Graphic design meets campaign awareness. “The eye is attracted by the dark circle and has no way of escaping. It has to tear itself away. The space around the disc isolates the image from any other nearby-forms” Bruno Munari, Design as Art
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“Death is democratic, after all, all people, white, dark-skinner, rich or poor, ends up being an skeleton. (La muerte, es democrática, ya que a fin de cuentas, güera, morena, rica o pobre, toda la gente acaba siendo calavera)”.
José Guadalupe Posada.
(Source: bedlamtimes)
DOMINGO CURA / La Percusion En El Folkrole Argentino
Folkroleが基本ではあるのだけど、Domingo Curaのレンジの広いpercussionは独特の存在感と迫力で聴く者を魅了する。現代音楽的な演奏であっても、ジャズ的であっても、終始一貫してDomingo Curaなのだ。スピリチュアルとも言える領域まで達してしまった彼の太鼓は、我々の中にある原初的なものに響きかけるのだ。
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Tom Waits’ Private Listening Party - A “preview” of the new album, done, as always in Tom’s inimitable style.
“Bad As Me is Tom Waits’ first studio album of all new music in seven years. This pivotal work refines the music that has come before and signals a new direction. Waits, in possibly the finest voice of his career, worked with a veteran team of gifted musicians and longtime co-writer/producer Kathleen Brennan. From the opening horn-fueled chug of “Chicago,” to the closing barroom chorale of “New Year’s Eve,” Bad As Me displays the full career range of Waits’ songwriting, from beautiful ballads like “Last Leaf,” to the avant cinematic soundscape of “Hell Broke Luce,” a battlefront dispatch. On tracks like “Talking at the Same Time,” Waits shows off a supple falsetto, while on blues burners like “Raised Right Men” and the gospel tinged “Satisfied” he spits, stutters and howls. Like a good boxer, these songs are lean and mean, with strong hooks and tight running times. A pervasive sense of players delighting in each other’s musical company brings a feeling of loose joy even to the album’s saddest songs.”
Mayan-themed playing cards from… Russia! Nice.
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As it happens Mayan motifs were popular in Soviet times in Russia. The only vendor for playing cards (as for many other stuff in Soviet Russia) was the Soviet State, so there were only a few type of the cards – just maybe ten at most, not hundreds or thousands as in free market societies, and one of the types of the playing cards were devoted to the Mayan culture for some reason.http://englishrussia.com/2008/10/30/the-soviet-mayan-playing-cards/
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