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Weekend links 759

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Published: January 4, 2025 19:00

Chance and Order, Change 6 (Monastral Blue) (1972) by Kenneth Martin. • At Public Domain Review: Some of the media which will be entering the public domain (in the USA) in 2025, including links to Standard Ebooks for the book titles. • At Wormwoodiana:…

02025

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Published: January 1, 2025 16:30

Dance of Flames (1925) by Hayami Gyoshu. Happy new year. 02025? Read this. Oben und Links (1925) by Wassily Kandinsky. Aus Torbole (1925) by Stephanie Hollenstein. Coronilla (1925) by Paul Nash. Demonstration (1925) by Franz Wilhelm Seiwert. Dance of the…

Maskelyne and Cooke at the Egyptian Hall

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Published: December 30, 2024 19:00

The Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, circa 1896. The Egyptian Hall, the front of which forms one of the most noticeable features on the southern side of Piccadilly, nearly opposite to Bond Street, was erected in the year 1812, from the designs of Mr. G. F.…

Weekend links 758

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Published: December 28, 2024 19:00

Monstrum in animo (1955) by Yves Laloy. • This week’s obligatory Bumper Book of Magic links: Alan Moore World has more of my ongoing comments about the creation of the book, while Séamas O’Reilly talked to Alan about the book itself and its connections…

All Clouds are Clocks: György Ligeti

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Published: December 23, 2024 16:30

It’s unlikely that anyone will be stuck for anything to watch during the next few days but you could do worse than spend an hour with this documentary about the music of composer György Ligeti. I’ve mentioned this several times over the years, it’s one of…

Weekend links 757

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Published: December 21, 2024 19:00

The Breath of Creation (c. 1926–34) by Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn. • At Wormwoodiana: “…Gresham was well-read enough to know that while magic can be more than a MacGuffin in a fantasy story, neither fantasy nor thriller fiction lets magic unsettle readers much.…

In the Hands of Madmen

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Published: December 18, 2024 16:30

My latest cover for the Arkham Horror series from Aconyte continues the Art Deco trend of the other books in this series while also recycling some of the art from the previous covers. In the Hands of Madmen is an omnibus collection of three…

Art on film: The Medusa Touch

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Published: December 16, 2024 16:30

Continuing an occasional series about artworks in feature films. The Medusa Touch (1978) is the kind of film I usually dislike: a supernatural horror story with a preposterous premise—a man who causes disasters to occur with the power of his mind—which is…

Weekend links 756

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Published: December 14, 2024 19:00

A Diver (no date) by Walter Crane. • At Worldbuilding Agency: The first part of a long interview with Bruce Sterling concerning “the pursuit of deliberate oxymorons as a creative strategy, worldbuilding in the context of history and futurity, Berlusconi on…

The art of Jean Ransy, 1910–1991

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Published: December 11, 2024 16:30

La ville de bas en haut (1961). Back in January I had a vague intention to write about new areas of Surrealist interest in the months leading up to Surrealism’s 100th anniversary, an impulse that didn’t really sustain itself. That’s okay, almost everything…

Three alphabets

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Published: December 9, 2024 16:30

E is for Elefante. Last week I was trying without success to find the origin of a calligraphic alphabet I have in a book about ornamental typography. A failed quest but the search did turn up a couple of those illustrated alphabets that were popular in the…