Pop Stars

Fashion designer Douglas Millings took his inspiration from Pierre Cardin when he designed the Beatles' suits in the early-1960.

Below is Rolling Stones co-founder and multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones in a suit manufactured by Hugo Boss.

Team Logos

Much has been made of the National Football League's Washington Redskins and their nickname. The Wikipedia entry -- "Washington Redskins name controversy" -- is huge.

When the National Hockey League's Winnipeg Jets moved to Phonenix, Arizona, in 1996, ownership came up with a new nickname and a new uniform -- what is known as the "kachina uniform," after the Hopi spirit. When asked about the kachina logo, its designer Greg Fischer said:

"As we were moving into this the league gave their opinion on the colour palette they thought might work for a new NHL team and they were adamant about the logo. There were so many angry animals coming on board at that time and they were like 'do not do an angry animal logo because we'll never says yes.'"

However, when the team moved from multicultural Phoenix to honky Glendale in 2003, they changed the logo to a teeth-bearing ("angry"?) animal, and reduced the uniform's colour palette to "Bright Maroon," "Deep Wine," "Sedona Gold," and "Sand."

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A Wink Is As Good As a Nod

Elizabeth Zvonar's collages often bring to mind the work of John Stezaker.

Art, Prosody and the Lash

Eight seconds of (and from) Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson's Bottles Under the Influence (2012) installation at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta.

An installation image of Tiziana La Melia's The Eyelash and the Monochrome (Spread 4) (2014), part of her recent Mercer Union exhibition The Eyelash and the Monochrome. (The eyelash motif is by Sylvain Sailly.)

From another work in the exhibition, a text excerpt by La Melia: "The blank in the blink that is a source of inspiration./ Was the blink a wink? Think of the room as a mattress./ Not unlike a whisker, it vibrates, an eccentric state of mind, removes plaque."

Rosie Prata wrote a thoughtful review of La Melia's exhibition for Canadian Art. You can read it here.

A small room inside a bay window. A single bed, a table and chair, and a sink. I could manage something larger, with more conveniences, but I could never match the view.

Last week I started Renata Adler's Speedboat (1976), a book I found on Pulp Fiction's "Staff Picks" shelf and discovered in its episodic fiction not a speedboat but a slow moving raft.

Beside the first paragraph I wrote "Tamara Henderson!" Then an arrow pointing here: "That was a dream, of course, but many of the most important things, I find, are the ones learned in your sleep."

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