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“Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,”
The shade replied-
“If you seek for Eldorado!”
by Edgar Allan Poe
totally out there /Kilian Eng
a truly beautiful style that pays homage to masters such as Moebius and Enki Bilal.
The ways of God in Nature, are not as our ways
A Descent into the Maelström is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe/ illustration by Bernie Wrightson
Book of Wonder
Bogus Beast, The Wily Grasser
The Two Tailed Sogg, 1923
Sidney Herbert Sime, British artist, 1867
WHO is Walter Schnackenberg?
Karl Lagerfeld with pieces by Walter Schnackenberg behind him.
always simple style
Gaston Chaissac, is completely self-taught, having never followed any artistic training. He was born 1910 in Avalon France. He practiced all sorts of humble jobs (kitchen boy, assistant in a hardware store, apprentice saddle, and cobbler) and says about himself: “My rustic, modern painting is quite poor; in 20 years I hope it will become rich. (1946)”
“The Tell-Tale Heart is a wonderful animated short film of 1953 based on Edgar Allan Poe short-story. The story told by a mad man has a dark visual with a perfect work of narration by James Mason. It is a UPA Production and was the first cartoon to be X-rated (adults only) in Great Britain under the British Board of Film Censors classification system.”
AROUND A ROUND
I said the joint was rocking
goin’ round and round
yeah, reeling and a rocking
what a crazy sound
and they never stopped rocking
’til the moon went down
03.08.2010:
The Measure (from Words)
I cannot
move backward
or forward.
I am caught
in the time
as measure.
What we think
of we think of—
of no other reason
we think than
just to think—
each for himself.
from: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975
This book from Ken Isaacs, How To Build Your Own Living Structures, 1974, and others are downloadable as PDF at the Public Collectors website. A great archiv of out-of-print publications and curious collections, led by Chicago artist Marc Fischer.
Over the book they write: “This book is a beautiful guide about how to make a variety of flexible experimental indoor interiors, storage units, and a microhouse. The microhouse is a flexible creation of architect, Ken Isaacs. The modular design is based on stacked tetrahedrons, which can be moved in and around each other providing shelter and dividing living space in a creative way. The book gives you step-by-step instructions with plans for many different versions of Isaac’s original designs interspersed with ideas about simplicity, and getting rid of our personal possessions. The book is type written and spiral round in a nice Do-It-Yourself aesthetic, and Isaacs writes in a genial manner as if he were sitting across the table from you. He muses on the philosophical meanings of surplus and uses the designs as a means of addressing life as whole; a simple place to raise a family and house extended family that has a low impact on the surrounding natural environment.”
THX