this blog is a visual notebook of inspirations for a group of bandit bloggers. we post things we see and like. our lives don’t revolve around singular topics and neither does our blog. sorry! nothing is in-or-out of context here. enjoy xx
squaring the circle (the story of hipgnosis album cover art)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO238OvVRGo
and the full film watch it before its taken down
great film for all you music lovers, this goes back into the 60s and 70s and the rise of album cover art of the era. pink floyd most famous album art; from dark side of the moon, atom heart mother (cow cover), and animals, with the flying pig that escaped the tethers and almost crashed airplanes landing into heathrow. watch it all on this free link on youtube before they take it down. by bb
this strange design is, at first glance, a warm gray square. however, once handled, the thermochromatic ink reacts to the heat of the holder’s hands and becomes clear. the design is thus your own handling. with time the chemicals weaken and ghost manipulations are left behind. a collector’s quandary – who’s to say who handled the collection in the past? their impression might be worth more than a virgin copy.
mind the differences between the cd and vinyl editions. i much prefer the vinyl packaging but enjoy the collateral far more of the cd version.
the design work was done by the folks at artomatic. uh seems to think their website is overly done, i enjoy the asmr treatment to the product video. by lsd
david lynch loves lithography, we love that he does.
here’s a short film he shot of the paris atelier where he makes his work ,and where so many other artists pass through to make their work. a magical place if there ever was one. on the bucket list to see it in person.
we’ll take an office trip one day. see what they think of our idea to put all our butts on a stone. by lsd
it’s important to take stock of this past year. a lot happened. here at tomorrow started i’ve taken it upon myself to present some of the more important and notable moments of the year 2023.
good riddance, as they say ( i quite liked it personally )
we rekindled our intimacy with ourselves after a difficult few years
we made time to be with each other
but also look after our needs
there were things none of us had ever seen, we all had to look
some of us opened our homes (and hearts) to newcomers
we took our physical health very seriously
and when that didn’t work, we minded our mental well-being
can jerry lorenzo save adidas and fill the sales kanye’s welcomed departure left behind? we think that’s a yes. but we are not the broad market that adidas needs, so lets see. well… fear of god and adidas’ collaborative “fear of god athletics” line is here. nearly 3 years after the partnership was first announced, at the tail end of 2020, fear of god founder jerry lorenzo has finally revealed what he’s calling the “third pillar” of fear of god, standing tall alongside with the brand’s vaunted “mainline collections” and world-conquering “essentials” sub-label. by dd
we are all trying to sort out how we got here? the atrocities on oct 7th were hard to take in, followed by more blood and death on the other side, which is also hard to accept. let us try and understand how we got here. why cant these 2 people (palestinians and israelis) live together in peace like they did until they didn’t some 75 years ago?
let us clarify that there are two categories of arabs living there – and they are often referred to “interchangeably”. they are those 1- the arab-citizens of israel who live in israel proper and those 2- the palestinians living in westbank and gaza who are facing much harsher set of realities such as settlements in west bank and check points across their territory. this article from “council on foreign relations” ( cfr.org ) refers to the ones living in israel proper as “citizens of israel”.
“council on foreign relations” was established in 1921 and is currently run by michael froman (president) and david rubenstein (chirman).
unedited excerpts :”israel’s declaration of independence recognizes the equality of all the country’s residents, arabs included, but equality is not explicitly enshrined in israel’s basic laws, the closest thing it has to a constitution. some rights groups argue that dozens of laws indirectly or directly discriminate against arabs.
israel’s establishment as an explicitly jewish state is a primary point of contention, with many of the state’s critics arguing that this by nature casts non-jews as second-class citizens with fewer rights. the 1950 law of return, for example, grants all jews, as well as their children, grandchildren, and spouses, the right to move to israel and automatically gain citizenship. non-jews do not have these rights. palestinians and their descendants have no legal right to return to the lands their families held before being displaced in 1948 or 1967.
another major difference is that, unlike the vast majority of jewish israelis, arab citizens do not have to serve in the israel defense forces (IDF), the country’s military. they can still enlist, and some do, especially druze and circassians, but some are stigmatized in their communities as a result. yet, not enlisting can significantly disadvantage them both socially and economically. for instance, many israelis make important and lasting personal connections with their fellow citizens through the idf, and they also receive many financial benefits, such as education assistance and discounted permits for building homes and owning land.”
