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Miscellaneous

Seven

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Seven and Seven Is (1967), a single by Love.

Celebrating seven years of this here blawg with a bunch of sevens. But first, the stats which (according to WordPress’s own meter) say “This blog was viewed about 2,300,000 times in 2012”. The caveat there is that many people visit these pages simply to see a picture, not because there’s anything further of interest, hence the persistent popularity of the Naked furniture post in the top five listing below:

1: The weekend artists, December 2011
2: Naked furniture, April 2009
3: The art of Takato Yamamoto, June 2007
4: Alex in the Chelsea Drug Store, April 2006
5: Hysterical Literature, August 2012

Not listed there because it’s on a standalone page is the gay artists archive which remains the most popular thing on the site. The equally persistent popularity of the Clockwork Orange post at no. 4 is a good demonstration of the fickleness of the blog hordes; things done on a whim often have more staying power. As always, thanks for reading and commenting! And now the music…

• Seven By Seven (1971) by Hawkwind
• Seven Days (1972) by Annette Peacock
• Seven Years (1986) by Watermelon Men
• Seven Souls (1989) by Material feat. William Burroughs
• Seven Laws of Woo (1992) by Praxis
• Seven, Seven, Seven (1995) by Money Mark

Blowing bubbles

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Chiozza e Turchi, fabricants de savons (1899) by Adolf Hohenstein.

My regular email account is currently malfunctioning so if anyone has sent a mail to my discordia address after 10.00am (UK time) on August 29th I haven’t received it. For the time being I’m switching to my Google account as the default so if anyone needs to get hold of me please use that address.

In the meantime, here’s a great poster by Adolf Hohenstein with a pair of Art Nouveau ladies blowing bubbles.

Update: The mail problem appears to be resolved. Now I have a mail backlog to attend to…

Reverbstorm update

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The photo shows a detail of the design embossed on the front board proof of the forthcoming Reverbstorm book, publication of which has been put forward while the printers address some production problems. Without getting overly technical there’s been trouble with the ink causing a number of pages to print far too dark for reasons that still aren’t clear. As a result of this I’ve still no idea when the book will be ready for sale. Be assured that any frustration would-be readers are feeling goes double for the writer and artist. More news will appear here in due course.

Previously on { feuilleton }
• James Joyce in Reverbstorm
• A Reverbstorm jukebox
• Reverbstorm: Bauhaus Horror
• Reverbstorm: an introduction and preview

Now we are six

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Number Six/The Prisoner (1990?) by Roland Topor.

Welcome to post number 2,618, and the sixth anniversary of this here weblog. Roland Topor’s drawing could be interpreted as a cry for help from your narrator—imprisoned by the daily necessity to file copy—but it’s there mainly because I couldn’t think of another picture featuring the requisite numeral.

WordPress’s Site Stats shows that these pages had over 2,000,000 visits in the past year, something I find very surprising. Many will be from either regular readers or one-off hits from the Google hordes searching for a particular picture but all the same…that’s a lot of people. A large percentage are no doubt visitors to the gay artists archive which continues to be the most popular page here, and one I feel compelled to keep adding to as a result. There’s always more to discover.

As always, thanks for reading and commenting!

John x