tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90465418157782039222024-03-14T01:43:42.269+00:00ONYX CUBEOnyx Cube is a space to list, show, discuss and share my interest for the artist Mike Hinge, Science Fiction, art, film, music, tv and the odd close encounter.
Compiled and edited by Ivan Richards in North London.I Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02351686811075422210noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046541815778203922.post-45529681614244280132017-08-09T01:53:00.002+01:002017-08-09T22:05:17.923+01:00Mike Hinge - 86th Birthday Anniversary<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike Hinge, Tobacconist 1786, A4 Photocopy, date unknown.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">Appropriately the the date 1786 could be a reference to this current year 17 and 86 to Mike's age. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif;">However it happens that the tobacconist established in 1786 was W.D & H.O Wills a British importer of tobacco and cigarette manufacturer. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next image is again of a tobacconists but is taken from the Supergraphics publication "The Mike Hinge Experience". </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Mike Hinge Experience, Supergraphics 1973</td></tr>
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I Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02351686811075422210noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046541815778203922.post-1889950009157318372016-11-20T18:29:00.002+00:002016-11-20T18:33:20.261+00:00Mike Hinge - Elleorde - Open Wide & Eat The Future<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's a thing of beauty, a brand new vinyl record by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/elleorde/" target="_blank">Elleorde</a> with a Mike Hinge illustrated front cover. This debut release </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Open Wide & Eat The Future</i> is a sci-fi disco duel at high noon. It's funky, hip, electronic music that soars the air with swooshes and squelches like the alien Liberator space ship, from Blake's 7. The acknowledged musical influences are </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">War, Dexter Wansel, Tantra, Cerrone, Ennio Morricone and Supermax. The record only available on vinyl, is a great listen and a rich sonic experience I'm looking forward to share. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">You can listen to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/elleorde/" target="_blank">Elleorde</a> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/elleorde" target="_blank">here on soundcloud</a> and read a great review of the LP here at <a href="https://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/product.php?pid=111407" target="_blank">Piccadilly Records</a> where you can also purchase Open Wide & Eat The Future. For booking live shows or DJ sets: <a href="mailto:elleorde@unusual.systems" target="_blank">elleorde@unusual.systems</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Approached through the pages of Onyx Cube I was very pleased when I first heard the plan to use a Mike Hinge illustration and inspired lettering for a new LP. Mike's precious legacy of artwork deserves to be seen more widely and used through exciting projects like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/elleorde/" target="_blank">Elleorde</a>. Although Mike was well published with over forty front covers for various books and magazines (including two for Time magazine) plus hundreds of interior illustrations history seems not to remember his influence as much as I would perhaps like. I know that there are many like me that appreciate Mike's work and find his art as resonant, relevant and inspiring today as ever. Let it be remembered Mike Hinge was one of the original psychedelic artist's of the sixties and seventies that had his own particular style which was influential to some maybe more remembered artists of his time. I'm sure that Mike would be pleased and appreciate seeing his artwork gracing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/elleorde/" target="_blank">Elleorde's</a> LP.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am over the moon to be credited on the LP along with others including Jane Frank (the</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> authorised agent for the estate of Mike Hinge)</span><span style="background-color: white;"> at <a href="http://wow-art.com/Qstore/Qstore.cgi" target="_blank">Wow-Art</a> and Alex Jay friend of Mike Hinge (and graphic designer and letter artist) that has an amazing blog on lettering at <a href="http://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Tenth Letter of the Alphabet</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thank you <a href="https://www.facebook.com/elleorde/" target="_blank">Elleorde</a>.</span></span><br />
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I Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02351686811075422210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046541815778203922.post-10644189652107236652016-08-08T01:31:00.001+01:002016-08-09T09:27:30.945+01:00Mike Hinge - 85th Birthday Anniversary - 159 - 160<div style="text-align: center;">
