Blake Edwards | 54 Hits from Hell

Blake Edwards
54 Hits from Hell
Chicago, USA, Public Collectors, 2018
20 pp., 5.5 in X 8.5", staple-bound
Edition of 238

A slim staple-bound Risograph booklet that ranks every song released during the Glenn Danzig era of The Misfits.


"Sometimes I come across a text—or in this case a series of texts—on the internet and it just looks like a publication waiting to happen. I had that experience as I watched my pal Blake Edwards analyze, critique, and ultimately rank every song by the band The Misfits, one song at a time, over a series of Facebook posts. At some point I asked, "You're going to make a zine from this, right?" He had no original intention of doing so, but liked the idea of turning all 54 posts into a publication so we threw caution to the wind, and made a 'zine together. It was our first collaboration, it happened quickly, it was fun, and Blake even helped out withe collating and stapling. An obvious must for fans of The Misfits, or fans of fans of The Misfits."

- Marc Fischer, Public Collectors

Available from the publisher, here, for $4.00. While you're there, pick up some of the Hardcore Architecture and Library Excavations series.

Augusto de Campos | Poetamenos 1953-1973

Augusto de Campos
Poetamenos 1953-1973
São Paulo, Brazil: Edições Invenção, 1973
26.5 x 26.5 cm.
Edition of 500

Jenny Holzer | Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise

Jenny Holzer
Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise
Halifax, Canada: The Press of The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1983
[136] pp., 8.5 × 8.5 × 0.5", softcover
Edition size unknown

An early artist book by Holzer, whose full title is Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise - Truisms and Essays, featuring texts in English, French, German and Spanish.

Holzer celebrates her 68th birthday today.

Roy Lichtenstein | Wrapping Paper

Roy Lichtenstein
Wrapping Paper
New York City, USA: On 1st, 1968
76.7 × 78.7 cm.
Edition size unknown


Screenprint on glossy paper.

On 1st was a short-lived pop shop and fashion boutique founded by Bert Stern, who was best known for photographing Marilyn Monroe. The gallery shop published and sold "practical objects" by artists, at affordable prices. In addition to Lichenstein's now-popular paper plates, On 1st also produced this Wrapping Paper and, also Wallpaper from the same year. Other artists who produced "practical objects "for On 1st include Gerald Laing, Billy Apple, James Lee Byars, Sven Lukin and Bert Stern himself.

An article from New York Magazine, November 18 1968, about the activities of On 1st:

Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari | Toiletpaper Tray (Roses)

Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari
Toiletpaper Tray (Roses)
Milan, Italy: Seletti, 2014
60 × 40 x 25.5 cm.
Edition size unknown

A melanin, dishwasher safe tray from the collection of tableware and objects born out of the collaboration between Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari’s magazine and the Italian design company Seletti. Other imagery from the series included a toilet plunger, breakfast nailed to the table, competing lipsticks, severed fingers and a toad in a sandwich.

Soldout at most venues, the tray is still available at Made In Design, here, for the original price of £22.50.

Nam June Paik | Kim Chee and Sauerkraut

Nam June Paik
Kim Chee and Sauerkraut
Berlin, Germany: Texte zur Kunst,1997
21 x 5.1 x 2.5 cm.
Edition of 100 signed copies [+APs]


A television remote control and acrylic paint in the colours of the 'test pattern'. From Texte our Kunst number 28. Signed, dated and titled on the verso.

New Yoko Ono LP

Yesterday Yoko Ono announced the release of a new album due out on October 19th of this year. Titled Warzone, the recording follows her 2016 remix record, Yes, I’m a Witch Too, which featured updated versions of her songs by Sparks, Cibo Matto, Tune-Yards, Moby, Death Cab for Cutie and others.

Warzone also features remakes of earlier material, but by Ono herself, produced by her son Sean Lennon, whose label, Chimera, will release the disk. The record seems to share less in common with her five previous remix releases (dating back to Rising Remixes in 1996, which featured contributions from Tricky, Thurston Moore, the Beastie Boys, Ween and Perry Farrell) and more in common with something like Kate Bush's Director's Cut. On that 2011 title, the singer revisited and updated songs from her back catalogue that suffered from bad or dated production values.

That seems to be the agenda here, given that almost half of the tracks come from Ono's much-maligned 1985 LP Starpeace. Despite being recorded by legendary producer Bill Laswell, the record was poorly received at the time, and hasn't exactly aged well in the thirty-three years since.

Spin magazine called it "a Sesame Street album for children who think My Weekly Reader has been withholding the truth." Peter Buckley, in The Rough Guide to Rock, described the album as "a rather bombastic error of judgement, laden down by pseudo-cosmic philosophizing." Ono herself said "After Starpeace I was totally discouraged by the fact that there was no kind of demand for what I was doing....to put it mildly".

She did not release another record for eleven years, when she returned with the acclaimed Rising, which provides this new compilation with it's title track and "Where Doe We Go From Here". Other albums are represented by single tracks only: Between My Head and the Sky ("I’m Alive"), Approximately Infinite Universe ("Now Or Never"), Plastic Ono Band ("Why"), and Feeling The Space ("Woman Power").

The remade tracks from Starpeace include "Hell In Paradise", "I Love You Earth", "It’s Gonna Rain", "I Love All of Me", "Children Power" and "Teddy Bear" (which I assume is a remake of "Cape Clear", which opens with a young girl crying about her lost teddy bar).

The 1997 CD reissue of Starpeace featured a live version of John Lennon's "Imagine" from a sold-out performance in Budapest. Warzone, too, will feature Ono revisiting the Lennon classic, which she  — 46 years later — finally received songwriting credit for, last year.