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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-19 at 18:10

Sea cables being “accidentally” cut is right up there with out-of-favor Russians “accidentally” falling out of windows.

[#]USPol

[#]Ukraine

[#]Russia

https://kyivindependent.com/officials-increasingly-believe-baltic-sea-cable-damage-caused-by-accidents-not-russian-sabotage-washington-post-reports/

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-19 at 16:30

If, like me, you have awakened to subzero temperatures and want to warm up, may I suggest listening to this great little album by Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Capitol Session ‘73, Live? The mix of reggae beats and what one reviewer called “ragged and cool; pensive and disarming; harmonious and percussive; stoic and hazy; militant and colorful; ambitious and unassuming.” Warms me right up.

[#]reggae

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-capitol-session-73-live/1570410302

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-19 at 16:20

I saw the headline in the link first and thought it was about the US politics

[#]USPol

https://arsenal.collabfc.com/objects/f0f14862-9bd4-484d-a6d7-821dcd92895b

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-18 at 16:22

Do you know what you’re missing out on if you don’t take the opportunity to write alt text for your images? Well, then, you obviously haven’t been reading @nocontexttrek’s alt tags! Let theirs be an inspiration for you to boldly type what’s never been typed before.

[#]AltText

[#]DontForgetToUseCamelCaseEither

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-11 at 23:14

Joe Henderson, resting his sax on his leg and looking cool during the break.

#jazz #AlbumCover #SaxophonistsHoldingSaxophones

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-11 at 23:12

This hold is a little more comfortable/normal-looking than others. Still looks like the musician is holding a pet or something

#jazz #AlbumCover #SaxophonistsHoldingSaxophones

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-11 at 15:22

Hank Mobley shows how holding a saxophone is done.

[#]jazz #AlbumCover #SaxophonistsHoldingSaxophones

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-11 at 15:17

Here’s another. Speaking from experience, this is not the most comfortable way to hold a saxophone in your lap.

[#]jazz #AlbumCover #SaxophonistsHoldingSaxophones

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-11 at 14:48

Starting a new #jazz #AlbumCover thread here of a subtype I didn’t know existed until a few days ago: Saxophonists Holding Saxophones. This is the first one I noticed.

[#]SaxophonistsHoldingSaxophones

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-10 at 16:13

In the class of album covers that is “saxophonists holding their saxophone” this one stands out for its simplicity and excellent use of typography, also keeping the letterforms inside the musician’s profile. #jazz #graphicdesign

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-09 at 13:48

This one has some nice energy. Note the non-parallel spacing between the edge of the photo and the baseline of the text above it. #jazz #graphicdesign

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-08 at 05:11

This has most of the Blue Note design elements: overlaid colors, bold typography, high contrast, graphic imagery. They’ve done a nice job of carrying their founding aesthetic forward through the decades.

#jazz #graphicdesign

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-08 at 00:45

Lee Morgan’s covers are nearly all amazing. Blame Blue Note for that. #jazz #graphicdesign

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-07 at 19:22

I don’t know what this says but graphically it’s 🔥

#jazz #graphicdesign

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-07 at 16:29

Charette’s cover harkens back to some of the classic Blue Note covers

#jazz #graphicdesign

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-07 at 15:12

The Modern Jazz Quartet goes graphically bold and blocky

#jazz #graphicdesign

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-07 at 14:53

Classic Sonny, love the 70s vibes here.

[#]jazz #graphicdesign

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-07 at 14:46

Starting a thread of nicely-designed jazz album covers.

(Thanks to the @kuvo_playlist bot for posting tracks with album art as Denver’s jazz station plays ‘em.)

[#]jazz

[#]graphicdesign

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-03 at 21:41

“[E]ven though SCAD is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, it seems to operate more like a private business with an overarching goal: to reward Wallace with wealth and fame.”

https://www.ajc.com/news/special-reports/selling-dream/VVfRSVilHliyrTe9LAd5hN/

[#]SCAD

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Written by Alan Bucknam on 2025-01-03 at 21:38

I noticed that the co-founder of my alma mater, the Savannah College of Art and Design, Paula Wallace, is getting a Presidential Citizens Medal. If people knew just what she put faculty, staff, and especially students through back in the ‘90s I’m pretty sure she’d be in prison, not at the White House.

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