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Updates to Mews Profile on Twitter

AMOK

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Chieftan Mews recently updated his Twitter profile picture from to ClipClopClipClop.jpg to one uploaded directly from Twitter:

The image comes from one of the pages of the ‘hidden’ Kid A booklet located under the cd tray with the word AMOK written in a speech bubble above it.


(Source : Radiohead Artwork on Tumblr)

AMOK is of course the name of the upcoming Atoms for Peace album due to be released on the 25th of February 2013.

As of the 10th of February 2013 Chieftan Mew’s twitter looks like this:

Mew's Twitter Profile 10-Feb-2013

Running amok near undisclosed location – gut scratching, waiting for bodysnatchin – cos’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2UhvN0k74w …

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15 Dec. 2012

@ChieftanMews Running amok near undisclosed location – gut scratching, waiting for bodysnatchin – cos’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2UhvN0k74w …

After months of non-activity on Twitter Chieftan Mews returned for a brief tweet that was deleted within the hour but not before being retweeted by @MeToSpeak (thanks heaps!).
The Youtube link is to a video of R.E.M performing ‘It’s The End of The World As We Know It’

He also updated his Twitter cover to show a previously unpublished Stanley Donwood tree sketch

While at first glance to be just about Atoms for Peace the tweet is a satire of a recent hoax regarding Jonny Greenwood and the band heading to Brazil to await the end of the world.

On December 14th Jonny Greenwood posted the following to Dead Air Space:

In Sydney with the ACO

Just a few weeks left of the residency with the australian chamber orchestra – who are amazing. Hope the resulting music is worth all the trust they’ve put in me. Thanks, gut-scratchers….

Link.
Jonny

The link takes you to a feature by NASA titled ‘Beyond 2012: Why the World Won’t End’ which was the summery of a Google+ Hangout with NASA on the 28th of November focused on disproving 2012 doomsday predictions.

The post is a response to a story run by The Daily Mail (The Newspaper..not the song) on the 13th reporting that Radiohead’s management had been forced to deny claims that Jonny Greenwood was in Brazil to await the end of the world.

Radiohead guitarist forced to deny hiding out at Brazilian hotel ‘waiting for Mayan prediction that the world will end’

Representatives of Radiohead today denied local media reports that the band’s guitarist Jonny Greenwood is hiding out in a rural Brazilian hotel to ‘wait for the end of the world’.

The hoax originated with local São Paulo newspaper Folha who co-incidentally happened to put the story up at 12/12/2012 – 12h12 either as a joke or a publicity stunt.

Chieftan describes himself as ‘Running amok near undisclosed location’

AMOK is the title of the upcoming Atoms for Peace album to be released on the 25th of February 2013.

(Source : Dead Air Space)

The cover and videoclip for the debut single Default features the Lost Angeles artwork by Stanley Donwood.

Wiki provides the following meaning of the phrase ‘ Running Amok’

Running amok, sometimes referred to as simply amok[1] (also spelled amuk, from the Malay meaning “mad with uncontrollable rage”) is a term for a killing spree perpetrated by an individual out of rage or resentment over perceived mistreatment. The syndrome of “Amok” is found in the DSM-IV TR.[2] The phrase is often used in a less serious manner in relation to someone or something that is out of control and causing trouble (e.g., a dog tearing up the living room furniture might be said to be running amok)

Bodysnatchin is a reference to Bodysnatchers, a song from In Rainbows.

With the Radiohead tour over for the year there is hope for a Atoms for Peace and/or Ultraista tour next year.. assuming Cheiftan Mews is wrong about it being the end of the world of course!

