cover version 

Got a bit sidetracked this weekend creating this cover version of the 1968 Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band designed by Jann Haworth and Peter Blake. The Annexe Nactus line up is:

Top row:
Alexander Rodchenko
Søren Kierkegaard
Jorge Luis Borges
John Lennon
Constantin Brancusi
Miroslav Sasek
Zoe Tati
Simon Starling
Jacques Cousteau
Thich Nhat Hanh
Jack Nicholson
part of Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Mahatma Gandhi

second row:
matchbox with Tordenskjold
Mikhail Kaufman
Piet Hein
Jørgen Leth
Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
unknown magician
Curzio Malaparte
Oscar Niemeyer
Big Nude by Helmut Newton
Monsieur Hulot
Corto Maltese
Jakob Holdt

front row:
Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump
unidentified appropriation artist >>>
Chet Baker
David Hockney
Gael García Bernal

sitting:
Werner Herzog
Ham the chimp austronaut
Woman in Schlemmer mask seated in Marcel Breuer chair

flower on drum by Charles Rennie Macintosh
flowers on floor by Andy Warhol

People who were originally intended for the cover but were ultimately excluded due to various reasons:
John McEnroe
Lars von Trier
Zorro
and a Ford Atmos

Labels: appropriation, cover, family album, the Zoe Tati's Looney Cardboard Band

deja vu two 

The term "mushrooming" differs in that it generally refers to the act of gathering mushrooms, in the wild, as in the statement "I'm going mushrooming today." This is often shortened to "shrooming", which has yet another connotation, which is to "do mushrooms". To "do mushrooms" or "shrooms" often refers to taking hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Look out for the signs >>>

Labels: Berenice Abbott, mushrooming, ready made, track cycling

deja vu one 

get in the game >>>
original lost >>>

Labels: Duchamp, flash, nostalgia, track cycling

the revolutionary 

footnote
footnote

Labels: Ernesto CHE Guevara, graffiti, Robin Hood, the situationist

the witticaster 

Today I consulted Five Steps To Heal A Broken Heart: .
The optional step six fits my touch of dixlexia, but I am not so happy with the words suggested.
So here are my personal alternatives to put next to the heart:
A) bossa
B) globus
C) mesmerize
D) papillon
E) pap
F) Odessa
G) pseudonym
H) logo
I) lux
J) velour
K) giffel
L) pixie
M) exquisit
N) mondial
O) A (ace)

footnote

Labels: badges, broken heart, witticaster

the copywriter 

make a choice or make a comment:

[A] Stop 16:9 – 4:3 back on TV
[B] Round-the-clock stockings
[C] Big ideas come out of Big pencils
[D] Of cource, this is off the top of my head..
[E] Everything's either concave or -vex...
[F] Vi havde vores rytmik...
[G] alone together
[H] A savage beast that makes the young painters look alike

Labels: copywriter, Hamletomania, Labor Day, manifest