“Homage to Paul Renner by Acne Jeans”
Paul Renner designed Futura, considered by Stanley Kubrick (amongst others) to be the perfect typeface.
Nice article about Kubrick on Futura here. (via Experimental Jetset)
Acqua
Booze Stencil
Al Momento
Wing Flaps 2
More here.
Tom Waits For No Man
Tom Waits quoted in The Word magazine.
“Some songs,” he has learned, “don’t want to be recorded.” Fortunately, he says, other songs come easy, like “digging potatoes out of the ground”. Others are sticky and weird, like “gum found under an old table”.
Clumsy and uncooperative songs may only be useful “to cut up as bait and use ’em to catch other songs”. Of course, the best songs of all are those that enter you “like dreams taken through a straw”. In those moments, all you can be, Waits says, is grateful.
From an original article by Elizabeth Gilbert in American GQ.
The whole GQ interview is here – I’m not linking to the GQ site because it’s shit, and apparently in german.
Pristine Merc
Esselunga
Still a sucker for a bit of badly printed logo on cardboard.
Exiles in Nellcôte
Walking down to investigate the beach at Villefranche-sur-Mer, we came across the entrance to Villa Nellcôte [Map], once the headquarters of the local Gestapo, and in the summer of 1971, where the Rolling Stones recorded ‘Exile on Main Street‘.
I remembered reading about it, and seeing some photos of the house in ‘Spanish Tony’ Sanchez’s ‘Up and Down with The Rolling Stones‘, but we couldn’t see much beyond the main gates.
Dominique Tarle took some amazing photos there when he was allowed full access to the house that summer, published in a limited edition book ‘Exile’ – you can see quite a few of them here, and there’s a nice feature KEITH RICHARDS & GRAM PARSONS 1971 | SUMMER IN EXILE @ VILLA NELLCOTE, over on the ever excellent The Selvedge Yard.
Pumpkin Scum
Don’t know what this is…
but I want one
Deer Sticker