Hypnobear

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Chieftan Mews has updated his Twitter background today from TinyFarAway.jpg to Hypnobear.jpg and his website from
http://thekingoflimbs.com
 to
http://www.radiohead.tv

The image is taken directly from from Stanley Donwood’s website and consists of the Radiohead ‘Modified Bear’ logo combined with a photo of Lost Angeles which is on exhibition as of Tomorrow (April 28th, 2012) at Subliminal Projects in L.A

Lost Angeles
Stanley Donwood
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 28th • 8PM – 10 PM

There is no future. We have evicted ourselves from our own cities, rendered our agriculture poisonous, criminalized the poor, aggrandized the rich, honored the stupid and ridiculed the intelligent…I have no solutions, no wisdom to offer…Whilst Rome burns, I take up my little chisel and I carve a panoramic apocalypse of my own…and if you want to see it, you’re more than welcome. – Stanley Donwood, 2012

SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS is pleased to announce Lost Angeles, a solo exhibition of art by British artist Stanley Donwood.

Lost Angeles will feature a new body of work where Donwood turns his poignant perception on the impact of current societal trends and behavior towards Los Angeles. His visual meditation on society envelopes viewers in a beautifully, graphic landscape of impending doom. The fluid black and white scene resonates with honesty and forewarning. True to form, Donwood once again succeeds in giving flawless design to his version of our tragically flawed future.

On display will be an 18-foot apocalyptic panorama of the City of Angels being destroyed by fire, flood and meteor storm. Originally carved into 18 separate panels of linoleum then hand burnished onto Japanese Kozo paper, the never-before-seen, limited edition print was inspired by subject matter similar to Donwood’s 2006 work titled London Views.

( Source : Subliminal Projects )


( Source: Creative Review.co.uk )

Nigel also provided a photo of the exhibition though his twitter account yesterday:

Apr 27, 2012:

@nigelgod: Exhibition of new Stanley Donwood’s work “Lost Angeles” at our friend Shepard Fairey’s gallery in echo park! Yee har!

Followed up with news that there would be a Atoms for Peace DJ Set at Transmission LA tonight as of 6-10pm. It’s known that both Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich will be DJing for this event.

If your lucky enough to find yourself in L.A tonight you can reserve a ticket here before they’re all gone.

or you can check out some cool new interviews and reviews of Stanley’s exhibition here and here amongst other places on the web.

Chieftan Mew’s had previously tweeted about Lost Angeles on August 15th, 2011 while Stanley was in the process of working on the print, you can read more about it and Lost Angeles here.

ccccc.jpg

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Chieftan Mews changed his Twitter display picture from clipclopclipclop.jpg to ccccc.jpg on April 1st prior to his second Q&A

The image shows a picture of a Tamiya 1:35 Scale Model Kit for a Chieftain Mk.5 Tank:

Tamiya is a Japanese company famous for their plastic model kits and accessories. Founded in 1946 they celebrated 50 years of producing scale models of military units in 2012.

The image appears to have been taken from ModelCars.com where the kit is on sale for $20.60 USD (Plus postage).

Tamiya provide a very detailed history of the Tank on the site:

The Chieftain Tank is one of the best known of the present generation of battlefield weapons, and is one of the most heavily armoured and armed fighting behicles in service anywhere today. It has not been without its detractors or critics, however, and there has been a running debate by military commentators for several years past on the relative merits of the British Chieftain Tank compared with the main battle tanks of other great military powers- the United States, Soviet Russia, France and West Germany – whose present equivalent designs afford a fasinating contrast with Chieftain in many key aspects.

The Chieftain, however, was developed as a result of British tank experience in World War II and after, and reflects the priorities which British tank men felt to be the most important terms of firepower, protection and mobility. British tank development in World War II resulted in the famous Centurion, which first appeared in 1945 in the closing weeks of the war. The Centurion, together with the Soviet T-34/85, and German Panther, represented the culmination of thinking (arising from actual experience) which pointed the need for a “universal” tank had, meanwhile, been disturbed by the appearance of the Soviet Josef Stalin II tank in 1945, with a powerful 122mm gun.

