(Toru Kogure (photographer), Takashi Tanabe (designer), ‘New Face’ editorial for Fashion News, early 80s)
(Tsunehisa Kimura, 1968, commercial and industrial photography)
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A new collection of the haunting, nightmare inducing work of Fletcher Hanks (the artist R. Crumb calls “one twisted dude”) is now available:
“You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!” is the companion to the Eisner Award winning, “I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets!”. Together the two books comprise The Complete Works of Fletcher Hanks, the Super Wizard of the Inkwell who worked for three years in the earliest days of the comic book industry, created 51 stories and then disappeared.
Volume I includes a 15 page comics story by Paul Karasik explaining Hanks’ haunted past.
Volume II includes a prose introduction putting the work in historical context.
Previous coverage of Fletcher Hanks with lots of links
(Thanks to Bill for the heads up!)
Journey Around My Skull has a bunch of scans from the 1919 magazine Der Orchideengarten, which Will calls “the first fantasy magazine.” (I wonder about The Argonaut and Belgravia.)
The estate of Brion Gysin has created an official Brion Gysin web site with a bio, online gallery, quotes, and other info.
(via 23narchy in the UK)
Heads up, Californians! The Crucible’s 9th annual Fire Arts Festival, “a spectacular open-air exhibition of astounding performances, fire sculpture and interactive art, lights up the sky at the Crucible’s new Fire Arts Arena in the freeway canyon lands of West Oakland.” Commencing this evening and running through Saturday the 18th, the festival is a full ten acres of installations, vendors, roving theatrics, circus arts, fire performers and aerialists.
Coilhouse has more info, plus pictures and videos from previous festivals.
Coilhouse: Fire, Puppets, Rootabagas! (Crucible Fire Arts Fest)
My friend Fred snapped some shots of Chillout, an ice bar, during his trip to Dubai.
British-born and -based artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster skilfully skirt the boundaries between beauty and the shadowier aspects of humanity, playing with our perceptions as well as our notions of taste. Many of their most notable pieces are made from piles of rubbish, with light projected against them to create a shadow image entirely different to that seen when looking directly at the deliberately disguised pile.
Environmental Graffiti: Incredible Shadow Art Created From Junk
(via Grinding)
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