SCAD put this in their “Celebrate Illustration” show, a juried show reflecting the best work from the department this year. Good job, SCAD. You have good taste. Today was my last day of college, and I’m feeling pretty validated knowing this is hanging in my department’s hallway.
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(via malheureuxmarxist)
"The notion of unity appears only when there is a power takeover in the multiplicity by the signifier or a corresponding subjectification proceeding."
- Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Mille Plateaux (p. 7)
speculative design criticism: adam rothstein on polymer mag (TNI)
Polymer was a large format magazine, printed on thick 120 gsm matte paper, to a length of 136 and 146 pages respectively, in the only two issues that were ever released. Most åof the copies that were printed and distributed have since been seized, and so the work of Art Director Silvia Gladdis has not found the appreciation of a wider audience. It is widely acknowledged as true that peculiar technical aspects of both issues caused readers, first, to salivate an acute neuro-toxin, and second, prompted a targeted brain hemorrhage imbuing them with an overwhelming urge to approach certain elected officials and spit this poison in the face of certain pre-selected targets with gruesome effect. However, it remains that through the unique applications of the magazine format the publication rose above its competitors to excel in a field saturated with slick offerings in recent years. Indeed, the magazine as a form is not dead, though some 57 innocent victims may be.
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Happy Birthday Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount May 22, 1914 - May 30, 1993)
Free-jazz & afrofuturism pioneer Sun Ra (the moniker ‘Ra’ taken from the eponymous Egyptian sun god), declared himself a messianic saviour and whose aesthetic was the first example of a black musician overtly appropriating sci-fi iconography. For him, Sun Ra was an alien abductee – and, through the prism of the African diasporic experience, so was every black American in a literal sense. Meanwhile the Egyptians – an eon-ruling race of beautiful and technologically-advanced African aristocracy – represented supremacy and a recaptured empire.
(via understandingghosts)
