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“My plan is never to get a job and carry on making music till I drop dead and maybe make some films if I can bother and…have a laugh. I don’t plan ahead. That’s boring.”

Many thanks to Plunderphucked for the transcription, and to my brother Paul for scanning my mag, cheers! By Ken Micallef photography by Cori

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Björk for Raygun Magazine (1995) Photography: Dave Stewart

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MAGAZINE DESIGN AND PAGE LAYOUT

Raygun Magazine

Raygun was an American alternative rock and roll magazine that ran from 1992 to 2000.

Raygun is a distinct mainstream pioneer of grunge aesthetics in graphic design, using handwritten typography, messy paint splatters and chaotic type, it used typography as an artistic tool to sell you the feeling of whichever musical act they were covering.

I am very fond of Raygun’s visual language as I believe it makes it seem more down to earth, unlike other sleek and clean music magazines, Raygun seems handmade, sharing similar design traits to fanzines of the same period such as handwritten type, collaging type and photos and artifacting on photos due to xerox printers. This makes it appear as though the designers and journalists behind Raygun were in the music fan scene themselves and thus would appear more relatable to the reading audience.

Within my own work’s I like to work traditionally due to the small imperfections and indentations (Such as sketchy lines, paint brush marks, smudges, etc) and I always appreciate when works emphasise and appreciate these touches.

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Amy Winehouse rackin’ up the pool table, 2007

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Avoid contact with all people in whom there is no possible resonance with what touches you most deeply and toward whom you have obligations of “kindness,” of politeness. Since these obligations engage me strongly as soon as I find myself in the presence of such people and engage me through an ill-fated habit of patience and good-will, which in fact becomes will for humiliation (sometimes abject). Imagine a musician in an orchestra playing off-key because his neighbor is doing so, to be nice.

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Keep silent as before. It’s better.

–Colette “Laure” Peignot, Fragments of a Notebook, 1937

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“Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.”

— Simone Weil (via bakaity-poetry)

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. I don't know what's going on anymore.

Girlfriends, Claudia Weill (1978)

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Goddamn this looks so hawt 💋 Oh, to be in pam's shoes

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My memory from my childhood’s time◼️

Before the Internet Era in 🇵🇱

The Rollin Stones are as same as wine 🔴

The Title of Song - Anybody seen my baby @ the Rollin Stones from the United Kingdom ◼️

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cillian murphy in 28 days later (2002) dir. danny boyle

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“To know the night is a lot like knowing poetry, and knowing poetry requires what Keats called “negative capability,” the capacity for “being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” To know the night means having the clarity that some things are and should be and always will be hidden, for the night has been, or is, or should always be, the time of lovers, revolutionaries, and other conspirators. The night world is that which should be, or once always was, veiled.”

— Anne Boyer, from her essay “The Fall of Night”, Lapham’s Quarterly, Volume XII, Number 1 | Winter 2019 (via kitchen-light)