Word: fronds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other struggling indie artists on the shelves. In addition, the covers she's doing for Got No Shadow include a great deal of indie material; she's especially proud of the new Nick Salaman covers she's doing, which she calls "poppy and beautiful." Salaman, former leader of Bevis Frond, has collaborated with Lord in the past, but the Got No Shadow material is most characteristic of his individual music, with less guitar and "more pop virtuoso...
...fluidity of the silhouette. Designers like Jill Stuart prefer a sweater. "A jacket is too hard for this collection," Stuart says. And while the dresses are soft, they're not always simple. A Chinese influence runs through many collections, evident in such touches as embroidery and delicate, frond-like decorations in the fabric. The cool looks could turn it into a hot summer after...
...explosion, researchers are now convinced, lies in the Vendian, the geological period that immediately preceded it. But because of the frustrating gap in the fossil record, efforts to explore this critical time interval have been hampered. For this reason, no one knows quite what to make of the singular frond-shape organisms that appeared tens of millions of years before the beginning of the Cambrian, then seemingly died out. Are these puzzling life-forms - which Yale University paleobiologist Adolf Seilacher dubbed the "vendobionts" - linked somehow to the creatures that appeared later on, or do they represent a totally separate chapter...
UCLA paleontologist Bruce Runnegar, however, disagrees with Seilacher. Runnegar argues that the fossil known as Ernietta, which resembles a pouch made of wide-wale corduroy, may be some sort of seaweed that generated food through photosynthesis. Charniodiscus, a frond with a disklike base, he classifies as a colonial cnidarian, the phylum that includes jellyfish, sea anemones and sea pens. And Dickinsonia, which appears to have a clearly segmented body, Runnegar tentatively places in an ancestral group that later gave rise to roundworms and arthropods. The Cambrian explosion did not erupt out of the blue, argues Runnegar. "It's the continuation...
PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE Run out of London, by the Bevis Frond and his friends, who--both in the records they make and in the zine they write--are mostly concerned with 60s psychedelia and its 80s-90s direct descendants, of whom there are many more than you think. Graphics are elaborately medieval, etched, antiquated and well-crafted. The Loud Family, talented Australian songwriter and ex-punk Ed Kuepper, and the former bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience are featured items in the "latest" issue; the 7" record inside sounds good too. Look for it at In Your Ear, or send...