Raven (2015), a metal sculpture by Taiichiro Yoshida.
• “Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light [at the Smithsonian American Art Museum] restores Thomas Wilfred (1889–1968) to his rightful place in the history of modern art.”
• At Brown Noise Unit: a fascinating, lengthy interview by Philip Kaberry with Stephen O’Malley of Sunn O))) et al, with particular focus on O’Malley’s work with Japanese musicians.
• Erik Davis talks to scholar, writer, and mythographer William Rowlandson about Jorge Luis Borges, magical trees, Yankee mysticism, and the power of the weird and murky.
• The first issue of the world’s first magazine of fantastic art and literature, Der Orchideengarten (previously), has been reprinted in full with additional English translation.
• At Muddy Colors: the month in covers for September/October which includes my cover for Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng (and which is on sale now).
• At 3:AM Magazine: Adam Scovell talks to horror author Ramsey Campbell about the ghost stories of MR James.
• Paralysis: Live at Silent Night #8, a new release on (limited) cassette and digital by The House In The Woods.
• At Dangerous Minds: Jozef van Wissem buries the dead in his new video, Virium Illarum.
• PKD Files — A podcast about the life and work of Philip K. Dick.
• Russell Cuzner on The Strange World of Nurse With Wound.
• Clark Collis on the rise and fall of Fangoria.
• The North Star Grassman And The Ravens (1971) by Sandy Denny | Flight Of The Raven (1979) by Emerald Web | Kill The Great Raven (1979) by Snakefinger
My favourite rendition of The North Star Grassman And The Ravens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxYU7A6qCnc
I splurged on the LUMIA exhibition catalogue and it’s pretty fantastic. One disappointment of the exhibit is that they don’t have one of the installations popped open so you could give the innards of the mechanism a good look although realistically I can see why they wouldn’t want to do that. But the catalogue has some nice photos and schematics and all those spinning discs and bobbing and weaving levers and crystalline mirrors and lenses are gloriously H G Wells and steampunk!
I’d love to have a wall display playing some digital equivalent of those luminosities. I have one of Brian Eno’s random digital art creations but it’s very flat in comparison even if the effects are more varied.