Category Archives: Visual Arts

San Valentín A Medida

You there with the emerging Hallmark Valentine Nausea and the Spanish accent: you might just want to send one of these. Not your thing? How about these? Hey, Dr Sharl and I had loads of fun making them. Pardon the … Continue reading

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El Copyright Del Mundo Invisible

Maroual writes in with the following question: Could the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation send a C&D letter? … and refers to this post he made on the Zäppî forums: The Zappa Wazoo liner notes mention “Cover Art ‘Mundo Invisible’ (oil on … Continue reading

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Frank Zappa Ambigram

An ambigram of the words ‘Frank Zappa.’ A bit of a hero of mine is Zappa, and I’ve wanted to design an ambigram around his name for a while. I came up with a symmetrical totem solution which I’m very … Continue reading

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From Zappa To Lenin

Found on the Where On Earth blog (via zappafan.net), about FZ’s bust in Vilnius, Lithuania: A few years ago, I had the good fortune to share some beers with one of the students responsible for this very odd monument. He … Continue reading

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Pictures Of You

These photos here were taken by our own very esteemed Magic Fingers on the Reading concert during 1975 (OMG!! WTF!!!8888 There he is…! Awesome!!!) :-) I’m very fond of this sort of pictures, and given the fact that the core … Continue reading

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Uri Balashov On The Making Of The Cover of Civilization, Phaze III

Nice interview with the artist – thanks to Vladimir Sovetov. Well, Frank said that it’s very special record in his life, the very last. He said that his disease is incurable. In fact I know that he is seriously ill, … Continue reading

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Here’s One I Prepared Earlier

For my birthday Dr Sharl got me a wicked little Wacom drawing tablet. Takes some getting used to, but with a bit of help from Jackson Pollock, adequate results are obtained in a snap: Opening bid at 10,000 euro. Anyone?

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Album Art Grabber

Need a good quality version of a certain album’s artwork? Been browsing Google’s image search ’til your eyes bled? Album Art Grabber to the rescue. It works by querying Apple’s iTunes database, and returns images up to 1425x1425px and above. … Continue reading

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On The Road

Amazing photo gallery of the “new American Beatniks”. Surely the girl pictured to the left below is a Zappa fan…

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Go Kiss Yourself

Pictures of people kissing themselves. Freaky.

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The Neocon Series

Dennis P. McCann, artist, FZ-fan and founder of the Yahoo! Zappa-List has started a series of paintings entitled the Neocon Series. He’s currently at “Phase two”: Phase Two examines the defining events by which history will judge the Bush administration, … Continue reading

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On The Bus

CrackskullBob’s blog is nothing short of brilliant. Bookmark now!

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Manara

When I grow up I want to draw pretty girls the way Milo Manara does: Envious? Moi?

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Mueck

Artist Ron Mueck currently has an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. I find his out-of-proportion yet hyper-realistic sculptures fascinating to look at. Here’s a behind-the-scenes slideshow of how the exhibition was installed. Bonus: video filmed during Ron Mueck’s residency at … Continue reading

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Kill Ugly Radio World Tour: Let’s Roll!

Right, well I’ve pretty much finished doing the cover of Our Latest Pet Project. Just to give you an idea of the mess this has been causing on my desktop, here are some pictures: The Plastified Cover…: More on Flickr. … Continue reading

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