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The Jazzual Suspects’ This Beat. Feat. Johnny Depp as Jack Kerouac (from The Source).

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‘Filmed with my Super 8 camera in the 80s when Kim Carnes first recorded her hit recording of Bette Davis Eyes’

A revisualization of Kim Carnes’ Bette Davis Eyes. From 1981.

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‘Tells a tale of world conquest by sex, drugs and rock and roll’

Cult classic J-Men Forever! (1979) was a mainstay on the USA network’s Night Flight (titles below).

And after Night Flight went away, J-Men vanished – only quietly showing up many years later on DVD.

J-Men Forever! was the brainchild of Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman of the Firesign Theatre – using cobbled together footage from old serials to create a silly (actually, immature is the right word) new movie; similar to Woody Allen’s What’s Up Tiger Lily (1966).

The Caped Madman (above) and The evil Lightening Bug steal the show. The film’s score features music from The Tubes, Head East, Budgie and Billy Preston.

Watch it in its entirety/in sections on YouTube. Click above to jump/watch.

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Video for Madonna’s Express Yourself. Production design by Vance Lorenzini, inspired by Metropolis. Directed by David Fincher. From 1989.

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Video for Vanessa Paradis’ Be My Baby. Written by Lenny Kravitz. From 1992.

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I teach an experimental typography course at Ai Sacramento. And this past quarter, student Joyce Tabujara ventured into song.

For her final project, she wrote and preformed This Is To Mister Bell (above) – a tribute to typographer John Bell (1745-1831) and his types.

Below, a few of her studies.

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Video for Charlotte Gainsbourg’s 5:55.

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Serge Gainsbourg and France Gall sing Les Sucettes. From 1967.

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‘If 2010 smelled like Lady Gaga, what will 2011 taste like?’

Lady Gaga shot from behind by fashion photographer Nick Knight. For her upcoming album Born This Way. Info here.

Below, unfinished Gaga portrait by Anastasia Chebacheva:

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Poster design for by Josef Flejsar for the National Theater of Prague.

From 1964.

Ray Conniff: Melody from Mozart

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Handlettering for Ballade en France compilation album by Maricor Maricar.

The album features Carla Bruni’s L’Amoureuse. Video below.

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