Ward Shelly paints timelines. The history of avant garde, Andy Warhol, …and Frank Zappa:
Big version here — even bigger version cached here at KUR.
(via Kottke)
Category: Visual Arts
Tom Waits: Musik & Mythos Box
Kids, if you’re not into Tom Waits, I suggest you skip reading this entry altogether. If you are though — or if you like the way Sharl and I illustrate — you may want to read on.
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Matt Groening – My Wasted Life
Matt Groening – who once stated “Zappa is my Elvis” – discusses the major influences in his life and work in this 3 part documentary (part 2 focuses on Zappa’s influence on his life and work).
Zappa Meets Dali
The Sancho Plan collective have created an animated short film entitled “The Black Page”. It is apparently quite an ambitious undertaking:
The Black Page is our first true interactive short film & by far our most ambitious project to date. Combining the highest quality musical and visual design, The Black Page is a new entertainment experience in which our live onstage band will control in real-time a cast of onscreen animated musical characters.
The short film tells the tale of a lost wanderer who stumbles into a surreal desert landscape, and learns that the door home can only be opened by an unusual guardian. “Frank Zappa meets Salvador Dali in this unique interactive entertainment experience.”
World premiere: 24th September 2009, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle UK.
More background here.
Le Labostrophe Videos
Le Labostrophe is a fellowship between freelance audio/video freak technicians, whose goals are :
– To make available to present-day art makers an original & professional video and/or audio creation, in accordance with their own budget and complementary to their own creative universe;
– To combine on each project the most suitable human resources and work method;
– To contribute to display of artists offering an indispensable alternative to present culture;
– To cause an emulation among its members in order to create Labostrophe‘s own projects.
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Zappa Dragons
Peter Karpick has been building a collage series incorporating FZ quotes and related imagery. Here’s one:
Weird and oddly compelling. Check out his Flickr stream.
Elsewhere
- How does your language shape the way you think?
- Fascinating photo gallery: American pictures
- Living with Jesus (dot com)
- The Coolness Index
- Mutiny! The Big Pirate Bay Sellout
- Your browser is the new OS – Kottke nailed it 5 years ago
- Pipers use Hendrix case to boost rights (thx xorg)
- Neil Young’s fantastic version of A Day In The Life with Sir Paul cameo
- Frank & Dweez on MTV (via zappa.hu)
- It is Christmas in July says Deborah Chesher
Tiny Vilnius Tears
With a ZPZ concert imminent in the town of Vilnius, Lithuania, Dweezil, Diva and Gail reckoned it would be a nice opportunity to pay an emo-sho-null tribute to the iconic FZ statue present there. Check out the TV coverage.
‘t Would appear then that not all Zappa statues are created equal…
Via Uni-Muta, where you’ll find more footage from ZPZ’s Vilnius gig.
Zappanale’s Very Special Guest
The Amazing Mr. Bickford is officially confirmed as special guest at Zappanale 20. Bruce will be bringing lots of his work over to Bad Doberan — a unique chance to gaze in awe at his creatures, finally on display at a proper exposition. He’ll also be bringing along his newest film projects.
Beefheart Night at the Knitting Factory
Back on April 9th, 2008, Gary Lucas curated “Beefheart Night at the Knit“, a salute to the Music, Poetry and Art of Don Van Vliet, a/k/a Captain Beefheart.
Click here to view highlights of that night and backstage interviews with the evening’s many and various participants (thanks to Culture Clash).
Don Van Vliet might have been absent in body on this particular evening, yet his presence, and his affect on popular culture, art, and music is unquestionably undeniable.