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Category Archives: Visual Arts
Pics: The Old Masters Box
Here are some pictures of the Old Masters Box I, from FZ In Hungary. Have you ever seen one of these? The thing that is really interesting to me is the fact that it tells the story of the re-recorded … Continue reading
Win An Original Frank Zappa Framed Print
No less than 20 hours after I posted this tweet, photographer Deborah Chesher (previous coverage) wrote: Right now I’m running a free contest on my blog that I thought you might want to let your readers know about because the … Continue reading
The Results Are In…
We will be emailing all seven winners shortly requesting their snail mail addy. Congrats to those who won, apologies to those who didn’t get picked… Regardless: thanks all for participating. It’s been a fun ride!
Posted in Community, In Writing, Music, Visual Arts
Tagged biography, giveaway, tom waits
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Musik & Mythos Giveaway!
Update: Contest closed! Winners to be announced shortly — stay tuned… Now that the book is finally up for sale, Sharl and I are giving away: A/ one copy of Tom Waits: Musik & Mythos, the book, along with one … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Music, Pop Cult, Visual Arts
Tagged biography, contest, free stuff, illustration, tom waits
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Remember That Baltimore Bust?
Back in May 2008, KUR was notified of the fact that an FZ statue donated by the state of Lithuania, risked being put on the outskirts on the city of Baltimore — “because Frank Zappa was not an appropriate image … Continue reading
The Tom Waits Book Has Materialized
You’ll remember my going on and on about the Tom Waits book Sharl and I illustrated. Ah, well a couple of days ago we finally got our copy: The front- and back-cover with some of the postcards. Some more postcards. … Continue reading
Posted in In Writing, Music, Personal, Visual Arts
Tagged biography, collage, illustration, tom waits
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BL – Borlai & Ladányi
This is a collaboration between Andrea Ladányi (dancer) and Gergő Borlai (drummer). She holds the drumsticks, he holds her hands (its just a part of their performance). See details and criticism here. (BTW: G. Borlai is a big Zappa-fan, his … Continue reading
Confessions Of Robert Crumb
Am posting this just so I can watch it myself later: a fifty-five minute documentary from 1987 on one of my heroes, Robert Crumb. This film was apparently written by the man himself. Via Non-Stick Plans.
The Art of the Album Cover
Revolutions: from Gatefold to Download, the Art of the Album Cover, curated by Patrick Murphy, charts the history of album covers from the 1930s to the present day, bringing together over 100 designs. Wow – at Barnsley, UK; admission free … Continue reading
Tom Waits: Musik & Mythos
It took our pal Tommi Brem and his associate Daniel Knapp two years to translate Jay S. Jacob’s Tom Waits biography, “Wild Years: the Music and Myth of Tom Waits”, into German — Tommi at one point likened it to … Continue reading
Posted in In Writing, Miscellany, Personal, Visual Arts
Tagged biography, illustration, tom waits
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