Bookbinding Practice
: “As the pace has started to pick up on the Book of the Erinyes project I decided it was time to get some much-needed bookbinding practice. I’d sewn together a collection of blank signatures a week-or-so…”
The Artist’s Notebook - page 15
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- Flamed Fury - fLaMEd
- Bix Dot Blog - Bix Frankonis
- The Homebound Symphony - Dr Alan Jacobs
- Cold Albion - VI
- { feuilleton } - John Coulthart
- blissblog - Simon Reynolds
- Retromania - Simon Reynolds
- Criticismism II - Mark Sheerin
- De-Scribed - Scribe
- Enfolding.org - Phil Hine
- Escaping Flatland - Henrik Karlsson
- Going Medieval - Dr Eleanor Janega
- Orbific - James Burt
- Pluralistic - Cory Doctorow
- Room 207 Press - Howard David Ingram
- step one of a plan - Miranda Reinert
- Strange Flowers - James J. Conway
- The Daily Grail - The Daily Grail
- The M John Harrison blog - M. John Harrison
- The Old Weird Albion - Justin Hopper
- Velcro City Tourist Board - Paul Graham Raven
- visual/method/culture - Prof. Gillian Rose
- Gnosis Blog - Ellen Jane Rogers
- Recently - Kening Zhu
- Studio Diary - Dr Isabella Streffen
- Folk Horror Revival & Urban Wyrd Project - Folk Horror Revival
- Gothic Nature Journal - Gothic Nature Journal
- Open Graves, Open Minds - Dr Sam George
- Romancing the Gothic - Dr Sam Hirst
- The Wasted World - Dr Gregory Marks
- The Haunted Generation - Bob Fischer
- Modern Mythology - J. Curcio
- The Urban Prehistorian - Dr Kenny Brophy
- … an uncertain surface … - Stuart Mugridge
- A Year In The Country - Stephen Prince
- Sylvia Warren Writes - Sylvia Warren
- The Hours God Sends - Natasha Kindred
- Ailish Sinclair - Ailish Sinclair
- Blackthorn & Stone - Romany Reagan
- Celluloid Wicker Man - Dr Adam Scovell
- ForestPunk - J. Simpson
- Revenant Journal - Revenant Journal
- Liminal Worlds - Rebecca Lambert
- Nearly Knowledgeable - Amy
- Psychogeographic Review - Bobby Seal
- Unofficial Britain - Gareth E. Rees
- Unquiet Things - S. Elizabeth
- Wyrd Britain ( Holloway) - Ian Holloway
- Richly Evocative - Matt Gilbert
- Wyrd Daze - Leigh Wright
- Xenogothic - Matt Colquhoun
- Tracy Durnell - Tracy Durnell
- Strange Attractor - Strange Attractor Press
- Temporal Boundary Press - Temporal Boundary Press
- Uneasy Writer - Andrea Harris
- Pays Fantôme - Pays Fantôme
- Roy Tang - Roy Tang
- An und für sich - Adam Kotsko
- Anarchist Writers - Anarchist Writers
- Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff (podcast) - Margaret
- Rowan Tree Editing blog - Rowan Fortune
- catvincent.com returns - Cat Vincent
- Joan Westenberg - Joan Westenberg
- LUCID FRENZY JUNIOR - Gavin Burrows
- disassociated - John Lampard
- myelectriceye - Philip A. Suggars
Letterpress Printing
: “Last year I did an evening course in Letterpress Printing at the Brighton Independent Printmaking centre. Last week Les Ellis, the course tutor, invited me back for a 4-evening follow-on course where I…”
Romilly Saumarez Smith
: “Just got back from seeing Romilly Saumarez Smith: Bookbindings for Eileen Hogan at the V&A. It’s a small exhibition, just outside the National Art Library, but it’s definitely worth a visit. Obviously…”
Research in New York
: “I’m lucky to be on a work trip to New York at the moment, and this morning—my bodyclock still working on UK time, and the rain pouring down—I managed to grab some time to visit the Morgan Library…”
New Erinyes photographs
: “A couple of weeks ago I did the first set of “official” photographs with Dawn (who is modelling in the role of Tisiphone). Despite some problems with my camera (serves me right for being lazy and…”
Inspiration for Books As Art Objects
: “Inspiration #1: The following passage from a wonderful book by Gene Wolfe called The Shadow of the Torturer where the protagonist Severian is listening to the reminiscences of the old blind Librarian,…”
The Erinyes on Twitter
: “A very quick post to say that you can follow the progress of this project (and of my other projects) by following me on Twitter. Just go to twitter.com/lazcorp and click ‘follow’.…”
Furies from the 1930s
: “My friend Michael Kemp just pointed me at an interpretation of the Furies that I hadn’t seen before — Slavko Vorkapić’s excellent montage sequence for the 1934 film Crime Without Passion (written…”
Patience and Serendipity
: “The unplanned suspension of work on the Book of the Erinyes over the past couple of months (due in no small part to moving house) has proved serendipitous — I’ve been thinking a lot about the planned…”
Furies Wanted!
: “Two of the three models I had lined up for this project have had to drop out, so if you fancy being one of the 3 Furies then let me know. The modelling will be fine art nude, but heavily shadowed and…”
Book Bindings and Vine Leaves
: “One of the things I’ve started considering is how to bind the 30 to 50 copies of the Book of the Erinyes. I decided right from the start that they’d all be individually hand-bound and I would try…”
A Preview of the Text
: “The text, so far: I — A Dedication Of Sorts I stare fixedly at this page because I know that she is standing at my shoulder, a never ending presence. I can sense her emerging from the shadows in the…”
A Movie Trailer for an Artist’s Book?
: “I have this mad idea — I want to make a movie trailer for my handmade limited edition artist’s book. I’ve been wondering how to promote the Book of the Erinyes and I realised it’s going to be…”
Putting plans together
: “I’ve just dropped a message to Nina—who did some life modelling for me a year-or-so ago—to see if she’s available to model for the third of the Furies. If so then I’ll have models for all three,…”
A Busy Few Months Ahead
: “It’s looking like an increasingly busy few months ahead! I knew this project would take some considerable time right back when I took my Letterpress printing course back in February-April. I’ve…”
Welcome to the Journal
: “The purpose of this blog is to document the progress of the Book of the Erinyes, a handbound limited edition artist’s book. Fragments of text will provide a disjointed partial narrative to the artwork…”