Dawn is settling in as I prepare to leave town in a few hours for Eugene Oregon. Special thanks to the kind folks at Sherwood for letting me stay for a bit–it's been a great place to work and meet inspiring folks who are keeping the co-operative dream alive! I still have a shower to take for those sorry people sitting next to me on the train, a pack to load, a blog to finish, a bike to return, and a bus to catch in the next 3 hours. Only in such a grand city as Seattle can such miracles take place.
I've uploaded more Picasa albums: Bop Street, Jon's collection (more on him later), and highlights from my research last fall that are definitely worth a minute to check out, as the album's content is a distillation of hundreds of record covers. Yesterday I found the BADDEST record cover, but first I have to finish my "Record of the Day" trilogy of a specific type: The painted-and-then-cut-up-poster-board-with-the-textual-information-on-a-sticker-affixed-to-
the-plastic-sleeve album cover. Naturally, such a specific type deserves special attention. Also, the first few envelopes for the Homemade Album Art Historical Preservation Society have been given out. I'm so excited for what may come of it!
Lately we've been discussing the lore part of folklore…Sean and others bring some thought-provoking and blog-worthy questions to the table in regards to what kind of people are involved in the creation, production, distribution, trading, selling, buying and collecting of homemade record covers. In other words, who comes in contact with these items, how do they come in contact with them and and why? This seems like a good topic to cover, as I've spoken with enough people at this point that some sort of picture is beginning to develop as to what comprises the folk part. I've been doing some brainstorming, but the written outcome will have to wait until I stop being smelly and cross the state line.
Peaces,
james
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Hey, mister James --
Here are a few more good books to help you get more perspective on folklore:
Barre Toelken - The Dynamics of Folklore (the newer, paperback edition is best)
Robert Georges and Michael Owen Jones - Folkloristics
Martha Sims and Martine Stephens - Living Folklore
Henry Glassie - The Spirit of Folk Art
so im printing the lucy covers, its killing me trying to get it right.
so the question is:
why do YOU print covers?
tzvi
this project is astounding
and monumental
really you should have this in some hip magazine like rolling stone
the time may come i'm sure
i just remember looking through some old timers collections with some serious original stuff and just saying...wow.
aron turned me on to this, and although i am abroad, i wont be able to help much, but i must say
enjoy eugene and the couple random little spots it has.
try to hit up oregon country fair for some contacts and explore the eugene record stores afterwards as im afraid alot of people wont be in town that you will want to speak with.
from my own experience anyway
badass project bro
bookmarked.
hey james! it's ele from sherwood. we figured you needed an update on your blueberry pie - i'm not sure if this is the correct venue, but i don't thinnk i have your email handy, so here goes:
so, remember that blueberry pie you left in the freezer? maggie woke up early the morning you left, saw your note "pie in freezer" and helped herself to a healthy portion. later in the day, someone mentioned to maggie that the pie in fact had not yet been baked, and she'd eaten raw pie for breakfast. maggie was embarassed.
but! we needed that pie for the pie bake-off, so we put some apples in the gaping hole in the pie, baked it, and entered it into the "mixed fruit" competition.
and wouldn't you know, the "blueberry-apple" pie won!
hope your trip is going well!
Got to thinking about the idea "provide the visual complement to the sonic piece and that it's a way to make one's work more conceptually holistic" and recalled that Dylan made some paintings that were used on "Music from Big Pink" and "Planet Waves"-same deal, tho commercially printed. Of course, Garcia could have done much the same thing, had he not been so focused on the music (among other things). But how could the Dead not be represented by the Kelley/Mouse artwork? Incomprehensible in retrospect.
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