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I am adding this piece now because I'm happy to be doing a new book cover ( [link] ) for the mysterious poet-philosopher Hakim Bey ( [link] ), after all these years. Axiom Records ( [link] ) did pay me for this CD cover based on the book cover I did as a labor of love. Of all the work I have published, that book cover ( [link] ) has had the most interesting effect on my life. Virtually all of my CD and book cover jobs are the result of the underground reputation and wide dissemination of that one little book. For certain sub-cultures "temporary autonomous zone" has become a standard vocabulary term, and if you Google Hakim Bey and T.A.Z. you could get lost for weeks following interesting trails. Right after Bill Laswell read T.A.Z. he called me up and gave me the first of 20-some CD cover jobs I've gotten from him over the years. This one came along a couple of years later.

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:iconislamaia:
james, this is absolutely MAGNIFICENT. i'm totally blown away. incredible work. how long did it take you to complete the image?

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:iconjames119:
Thank you. The central collage took me a few days -- mostly pondering -- and was used as the book cover [link] A couple of years later I did the rest -- mostly a collage of some of my paper marbling experiments -- another day.
:iconislamaia:
now i have to go buy the book! :)

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Or read it online at: [link]
I believe there is a French translation, too, if you prefer.
:iconislamaia:
thank you, but i'd like to buy the book first for its cover :) ... then i shall enjoy to read it and english will be fine for me.

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Such a complicated image. There's a lot to take in. =)

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great one!:clap: nice, nice, it reminds me my teenage (sorry i don't know Hakim Bey)

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Thanks. Well worth a read. [link]

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