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I Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02351686811075422210noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046541815778203922.post-67915093919467630062015-08-09T11:54:00.001+01:002015-08-09T12:05:10.534+01:00Mike Hinge - 84th Birthday Anniversary - 155 - 158<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">9th of August 1931, Mike Hinge was born in Auckland, New Zealand. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I</span> first came across Mike's artwork gracing the covers of Algol and Amazing </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Science Fiction from the 1970's. I live in the UK and growing up in that decade I was a fan of Doctor Who, Six Million Dollar Man, Star Wars, Space 1999 a mixture of British and American popular culture but I didn't come across Mike's work at this time. Fast forward to 1999, I am studying fine art at University. I had gone into a secondhand book shop for some research where I happened to look through a collection of science fiction books. I chose some books based on the covers and I soon realised that they were all by the same artist. The books were dated 1972 - 1975 bringing me back to the days of my fascination for science fiction. What struck me was the balance of detail and design, in particular the image of an abstract face in two colours juxtaposed against a composition of psychedelic coloured wires and silicon chips. I enthusiastically showed my book cover collection to everyone I thought might be interested. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18px;">I wanted to know who Mike Hinge was and about his other work. It</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18px;"> was the early days of the internet and it was very difficult to find any reference or any information, as there wasn't any. I was intrigued but I put the books aside. Some years later I sadly discovered an obituary published online; Mike had passed away August 2003. </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmovnbGu3zz7xN3VjZC3YTLt1LknvOvwa6v9wU7-wsYxA0G0sACpIZ7dA73PQlkjTUaQDfzm5uhr1fHSDRPTbyHv2b7YzoI2KVVloHlxFhyphenhyphenQyaP52JByZmlWJ4A05z05hLOgARha5qy3dJ/s1600/Algol_Summer_75.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmovnbGu3zz7xN3VjZC3YTLt1LknvOvwa6v9wU7-wsYxA0G0sACpIZ7dA73PQlkjTUaQDfzm5uhr1fHSDRPTbyHv2b7YzoI2KVVloHlxFhyphenhyphenQyaP52JByZmlWJ4A05z05hLOgARha5qy3dJ/s320/Algol_Summer_75.jpg" width="233" /></span></a><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">It was late 2009 that I discovered some of Mike's artwork was being sold on Ebay. One particular seller was selling several individual pieces. Seeing the artwork being split up I thought it would be best to keep as much of it together as possible. I contacted the seller and agreed a price for around about 150 pieces, all that he had left. I was excited to be getting some original artwork of Mike's and began to wonder how best I could share, store and display the collection. I had missed out on an earlier larger sale of Mike's artwork that was carried out by <a href="http://www.wow-art.com/Qstore/Qstore.cgi" target="_blank">Jane Frank</a>, the executor of Mike's estate, where many of his major works had been sold. Throughout the years I have bought many other artworks and publications of Mike's published works. Some have been generously donated and some bought at special low prices.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">This blog Onyx Cube (named after one of Mike's Onyx posters) was started with the intent to catalogue and share my collection. Amongst the artwork, the most valuable contributions have been from many of Mike's friends (FOM's, Friends of Mike, as coined by </span></span></span><st1:city style="color: #666666; line-height: 18px;" w:st="on"><a href="http://www.onyxcube.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Sanford%20Zane%20Meschkow" target="_blank">Sanford</a></st1:city><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.onyxcube.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Sanford%20Zane%20Meschkow" target="_blank"> Zane Meschkow</a>). So many shared <a href="http://onyxcube.blogspot.pt/search/label/Recollection" target="_blank">interesting stories</a>, <a href="http://onyxcube.blogspot.pt/search/label/photo" target="_blank">photos</a> and <a href="http://onyxcube.blogspot.pt/search/label/scan" target="_blank">scans</a> of which I could only dream of at the start. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://ivanrichards.wix.com/hinge#!" target="_blank">The Mike Hinge Reference</a> website documents all of Mike's published works and of course includes the very first books I bought. Onwards and upwards.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Now after all this time, I have had time to reflect and realise that my decision to collect is quite a serious undertaking as well as an enjoyable one. My wish is very much to continue as and when I can, building a collection of Mike's work and to have the collection properly recorded and archived. Perhaps one day a Mike Hinge exhibition. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">A</span> rare Intergalactic Sunburner poster by Mike from the early 1970's, donated by <a href="http://onyxcube.blogspot.pt/search/label/Ron%20Williams" target="_blank">Ron Williams</a>' from his artwork archive. </span><span style="color: #666666;">Ron is an artist, designer, architect, author of <a href="http://www.indoormodelairplanes.com/" target="_blank">"Building & Flying Indoor Model Airplanes"</a> and co-founder of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_(architectural_collective)" target="_blank">Onyx (Architectural Collective)</a> further information on the Onyx website <a href="http://www.2onyx.com/">www.2onyx.com</a>.</span><span style="color: #666666;"> </span><span style="color: #666666;">Ron initially became friends with Mike at Donald Deskey Associates where they worked together in the mid 1960's. Mike was also part of the Onyx collective and collaborated in poster designs that were published, exhibited and pasted around New York. The I</span><span style="color: #666666;">ntergalactic Sunburner </span><span style="color: #666666;">is one of the Onyx posters. Ron told me that the poster was cyanotype or blackline print and volatile to bright light. I asked Ron if he remembered when the poster was printed and more about the printing process. Here is what Ron replied:</span><span style="color: #666666;"><i>"New York was covered with 'stat houses' and 'printers', every few blocks there was a copy place in a basement, nook or cranny. Mike was introduced to the blacklines and bluelines at Deskey, but they were ubiquitous in the architectural world with delivery boys in and out of offices all day long. In office equipment was a no go because they stunk of the ammonia involved. The copies cost pennies.