John William Coltrane
23 September 1926 – 17 July 1967
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Greece’s First Constitution
Posted in Greece, Poster with tags Athens, Syntagma Square on September 13, 2015 by Dylan Thomas Hayden
A contemporary lithograph shows the rebellion outside the Royal Palace
On this day in 1843 (3 September Old Style) members of the army garrison and citizenry of Athens staged a bloodless coup forcing King Otto of Greece to accept the nation’s first constitution which was adopted the following year. The open space in front of the Royal Palace was given the name it bears to this day, Syntagma (Constitution) Square. This great public space has been the scene of momentous celebrations and struggles ever since.
Proclamation of the Constitution
Read more about the history and development of modern Athens here.
Salome Cigarette Poster, 1914
Posted in Poster, Smoke with tags Emil Cardinaux on December 23, 2014 by Dylan Thomas Hayden
Five Posters for Salome, 1953
Posted in Cinema, Poster with tags Rita Hayworth, Salome on November 29, 2014 by Dylan Thomas Hayden
Six Posters for Salome, 1923
Posted in Cinema, Poster with tags Alla Nazimova, Oscar Wilde, Salome on November 29, 2014 by Dylan Thomas Hayden
Two Posters for Salomé, 1918
Posted in Cinema, Poster with tags Salome, Theda Bara on November 29, 2014 by Dylan Thomas Hayden
Four Posters by Magritte
Posted in Poster, Surrealism with tags René Magritte on November 21, 2014 by Dylan Thomas Hayden
In lean times Magritte supported himself with various forms of commercial art, as well as counterfeit banknotes and forgeries of paintings by Picasso, Braque and de Chirico
Singing As He Did For The QUEEN
Posted in Blues, Poster with tags John Lee Hooker on November 8, 2014 by Dylan Thomas Hayden
The Popular Race Record
Posted in Blues, Music, Poster with tags Paramount Records on November 6, 2014 by Dylan Thomas Hayden
The legendary Paramount Records (no relation to the famous film studio) began business as an offshoot of, of all things, a chair manufacturer. The label operated at a loss until it began to tap into the burgeoning African-American market for popular music, launching its series of “race” records in the early 1920’s with recordings of some of the biggest black stars of the era including Ma Rainey and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Though the sound quality of these cheaply produced records is notoriously poor the Paramount catalogue forms an indispensable archive of early blues and jazz and is currently the subject of a comprehensive re-release project by the late John Fahey’s Revenant Records. Dangerous Minds has the story.
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