Shades of Toho: the city of San Francisco encounters its octopoid nemesis on this gig poster from DKNG. Via OMG Posters!
• Related to the above: Godzilla Haiku.
• View from Another Shore: a fantastic (so to speak) and overdue interview with Franz Rottensteiner, writer and editor of landmark studies of fantasy and science fiction.
• Ronald Searle: a life in pictures: an appreciation by Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell.
• 832 masks: The Maskatorium at Flickr.
• The Cult of the Theremin: lots of theremin links including this page of scans from a beautiful Art Deco theremin brochure. (Thanks to Kara for the tip!) Related: the DIY IKEA lamp theremin.
• Music & Science Fiction, an exhibition at Maison d’Ailleurs.
• Nathalie found a stoned angel in Rome.
• EVB’s Boy of the Week is a Spanish guy in his underwear drawn by Jacobo Labella.
• Film of the month: Sally Potter’s Orlando on DVD, featuring the luminous enigma of Tilda Swinton.
That Rottensteiner interview is fantastic indeed.
So you liked the poppy addict creature (awfully cute, I must say)…
Thanks for the shout out.
It’s fascinating. I was wondering what it represents; death, probably, since that’s what the poppies usually symbolise.
Opium was earlier used against pain, mostly physical but also psychological. Although there is no name on the sculpture, it must be there for a grave, trying to bring solace – if an artificial one – to the grieving relatives of the deceased.
Orlando is without question one of my very favorite films. It works on so many levels!