Actor Conrad Veidt, who played Gwynplaine in the 1928 filmThe Laughing Man, inspired the definitive drawing of the Joker. This villain is the cause of many of the misfortunes that follow Batman, such as the paralysis of Barbara Gordon, Batgirl, the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin, ...
Their academic background meant that Almond and Ball had innovative ideas and ways to add to the music they were making and they also emerged just as video was becoming an integral part of the make-up of pop singers and bands; in some ways, they were in the right place at exactly the ...
I’m not an artist. I don’t know how they take what is in their heads and send that impulse down their arm, through the wrist and hand, and let three little fingers do some walking and make the imagery that happens. I don’t full understand the ideas of balance and composition and...
It was one of the regular updates from the Monorail store here in Glasgow that alerted me, some seven years after I should have known about such things, to the very existence ofThe Catenary Wires, drawing attention to a new album of theirs calledBirling Gap. For those of you who are pe...