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I bring you the finest Internet reading in my weekly Linkfest
It’s time for my weekly Linkfest — in which I collect together the finest stuff I could find in the last week of surfing the intertubes. I’ve done 64 of these so far.
Let’s begin …
1) 💡 An anthology of psychedelic light-show wheels
At clubs and raves in Britain from the 1970s to the 1990s, the DJs would sometimes project trippy visuals behind them as they played — generated by transparent wheels covered in art, with a light shining through.
The DJ Kevin Fouth has collected together a ton of these gorgeous, eclectic works in a book, Wheels of Light. That one above is a disk made by Optikinetics. As he told The Guardian …
I DJ under the name Further with my friend Pete Williams and we mix wheels, slides and video to create a shifting collage that turns a room into a living, fluctuating artwork.” Now he has created his own book, Wheels of Light, a history of British psychedelic club visuals. “We’ve all been to clubs and raves of some kind, and the lighting often plays second fiddle. My book takes a dive into the tools used by the crews at the back of the…
