While we're on the subject of labels...
I probably posted this a while back, and it's also listed in the Interesting Links section, but there's a whole mess of rockabilly label art over at the Rockin' Country Style Label Shots website. While many of the label designs verge on boring sans-serif type with little or no graphics, there are a few well worth the dig. Dig?Labels: 45rpm, 7-inch, country, music, record labels, records, rockabilly, vinyl
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More Jamaican Label Art
This is getting ridiculous. Ian of Jamaincan Label Art informs me of another site dedicated to Jamaican 45rpm label art, the Dance Crasher website. In addition to labels, Dance Crasher hosts a plethora of reggae ephemera to gaze. It seems the UK is replete with these precious discs. And it looks like I'm gonna have to hook up the ol' scanner and get to work if I hope to contend...
Labels: 45rpm, 7-inch, jamaica, Jamaincan Record Label Art, music, record labels, records, reggae, vinyl
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Missing Mac OS Preferences?
Does your Mac have this setting? I wish mine did so that I could deactivate it. Apparently, Apple thinks I'm a dumbass and won't just let me do what I need to do without warning me each and every time I try to change a file extension...
Labels: Apple sucks, fascist, Microsoft is no better
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Truly Dreadful Stuff
So, I'm sitting here in my vinyl (ivory?) tower thinking I've got the corner on the 45 RPM label art web site market, when Jamaican Label Art hits my screen boasting "over 1603 label scans, 954 details, 111 sleeves, 3320 files in total." While they're not actual size scans (I still have the corner on that market), they do include a number of nice detailed closeups of over-printing colors and type treatments. There's even a submission form where you can add your own to the collection. Well, I bow in humble submission...Labels: 45rpm, 7-inch, jamaica, record labels, reggae
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The True Price of Freedom
Is anyone else as struck with TERROR as I am from the recent news that Turner Broadcasting System and the ad agency they hired to execute their marketing campaign have settled with the city of Boston and various state and federal agencies for $2 Million bucks?!? I never thought I'd be on the side defending marketers and advertisers, but this has gone way too far. It's the same "pedal - forward - as - fast - as - you - can - through - the - big - pile - of - shit - you - made" response that created the current situation in Iraq. Can no one admit when they've overreacted?Labels: ATHF, Boston Sucks, fascist, Turner
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Visionary Places
Drive on down the road to the website for director Michael McNamara's 8-part documentary series entitled "Shrines and Homemade Holy Places," which features visionary artists and the spaces they are moved to create.
Labels: folk art, outsider art, visionary art
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Ride with Zulu?
Apparently, for $1,500 bucks, you can take a ride on a Zulu float this Mardi Gras. They even throw in the wig, costume and makeup! Well, whatever it takes to rebuild...
Labels: mardi gras, new orleans, zulu
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ticketbastard
Okay, this is not "visual junk," but I've just paid more in fees than I did for a damn concert ticket. Serisously, something needs to be done about this (besides spending half an hour making a parody logo—hey, there's some visual junk!).
Labels: boycott, criminals, extortion, music, ticketmaster
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