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Artist, designer, occasional writer. • Words: https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/ • Pictures: https://www.johncoulthart.com/ • Linktree: https://linktr.ee/johncoulthart No DMs. Contact me here: https://www.johncoulthart.com/contact.html

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 5m

Also available as a Spanish edition if you prefer a copy titled Ritual del Más Allá (Ritual of the Beyond).

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 10m

Oh, nice, A Dark Song is finally on Region B blu-ray thanks to a German company. It's taken a while.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 16m

With the added bonus of the unpleasant occultist guy wearing a T-shirt based on one of my album covers...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 23m

If you are looking for an unusual, tense, and oddly beautiful horror movie this Halloween, I highly recommend A Dark Song, should it have escaped your notice before.

Woman facing a doorway with arcane symbols with title A Dark Song and accolades including Outstanding abd An Utterly Unique Film.

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 1h

DRAMARAMA SPOOKY - THE KEEPER (1983): Alan (The Owl Service) Garner wrote this brilliant episode of the supernatural anthology for kids. Two ghost hunters bite off more than they can chew during an overnight vigil at a haunted cottage...
A chilling, atmospheric episode with a hell of an ending.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2h

The Library in the Woods, Arran!

Log cabin style building with grass growing on the roof.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 4h

New blog post: Two new covers

Two new covers

My latest cover designs have arrived in time for Spook Month, although the first of these suits the season more by association than its appearance. Jim Rockhill's A Mind Turned in Upon Itself is a study of the work of J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Ireland's leading writer of ghost stories and Gothic drama. This is another design for Swan River Press which adheres to the publisher's preferred format of a dustjacket that wraps a small hardback with textured and illustrated boards.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 4h

#nowplaying

A compact disc EP: Fires (1998) by Uilab (Ui + Stereolab).

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 5h

I like mini-CDs. Kevin Foakes/DJ Food has an enviable collection:

www.djfood.org?s=mini+cd&x=...

mini cd | Search Results | DJ Food

DJ Food is an electronic music project currently headed by Kevin Foakes, aka Strictly Kev. Originally conceived by the members of Coldcut on the Ninja Tune independent record label

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 5h

You've got the album but have you got the mini-CD? From the brief time when Virgin was pushing these things on a reluctant public.

A 3-inch CD: Another Green World - The Title Music Of Arena (1989) by Brian Eno.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 5h

It is.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 5h

#nowplaying

An album release on compact disc: Another Green World (1975) by Brian Eno, juxtaposed with After Raphael (1972), a painting by Tom Phillips. A detail of the painting appears on the album cover.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 6h

Order details here: fruishon.co.uk/artslab/

"Any money made by this project will be distributed to support worthwhile endeavours."

ArtsLab – Fruishon

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 6h

In today's post: AMBAGIOUS TACTICS: An Oblique Tribute Act. A homage/continuation of Peter Schmidt & Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies whose first edition was published 50 years ago. Big thanks to @fruishfruish.bsky.social for asking me to be a part of this, and congrats for wrangling the project.

A cardboard box with a log stamped on its surface: "Arts Lab -- Northampton".

Looking down on the black textured lid of a box of cards. Two grey triangles (side by side, one pointing up, the other pointing down) are printed in the centre of the lid.

The opened box showing its lid separate from the interior. Also the stack of over 100 small cards which the box contains. The uppermost card shows the words "Small clouds can obscure the sun". The credit beneath this reads "Peter Schmidt (From The Thoughts Behind The Thoughts, selected by his daughter Valentine Schmidt)"

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 6h

Thanks :)

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 6h

I avoided the film when I was illustrating the book but this was my main Nettie illo. Slightly different details since they changed things for the film...

A woman sitting in an armchair with an alarmed expression on her face. Her left hand is cradling a carnival-glass lampshade while her right hand holds a carving-knife upright. A small black-and-white dog is nestled at her feet.

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Joe Banks @joebankswriter.bsky.social · 8h

My new book - Rock and Role: The Visionary Songs of Peter Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator - is off to the printers, and will be published 21 November!
Officially launching today, here's the book's site, which I'll be updating regularly. But check out the A/V section now! www.rockandrole.net

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 10h

Very good news to see that an exhibition of Denton Welch's work is on display at John Swarbrooke Fine Art at 11 Fitzroy Square, London from 10 October to 30 October. This portrait of Welch (1935) is by his friend Gerald Leet.

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Paul Trueman @paulwtrueman.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone and anyone needs to read this from @theoatmeal.bsky.social. It's utterly, properly brilliant.

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

I've read the story, thanks.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

Inevitable #nowplaying

An album release on compact disc: Dots And Loops (Expanded Edition) (1997/2019) by Stereolab.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

Other Anger-related references on that album: The Flower Called Nowhere is from Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle programme from 1966; Prisoner of Mars was one of Anger's lost early films; Brakhage is Stan B., of course, but also an unmade Anger film, Denunciation of Stan Brakhage.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

3: QED.

stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/ticker...

Ticker-tape of the Unconscious, by Stereolab

from the album Dots And Loops [Expanded Edition]

stereolab.bandcamp.com

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

2: An extract from Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger (1995) by Bill Landis. The woman wearing the birdcage on her head was Anaïs Nin.

A photo of a paragraph from a book by Bill Landis: "Nin wore a daring, sexy feline leotard, leopard fur earrings glued on her nipples, a leopard fur belt, and a jungle scene painted on her back, two-inch eyelashes, and hair dusted with gold powder. Her crowning glory was a birdcage surrounding her head like a fishbowl. Within this were rolls of paper on which she had lines from her books, calling them the "ticker tape of the unconscious." The phrase "ticker tape of the unconscious" is highlighted.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

From Fritz Leiber to Stereolab via Kenneth Anger...

1: An extract from Dark Vengeance aka Claws from the Night, Suspense Magazine, Fall 1951.

A screenshot of a paragraph from a story by Fritz Leiber: "This was a party of young aristocrats seeking excitement in a place known to be disreputable and somewhat dangerous. Their garments were rich and fantastic, after the fashion of the decadent Lankhmar nobility. But there was one thing that seemed almost too crazily faddish even in exotic Lankhmar. The head of each woman was enclosed in a small delicately-wrought silver bird cage." The last sentence is highlighted.

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