Archive from “A Secret Location” Small Press / Mimeograph Revolution, 1940s–1970s

Left to right: Bill Margolis, Eileen Kaufman, Bob Kaufman, and unidentified man printing the first issue of Beatitude.

We are pleased to offer for sale a captivating and important research collection of little magazines and other printed materials that represent, chronicle, and document the proliferation of avant-garde, underground small press publications from the forties to the seventies.
The starting point for this collection, “A Secret Location on the Lower East Side,” is the acclaimed New York Public Library exhibition and catalog from 1998, curated by Steve Clay and Rodney Phillips, which documented a period of intense innovation and experimentation in American writing and literary publishing by exploring the small press and mimeograph revolutions.
The present collection came into being after the owner “became obsessed with the secretive nature of the works contained in the exhibition’s catalog.” Using the book as a guide, he assembled a singular library that contains many of the rare and fragile little magazines featured in the NYPL exhibition while adding important ancillary material, much of it from a West Coast perspective.
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Bloody hell! I wish I was rich *sigh

Virtual Calligraphy

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♪♫ New Order Live @Bestival 2012 (Albumstream)

♪♫ Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell, Nels Cline and Shahzad Ismaily - Live @ Le Poisson Rouge (New York City 11/6/13)

Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure

When Yasiin Bey was force-fed Guantánamo Bay-style – eyewitness account

As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard operating procedure, for force-feeding detainees. In this four-minute film made by Human Rights organisation Reprieve and Bafta award-winning director Asif Kapadia, US actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), experiences the procedure.

Obama urged to halt Ramadan force-feeding at Guantánamo

Liquid City

For 400 years, New York has embraced, spurned, ignored, harnessed, and feared the water that made its greatness possible. Now our relationship must get even more complex.

♪♫ Bernie Worrell Orchestra w/ Mike Watt & Lili Hayden - Maggot Brain

At the Bootleg Bar in LA January 22, 2012

Johnny Depp on Letterman (June 27 2013)

The Lone Ranger Represents Everything That’s Wrong With Hollywood Blockbusters

The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero

I asked if he ever talked about it. Jason shook his head no. Did they find out anyway? “Always.”

How NSA surveillance destroys privacy and undermines our sovereignty

[...] The largest black chamber ever constructed is being built now, in Utah. Called the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, its storage capacity is estimated to exceed a yottabyte, the largest unit of data that computer scientists have. That’s around half a sextillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text, more than enough to store everything that’s ever been written, as well as every email and phone call to be made in the coming century. Australia is building its own sister system at HMAS Harman just outside Canberra, partly to accommodate the data that will flow to us from Utah. The question now is: what will these black chambers be filled with? And how?

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♪♫ Underground in Africa

Deep spiritual jazz produced under the heat of the Apartheid regime in South Africa by independent label owner Rashid Vally.
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(Thanx Stan!)

Arthur Buxton: Paris Vogue Covers 1981-2011

Visualising Colour Trends

Cody Petts: Pine typeface

'Pine is a finely crafted typeface meant to embody the strength and elegance of nature," explains Petts, a student of the Multimedia Design program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. "Laser cut from wood, each character has rich physicality while maintaining graphic sophistication.'
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DH & WSB

Photo by Bobby Grossman

♪♫ Andrew Weatherall - deathmetaldiscoclub #020 Mix

(Click on arrow at right to download)
Tracklist:
1) Joe's Bakery - Mamba Gascoine
2) Femi vs KCRW - Eh Oh (Garth's Fiya Dubb)
3) Emiliana Torrini - Speed of Dark (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
4) Kalidasa - Waiting Game (Craig Bratley Remix)
5) Craig Bratley - Obsession (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
6) Out Cold - All I Want (Ewan Pearson Remix)
7) Avanti - Cabezaurio
8) Duncan Gray - Peach
9) The Cosmologist - Keep It Up (The Cosmologist 2013 Soul Reconstruction)
10) The Asphodells - Skwatch (Black Merlin's Reel To Reel Remix)
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Mont de Marsan Festival Flyer (1977)

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I remember reading various accounts of this in the old UK music inkies back in the day. Allan Jones's report in MM was particularly hilarious.

♪♫ The Shangri-Las - Give Him A Great Big Kiss

on Shivaree in 1965

The Bored Guy

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Bye Bye, Blixa (Big Day Out 1996)

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The Young-Girl and the Selfie

[...] In this light, the selfie isn’t about empowerment. But it also isn’t not about empowerment. Empowerment, or lack thereof, is not part of the picture. Neither is narcissism, as either a personal or a cultural moral failure. And the selfie isn’t about the male gaze. The selfie, in the end is about the gendered labour of young girls under capitalism. Do we honestly think that by ceasing to take and post selfies, the bodies of young women would cease to be spectacles? Teenage girls are Young-Girls, are spectacles, are narcissists, are consumers because those are the very criterion which must be met to be a young woman and also a part of society. That their bodies are commodities enters them into economies of attention, and that is where the disgust with selfies comes from. In an economy of attention, it is a disaster for men that girls take up physical space and document it, and that this documentation takes up page hits and retweets that could go to ‘more important’ things. And so the Young-Girl must be punished, with a disgust reserved for the purely trivial. To paraphrase that beloved of Young-Girl films, Ever After — itself paraphrasing Thomas More’s Utopia — what are we to make of the selfie but that we first create teenage girls and then punish them?

(Thanx Ken!)

