Tag Archives: Malcolm McLaren

it doesn’t matter anymore: the empire trudges on

Nothing was quite the same after the same after the peace treaty of Vereeniging in 1902. The British won the war, of course, but the protracted guerrilla campaign, the sordid anti-climax of it all, the thousands of death on both … Continue reading

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taking a trip with granny

by Art Chantry: back in 1966-67, just as the whole “swinging london” scene that peaked with the carnaby sleek mod/fashion scene, the whole thing began to shift. in amercia, teenage pop fashion had started to go psychedelic very quickly. you … Continue reading

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swindles of all sizes

Art Chantry: i really hate high-end expensive ‘hipster lifestyle’ magazines. i avoid them like the plague. i know, i know – it’s the ‘cutting edge’ in graphic design, blah blah blah. but, they always seem so shallow and plastic and … Continue reading

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ana-ana-anarchy

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood,N.J.) Sid Vicious (1957-1979)! French release 12″ single (originally released in a plain, black sleeve). This is a French-manufactured/U.K.released 12″ EP version of the band’s debut single, “Anarchy in the U.K.,” produced … Continue reading

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just a little dance band

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) early and very very nasty.just a little dance band out to destroy the world. and yet people compare them to the monkees and think the clash were THE political punk band. LOL

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building a new world: immediate sensation

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): andrew loog oldham is the virtual inventor of “the crazy dangerous rock band manager”. this is the guy who “discovered” the rolling stones and created their bad boy image for them. granted, the lads in … Continue reading

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anti graphics: the cult of un-think

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) in 1977, when i clipped this ad (35 long years ago), you have to remember what the pop world was actually like. ‘star wars’ and ‘saturday night fever’ were still brand new movies playing … Continue reading

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post punk: beware of the big label

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) …but the new british term of post punk seems to be emerging not as the huge enveloping overview or what happened, but instead as a very very tiny little shattered piece of that mirror. it’s not … Continue reading

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detournement part 2: cash from chaos

From the French situationists such as Guy Debord and the May 1968 revolution in Paris it was one three chord riff to the punk rock era…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Malcolm Mclaren was a hustler. Despite all his pretensions, he was … Continue reading

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detournement part 1: chaos of the “situation”

A beginning of a three part series on as aspect of design history that’s completely ignored.It was the beginning of the end as we know it… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): part 1: Detournement (the beginning of the end) The French practice … Continue reading

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