Early Japanese Animations: The Origins of Anime (1917 to 1931)
https://www.openculture.com/2018/10/early-japanese-animations-origins-anime-1917-1931.html
Japanese animation, AKA anime, might be filled with large-eyed maidens, way cool robots, and large-eyed, way cool maiden/robot hybrids, but it often shows a level of daring, complexity and creativity not typically found in American mainstream animation.
Discovering Bat Trang Pottery Village
As promised!
https://www.debborahdonnelly.ca/blog/bat-trang-pottery-museum
In premodern Burma, lay people commissioned lavishly ornamented manuscripts for ceremonial occasions, when officiants would read aloud from the text. Written in black lacquer, the text is in the language of Pali written in a Burmese script. It contains ordination rites and procedures for monastic ceremonies.<br> <br>The second to last page is covered with intricately drawn, winged celestial beings (<em>nats</em>) in gestures of praise. They fly amid intertwining vegetation—denoting bounty—that grows from serpentine forms that refer to rain clouds. Lionlike forms inhabit the space with them. The top and bottom covers are equally ornamented with jeweled floral patterning.
42 years ago
"Nazi Punks Fuck Off" is the fifth and (for me) most important single by the Dead Kennedys, released in late October/early November 1981 on Alternative Tentacles. The single included a free armband with a crossed-out swastika on it.
#punk #punks #punkrock #deadkennedys #nazipunksfuckoff #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Open Culture (Official)
Debborah Donnelly
Hidden Gems
Viss
Brian Bilston
Punkrock History
Bethany Black
Radical Graffiti