Category Archives: Feature Article

poof and gone

by Art Chantry: this is a random selection (grabbed off the top of a pile of hundreds) of estrus records 45 covers i did for dave crider at estrus records. right now dave is reissuing some of his catalog through … Continue reading

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thebaid

Monasticism at its most simple and essential level. At the time of the Thebaid, the Levant was sprinkled generously with ascetic extremists, the types who immured themselves in caves, those that wore theit time away in prayer and meditation and … Continue reading

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peeping thomas and the organ grinding sultan

The comings and goings in the Grand Seraglio would make a Dostoevsky novel look like a child’s short story. No, call this Persian Goth mixed with a surreal world that was so over the top so as to seem like … Continue reading

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a motionless world of time between

Jean Jacques Rousseau and his Noble Savage. The supposed “enlightened” thinking, of liberal democratic godfathers like David Hume and Immanuel Kant filled with racist delusions. At the opposing spectrum is a Martin Heidegger and the counter-enlightenment which was basically philosophic … Continue reading

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everything must go

That entire cultures could be formed on the basis of hated, or villainization seems almost too absurd to be possible. As the Arab Spring revealed, the whole phony nature of restricting civil rights, outright repression was based on the phony … Continue reading

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plastic pre-Ono Spaniard

by Art Chantry: if we know the name ‘robert freeman’ it’s because of his photos he took of the beatles from the years 1963-66, when he was essentially their house photographer. his images of the early “fab four” are the … Continue reading

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royal etiquette: eye of the Sultan

His Majesty’s seamy service.Throne Room Without and Within. Modern Turkish history contains much to be proud of, but it was preceded by a long and unbroken seamy past of plots hatched and destinies decided within the walls of the Grand … Continue reading

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rocks of ages and sages

The rock monasteries of Cappadocia. In the days of Byzantium, monks turned weird rock cones into a city of cells and churches. It was part of central Turkey and a volcano buried the country-side for forty square miles in a … Continue reading

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seraglio hide and seek

Don’t look back, it might be catching up to you. Being a Sultan was not an occupation, some call it a calling, others a divine right of kings. In any event, it was not for the faint of heart. Lots … Continue reading

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wild and wooly: oh effendi!

the Turks. The young turks,the old turks, they were all wild; from the quiet tranquility of the garden to the live action slicing and dicing of the human body, there was rarely a dull moment in the Ottoman Turkish empire. … Continue reading

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