then and now: separating the art from the artist

Lieu­tenant Colonel Vin­d­man is a no­ble man and a brave Sol­dier. Vin­dic­tive, dis­hon­or­able and im­peached, @realDonaldTrump fires the only hon­or­able per­son in the White House. And in a move rem­i­nis­cent of Stalin’s purges be­fore WWII, fires Vindman’s broth­er. Vote Democratic!

— Ma­jor Gen­er­al (ret) Paul Eaton (@PaulDEaton52) Feb­ru­ary 7, 2020

Sen. Graham’s gaslight­ing & fab­ri­cat­ed smears against the FBI, CIA, & oth­er U.S. na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cials is part of the on­go­ing coverup to pro­tect Putin & the Russ­ian mafia.

What they did to Gra­ham to make him bat for America’s en­e­my, is an is­sue that needs to be ad­dressed. https://t.co/KWtK11vzZS

— Alexan­dra Chalu­pa (@AlexandraChalup) Feb­ru­ary 9, 2020

Re­pub­li­can abuse of pow­er and cor­rup­tion con­tin­ues as Trea­sury hands Biden records over to GOP af­ter re­fus­ing to re­lease Trump tax returns.

More dis­trac­tions while GOP open­ly dis­man­tles a cen­tu­ry of progress. Their fear of @JoeBiden is pal­pa­ble:https://t.co/ji6slUsqxy

— Bryan Daw­son (@BryanDawsonUSA) Feb­ru­ary 9, 2020

Or­ange you glad this pho­to ex­ists?#or­ange­face #Bai­tA­Troll pic.twitter.com/IKZF6P2QUT

— gig­glechick (@gigglechick) Feb­ru­ary 8, 2020

 

As hu­mans,
we have dif­fi­cul­ty rec­on­cil­ing the fact that some­one whose life work is so syn­ony­mous with one thing could lead a trou­bled life that seems so op­po­site in phi­los­o­phy to so much of their life’s best work.

Learn­ing that John Lennon, famed an­ti­war ad­vo­cate and Aquar­i­an trou­ba­dour of the peace and love era, used to mur­der home­less peo­ple, dis­em­bow­el­ing them, and us­ing their skin as a kind of full-body dis­guise to be able to go out into the world and get his rac­ing forms

… well …

Ghast­ly to be sure, yes. Ghoul­ish indeed.

But it should do noth­ing to di­min­ish the sub­tle beau­ty of Straw­ber­ry Fields For­ev­er, or the hushed grandeur of Hap­pi­ness is a Warm Gun.

 

“Pills, po­lice And end­less war: 20 years ago, Pri­mal Scream saw our future”
—Matthew Per­pet­ua, NPR

20 years ago, Pri­mal Scream’s XTRM­N­TR came out and its en­tire aes­thet­ic was like quench­ing rain on parched land.

At the mil­len­ni­um shift the cul­ture was in a shit­ty place. XTRM­N­TR was a shock to the sys­tem in both sound and visuals.

It’s hard to over­state the in­flu­ence this had on me as a de­sign­er at the time.

Bright gra­di­ents are every­where now but at the time they were a bold, brave de­sign choice.

The new mil­len­ni­um be­gan with this record.

 

Now play­ing!

Re­mem­bered this one in the wake of Knives Out (2019):

 

And this
was my jam this weekend:

 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2020 Ja­son Malmberg.

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