Head Medicine Weekly vol 3

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Al Lover

Brown Acid Redux

2014

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Al Lover has been a Head Medicine favorite for a while now.  his deep, psyched out trip hop is the very finest out there, and his entire catalog is well worth a look.  but i find myself gravitating to Brown Acid Redux, a live set from SXSW 2014.  over the course of an hour, Al Lover shows off his impeccable taste and one of the deepest crates of any dj out there.  he sets the scene with a filthy, unending sex groove and weaves in a tapestry of some of the greatest sounds from around the world... Portishead, Turkish psych master Baris Manco, Butthole Surfers, Tricky, Bollywood legends Kalyanji and Anamdji, Morgan Delt... the list goes on and on... and it is a flawless mix. perfect for a night alone in the womb of your headphones or in a room full of people grinding with their eyes rolled back in their skull.  take yer pick.

Utopia Zukunftsromane

West German Science Fiction Magazine

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In 1953, Erich Pabel Verlag first published his science fiction magazine Utopia Zukunftsromane (Utopia Science Fiction) in West Germany.  The series ran for fifteen years and produced nearly 600 volumes, and inspired the equally influential West German sci-fi mag Terra.  I have not been able to find any information on the anonymous artists who created the many amazing covers, but their work easily stands up next to the best of the American pulp magazine sci-fi artists from that time.  here is a small sample of their work, with a nearly complete collection of the Utopia covers on Micky The Pixel's Flickr HERE.

Frank Kozik

Studio Visit for Nerdist Industries

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Here's a cool video of the legendary Frank Kozik taking us on a tour of his studio and giving a glimpse into his methodology.  Kozik is one of thee most successful artistic iconoclasts out there, so if that's where you wanna be too, you would be wise to take a look and heed his advice.

  

 The Head Medicine Reading Room

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A collection of interesting reads for your pleasure

 

Transcending the Blues: An Interview with Legendary Producer Daniel Lanois 

Daniel Lanois is a classic musician and producer, helping create and capture sounds with legends like Bob Dylan, U2, Brian Eno and many, many more.  Even now, he is a creatively restless spirit, constantly pushing his personal artistic boundaries.  Autre recently published a fascinating interview with Lanois, discussing his past, present, and future.  read it HERE

 The Trumpler 14 Star Cluster

Photographed by the Hubble Telescope

"This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the star cluster Trumpler 14. One of the largest gatherings of hot, massive and bright stars in the Milky Way, this cluster houses some of the most luminous stars in our entire galaxy."    read the entire piece at Spacetelescope.org HERE

An Insanely Comprehensive List of 260 Pop Culture Oral Histories

thanks to Thrillist for putting this truly insane list together.  movies like Airplane!, Boogie Nights, Dazed and Confused... music with Elliot Smith, Blondie, the Beastie Boys, Soundgarden's Superunknown... tons of tv shows... plenty of reading material for you to dig through HERE.

 

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The Fantasy Art of Hannes Bok

Hannes Bok, (real name Wayne Woodward) (1914-1964), was an American illustrator best known for his Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine work.  His full color covers are lush and luminescent, influenced by the heavy layering of glazes by his hero Maxfield Parrish, and his black and white interior illustrations are odd and deeply compelling.

Bok's entry into the world of commercial fantasy art came through his friendship with a young and then unpublished Ray Bradbury.  By 1939, Bradbury was committed to becoming a sci-fi/fantasy author and hopped on a bus from Los Angeles to New York City to attend the World Science Fiction Convention.  Since Bok was unable to attend the convention himself,  Bradbury brought along an armload of his friend's work to show off to the editors there and to kill two birds with one stone.  It worked, and the rest is history. Bradbury etched his name in sci-fi/fantasy granite, and Bok became one of the most beloved illustrators from the Golden Age of sci-fi illustration.

Virgil Finlay

Virgil Finlay (1914-1971), one of the titans of the golden age of sci-fi/fantasy pulp magazine illustration.  over his career, he churned out thousands of illustrations, done in pen and ink as well as scratchboard, and many fully painted covers.  one of fantasy art's great visionaries to this day.

here is an article about Finlay from Starlog Magazine (June 1978)

many more over at MONSTER BRAINS...