Edgar Winter’s Frankenstein
Early keytar, sax, drums, feedback and bike horns! From 1973.
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Frampton comes alive
Frampton Comes Alive! was one of the best-selling albums of 1976. Here’s a performance from The Midnight Special, circa 1975.
Found via Jason Malmberg
Dan Herrera: Estan de una Herencia Extraña
‘The images are captured in various means using a scanner as the camera. Experimenting with choreographed motion, I’m exploiting visual anomalies unique to kinetic scanning.’ -Dan
Sacramento-based Dan Herrera experiments. Every time I check in he’s doing something cool. For these, he’s been modifying a scanner with a custom-made piece of glass (as lens, extending the range of the scanner) . . . more here.
It’s like Muybridge has come full circle. Back to basics with new tech.
Stereoviews of old Japan, animated
A stereoviewer (below) was all the rage around the turn of the (last) century. Two photos would combine in a viewer to create a simulated 3D image. Like binoculars.
Okinawa Soba has turned this collection from old Japan into animated GIFs – using both photos as frames. More photos here. Flickr set here.
Feels just like an earthquake.
Yakov G. Chernikov
‘Chernikov drew by hand what today can seem only possible with a computer.’
I Love Typography takes a look at the limited edition monograph Graphic Masterpieces of Yakov G. Chernikhov: The Collection of Dmitry Y. Chernikov. Chernikhov’s work is on par with Dürer or Tory. Read more here.
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