"The creature was a party of boys, marching..."

Good luck obtaining a copy of this new illustrated Lord of the Flies without being in the Folio Society. It's beautiful and probably well worth it. Art by Sam Weber.






To compare, Pentagram's original 1954 cover:

Approaching Order

Some chaotic images, investigating order, in no deliberate sequence:











Note: no credit is presently given to each artist, for I collected these images quite some time ago. Back homework in progress: each deserve & will have their due.

A Hitherto Untrod Rock

The future to come, from 1886, in no chronology:








Note: no credit is presently given to each artist, for I collected these images quite some time ago. Back homework in progress: each deserve & will have their due.

The Serpent

Jeremy Narby's The Cosmic Serpent is an investigation of the link between DNA and knowledge. Mysticism is central to many of his discoveries, including the recurrent image of a serpent (often an entwined twin pair, or a single serpent with two heads or tails) seen during trance-like hallucinatory visions. He compares the indigenous beliefs surrounding these serpents to the structure and nature of DNA, visualized on the book's cover:



After finishing the chapter about serpents and mythology, I began to walk home from the coffeeshop and reflected on serpent stories I heard throughout childhood. I remembered Smaug from The Hobbit, Pete's Dragon, The Reluctant Dragon, the serpent in the Garden of Eden, the classic Chinese Dragon (which bears visible resemblance to Falkor from The Neverending Story and Haku from Spirited Away), and others. On the way home, this was for sale:



Page 38 - the first I came to - depicts two dragons in flight, intertwined, forever in conflict.  Perhaps two must be in conflict to exist separately, or independently, otherwise to exist as one.

Thanks Courtney.

Music, Charted

Flightpattern from Gwen Vanhee on Vimeo.

Which is reminiscent of an animation to the Beatles 'Tomorrow Never Knows', drawn by my friend Tess, below:

Bogus

Some From The Comic Book

Excerpts from Don't Forget Where The Sun Sets, the new album - and accompanying comic book they were kind enough to commission from me - from Das Vibenbass. Listen to the music and see the art at DasVibenbass.com.