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Highdeas.
Lo. It’s true that the moon is made of green cheese.
A packaging based on a myth, designed by Tim Summer.
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NEW OLD MAN GLOOM (members of Converge, ISIS, Cave-In) ALBUM!
“Old Man Gloom have made a new album. It’s called “NO”. If you want it soon, you’ll have to go see Old Man Gloom on their tour that starts tomorrow (May 2, 2012) at TT the Bears in Boston. Otherwise you’ll have to wait til the official release date: June 26th. Below is a pretty picture of the album cover. (For those in Boston here’s a little tip: the May 3rd show is sold out, so if you don’t have a ticket yet your best bet is the aforementioned show at TT’s on the 2nd).”
(via convergecult)
Details from the little book titled The Centaur Types by Bruce Rogers (designer of this beauty).
Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Indiana (ISBN 1–55753–076–9, in case anyone cares)
On “Closing Day” in The Shining, when Jack is sitting and waiting in the lobby for Stuart Ullman and Bill Watson to give him a tour of the hotel, he’s inexplicably reading a copy of Playgirl Magazine.
The issue he’s reading is from January, 1978, which would have come out near the beginning of the film’s production. Some might posit that this is a prank on Jack Nicholson’s part, but that’s highly unlikely given the degree of control Kubrick had over every image in The Shining.
The choice of this particular issue is interesting for three reasons: First, the cover image is portraying a couple winding down from a New Year’s Eve celebration, which relates to the Gold Room’s 1921 New Year’s Eve Ball. Second, the cover image’s prominent use of a mirror, which ties in neatly to the pervasive use of mirrors throughout the entire film. Finally, one of the cover articles is about sexual abuse of children, specifically, incest. There are many people who believe that Jack Torrance’s abuse of Danny went beyond breaking his arm. Kubrick has never spoken about this topic specifically, although in an interview with Michel Ciment, he references Danny’s “frightening and disturbing childhood,” as well as Danny having been “brutalized by his father”.
As with nearly everything Kubrick chose to include in The Shining, the presence of this magazine is open to speculation – yet there are no concrete answers.
Saturno devorando a su hijo or Saturn Devouring His Son was taken from where it had been painted directly onto the wall of Goya’s dining room. Perhaps something of the piece’s original gravity can be experienced by conducting a viewing over a meal.
There is evidence that Saturn was originally depicted with a partially erect penis. It was likely lost in transference, to time, or painted over deliberately before the piece was put on public display.
Fransisco Goya painted this in 1819-1823. Just look at the fucking brutality of this image. If someone were to paint this today instead if Goya did nearly 200 years ago, people would be just as taken back now as they were when they first discovered this mural.
The story of this painter is unbelievable. Goya went deaf, causing him to hate the living piss out of everyone and EVERYTHING. He bought a goddamn house near Madrid, far the fuck away from all people. He spent the rest of his miserable life in this house, dubbed the Deaf Man’s Villa.
For his remaining years he painted 14 murals on the WALLS of his fucking deaf house. In every room, on every wall, for NINE years. Goya didn’t name any of these paintings, didn’t intend for anybody to see them, nor did he intend for them to leave his fucking house. He did them all for HIMSELF. These paintings were later given the name of the Black Paintings by art historians. The BLACK paintings. Fuck.
The next time you’re bummed out that you’re cell phone is acting “weird” or you have to pay 7 dollars for a fucking tank of gas, think of Fransisco Goya. He almost died twice, had multiple mini-strokes, witnessed the brutal killing of innocent friends and family during the Spanish invasion of Napoleon, BOTH of his two wives died, he went deaf at 46, and he made one the greatest series of paintings in the world. FUCK.
(via maxtown)
