Tag Archives: Jimi Hendrix

the word: gracefully conceived

Language is the only vehicle of ideas; if it breaks down, what happens to the ideas?… The curse of the Structural Linguists. The Structural Linguists, in their relativistic approach toward standards of usage, confused the relationship between language and thought. … Continue reading

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the wind cried hairy

by Art Chantry: the bottom line is that jimi was always one of “us.” this is after he left the army…. “never trust any photo ever”. it’s sort of a rule i learned back at the beginning of my design … Continue reading

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up in smoke: end of the long distance romancer

Posthumously burned for the sake of propriety. All the hiddens. Al the unknowables. All the unthinkables. The explorations. The eccentric tastes. Her reputation! Yes it all had to go up in smoke. The eroticism, the open sexuality transferred onto the … Continue reading

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Lobal Societies

Until fairly recently, the mysteries of the left-handed seemed to be unsolvable, like the true value of the cubit, or the location of the Ark of the Covenant, or King Solomon’s cache of gold. But it was breakthroughs in neurosurgery … Continue reading

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taking a trip with granny

by Art Chantry: back in 1966-67, just as the whole “swinging london” scene that peaked with the carnaby sleek mod/fashion scene, the whole thing began to shift. in amercia, teenage pop fashion had started to go psychedelic very quickly. you … Continue reading

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roll one

Nice subliminal graphics here. Purple haze colors to reference dope and secondly, look how the magazine title is arranged into two words split or spliffed by Hendrix’s hair. Do the missing letters INGST constitute an acronym for I’m mot getting … Continue reading

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straight and bold axis

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Guitar World September 1992 issue Photograph: Tony Gale/Starfile Design Director: Jesse Marinoff Reyes … Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)! This issue of Guitar World was notable for the cover story feature-section … Continue reading

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iron(ic) butterflies

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) the very first record i ever bought was ‘in-a-gadda-da-vita’, the Lp by the iron butterfly. (the second was the beatles’ ‘revolver’). back when i was a larvae, i thought the iron butterfly was the … Continue reading

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kjr super car: horrible crippling of laughter

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) you can keep yer oscar meyer wienermobile and your pope-moblie and yer batmobile, too. when it comes to mighty advertising novelty cars, the northwest corner of these united states had the mightiest baddest ‘mobile’ of … Continue reading

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building a new world: immediate sensation

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): andrew loog oldham is the virtual inventor of “the crazy dangerous rock band manager”. this is the guy who “discovered” the rolling stones and created their bad boy image for them. granted, the lads in … Continue reading

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