Organic graffiti by Aliça Bryson-Haynes using flour, paprika etc

I had a nice chat with Aliça y/day as she was making these down the local park. Will go back and photo their degradation over the coming days
http://www.alicabrysonhaynes.com/

Students question the NSA at recruiting session (and it doesn't quite go the way the NSA wanted)

The NSA Comes Recruiting

The Murdoch tapes: News Corp culture and the phone hacking scandal

News Corporation executive chairman Rupert Murdoch has been secretly recorded regretting the assistance given to authorities who were investigating allegations of phone hacking and corruption at his newspapers.
In a 45-minute recording of a speech to staff at his British newspaper The Sun made by a reporter in attendance and subsequently leaked to the press, the News Corporation boss also described payments to police and public officials as part of “the culture of Fleet Street”.
Of the police investigation, Murdoch added:

I mean, it’s a disgrace. Here we are, two years later, and the cops are totally incompetent.

In a statement, News Corporation said: “Mr Murdoch never knew of payments made by Sun staff to police before News Corporation disclosed that to UK Authorities. Furthermore, he never said he knew of payments. It’s absolutely false to suggest otherwise.”

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Scotland Yard seeks Rupert Murdoch secret tape

Cover of the first BUY or DIE!, Ralph Records’ mail order catalogue

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(Thanx Mark!)

She's a Punk Rocker U.K. (Zillah Minx 2010)

The Full version of Documentary "She's A Punk Rocker U.K" Directed by Zillah Minx. Made by and about Punk Rock Women, 1977 Punk Rock an Oral History by the women who were part of Punk.
"Punk women changed the public face of female. It was very empowering for universal women. The story of punk could almost be a women's liberation story." Caroline Coon

llustrating Twitter's #BooksWithaLetterMissing

Sometimes hashtags are annoying, but sometimes they bring out creative genius. Take “Books With a Letter Missing”  (#bookswithalettermissing). Though many Twitter users have contributed ideas, one, @darth, has actually been Photoshopping the covers of these “fake” books.
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Guy Debord 3D Action Figure

3D-printed Guy Debord action figures. Produced by McKenzie Wark, design by Peer Hansen, with technical assistance by Rachel L. Modified by Patrick Lichty.
(Thanx to Ken for the images!)
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A Cavalier History of Situationism: An Interview with McKenzie Wark

Guy Debord: La Société du spectacle (1973)

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The Society of the Spectacle

Adrian Sherwood on 'Tackhead Tape Time'

“Tackhead Tape Time was made from unreleased and exclusive versions of our recordings that were like Dub Plates, unique cuts of tracks but ones that only we could play out. In the studio we would make the “main” version and then would do dub versions that Gary Clail would play before and after the band went on stage for a live show. In this period we recorded everything using analog tape. A lot of the time when setting up the mixes I was running stripped down versions of the tracks and dubbing them up and Gary would be recording cassettes of the session…these sounded to a lot of people better than over produced and cluttered tracks,raw and somewhat mangled but with Keith Le Blanc’s great drumming and programming holding them together. Add the great grooves, the vocal samples that Keith referred to as “news on the beat”, Doug Wimbish’s bass, Skip McDonald’s guitar and keyboards, and my stripped down mixes -plus the fact that a lot of it was mastered straight from the often overloaded cassettes – this record has a great edge to it.”
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Gee Vaucher: Liberty/Justice

(Pencil & gouache on paper)

(Screenprint over 'Liberty')

Gee w/ REsearch's Val Vale

Friendly as a hand grenade indeed!

Happy Fourth

As my friend Tommy says: 'Americans. Happy Independence Day. I wish we could be independent from these fuckers too.'

♪♫ Spoek Mathambo - Escape From '85 Mix (Free Download)

Escape From ‘85 – a mixtape of 12 tracks inspired by the year of Spoek's birth.
Escape From ‘85 celebrates the music and culture of the 1980s – featuring guest artists including Yadi, Terri Walker, BB James, Seye, Cherry B, DJ Wool, Cerebral Vortex, Fannie Sosa and DJ Maddjazz.

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FUCK WIMBLEDON!

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Kate Moss: 'I’d go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces'

Corinne Day (1990)

Nick Knight (2003)

Chuck Close (2003)

Allen Jones (2013)

Kate Moss For Sale

Ad Break: Kate Moss for Versace

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After Marrow Transplants, 2 More Patients Appear H.I.V.-Free Without Drug

Two H.I.V.-infected patients in Boston who had bone-marrow transplants for blood cancers have apparently been virus-free for weeks since their antiretroviral drugs were stopped, researchers at an international AIDS conference announced Wednesday.
The patients’ success echoes that of Timothy Ray Brown, the famous “Berlin patient,” who has shown no signs of resurgent virus in the five years since he got a bone-marrow transplant from a donor with a rare mutation conferring resistance to H.I.V. ...

 

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After Mohammad Morsi's Ouster, a Second Chance for Obama

The Egyptian army’s removal of President Mohammad Morsi gives the Obama administration that rarest of opportunities in foreign policy: a second chance. Getting it right will require understanding where we went wrong the first time.
To some, President Obama’s fundamental error in Egypt policy was to withdraw U.S. support from longtime leader Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, when thousands of Egyptians first filled Tahrir Square demanding change. In this view, the United States should have stuck by Mubarak, a firm opponent of the Muslim Brotherhood whose soldiers fought alongside U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf war and who remained faithful to Egypt’s peace with Israel despite isolation in the Arab world.

That view, however, is wrong. Mubarak’s failing health meant that his rule was coming to an end, a fact he refused to face, instead surrounding himself with sycophants and acting like a modern pharoah. To U.S. interests, Mubarak had become a liability, and there was a reasonable alternative...

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