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April 08, 2008
April 06, 2008
CRANBROOK MFA WORK ARCHIVE - 2006/07
CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART MFA 2D - GRADUATE WORK ARCHIVE ))))))))))
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April 05, 2008
HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS
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April 03, 2008
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JACQUES PREVERT
Homecoming
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A Breton returns to his birthplace
After having pulled off several fast deals
He walks in front of the factories at Douarnenez
He recognizes nobody
Nobody recognizes him
He is very sad.
He goes into a crepe shop to eat some crepes
But he can't eat any
There's something that keeps him from swallowing
He pays
He goes out
He lights a cigarette
But he can't smoke it.
There's something
Something in his head
Something bad
He gets sadder and sadder
And suddenly he begins to remember:
Somebody told him when he was little
"You'll end up on the scaffold"
And for years
He never dared do anything
Not even cross the street
Not even go to sea
Nothing absolutely nothing.
He remembers.
The one who'd predicted everything was Uncle Gresillard
Uncle Gresillard who brought everybody bad luck
The swine!
And the Breton thinks of his sister
Who works at Vaugirard,
Of his brother killed in the War
Thinks of all the things he's seen
All the things he's done.
Sadness grips him
He tries again
To light a cigarette
But he doesn't feel like smoking
So then he decides to go see Uncle Gresillard.
He opens the door
Uncle doesn't recognize him
And he says to him:
"Good morning Uncle Gresillard"
And then he wrings his neck
And he ends up on the scaffold at Quimper.
After having eaten two dozen crepes
And smoked a cigarette.
FERNANDO PESSOA
A Factless Biography #5
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I have before me, on the slanted surface of the old desk, the two large pages of the ledger, from which I lift my tired eyes and an even more tired soul. Beyond the nothing that this represents, there's the warehouse with its uniform rows of shelves, uniform employees, human order, and tranquil banality - all the way to the wall that fronts the Rua dos Douradores. Through the window the sound of another reality arrives, and the sound is banal, like the tranquillity around the shelves.
I lower new eyes to the two white pages, on which my careful numbers have entered the firm's results. And smiling to myself I remember that life, which contains these pages with fabric types, prices and sales, blank spaces, letters and ruled lines, also includes the great navigators, not one whom enters the books - a vast progeny banished from those who determine the world's worth.
In the very act of entering the name of an unfamiliar cloth, the doors of the Indus and of Samarkand open up, and Persian poetry (which is from yet another place), with its quatrains whose third lines don't rhyme, is a distant anchor for me in my disquiet. But I make no mistake: I write, I add, and the bookkeeping goes on, performed as usual by an employee of this office.
April 01, 2008
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March 29, 2008
DELIA DERBYSHIRE 10 in. 78rpm record release
POW WOW PRINT IS WORKING ON A NEW 10 IN. RECORD RELEASE OF DELIA DERBYSHIRE - HAND-CUT 78 RPM RECORD - CUT BY M.LITTLE ON A PRESTO K10 circa 1930's.
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...Delia Derbyshire (May 5, 1937 - July 3, 2001) was a British musician and composer who was a pioneer of electronic music. She is probably best known for her electronic realisation of Ron Grainer's theme music to the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and for her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Doctor Who In 1963, Ron Grainer was asked to compose the theme tune to the Doctor Who series that began late in that year. As part of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, Derbyshire developed this into the version that was then used on the original show.
Ron Grainer was so amazed by her rendition of his original theme that he attempted to get her a co-composer credit, but this was prevented by BBC bureaucracy. Derbyshire's interpretation of Grainer's theme used electronic oscillators and magnetic audio tape editing (including tape loops and reverse tape effects) to create an eerie and unearthly sound that was quite unlike anything that had been heard before. Derbyshire's original Doctor Who theme is believed to have been the first television theme to be created and produced by entirely electronic means. As synthesizers and multi-track recorders did not exist in those days, much of the Doctor Who theme was constructed by recording the individual notes from electronic sources one by one onto magnetic tape, cutting the tape with a razor blade to get individual notes on little pieces of tape a few centimetres long and sticking all the pieces of tape back together one by one to make up the tune. This was a laborious process which took weeks. More recent arrangements of the theme, realized using conventional synthesizers, have been criticized by some Doctor Who fans as being poor imitations.
Later life
In 1973 she left the BBC and stopped composing music. She had a series of jobs as a radio operator, in an art gallery and in a bookshop. She was briefly married but eventually she met her life-partner, Clive Blackburn, who gave her stability. She returned to music in 1996 and was working on an album when she died aged 64 of renal failure while recovering from breast cancer. Her life has been portrayed in a play called Standing Wave by Nicola McCartney
POW WOW PRINT RELEASES
NOW THAT WE'VE MOVED TO PORTLAND FROM DETROIT...WE'LL BE WORKING ON A NEW SERIES OF RECORDS...
HERE ARE SOME OF THE RECORDS DESIGNED, PRINTED, AND HAND-CUT BY POW WOW DURING OUR TWO YEARS IN DETROIT.
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