In the Immediate post-war years it became clear that Soviet Russia and her East European allies (later the Warsaw Pact powers) posed the greatest threat to Western Europe in any future conflict, and this led, subsequently, to the setting up of NATO. If war broke out, much of the initial fighting at least would take place in Europe, notably in Northern Germany, and Britain’s armoured divisions were either located in or earmarked for deployement to Germany. The backbone of the Soviet armoured divisions in the 1950′s was the formidable JS-III and its T-1- derivative, both with the 122mm gun, which could out shoot the 20 pdr. (84 mm)gun of the early service versions of Centurion. To strengthen the firepower of the Centurion, therefore, the British developed an introduced a “heavy tank gun”, the conqueror with a 120mm gun specifically to match the Stalin. The Centurion at this time was classed as a “medium gun tank”. The Conqueror was unsatisfactory in many ways; it was very heavy, noisy, relatively slow, and made an extra logistic liability for relatively few vehicles. By 1066 the Conqueror was withdrawn from service and an up gunned Centurion with 105 mm gun was in service.

You can read the rest over at ModelCars.com.

The ccccc is probably for 5 x Chieftain being that it was a Mk.5 model.

While Mk.5 is similar to Mk1 and Mk2 from the 2nd disc of In Rainbows the abbreviation is short for ‘Mark’ and used in a number of different fields including the British Military, Cars and Musical Instruments.

In 2009 Radiohead donated Mk2 for a ad for the National Coalition for the Homeless, you can watch it on Youtube here.

Kenneth’s Frequency

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On October 7th 2011 Chieftan Mews changed his location to Kenneth’s Frequency, a tribute to the title of a R.E.M song named ‘What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?’.

Screenshot of Mew's Twitter Profile taken by Inkybrown on October 7, 2011

Previously on September 22nd a fan posted a Youtube video of R.E.M’s videoclip for ‘The Great Beyond’ on Youtube the day after R.E.M broke up. Chieftan Mew’s simply replied to with “Aluminum” a lyric from ‘E-Bow The Letter’ which was the first single from R.E.M’s 10th album ‘New Adventures in Hi-Fi’

Mews replies to a fan on Facebook with a lyric by R.E.M

XFan: I know Radiohead cares
R.E.M. – The Great Beyond (Video)
http://www.youtube.com
© 2006 WMG The Great Beyond (Video)
22 September 2011 at 13:41 ·

Chieftan Mews: Aluminum
22 September 2011 at 17:00 · Like · 3

YFan: tastes like fear
23 September 2011 at 01:33

R.E.M was a major influence for Thom Yorke and the band who toured with them in 1995 and in 1998 Radiohead joined R.E.M to perform at the Tibetan Freedom Concert where Michael Stipe and Thom Yorke took turns joining each other on stage. You can find footage of Radiohead performing Lucky with Michael Stipe and Thom Yorke performing Be Mine and Backup on E-Bow The Letter on Youtube.

They remain close friends and Thom Yorke sometimes adds the start of ‘The One I Love’ from R.E.M’s fifth album ‘Document’ to the start of ‘Everything in It’s Right Place’ when performing live.

The date of the change to Chieftan Mew’s twitter profile marks exactly 9 years since the release of R.E.M’s 8th album ‘Automatic for the People’ which was released on the 7th of October 1992 before going on to sell 16 million copies worldwide.

What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? wasn’t from Automatic for the People, instead it was the first single from the next album ‘Monster’ from 1994. Radiohead where the support act for this tour.

Michael Stipe describes What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? as:

I wrote that protagonist as a guy who’s desperately trying to understand what motivates the younger generation, who has gone to great lengths to try and figure them out, and at the end of the song it’s completely fucking bogus. He got nowhere.

( Source: Wikipedia )

R.E.M announced on the 21st of September last year that “As lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band” on their website, they had been together 31 Years and released 15 Albums of which ‘Collapse into Now’ was their last.

Rolling Stone did a really nice interview with Thom Yorke while Radiohead where in New York last year about R.E.M’s influence on him and the band, you can read it here.

