Faig Ahmed is an Azerbaijani contemporary visual artist who is best known for his surrealist weavings which integrate visual distortions into traditional oriental rugs. Ahmed graduated from the sculpture program at the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts in Baku in 2004.
From Paul McCartney's Lyrics book an image he doodled in his notebook after the words for one of the last songs the Beatles recorded.
Four hearts linked by the same arrow.
People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the fucking thing. It's all fucking crap. We're all human beings, we're all mammals, we're all rocks, plants, rivers. Fucking borders are just such a pain in the fucking arse.
Shane MacGowan.
From Paul McCartney's Lyrics book an image he doodled in his notebook after the words for one of the last songs the Beatles recorded.
Four hearts linked by the same arrow.
Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have. All of it has an effect.
Twelve years gone 🖤
In 1974, Daniel Sorine came across two mimes in Central Park and took a few photographs as they performed.
Almost 35 years later, the New York-based photographer came across the negatives and realised that one of talented duo was a young Robin Williams.
#DavidBowie
I’ve posted this before but I think it’s one of the best anecdotes about him, wit humour and humility. If ever there was a time we needed him ...
This is so cool - Elvis Costello got banned from SNL for playing “Radio, Radio” on air when it came out - so decades later the Beastie Boys faked everyone out by playing the opening of “Sabotage” then Costello stormed the stage and they broke out into “Radio, Radio”
On the anniversary of John Peel’s death here’s a link for Dave Strickson’s archive with over a thousand Peel Sessions each with accompanying YouTube clips
Happy birthday today to John Cooper Clarke.
“As they used to say on Stingray: 'Anything can happen in the next half-hour'. I've always tried to live with that thought in mind.”
Photograph by Tom Sheehan 1977.
In 1974, Daniel Sorine came across two mimes in Central Park and took a few photographs as they performed.
Almost 35 years later, the New York-based photographer came across the negatives and realised that one of talented duo was a young Robin Williams.
We walked into the Wigan Casino and this girl is so of the night and time. Look at the eyes… yes that’s amphetamine, orange in a coke bottle. And look at the clothes, her hair, the school chair, the tacky flock wallpaper. Just great. Photographer Red Saunders 1976.
Hand sanitiser is selling out everywhere. So we have started using our distillery to make Punk Sanitiser. We want to do all we can to help everyone get through this difficult time.
That’s me in the picture: Glenn Murtha, 17, leaping out of a window in Newcastle, 1979
‘We’d jump from the second-floor on to a pile of mattresses. Sometimes we’d get hurt, but we didn’t have any fear’
#TishMurtha
#photograghy