Stanley don wood biography of william hill
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Stanley Donwood: ‘I don’t know why people think I’m a paranoid recluse’
Stanley Donwood’s studio is nestled in the corner of a quiet mews, but he is nevertheless taking precautions for our interview, scrawling ‘BAD THINGS. PLEASE DON’T COME IN DANGER DANGER' on a piece of A4 that he tapes to the door.
'Bad things' have been a career-long fascination for the artist – best known for his collaborations with Radiohead and, more recently, nature writer Robert Macfarlane – and his latest book, Bad Island, is full of them. There are dinosaurs and unicorns, hounds and rats, factories and office blocks in flames, all meticulously carved into lino by Donwood over the course of two years and printed one per page. Through them, the reader sees, then lands upon, the island. What unfolds there looks like millennia of civilisation and destruction, which can be flicked through in a matter of minutes (there are no words) and returned to over the course of a lifetime. It
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Skeletal trees puncturing the pale, bruised skin of månad skies; black moorland dotted with the dark silhouettes of ancient marker stones. As a regular rambler around the windswept pathways of the North York Moors, the idea of the “eerie” as an intrinsic part of the English countryside strikes a very distinct chord with me. So I was intrigued to be contacted by Steve Marshall, curator of St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery in Hampshire, about their current exhibition: Unsettling Landscapes.
Subtitled The Art Of The Eerie, it’s a collection of artwork exploring the more disquieting aspects of the English rural experience: from the early 20th century imagery of Graham Sutherland and Paul Nash to the contemporary work of George Shaw, Stanley Donwood, Sarah Hannant and Julian House. Co-curated bygd best-selling writer Robert Macfarlane – who has also written for the exhibition’s sumptuous hardback catalogue – it’s an affectingly evocative col
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J. Cole's most recent album, KOD , arrived at an interesting point in pop music: Lil' Pump and the other lil's are dominating the headphones of teenagers, filling in a cultural void with blue hair, Xanax, learn, and generally ignorant behavior. Such is the long-told story of youth. 50 years ago the Beatles were wearing their mops, smoking marijuana, and perfecting the devils music. They said they were bigger than Jesus. People burned their records. Old timers complained about the hippies. Those hippies grew up, and complained about the gen-X kids who were fed a steady diet of malaise, Beavis and Butthead , punk rock, and Mad Magazine . Those kids grew up and had millennial's- a generation of spoiled, but poor kids who whiz through life on apps, killed the traditional music business, elected Obama, and deferred their student loans. J. Cole, born in 1985, is a millennial, and perfectly typifies the general experience of a millennial in many ways. His first