hockney was the greatest teacher we had for seeing deeper and translating the visual world into marks on a surface. and he was so fucking cool about it, at every age. rip to a god.
At the beginning of Tony! Toni! Toné! and DJ Quik’s “Let’s Get Down” DJ Quik says:
‘You didn’t think we could flip it on ya ass huh…something for the dance floor’
And then they interpolated the prechorus from Nirvana’s “Smell’s Like Teen Spirit” on the hook and made it a bop.
Marjan Satrapi wrote the story of our generation. A memoir and a history of Iran’s turbulent 20th-century politics, one comic strip frame at a time.
https://t.co/ovHqJXL10y
One of the two known videos of Jimi Hendrix playing acoustic (1967) - allegedly, the video was made after a photoshoot where the photographer brought him a special 12-string guitar, strung upside down to adapt to Jimi's left-handed playing.