Baking for Adam’s party
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Simple things make nice things: butter, sugar, flour, oats, lemon and syrup. All organic and/or Fairtrade (except the syrup which is Tate & Lyle and even they are moving over to Fairtrade).
Archive for the ‘Images’ Category
Museum Steps (1946)
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Liverpool in the winter of 1946 taken by Edward Chambré Hardman. This looks like a painting.
“Once More, With Feeling” revisited
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
In July 2006, I made my first attempt at admitting my addiction and I thought I’d do another montage to see if there was a marked difference in the images I chose from Screencap Paradise.
79 Years of Best Picture Winners in Posters
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008This is an interesting list (from Movie Poster Addict) in many ways but not least because the Best Picture winners for approximately 75 out of 79 of those years are clearly not the best picture of that year and many are quite, ahem, ordinary films (The Great Ziegfeld, The Greatest Show on Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Sting, Rocky, Braveheart, etc) which perhaps shouldn’t even have been nominated.
The art of the movie poster seems to have moved from paintings to photographs which in the case of the “who is she?” poster of Rebecca seems to be a good thing.
My favourite posters are All Quiet on the Western Front, All About Eve, West Side Story and Amadeus.
Album covers
Saturday, January 26th, 2008This is a rather pointless post on album covers.
I had never listened to Electrelane before, despite several albums in the house, but when I saw No Shouts No Calls, I was struck by the great cover and gave them a go and now I like them (just as they go on hiatus…).
All these albums are in our collection and only include music I regularly listen to so
there will be no reference to Blind Faith’s Blind Faith (eww) or to Luna’s The Days of Our Nights.
Covers that work for me:
Electrelane – No Shouts No Calls – I like the simple colours and the fact it looks like a badge.
Espers – II – This cover in no way misleads as to the content of the album.
Aimee Mann – Lost in Space – Aimee’s covers are usually unenticing and this I suppose for many would be no exception but the songs on the album are gloomy and you get what you pay for. Pylons are oddly beautiful, I think.
Audrey – Visible Forms – This is pretty.
Nina Nastasia – On Leaving – I like images of black and white trees a lot.
Mirah – Advisory Committee – To be honest, this cover makes me feel a little uncomfortable and yet it is intriguing.
Laura Veirs – Carbon Glacier – Another black and white image which I find arresting. If I was flicking through the racks in a record shop I would definitely stop at this.
Paula Frazer & Tarnation – Now It’s Time – Aww, this is so beautiful.
Electrelane – No Shouts No Calls – I like the simple colours and the fact it looks like a badge.
Espers – II – This cover in no way misleads as to the content of the album.
Aimee Mann – Lost in Space – Aimee’s covers are usually unenticing and this I suppose for many would be no exception but the songs on the album are gloomy and you get what you pay for. Pylons are oddly beautiful, I think.
Audrey – Visible Forms – This is pretty.
Nina Nastasia – On Leaving – I like images of black and white trees a lot.
Mirah – Advisory Committee – To be honest, this cover makes me feel a little uncomfortable and yet it is intriguing.
Laura Veirs – Carbon Glacier – Another black and white image which I find arresting. If I was flicking through the racks in a record shop I would definitely stop at this.
Paula Frazer & Tarnation – Now It’s Time – Aww, this is so beautiful.
Covers that don’t work for me:
Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther – Wtf were they thinking? It must have been fun to dress up like that but how many casual sales did they lose?
Kate Bush – Aerial – Kate Bush’s sleeves are generally naff (except The Dreaming) but this is plain horrible. I bought Aerial regardless but I think this is dated and ugly. Kate, take at look at any Espers album cover, that’s what your music is like.
Bat for Lashes – Fur & Gold – Flipping heck, thank goodness Natasha Khan’s music is in better taste than her costumes and artwork.
Kristin Hersh – Hips & Makers – This is actually not that bad for a work of art. I can imagine it on my wall but in miniature on a CD case (or LP sleeve) its too messy and dirty looking.
Au Revoir Simone – The Bird of Music – Snore.
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