This is a newsletter about art, mostly. There are three pictures or so, then two new songs and one old song. You subscribed to it, but it’s been a while since it went out. Anyway, here’s some nice things that I found on the internet and would like to share, including an octopus and a sweet potato.
Vintage advertising blog Vintascope has been sharing some really cool fruit and vegetable ads lately. Here are some more: Triton, Fantasia, Full. Great colors!
This image is from a roll of long-expired Fujicolor film shot in Allegheny, PA in 2021 by Baltimore photographer Patrick Joust. (Buy prints.) I like how the nearby buildings and their local lights are crowned by that bright downtown strip over the next ridge, and what that geography implies about this little neighborhood and its graveyard.
The Public Domain Review, a tremendously fun and important artistic publication, has a feature about these allegedly educational maps from 1887.
New music: Protection From Evil by Ibibio Sound Machine. (Bandcamp or Spotify or YouTube). British-Nigerian band; genre: Afro-Electro. This one’s a slow burn, almost three minutes to the absolutely bangin’ chorus and breakdown. Fans of indie pop band Architecture in Helsinki should also make sure to check out another single from this album, “All That You Want”. (That’s a YouTube link.)
New music: One Man Down by Madison Cunningham and Remi Wolf. (Spotify or YouTube). This is a bouncy little pop rock song with fun production and an irresistible hook that comes in at 1:05. Y’all remember Remi Wolf from last time.
Old music: Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand by Primitive Radio Gods (1996) (Bandcamp or Spotify or YouTube). A classic, so I hear, but it was new to me when Today In Tabs, one of my keep-up-with-the-internet newsletters, shared it back in November.
-Thomas