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Greetings carbon-based lifeform,

Here are 7 items I came across recently that seemed worthy of passing along.
Sift through. Click into what you like. Skip the rest.

1. Marshall McLuhan interviews John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Contemporary equivalent would be Neil deGrasse Tyson interviewing Taylor Swift. Beyond the giant watermark in the middle all throughout the video, I found it fascinating to listen to the three of them.
   Lennon goofs around at the end with McLuhan’s name and title of his book.

2. Been binging through the Wrong Side of The Lens series on Youtube. A short doc series on street photographers; talking about their legacy, backstories of images, how they approach the craft. I’m not a photographer or familiar with any of their work but I am a fan of pros discussing their craft with passion.
   First episode with Daniel Arnold: watched it three times now. He talks about exploitation in street art, his “ambitions”, and art-making in general. Filled with oner wanna-be’s.

3. This interview with comic artist SETH. Very strong start when he talks about taking his work less seriously. Then an even heavier closing via his opinion on what it means to collect. Again: I don’t read comics or knew him before.

4. These Radio station letterhead scans, initially dug up by Emma Bers/Bersletters

5. David Foster Wallace’s unedited ZDF interview that I rewatched for the third time this year in preparation for an upcoming project.

6. Unit Edition’s Action Time Vision: a collection of sleeves from the punk era. I wish there were more interviews in the beginning but the scans throughout are all incredible. Goes beyond what I thought was “the general punk aesthetic” of DIY, collage, and cut-out’s.

7. Together with #6, I bought Fucked up + Photocopied. Similar mix of essays + memorabilia, but here the focus is on gig posters. While ATV focuses more on the UK scene, FU+P is about American concerts, clubs, bands. Some bands that were bands for about two concerts in total but people still remember them fondly.
   This one also goes deeper than cut-out’s and xerox’d images.

Until another Friday soon,
Gergo