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Here’s Andy Martin writing about rejuvenation of the coral reefs, and cleverly slipping in a big-up for Sharks, Death, Surfers: An Illustrated Companion. Continue reading name-checking
Here’s Andy Martin writing about rejuvenation of the coral reefs, and cleverly slipping in a big-up for Sharks, Death, Surfers: An Illustrated Companion. Continue reading name-checking
Syndicated report on this Sharks vs Vampires event from 29th May 2019. Continue reading the back pages
Peggy Lipton, born 30 August 1946, died 11 May 2019, actor. Mother of the comparably-gorgeous Rashida Jones. “He was a great kisser but that was about it,” said Lipton of her one-time boyfriend Elvis Presley. I was watching Twin Peaks: the Return the other night on my computer, and the end credits rolled, as they do, listing the names of the actors who had appeared in … Continue reading Peggy Lipton
So, fair! (and foul a day I have not seen, as Macbeth almost says.*) Miss Read: the Berlin art book fair takes place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, on 3, 4 and 5th May 2019. Miss Read is: “dedicated to building community and creating a public meeting place for discourse around artists’ books, conceptual publications and publishing as practice.” I’ll be there, on … Continue reading art book fairs
Dick Dale (Richard Anthony Monsour), guitarist, born 4 May 1937, died 16 March 2019. Continue reading Dale
“Lasst sie nach Berlin kommen,” said JFK in June 1963, during his famous speech. Let them also come to Berlin on 29th May 2019, to the Roter Salon of the Volksbühne, Berlin, between 8 and 10pm, where they can take part in: Join us to probe and pierce surfaces of sea, skin and scholarship, as our contestants make the case for the best monstrous double. In … Continue reading to Berlin
Evelyn Berezin, computer designer, born 12 April 1925, died 8 December 2018. Continue reading Berezin
Gerard Unger, typographic designer, born 22 January 1942, died 23 November 2018. Continue reading Unger
March 2019 – Sternberg Press are bringing out my book. woo-hoo! Distributed in the US by the MIT Press, and in France by Les press des réel, (“an unprecedented transdisciplinary study”, they say), the best way to get it is to demand in your local bookshop. In the UK, Foyles have it in the shop and for delivery. Waterstones can also order it in to … Continue reading publication