“Off The Grid. Into The Woods.”

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Mew’s has deleted almost all his tweets again.

Chieftan Mew’s twitter page as of the 18th of March 2012:

This might be to mark the end of the first leg of Radiohead’s 2012 Tour which wrapped up in Phoenix, Arizona on the 15th or it could be for some other reason entirely.

You can read all his deleted tweets, along with a complete record of every tweet known here. along with a annotated version of his current tweets here.

He’s also updated his Twitter Location to “Off The Grid. Into The Woods.” and his twitter display picture back to his original green one with the file name clipclopclipclop.jpg
New Profile Picture "clipclopclipclop.jpg"

Off the Grid is a term used for not being outside of the electrical grid either though providing your own power or simply living without it all together. While popular with people aiming for a more sustainable lifestyle it’s also a expression used for falling out of the modern world, usually with the aim of getting back to nature.

Mew’s clearly is aiming for the second as he returns to the woods, he’s used this expression before in terms of returning to the forest/woods to announce a period of silence followed by little twitter activity nor news from the band.

clipclopclipclop is a reference to the end of Episode 3 of The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time:

“What is Fear? Fear is the Clip Clop of Police Horses.
Clip clop, clip clop, clip clop.
Sleep well.”

Hidden In Your 8-Track

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@ChieftanMews: I am hidden in your 8 Track

Hidden In Your 8-Track is a reoccurring theme for Chieftan Mews. He tweeted ‘I am hidden in your 8 Track’ prior to the release of The King of Limbs. Some had at the time taken it to suggest a clue in that TKOL had 8 songs or that a clue was hidden ‘within’ that album.

His original Twitter Background picture included a photo of a 8 Track Tape along with what appears to be a campfire photo taken from the same series at the one that appears in the book edition of Amnesiac on page 8.

(Source: Inkybrown’s Flickr)

Wiki gives the following description of a 8-Track:

Stereo 8, commonly known as the eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, or simply eight-track, is a magnetic tape sound recording technology. It was popular in the United States from the mid-1960s through the late 1970s, but was relatively unknown in many European countries.

You can read more about them here.

afp

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Mew’s current status image on Twitter and Facebook is a inverted screenshot of him from the Thumbs Down Webcast in 2007 titled afp.jpg

Returned to it’s original form it looks like:

It’s not the first time Mew’s has toyed around with his display picture.

afp is the initials of Atoms for Peace the band formed by Thom Yorke, Nigel and Flea from The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Nigel was reported to be mastering their album over the holidays.

Far Away is Close at Hand in Images of Elsewhere

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Mew’s current Twitter background is titled tinyfaraway.jpg and is taken straight from Stanley Donwood’s Blog.

it is a scaled down version of a recent print by Stanley titled ‘Far Away is Close at Hand in Images of Elsewhere’ and is one a set of three ‘Alchemical Terror prints’ from a art installation entitled ‘Mithras Tauroctonos Subterranea’ which was part of THE MINOTAUR.


(Source: theoutsiders.net)

The other two prints in the series are We who are still alive, are unreal in the eyes of the dead and There had been no quiet. There will be no peace which was later adapted to be packaging for The King of Limbs – From the Basement Bluray/DVD and similar to a tweet by Mews on April 1st 2011 (I am far from home. I am far from calm.)


(Source No News is Good News)
Stanley explains them as:

The posters (about 900 of them) represent the propaganda of three splinter factions of the same esoteric alchemical terrorist group, and utilise the angelic language vouchsafed to Dr John Dee and Edward Kelley in the sixteenth century.

The ‘angelic language’ on the poster is called Enochian.

The phrase “Far away is close at hand in images of elsewhere” was a piece of graffiti painted along the railway tracks to Paddington Station in the 1970s. There’s a nice blog post about it here

You can find out more by reading Stanley’s Stupid Blog (scroll down to November 2011), and Tablibro 28