“statistics from IDI show that arab citizens of israel continue to face structural disadvantages. for example, poorly funded schools in their localities contribute to their attaining lower levels of education and their reduced employment prospects and earning power compared to israeli jews. more than half of the country’s arab families were considered poor in 2020, compared to 40 percent of jewish families. socioeconomic disparities between israel’s jewish and arab citizens are less pronounced in mixed cities, though a government audit in july 2022 found arabs had less access to municipal services in those cities.
a good historic context in the recent history of the conflict and the rise of netanyahu, america & the road to war in gaza (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
gideon levy is an ex IDF soldier and an israeli journalist for the israeli daily haaretz
arab citizens’ concerns about inequality mounted after israel passed its nation-state law in 2018. among other provisions, the law removed arabic as an official language but gave it a “special status,” declared israel the nation-state of the jewish people, and said the jewish people have a unique “right to exercise national self-determination in the state of israel.” the language left many arabs feeling that their rights as citizens were being undermined.
to address disparities in the so-called arab sector, in 2021, the government approved a $9 billion, five-year plan to boost employment, improve health-care services and housing, and develop infrastructure, among other goals. it followed a similar initiative by the previous prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, who designated more funding for the sector than any of his predecessors, even as he frequently incited anger toward the arab community.” and then there is the west bank and gaza which is another story – the full article currently available here. by xy
some incredible work by the folks over at chips, friends to the south all the way in brooklyn (shudder). knocked it out of the park with this website. a quick tour through it, made available by the agency, can be viewed here, above.
digital floorplan
a bookcase for ‘japan’
detail view of that bookcase
every single book is listed, has its own data sheet, and is linked on WorldCat to find at your nearest library.
the donald judd foundation put this together, judd’s library is a space rebuilt all over in the desert and now available to us all online. i cannot overemphasize how priceless this work they’ve done is. truly a place to get lost.
the fiat 1600s ‘osca’ is the result of cooperation between three great names in car history. towards the end of the 50’s the maserati brothers with their osca (officine spezializzata costruzioni automobili) company were looking to transfer their racing expertise into production cars. racing alone did not generate enough income. in 1957 ernesto maserati started to speak to dante giacosa, fiat’s head of development. he put forward an idea to build a lightweight 4-cylinder engine, an idea that appealed to giacosa. fiat at that time, stuck with slow 1100 and 1200cc engines, decided to go ahead with osca’s engines. pinin farina were allowed to design the bodywork and build too. initially they used a 1500cc osca power plant with a 75 hp output, by october ‘62 upgraded to a 1600cc developing for early ‘60’s an admirable 90 hp. the 1600s is pricey and the production numbers remain low with overall about 814 1600s osca’s built. by uh
omer bartov born 1954 is an israeli-born historian
bartov also served as a soldier in the IDF between 1973-1976. he is the samuel pisar professor of holocaust and genocide studies at brown university, where he has taught since 2000. bartov is a noted historian of the holocaust.
“the US holocaust museum has sighted him as one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of genocide.”
thank you amy goodman and democracy now for this very insightful and informative interview. always good to hear it from an expert. by xy
o.k. now that were on the topic of jazz great rahsaan roland kirk
i was pleasantly surprised to learn that this track that we all know, used on austin powers, has the flute which was actually performed by rahsaan roland kirk! i’m shocked but now that i know it, i can hear it! definitely more quincy jones (pop) than roland kirk (jazz). by uh
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