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Thursday, 14 October 2010
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
The Tube - Banksy's Controversial Simpsons Opening Sequence
The Simpsons opening sequence (see vid below) at the weekend is stirring up some brouhaha! Even the cobwebbed journos from the hallowed halls of BBC knocked up a piece about it!!
Yap, one easy way for this long-dead series to create something of a mini stir (the writing sure won't!) was to get the fabricated Banksy in to stir up some 'controversy!
Banksy duly came in and some 'controversy' was duly stirred up!
On the positive side though, this thing does give a peek into the reality of the freemason's avaricious evil baby, 'Capitalism', built on the blood and sweat of the downtrodden masses. More interesting given that the ostensible "owner" and head douche at Fox - and a shitload of other manipulated media outlets - is none other than key masonic tool, Rupert Murdoch!
The apes at Fox apparently went ape-shit when they saw the Banksy sequence and demanded the intro never be aired. However, all the animators on the show (well, the Korean ones, anyway!) threatened to walk out if "Banksy’s vision" wasn’t realised.
Erm .... that's what happened? Really? ... Really??
Banksy creates new Simpsons title sequence
http://www.bbc.co.uk
11 October 2010
UK graffiti artist Banksy has created a controversial title sequence for long-running US animation The Simpsons.
The intro, which was shown in the US on Sunday, opens with the street artist's tag scrawled across the town of Springfield.
It closes with a minute-long sequence showing dozens of sweatshop workers in a warehouse painting cartoon cells and making Simpsons merchandise.
The episode, called MoneyBart, will be shown in the UK on 21 October.
It is the first time an artist has been invited to storyboard part of the show.
The extended sequence was apparently inspired by reports the show outsources the bulk of their animation to a company in South Korea.
Delays and disputes
It features Bart Simpson with his face covered as he writes all over his classroom walls.
While in the sweatshop, kittens are thrown into a wood chipper so their fur can be used to stuff Bart Simpson dolls and a chained unicorn is used to punch holes in Simpsons DVDs.
According to the street artist, his storyboard led to delays, disputes over broadcast standards and a threatened walk out by the animation department.
"This is what you get when you outsource," joked The Simpsons executive producer Al Jean.
Other famous Britons to have contributed to the show include Tony Blair, Simon Cowell and Ricky Gervais.
Gervais also wrote Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife in 2006, and is to make another appearance on the show next year.
The Simpsons, Thursday 21 October, 1930BST, Sky 1 HD and Sky 1
Monday, 11 October 2010
The Song - Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron's "Lost Wisdom"
With one hand in the water running cold and clear, fog obliterates the morning and I don't know where I am. The heart is pounding and you are always on my mind. Lost wisdom is a quiet echo. Lost wisdom, a boulder under the house. I used to know you. Now I don't.
Yap, Phil Elverum sure makes some of the most essential music this side of his generational peers Will Oldham or Bill Callahan.
And here's the fragile and enigmatic 'Lost Wisdom' - by Phil (in Mount Eerie guise), along with canny canuck Julie Doiron - the title track of the excellent 2008 Mount Eerie LP.
Stunning maverick music from the wild North-West. Music that's real ... that counts.
Beautiful bleak sculpted words. Existentialist, minimalist, sumptuous, nigh Carveresque ... "These rocks don't care if I live or die. Everyone I know will finally turn away."
A haunting song that sneaks a glance inside the dark holy darkness. A song of the sharp shards of shattered love. And love's leavings: loss, loneliness, longing and regret. Those permanent undead things. Shadowy spectres constantly "approaching shape in the low light."
A tale of those times when fragments of memory mutate and corrode the now. Those moments when "fog obliterates the morning and I don't know where I am."
Pastoral patchwork poetry from the very verge of things. Haikuesque lines stitched together with sinew and blood ... "Lost wisdom, by the edge of the stream at dusk, is a quiet echo on loud wind."
And this song truly echoes quietly. Unforgettably.
I got close enough to the river
that I couldn't hear the trucks.
But not close enough to stop
the roaring of my mind.
These rocks don't care
if I live or die.
Everyone I know will finally turn away.
I will confuse and disinterest all posterity.
Lost wisdom
is a quiet echo.
Lost wisdom,
by the edge of the stream at dusk,
is a quiet echo on loud wind.
With one hand in the water running cold and clear,
fog obliterates the morning and i don't know where I am.
The heart is pounding and you are always on my mind.
Lost wisdom
is a quiet echo.
Lost wisdom.
A boulder under the house.
I used to know you.
Now I don't.
The screaming wind said my name,
I think, significant and dark.
My lost face in the mirror at the gas station.
Who are you but my face that i wake up with alone.
Lost wisdom
approaching shape in the low light.
You thought you knew me.
You thought our house was home.
I thought I knew myself.
I thought my heart was calm.
Thunder lightning.
Tidal wave.
The wind blew down the door.
Lost wisdom.
The river goes through the room.
I saw your picture out of nowhere
and forgot what I was doing.
Everything vanished in your eclipse.
A constellation of moments comes to life in the void.
Lost wisdom.
Face down under the moss.
Enraptured by the beautiful face in the billowing flames.
I open the front and back door and let the wind blow through.
And I stood in the house and tried to hold the breeze.
Lost wisdom.
Waking up in a pile of ash.
Secret knowledge
comes to me in the dusk.
Showed me the river.
I saw me.
art by redfraction
Art of the Book - Barry Miles' "William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible"
Gorgeous book cover art from a bio of the 'invisibale man", the maverick Burroughs - from a series of literary Bios by Barry Miles, designed by Lucy Stephens.
Thanks johnthebaptist
Art of theCover - UNKLE's "Where Did the Night Fall?" (2010)
Looks like the ghost of Francis Bacon produced this art!! ... Like it!!
I've walked on water, run through fire
by RedFraction
A change of speed, a change of style.
A change of scene, with no regrets.
A chance to watch, admire the distance.
Still occupied though you forget
Different colours, different shades..
Over each mistakes were made.
I took the blame.
Directionless so plain to see.
A loaded gun won't set you free.
So you say.
We'll share a drink and step outside.
An angry voice and one who cried.
We'll give you everything and more.
The strain's too much, can't take much more.
Oh, I've walked on water, run through fire.
Can't seem to feel it anymore.
It was me, waiting for me.
Hoping for something more
Me, seeing me this time,
hoping for something else.
Sunday, 10 October 2010
Saturday, 9 October 2010
Art of the Book - Barry Miles' "Allen Ginsberg: Beat Poet"
Gorgeous book cover art from this Ginsberg Bio - series of literary Bios by Barry Miles, designed by Lucy Stephens.
Thanks johnthebaptist
Friday, 8 October 2010
Art of the Book - Barry Miles' "King of the Beats: Jack Kerouac"
Beautiful cover art from a series of literary Bios by Barry Miles, designed by Lucy Stephens.
Wonderful juxtaposition of graphic portraits and hand-drawn type.
Thanks johnthebaptist
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