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...website lists dozens of “influences” ranging from Björk to Metallica to Johnny Cash. Recently, Wilkis has been composing a love song using the “cool rhythmic patterns” he admires in heavy metal, “only making it sound pretty instead of scream-y and angry...
...what's going to happen!' I said, 'No! What?' It was funny." A decent drummer, Gondry was in a band called Oui Oui and started making videos for the group. These caught the eye of other artists, and launched a career creating visual accompaniments to music by Björk and the Rolling Stones, and more recently, Beck and the White Stripes. He "doesn't rely on technology or gimmicks," says Beck. "He may start with a high concept, but it always ends up entertaining in the purest sense, where even the most uninitiated can feel included." Which...
Other featured books include the first Russian alphabet book, published in 1717, and a 1920’s Turkish publication for children promoting En Güzel Alfabe “The most beautiful alphabet,” or the Roman alphabet imported by Kemal Atatürk...
...part of his campaign to westernize Turkey and raise literacy rates, Atatürk lanched a massive government and publicity campaign to replace the complicated Arabic script the country had used for hundreds of years. The work bears a colorful frontispiece showing a boy and girl riding a stork, which delivers a bundle of letters to the cheerful homes below, as though the alphabet were a new baby...
...offices belonging to members of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Islamic Liberation Party), a 50-year-old pan-Islamic political organization that seeks to establish a modern version of the caliphate that ruled parts of the Arab world from Muhammad's death until 1924, when Turkey's Kemal Atatürk officially laid it to rest. The police visited Assem, Hizb ut-Tahrir's "representative member" in Germany, as part of their investigation of the group. They took away documents and computer discs, but Assem was not arrested. German authorities are worried that the group's anticapitalist and anti-American rhetoric could...