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visual rhymes: chambord and nyc

( places and image )

An old friend pointed me toward this image from Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 site, from the section on water network initiatives:

Hey, that cylindrical-shaft-extending-to-infinity thing looks familiar! The image from my blog’s header is from a photo I took at Chateau de Chambord in France’s Loire Valley, aiming up toward the sky in one of […]

celebrity linkage

( words and culture and image and aberrations )

Wiley Wiggins done linked to me! Hey Wiley, if you ever read this, we really enjoyed your performances in Dazed and Confused and especially Waking Life.
And in a strange coincidence, I finally got around to viewing the be-linked item, “Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda”, last night. It is very, very freaky, kind of queasifying […]

an andalusian thanksgiving

( travel and image )

At long last, images from our trip to Spain over Thanksgiving 2006. Highlights included ham legs and a turkey dinner for eight in Sevilla, Moorish palaces in Granada, and very strong sherry by the Mediterranean in Malaga.

invasion of the thunderbolt pagoda

( culture and image and aberrations )

Push another item onto the ever-growing, never-overflowing media stack: Ira Cohen’s Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda (more about it here and a trailer here. A more intense and arguably freakier preview over at The Wire.)
This hyperinsane-looking film was recently released for the first time on DVD by Saturnalia, an offshot of […]

the first time i’ve ever thought about benjamin harrison

( image and aberrations )

Once again via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, a really really messed up doodle from the oft-overlooked Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States. Old “Kid Gloves” gives us some of his own atavistic childhood psychedelia — calipers with a skull head! And look out - ostrich on the loose!
This reminds […]