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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.

Freak monkeys with mediocre tunes.. New band concept.

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Mar 12, 2012:

@nigelgod: Highlight of the tour so far… Being picketed by westboro baptist church this evening.. Hoorah! yfrog.com/nts5nrfj

@nigelgod: Freak monkeys with mediocre tunes.. New band concept. http://yfrog.com/es2pnaoj

While yes the focus of this blog is on the tweets of Chieftan Mew’s we couldn’t let these two tweets from Nigel Godrich go by, in one of the stranger stories to come out of Radiohead’s current tour the show in Kansas City makes the very first by the band to receive a picketing by the Westboro Baptist Church a organisation lead by Fred Phelps that calls Topeka, Kansas home and is infamous for picketing funerals of former military servicemen, schools and other events with homophobic hate messages.

Nigel links the following photo of the protest with his first tweet:

In 2009 the group where blocked from visiting the UK on grounds of inciting hatred. This is probably the reason for the anti-UK placards.

In recent years it seems the church have set their sights on picketing concerts, Last year The Foo Fighters where picketed at the same venue and took to performing a impromptu set on the back of a truck in response.

While in the WBC defense The Foo Fighters had recently released a song titled ‘Hot Buns’ featuring a video of the band as naked homosexual hillbilly’s their reasons for picketing Radiohead is a little.. ‘odd’ comparing Radiohead to a circus monkey and calls them “Freak monkey’s with mediocre tunes.” no.. seriously..

Nigel links the following screenshot taken from the WBC website to his 2nd tweet to prove it:

Interestingly they accuse the band of being ‘focused on lightness’ which puts them rather at odds with the overall view in the press of Radiohead being a overly ‘serious’ band. Maybe they took offense to the Lotus Flower videoclip or mistook the title of Creep as ‘Freak’? Either way fans have pointed to the protest as proof that the band have ‘made it’ in America.