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The New Love Poetry
Yesterday’s book purchase was a small poetry collection from the magical year of 1967, edited by Peter Roche. Despite its Beatles cash-in title, Love, Love, Love: The New Love Poetry, not everything...
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Max (The Birdman) Ernst
Max (The Birdman) Ernst (1967). Psychedelia is never far away here at { feuilleton }. Yesterday’s film poster reminded me of this work from the psychedelic era by Martin Sharp, an Australian artist...
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Michael English, 1941–2009
left: The Soft Machine Turns On (1967); right: UFO Coming (1967). This was a bitter blow coming at a time when I’ve been working on something inspired in part by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, the...
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Psychedelic Wonderland: the 2010 calendar
So I had a bright idea at the end of September… Instead of rehashing old work for a CafePress calendar design, I thought I’d try something new. I hadn’t done any artwork for myself all year,...
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Art Nouveau Revival 1900 . 1933 . 1966 . 1974
It was the slightly gamy residue of the super-elegant and exotic pictures of Aubrey Beardsley. I have always considered the 1900 period as the psycho-analytical end-product of the Greco-Roman...
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Hapshash Takes a Trip
UFO Coming (1967) by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat. It’s always difficult to choose a favourite from the posters that Nigel Waymouth and the late Michael English produced under the name Hapshash and...
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My White Bicycle
My White Bicycle (1967), poster by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat. Too risqué for EMI. In what passes here for spare time I’ve been working on a private project that concerns events in London during a...
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Weekend links 605
UFO Mk2 (1967), a poster for the UFO club by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (Michael English & Nigel Waymouth). • Link of the week without a doubt is Yuka Fujii’s raw video footage of the sessions...
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Weekend links 606
An alphabet by Tina Smith. • Coming in March from Warp records: reissues of three Broadcast releases that were previously only available in limited quantities, Microtronics, Volumes 1 & 2, and...
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