I am what is called a meta-textual reader — I just read the book I am reading, I read every single thing that is associated with it and then continue outwards and ever outwards from there. So a fair while back now I found this story called Lazarus Churchyard and through that discovered this guy [...]
May 10, 2008
Categories: Comicsphere, art, artists, blogging, comic, comics, culture vulture, justine shaw, tinternet, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: art, comics, Comicsphere, justine shaw, nowhere girl, writing . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
From the moment I saw that first advert for Dragon’s Teeth, as this series was originally to be called I was hooked on the idea. Back when marvel actually had an interest in a unique British market Dragon’s Claws was a stand out title. There was some great stuff that came out of that small [...]
May 8, 2008
Categories: Comicsphere, art, artists, blogging, comic, comics, sci-fi, science fiction, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: comic, comics, Comicsphere, Dragon's Claws, geoff senior, Marvel UK, simon furman, update . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
So, the first two parts of this massive project I am undertaking is up for your enjoyment — I hope you’ll all support me and leave me loads of comments to let me know what you think. I have something like a hundred and sixty characters to introduce you to and each story will be [...]
May 7, 2008
Categories: Turn The Page, blogging, book, horror, ideas, news, paul grimsley, sci-fi, science fiction, steampunk, tinternet, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: 16 Flaws, fiction, literature, paul grimsley, story, update, writer, writing . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
Best known for creating the cover to The Beatles album Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band, Peter Blake is, for me at least, one of the most accessible of the pop artists. He is someone else I found through the Pop Art exhibition back in the nineties at the Tate Modern.
I don’t know if to [...]
May 5, 2008
Categories: Take Art, art, artists, blogging, culture vulture, jenny saville, music, updates . Tags: art, artist, artists, paintings, peter blake, pop art, sergeant pepper's lonely heart's club band, the beatles . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
Jim Morrison is often dismissed as a poet — his lyrics are often ripped apart. Sometimes he was a dick, a drunken clown and a buffoon, sure, but that doesn’t mean all his work was worthless. I owned Lords & the New Creatures, American Night and Wilderness and hey there is work in there that [...]
May 5, 2008
Categories: blogging, music, poetry, the doors, unappreciated, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: an american prayer, jim morrison, music, poetry, spoken word, the doors, unappreciated . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
Of the people who went in and out of the doors of The Factory she stands out perhaps most of all. Why? Because she is the woman who shot Andy Warhol. Which bring me neatly to how I heard of her — the film I Shot Andy Warhol. That film was a great portrayal of [...]
May 5, 2008
Categories: Take Art, andy warhol, artists, blogging, film, ideas, jim carroll, manic street preachers, people watching, political, the factory, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: andy warhol, i shot andy warhol, people watching, the factory, the scum manifesto, valerie solanas . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
The film by Julian Schnabel delivered the tragic yet charming story of Basquiat to me before I found it, which I eventually would have through my exploration of Warhol and the world of The Factory.
His art is unlike anything else that I have seen before or since — it has a musical quality to [...]
May 5, 2008
Categories: Take Art, andy warhol, art, artists, blogging, culture vulture, film, updates . Tags: abstract art, art, artists, jean michel basquiat, painting, Take Art . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
When I first saw the works of Andy Warhol i have to admit to being totally non-plussed. It was at a Pop Art exhibition at the Tate Gallery and lined up next to the other people there for me he didn’t stand his ground. I think I was arrogant enough to think I knew what [...]
May 5, 2008
Categories: Take Art, andy warhol, art, artists, blogging, edie sedgwick, ideas, jim carroll, updates . Tags: andy warhol, art, artist, artists, john cale, lou reed, paintings, pop art, songs for drella, Take Art, the factory, the velvet underground . Author: insomnihack . Comments: 2 Comments
For some reason they never seemed to attain the status that The Pixies did which I always thought was unfair though maybe understandable: the Pixies despite being fairly twisted by most standards were a more straight forwards proposition than Hersh’s band. They are the great unrated group that if you know them you love them. [...]
May 5, 2008
Categories: 4ad, blogging, kristin hersh, music, rebellious jukebox, throwing muses, updates . Tags: 4ad, bernard georges, bright yellow gun, dave narcizo, house tornado, hunkpapa, kristin hersh, music, rebellious jukebox, red heaven, tanya donnelly, the real ramona, throwing muses . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
Batman and reinvention go together like a horse and carriage or whatever other pair of inseparable ideas you wish to use, hmm, maybe Batman and Robin. I said something similar earlier with works about the character that were operating under the same kind of mission statement: to reimagine the world of Gotham’s Dark Knight.
Anyway this [...]
May 5, 2008
Categories: Comicsphere, Turn The Page, art, artists, batman, blogging, comic, comics, culture vulture, ideas, papershop, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: batman, batman black and white, comic, comics, Comicsphere, dc comics, gaiman, jim lee, simon bisley, ted mckeever, the dark knight, update . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments