Home Made Histories: Classical Art meets Pulp Fiction
The artist Thomas Robson describes himself as a “recovering ex-broadcast television graphic designer.” He spent fourteen years, “focused on producing graphics and animations for the…
Author: Paul Gallagher Archives: 11/2016
A young Kate Bush performs in a musical fantasia from Holland, 1978
The opening music to Kate Bush’s career is in the key of C. One day, sometime in 1970, Kate’s father–a doctor by profession–showed his daughter…
Salvador Dali goes to Hell: Astounding illustrations for Dante’s ‘Inferno’
‘The Delightful Mount.’ We are in Hell. That’s how it begins. We are in Hell and have to find our way out. That’s the “tagline”…
Blood and Guts in High School: Beautiful and surreal illustrations for science text books
From what I can gather Le Livre de la Sante or The Book of Health or the Encyclopedia of Mind, Body and Health by Joseph…
‘My name is my cocaine’: That time Michael Caine had a hit with a song about an IRA informer
Apparently, the easiest way to improve your Michael Caine impersonation is to say: My name, is my cocaine. See. It works. Now, Peter Sellers used…