I was struggling to find the typeface used for this album art, and was about to assume it to be one-off lettering when I stumbled on Coro Moon in Photo-Lettering’s One Line Manual of Styles (1971). Typeface names prefixed with the designer’s last name were common in the
What appeared at first to be the flamboyant gesture of a harmless eccentric served a very definite purpose. His arresting outfits were a way of distinguishing himself from others who also lived off…
Two Moondog interpreters revisit the late composer’s more concise works
artist: Moondog title: Moondog 2 label: Columbia country: USA date: 1971
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A pair of French new music ensembles lovingly recreates songs by the iconoclastic New York street composer and poet who called himself Moondog.
“Moondog” by Dimitri Drjuchin, acrylic on canvas, 20” x 20” Longtime commentor and sometimes Dangerous Minds guest contributor Em, will be joining us for the next several months as a blogger. Hello, gang. I’m stoked about guest-blogging on Dangerous Minds for the next few months. Although I’m not as good a writer as Marc Campbell, and don’t have links of Tara or quite the incendiary comments of Richard, Paul or the others, hopefully for a few months I can keep you reasonably entertained as I dig out stuff that I’ve either run across over the last bunch of years, or that has slapped me across the face recently that I think you might find interesting. Some of my interests include weird bands and labels (eg Facbn and the Factory spinoff labels), drugs (though in recent decades only caffeine and alcohol have passed these lips, sadly), crypto-anarchy (I was an outspoken member of Cypherpunks for many years), and even gay culture (so much of it happened around me here in NYC in the 70s and 80s and I only recently started digging into it). Oh, even though I work in a “too big to fail” bank, I actually originate...
Moondog (1916-1999) was one of the great eccentrics of the 20th Century. He spent much of his life living homeless on the streets of New York,
A quick linocut of Moondog to warm up my printing muscles after a couple of weeks off. More info here on this interesting chappie... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog
A true music enigma; The Viking of 6th Avenue, Moondog A genuine individual, Moondog dedicated his life to creating bizzare & unique music, played in homemade time signatures on home made intruments. He also spent a major part of his life dressed as his "vision" of Odin, complete with spear. This particular picture encapsulates quite perfectly the childlike whimsy a identity like Moondog holds within pop culture. In spite of the disgusted look from the "square", Moondog lived on the streets by choice & was a moderately successful recording artist. Moondog invented & played his own instruments, pictured here ore the hüs (above), & his most famous, the trimba (below) By '74 Moondog had emigrated to "The Rhineland". By then he traded in the Viking clothes for all black. He remained in Germany until his death. And, quite possibly the most amazing thing about Moondog is that he did all this blind, as he lost his sight at age 16. I would definitely suggest checking out some of Moondog's tunes, he has more than 20 releases to his name, On the Streets of New York is my favorite.
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Durante los años 50 y 60, una de las curiosidades más fotografiadas de Nueva York, junto con el Empire State Building o Central Station, era Moondog. Las guías turísticas de la época lo incluían como una atracción más de esa ciudad, a la que este enigmático personaje llegó en 1943 para ampliar sus
We’ve cast an eye on the undeniably prolific Andy Warhol in a couple of previous posts – firstly looking at his Early Years and secondly when he started to make the most of his new-found fame featuring as he did in an advert for the now defunct Braniff International Airways. Now it’s time to look [&hellip
Le légendaire compositeur américain a inspiré les saxophonistes Sylvain Rifflet et Jon Irabagon.
Released in 2018, on Vinyl and on label Wax Love Records (WLV82091). Moondog — Snaketime Series. Genre: Jazz, Classical. Style: Experimental, Modern Classical, Free Improvisation