I’ve always used the terms “album” and “LP” interchangeably, so it came as a surprise to find out that the former predates the latter quite considerably. We started talking about albums in the sense of ‘photo album’ or ‘stamp album’ as early as the 1850s, and the first ‘music albums’ were along these lines – …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack This week has seen the passing of Geoff Emerick, who served as sound engineer on The Beatles’ Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road albums, starting at the age of just 20. His death hasn’t generated as much interest as those of George …
January 6 — The first Montessori school and daycare center for working class children opens in Rome March – The 1907 Romanian Peasants’ Revolt results in possibly as many as 11,000 deaths April 17 — The first Minas Geraes-class battleship is laid down for Brazil, by Armstrong Whitworth on the River Tyne, in England, triggering …
Pablo Picasso – Self-Portrait with Palette Henri Matisse – Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt Paula Modersohn-Becker – Self-Portrait on the sixth wedding anniversary Edvard Munch – Self-portrait with a bottle André Derain – Charing Cross Bridge Claude Monet — Water Lilies Jean Metzinger – La dance (Bacchante) Robert Delaunay — L’homme à la tulipe Mikhail …
Aladdin and His Magic Lamp The Story of the Kelly Gang The Merry Frolics of Satan Dream of a Rarebit Fiend The Magic Roses A Lively Quarter-Day The Hilarious Poster The ‘?’ Motorist A Visit To Peek Frean and Co’s Biscuit Works The Mysterious Retort Three American Beauties A Winter Straw Ride Whitsuntide Fair At …
The visibility of stagnant and trenchant attitudes in the “progressive era” mean that reference to it in 2018 almost requires the use of those scare quotes. There really was a lot of progress happening in some areas, however, and this conservatism was in large part a reaction to genuine radicalism being pushed into mainstream consciousness …
Not the first animation ever, not exactly the first on film (Pauvre Pierrot holds this record, though it was figures projected on painted backgrounds), “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” is nevertheless the inception of the animated short. With a framing device of the artist drawing on a blackboard, it prefigures artistic animation rather than the …
As Hurricane Florence bears down on the East coast of the USA, it would be amiss not to mention what happened across on the other side of the continent 112 years ago. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 remains vivid in a culture that has built (and built fairly high) on the ruins left behind …
I don’t have my own phonograph, and it’s impossible to have physical representations of my collection of antique mp3s, but at least I now have a bookshelf full of books about years. Unbelievably, this is only the second or third* one I’ve come across so far (the number is due to go up quite a …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack Williams & Walker are a great deal to blame for being the originators and establishing the name “coon” upon our race. They met a white man in San Francisco by the name of McConnell, who put them on the circuit. In order …
