Music
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Rob Walker|Essays
The Music Video, Rebooted
How digital-era aesthetics are making music videos worth watching again
John Foster|Accidental Mysteries
Blues, Baptisms, and Prison Farms: The Lomax Snapshots of 1934-1950
Blues, Baptisms, and Prison Farms: The Lomax Snapshots of 1934-1950
Rob Walker|Essays
Personal Packaging
Fondly revisiting the look and feel of the mixtape.
Debbie Millman|Audio
Terry Teachout
Terry Teachout discusses the early days of blogging, the poetics of theater and what it's like to be a drama critic for The Wall Street Journal.
Rick Poynor|Essays
From the Archive: Brian Eno, Artist of Light
An early profile of ambient musician and producer Brian Eno’s parallel career as a visual artist.
Rick Poynor|Essays
Soft Machine’s Dysfunctional Mechanism
An alternative cover for the French release of The Soft Machine’s first album alludes to the history of the machine in 20th-century art.
Observed|Collections
Classic Albums Reimagined as Books
Christophe Gowans re-imagines well-known album covers as book jackets.
Observed|Events
Speculative Sound Performance
On Tuesday, November 27, at Apexart in NYC: an exercise in sonic branding.
Rob Walker|Essays
On Dapper Dan
A look at the spectacular logo-remix aesthetic of rap-culture style pioneer Dapper Dan.
Rick Poynor|Essays
True Stories: A Film about People Like Us
Ambiguous but prescient, David Byrne’s film True Stories is a classic piece of postmodern pop anthropology.
Rick Poynor|Essays
It’s Smart to Use a Crash Test Dummy
The image of the crash test dummy has traveled from the subcultural fringes to the pop culture mainstream.
Rick Poynor|Essays
Brian Eno’s “Music for Films”
On Brian Eno and a competition to design an alternative sleeve for Music for Films
