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John Coulthart
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Artist, designer, occasional writer.
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If you're a sucker for extended sequences of crime-involved men coolly, meticulously and wordlessly going about their procedural business, then have I got a film for you. Such terrific stuff.
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Tonight’s viewing:
The title shot for the 1967 film Le Samouraï. The text is in white over a low angle wide shot of a room wherein Alain Delon lies on a bed smoking like Alain Delon.
January 11, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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this evening's dvd, a Skolimowski cracker.
good Shout? great SHOUT!
January 11, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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A double-disc compilation on compact disc: The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Bollywood (2013) by Various Artists.
January 11, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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I've been waiting for years to hear that the Pennine Tower has returned to its home planet.
A photograph of the Pennine Tower, a disused elevated restaurant at Forton Services, Lancashire.
January 11, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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Get your Forton T-shirts here for deep brutalode concrey joy
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January 11, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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New blog post: Weekend links 812
Weekend links 812
• RIP Béla Tarr. I came late to Tarr's films, he'd retired from directing by the time I worked my way through most of his oeuvre in 2019. As I'm always saying: better late than never. What I never expected from reading reviews was the irreducible strangeness at the heart of the later films, as well as their meticulous construction.
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January 10, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Excited at the announcement of a second printing at Tangerine Press for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group.

Copies of the second printing paperback and special edition are available at Tangerine Press: thetangerinepress.com/FICTION/RG-F...
January 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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I was able to make one of my favorite releases pay what you want. Lots of sound collage, trippy guitar atmospherics, and ambience. It may be the best overview of my "thing", whatever that is.

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Light Self All Others, by tarotplane
11 track album
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January 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Light Self All Others, by tarotplane
11 track album
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January 9, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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An album release on compact disc: Early Water (1976) by Michael Hoenig and Manuel Göttsching.
January 9, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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The Herr Knock lino print hast gone live. Every order from the shop placed before 22:00 on Sunday will receive a free occult parchment, why not..!
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January 9, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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An album release on compact disc: New Age Of Earth (1976) by Manuel Göttsching/Ash Ra Tempel.
January 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Colourbox 4 CD box set. There's a lot here (everything they released plus additional mixes, radio sessions, etc) but it's a shame there wasn't more output from them at the time. They were such an eclectic group that it felt like there were no limits to what they could do. #CDFriday
Box top cover of Colourbox CD set released in 2012 Bottom of Colourbox set featuring tracklisting of the 4 compact discs Set contents including postcards of original release covers and box set CD sleeves.
January 9, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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In 1972 Norman McLaren and the National Film Board of Canada filmed a tutorial with Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker showing a group of animation students how to use the pinscreen.

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Pinscreen
YouTube video by NFB
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January 9, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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This modern gem was animated frame by frame on a screen of 277,000 metal pins

From: The Night Boots (2024), dir. Pierre-Luc Granjon, Am Stram Gram

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January 9, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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Finally found photo evidence of Doyle from 'The Professionals' being a Magma man...
January 8, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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For David Bowie's birthday, here's Michael Heslop's cover for Stag Boy (1972), a children's novel by William Rayner. Heslop used a lot of photo reference in his illustrations but Bowie is still an odd choice for this one. The novel is reviewed here:

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A hardback book in a grubby plastic cover. The artwork: a watercolour montage comprising a distant view of a lonely house, a deer's head, and hippy-era David Bowie, one of whose eyes is blending into the deer's.
January 8, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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New blog post: Eclipse and Sunscreen
Eclipse and Sunscreen
Gobelins, the French school of film animation, has its own YouTube channel where students post a variety of clips showing technical exercises or, as in the case of this pair of films, complete works. Eclipse (directed by Theo Guignard, Noé Lecombre and Hugo Moreno) and Sunscreen (directed by Xinzhi Ma, Yuan Liu, Yufan Chen and Zixiao Yue) are both science-fiction pieces that are also very short, being more like anecdotes than stories.
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January 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Someone ordered a print of one of my Frankenstein illustrations a couple of days ago. Today I'm enjoying watching the tracking updates as it crosses the US from NYC to Texas.
January 7, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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#nowplaying "Super Stereo Sound"
An album release on compact disc: UFO (1970) by Guru Guru.
January 7, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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Virgil Finlay's interior art for William Tenn's "Time Waits for Winthrop" in Galaxy Science Fiction (August 1957)
A bald woman in a stylish dress stands in front of a pattern that seems to be two tunnels.
January 7, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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"[Lemi] Ghariokwu created a visual identity as unique as Pedro Bell’s work for Funkadelic."

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‘You can’t drink Fanta. You have to smoke marijuana’: Fela Kuti’s artist recalls their wild collaborations
When the Afrobeat sensation first saw Lemi Ghariokwu’s work, he said, ‘Wow!’ Then he plied him with marijuana and asked him to design his album sleeves. The artist recalls their extraordinary partners...
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January 6, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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#nowplaying Cover design is part of Deutsche Grammophon's "Will This Do?" series.
An album release on compact disc: Boulez Conducts Ligeti (1994) Jean-Guihen Queyras · Saschko Gawriloff · Pierre-Laurent Aimard · Ensemble InterContemporain – Concertos For Cello · Violin · Piano.
January 6, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Béla Tarr visiting a store in Peru selling pirated DVDs and posing with the owner and bootlegs of his own work, one of the realest ones, RIP
Bela Tarr in a pirated DVD store in Peru posing with the owner and a selection of his films
January 6, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Sorting through old Magic: The Gathering cards after someone asked about purchasing a few. I've got thousands of the damned things from the time I was working on the game in the 1990s, all useless to me since I still don't know how you play it. These are point-of-sale boxes stuffed with cards.
Four boxes filled with Magic: The Gathering cards together with a few loose cards lying on the top of a box.
January 6, 2026 at 2:36 PM