Monthly Features #1: September 2009 - Hollis Frampton, Ephemera Assemblyman and Yayoi Kusama

If you check the bottom panel of my blog, you'll notice three sections called "Monthly artist", "Monthly website" and "Monthly quote". These came up almost randomly while I was re-designing By Chance Upon Waking. I was trying to build up a more permissive approach that would allow me to include more features than a usual music blog. The new template I chose had these three boxes at the bottom, so I thought that actually making use of them would be stimulating, one way or another. Layout-wise, this is probably the only new feature that I've managed to include but, since the posts try to cover everything else, I think it's reasonable. I've implemented this feature over here at Redundancy is Redundant, too.

Obviously, as each month passes by, previous monthly features would get lost, unless I post them here for future reference. So that's why you get this post plus the following two. The current features will still be up for a few more days, since I only started the blog towards the middle of the month, by the way.

Monthly artist: Hollis Frampton - experimental filmmaker. Official fansite (who made this? It's strikingly similar to the equivalent Peter Greenaway website).

Monthly website: Ephemera Assemblyman - a collection of everything. Already talked about this.

Monthly quote: Yayoi Kusama - famous visual artist.

"One day I was looking at the red flower patterns of the tablecloth on a table, and when I looked up I saw the same pattern covering the ceiling, the windows and the walls, and finally all over the room, my body and the universe. I felt as if I had begun to self-obliterate, to revolve in the infinity of endless time and the absoluteness of space, and be reduced to nothingness. As I realized it was actually happening and not just in my imagination, I was frightened. I knew I had to run away lest I should be deprived of my life by the spell of the red flowers. I ran desperately up the stairs. The steps below me began to fall apart and I fell down the stairs straining my ankle."