June 14th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Time lapse is great! Take a look at the Fool coming to life on a ceramic plate.
Howard Dale made this ten minute video of the five hour process of drawing, colouring and glazing his Fool.
It turned out gorgeous, and makes me want to start drawing on ceramics myself.
You can check out more of Dale’s work at his Etsy shop.
And I can’t help but notice that in the same week I’ve had a story about both a Howard Dale and a Dale Howard. It’s kind of fun.
December 1st, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins loves the Tarot. And of all the cards, the Fool speaks to him the loudest. While talking about his newest release, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Corgan told Albequrque’s Local IQ,
“We are all, in essence, on the fool’s journey. So the inspiration for the [new] album is the story of the fool, which is the story of life as we all struggle towards transcendence.”
Corgan is releasing Teargarden like a Tarot reading, dealing out one card/song at a time. By the time he’s done, the entire work will have 44 songs. The 22 majors and each of their shadows?
The first six songs are available for free download on the band’s website. Corgan plans to release all of them like this, getting constant feedback as he records the rest of the album.
Listen here to the songs available so far. Or download them if you like. He wants you to.
November 6th, 2010 § 1 comment § permalink
In notes from the Fool ….
Some pranksters in the UK thought they were pretty funny this week when they added a note to a sign outside a Psychic Fair.
The official sign said ‘Psychic Fayre Here’. The jokesters added, “Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been postponed”. Ha ha.
Apparently the organizers of the event were unaware of the addition to their sign and couldn’t figure out why people kept asking them if the fair was cancelled.