Teamwork
A Performance by Walk Off The Earth
A uniquely collaborative rendition of Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ by Walk Off The Earth.
If I Had A Little Love
In the Studio with The Majestic Arrows
A rare rehearsal track recorded by The Majestic Arrows on the now defunct Chicago soul label, Bandit Records.
Fronted by Larry Johnson with oh-so-sweet and raw vocals by the young Gloria Brown, the group was the creation of producer/songwriter/manager, Arrow Brown and became the flagship of this underground recording label.
Little known today, this and other uncovered tracks have been released by The Numero Group.
“ I said anything I wanted because I don’t believe in children I don’t believe in childhood. I don’t believe that there’s a demarcation. ‘Oh you mustn’t tell them that. You mustn’t tell them that.’ You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it’s true. If it’s true you tell them.
— Maurice Sendak
Please don’t go. We’ll eat you up.
We love you so.
Maurice Sendak
1928-2012
(Image: An envelope illustrated by Sendak and posted to fellow illustrator and writer, Nonny Hogrogian.)
Maker’s Mark
The Work of Artist Helen Carnac
Helen Carnac is a maker, curator and academic who lives and works in London. Drawing, mark-making, the explicit connections between material, process and maker and an emphasis on deliberation and reflection are all central to her practice as a maker and thinker. An Internationally acclaimed enameller – she works with vitreous enamel on steel – it is the type of enamel used for domestic ‘white wear’ – including baths, sinks, pots and pans.
Of the work, she writes:
This ongoing series of work is an expression of my fascination with mark-making in both two and three dimensions. I aim to record not only my thought process but also the connection of hand, eye and mind in a non-verbal discourse, whilst highlighting the cyclical nature of my making process and the marks and rhythms of my drawing process, which resonate and confer with my object-making processes. Repetition of mark is key and enables me to focus. I work mostly with vitreous enamels on steel. My primary aim is to draw with the material leaning towards techniques such as sgraffito. The combination of materials and my drawing methods have led to an ongoing body of works that I find rewarding and demanding. Firing for the most part only once, areas of the panels are ground and abraded to a matt finish in places, allowing the steel substrate to oxidise naturally, creating new relationships with the enamel; a crossing point between control and chance.
For more on the work of Helen Carnac, please visit her web & blog sites:
http://helencarnac.wordpress.com/
The works shown above may be purchased individually or as installations through Ms. Carnac’s south London studio or The Lesley Craze Gallery, also in London.
And the bells were ringing…
Levon Helm
1940-2012
In memory of one of the south’s great troubadors. Born at Elaine, Arkansas in the Mississippi Delta and beloved the world over.
And all the people were singing…
“ If you are careful, if you use good ingredients and don’t take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.
—
John Irving
The World According to Garp
MMXII
Welcome 2012.
(Photo: Sunrise in the French Quarter, New Orleans.)
Light Up the Sky. Celebrate.
Happy New Year!
A film of the stunnning pyromusical, ‘Memoirs of a DJ’, by Sweden’s world champions of fireworks and pyrotechnics, Göteborgs FyrverkeriFabrik. Filmed at L’International des Feux Loto-Québec in Montreal, 2010.
Bibliotheque
The Private Library of Jeanne Lanvin
Photographs of details and objects from couturier Jeanne Lanvin’s private library in Paris by Todd Selby.
For more of this series, visit The Selby.
