN
Michael McInnerney,
Original psychedelic screen printed poster announcing Arthur Brown and Alexis Korner on July 14, and Tomorrow and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band on July 21, 1967 at the UFO Club
20”x30”, First English edition.

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Well, are they?

Well, are they?

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Radio Shack 8 track tape deck commercial
Circa 1970s

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Jose Marinho “A Volta ao Mundo” Sinter Records

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i12bent:

French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline (May 27, 1894 – 1961), author of Journey to the End of the Night, a celebrated novel. Written in an explosive and highly colloquial style, the book shocked most critics but found immediate success with the French reading public, which responded enthusiastically to the violent misadventures of its petit-bourgeois antihero, Bardamu, and his characteristic nihilism.
Céline’s writings are examples of black comedy, where unfortunate and often terrible things are described humorously. Céline’s writing is often hyper-real and its polemic qualities can often be startling; however, his main strength lies in his ability to discredit almost everything and yet not lose a sense of enraged humanity. Céline was also an influence on Irvine Welsh, Günter Grass and Charles Bukowski. Bukowski has famously said that “Journey to the End of the Night was the best book written in the last two thousand years.”
“Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.” — L.-F. C.

French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline (May 27, 1894 – 1961), author of Journey to the End of the Night, a celebrated novel. Written in an explosive and highly colloquial style, the book shocked most critics but found immediate success with the French reading public, which responded enthusiastically to the violent misadventures of its petit-bourgeois antihero, Bardamu, and his characteristic nihilism.
Céline’s writings are examples of black comedy, where unfortunate and often terrible things are described humorously. Céline’s writing is often hyper-real and its polemic qualities can often be startling; however, his main strength lies in his ability to discredit almost everything and yet not lose a sense of enraged humanity. Céline was also an influence on Irvine Welsh, Günter Grass and Charles Bukowski. Bukowski has famously said that “Journey to the End of the Night was the best book written in the last two thousand years.”
“Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.” — L.-F. C.

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Paul Landacre, Sultry Day, 1930s

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Thanks to donnalethal

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Test Polaroid from a photo shoot for No Mag. (Bruce Kalberg)
From Violence Girl - The birth of the 1970's punk movement as seen through the eyes of Chicana feminist and punk musician Alice Bag. Published by Feral House, 2011.

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Woman--Willem-de-Kooning-1950-52
Willem de Kooning: 1904-1997
...From 1950 to 1955, he produced his well-known Women series, “integrating the human form with the aggressive paint application, bold colors, and sweeping strokes of Abstract Expressionism. These female “portraits” provoked not only with their vulgar carnality and garish colors, but also because of their embrace of figural representation, a choice deemed regressive by many of de Kooning’s Abstract Expressionist contemporaries, but one to which he consistently returned for many decades”...

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Lightnin' Hopkins
Thanks to jspong

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Quandong Song

Blue Quandong (Elaeocarpus grandees) Fruits are 15-25mm in diameter and are a well known bush food. They are the BLUE MUSICAL NOTES which litter the forest floor with their vibrant song. Flying foxes, birds, rats and cassowaries all eat them. They are often found in the big birds scats half digested as blue poo. The blue fruit contains a Hard seed which is often used to make jewellery. As you walk through the rainforest and notice yellow /red leaves on the ground these may be from a Quandong tree. The blue fruits will often confirm this. A well known cassowary food, It is interesting to note that cassowaries in captivity who have tasted watermelon and apples reject quandongs on most occasions.

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