Month: July 2016
10 Gorgeous Book Covers
The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley. London, 1886. 100 illustrations by Linley Sambourne. Elaborate blue morocco binding by Kelliegram featuring morocco inlays of a fish, a child swimming, and seagulls, spine lettered gilt, edges gilt. Blue cloth folding case. L. Frank … Continue reading 10 Gorgeous Book Covers
My Favourite 101 Free Short Stories
Teig O’Kane and the Corpse from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. Yeats
The Soul of the Schoolboy from The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton Continue reading My Favourite 101 Free Short Stories
My Top 10 Weird Fiction Authors
Weird Fiction is one of my favourite genres to read and there’s no shortage of great authors in this field if you look hard enough! In no particular order, here are ten wonderfully weird authors. Premendra Mitra – The Discovery of Telenapota” by Bengali author Premendra Mitra is a good place to start if you want to skip over some of the more famous authors in The Weird. You won’t find much of Mitra’s work in English, and nothing at all in the U.S. apart from this tale. It’s a hallucinatory trip into rural India where you get to do some fly-fishing, fall … Continue reading My Top 10 Weird Fiction Authors
A Week of Max Ernst: Sunday
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The Blessed Virgin Chastising The Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses-Max Ernst 1926 Max Ernst is the complete Surrealist artist. With Johannes Baargeld he formed Cologne Dada and organized the infamous 1920 Cologne Dada Fair which had visitors enter the exhibition via the urinals of a beer hall, where they were then greeted by a girl wearing a communion dress reciting pornographic poetry. Inside they were invited to destroy the artworks on display with an axe that Ernst had thoughtfully provided.. Ernst was a key figure in the ‘mouvement flou’, the transitional period between Dada and Surrealism. Under… Continue reading A Week of Max Ernst: Sunday
The Magic of Max Ernst
Always slightly ahead of his time, Max Ernst is one of my favourite artists. He was creating drippy paintings long before Pollock and was one of the founders of the Cologne Dada group. There is often a hint of humour … Continue reading The Magic of Max Ernst
Some More Doodles
Every so often, I like to create strange doodles. Some of them have funny little stories too. Continue reading Some More Doodles
The Unauthorized Biography – A Fluxus Chance Poem
The Unauthorized Biography struggling struggling article mushrooms below article Production student Tara Lisa are what caused the man Jake who was the father of Alice was the daughter of the Grecian as the free Film from for Victoria and Hazard Laurie was the number 2 … Continue reading The Unauthorized Biography – A Fluxus Chance Poem
Martin – A Fluxus Style Chance Poem
seems to have made a few verbal changes through his ankle, exactly similar. Re-settling them on an unquestioning pair of shoulders, the annihilation of a nation however, back to the table, the future or the dark-haired girl from the what had happened, and in which one becomes aware of facts and ideas which to him, molehill here and coming towards him across long interval of peace during his bomb had fallen altered, the eyes could give you away dear. Was perfectly possible. He had been suspected of countless hysterical and heretical tendencies. The records too much. But to tell him with a damned impersonal screen, is the definitive and final third edition, they’re good enough, prefer to … Continue reading Martin – A Fluxus Style Chance Poem
Jay Snelling Art 