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Going through a couple of recently acquired Mediascene magazines today from the late 70’s and I was struck by how much more imaginatively designed the headers on some of the articles were. A lot of them riffed off of film or comic logo design of the age but were mini works of art in themselves. I’ve included various shots of comic logos from ads in the mags too.
The Complaints Department from Sculpture on Vimeo.
Beautiful new release by Sculpture – ‘Toad Blinker’ – on Dekorder
Sculpture “Toad Blinker” (Dekorder 058) by Dekorder
Sculpture “Elk Cloner” (Dekorder 058) by Dekorder
Blinker Device from Sculpture on Vimeo.
As mentioned before on this blog, Pepe Deluxé‘s next album – ‘Queen of the Wave’ – is an incredible journey in both audio and fantasy. Details of exactly how much of a journey it has been (and why the record hasn’t appeared yet) are just beginning to emerge with the release date scheduled for early 2012. There’s digging and then there is journeying underground to find sample sources for your record, Pepe went the latter route for one track, ‘In The Cave’.
The main reason for the delay of the record was the duo’s desire to record on the largest instrument in the world, the Great Stalacpipe Organ in the underground caverns of Luray, Virginia, USA. The organ is situated underground in a 14,000 square meter cave where the stalactites have been tuned to concert pitch by oscillators and are then struck by rubber mallets in a complicated set up connected to the organ by over 5 miles of wiring. I’m not making this up, it was conceived in the mid 50’s by mathematician Leland W. Sprinkle after his son banged his head on a stalactite and it rung with a pleasant sound. When Pepe first discovered its existence in 2005 (via the 365 Days project) they found that it had fallen into disrepair and had to be renovated completely, this ended up taking several years but they got the green light in late 2010.
Paul Malmström from PD wrote an original composition for the the organ – the first ever written and recorded for it – and traveled from his home in New York to record it earlier this year. In front of a crowd on onlookers (it was a public holiday so the cavern was open) he managed to record several takes and complete the final piece in the jigsaw for the record, forthcoming on Catskills in January 2012. A single – ‘The Storm’ – is released on October 10th and many things are afoot on the Pepe website and new Facebook page. 2012 is going to be a mighty fine year for music…
(Paul and his giant organ – insert suitable double entendre in the comments please)
DK and I played an excellent party in Paris last weekend at a night called ‘Excuse my French’, great venue, people and awesome flyers too.
More from the same artist here
I suppose it had to happen sooner or later, better than the actual original posters too. By Olly Moss, riffing off the Olly Moss ideas of the original trilogy.
Traveling past London Bridge station today I spotted a huge banner of Olly Moss’ Resistance 3 design, two poster designs are below.
And here’s a great little trailer inspired by his designs too
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These are pretty old now but lovely nevertheless – classic Olly Moss designs for Star Trek plus newer ones for Source Code and Moon
From the always reliable Fraykers Revenge site, click for a download link and more
Everyone’s favourite bounty hunter just gets reinvented endlessly…
Boba Fett by Riccardo Sabatini
Empire 30th poster by Danny Haas
‘Carbonite is Forever’ poster by Cliff Chiang
Steampunk Boba Fett by Bjorn Hurri
Baddest Bounty Hunters by Chris Bishop
Silent Boba Fett by Wade Schin.
Boba Fett by Dela Longfish
Everyone’s favourite bounty hunter just gets reinvented endlessly…
Boba Fett by Riccardo Sabatini
Empire 30th poster by Danny Haas
‘Carbonite is Forever’ poster by Cliff Chiang
Steampunk Boba Fett by Bjorn Hurri
Baddest Bounty Hunters by Chris Bishop
Silent Boba Fett by Wade Schin.
Boba Fett by Dela Longfish
[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvB0glRsolw&feature=share[/youtube]
Whilst doing Pet Sounds post I found this – sold.