Not all battles are fought with a sword
Working through some grading on my American Roots Music FYS class, I stumbled across this wonderful bio of the early blues giant Charlie Patton by the great comics artist R. Crumb.
Some digging suggests this is taken from from R. Crumb draws the blues, which I’ve dashed off and added to my wish list :-).
Currently listening to: More of the vast Screamin’ and hollerin’ the blues: The worlds of Charley Patton. Very cool stuff…
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As I was wandering the web avoiding grading doing some course prep for Arne and my course next semester on “Open Source vs. Proprietary Techonology: The Economics of Networks and Innovation” (a title only an academic could love!) I ran across a link on del.icio.us to a nice on-line collection of arabic calligraphy by Mouneer Al-Shaarani.
I figured WeatherGirl would want to check it out since she’s really into art based (sometimes quite loosely) on text and text-like figures. This calligraphy is nice, then, because it really shows the broad possibilities in (arabic) calligraphy ranging from very “traditional” to extremely abstract. Neat stuff.
Currently listening to: The way-nifty John Peel: A tribute 2 CD set that WeatherGirl’s mum gave me for Xmas. Any collection with both Lonnie Donegan and Captain Beefheart just has to be a lot of fun!
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