</i></span><i><span style="color: #666666;">Stats were used to create negatives as a way of seeing, just like flips and mirror images. Everyone had a reducing glass to look at images, just to get another angle on what they were doing. The originals were almost always the same size as a black or blue line because they were drawn on translucent drafting paper. Date? ??? I couldn't say other than early 70s".</span></i><span style="color: #666666;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: #666666;">A reverse negative version of the Sunburner can be seen <a href="http://2onyx.blogspot.pt/p/m-hinge.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The Alitalia art is from my initial purchase back in 2009. When I took the artwork out from its plastic sleeve, this time to scan, I was surprised and slightly overcome by some strong smelling, mind altering, fumes given off from the ink. What type of ink did Mike use that still has the power to overcome after all these years? And what would it have been like using the ink at the time? Maybe I am a bit oversensitive in these days of well ventilated health and safety response. The artwork is in two pieces the airplane is loose, separate and unstuck I have placed it where it is seen above, so it might not be it's intended </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">placing. I have searched online many times to see if I can find a reproduced version but have yet to find one. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently acquired this fanzine with Mike's illustration on the front cover. I really like the design with the neat flap. The fanzine has 66 pages and also includes one other illustration by Mike to a poem by Walter Breen, (I will post the illustration and poem soon). The fanzine mentions that issue 2 will include further illustrations by Mike, however i'm not sure if issue 2 was ever published.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">The image has some great details giving a feel of an old San Francisco; steep hills, Chinatown, C</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">hinese writing, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">fire hydrant, lamp and lamp posts, grand buildings</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">, sunshine, potted plants, ornate railings and Art </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">Deco.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">The drawing scale 3/4" = 1' 0" and the full sized image would be a massive 9'4" x 34'.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">There is no date for this drawing and can not make a guess of when this would have been drawn. Goldberg Bowen was a specialist food store in San Francisco. They had a building on Stutter Street but were at number 250 (you can read a bit more about that <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Goldberg-Bowen-Building-a-bouquet-from-the-past-2480153.php" target="_blank">here</a>). Number 314 Stutter Street is the World Affairs Building now home to E&O Asian Kitchen (you can see it <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@37.789592,-122.405842,3a,90y,356.28h,115.53t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sHRi5PhNV1zsDXdJKrsnhNQ!2e0" target="_blank">here</a>, Google street view).</span></span><br />
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<br />I Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02351686811075422210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046541815778203922.post-83031841806972219412013-11-26T23:11:00.000+00:002013-11-26T23:37:43.908+00:00Mike Hinge 150 - 154Here we have a collection of four preliminary pencil drawings and an almost complete preliminary dayglo painting. The subject appears to be a robot with a man's face or perhaps a man in a space suit or a man in a robotic shell. One of the drawings is dated 10/11 October 1978 so I am assuming that they will all be from this year as the pictures came to me together in one folder.<br />
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Written on one of the pictures are what might suggest a title or a clue for what the drawings were intended. "Dance of Light, Dance of Photon, Dance of Phaeton, Metamorphosis, Photon". I had a search on the internet for any possible SF story with a possible connection however I didn't find anything. An interesting search of "Phaeton robot" came up with "Exosquad" a tv series conceived by Jeff Segal in 1989, most probably not connected but interestingly humans and neosapiens are shelled inside a robot like "exo-skeleton" or "E-Frame" as described in the opening titles of the program. Could it have been possible that Jeff Segal, knew Mike in 1978 and this was some drawings done for the proposed show?</div>
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The last picture in this collection is the largest of the pictures a drawing on tracing paper. The paper is folded in half and can be opened out to double in size. The other side of the paper is blank but gave the idea that it was intended to have the reverse image to make a complete mirror image. Interestingly the half image also works on its own as a complete image if placed on its side. I don't know if a completed picture was ever made from any of these images but out of interest I made a reverse image of the largest drawing in photoshop to have a better idea what the completed picture might have looked like.<br />
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I Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02351686811075422210noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046541815778203922.post-71012840739854242652013-09-22T15:13:00.000+01:002013-09-22T21:05:49.623+01:00Mike Hinge - 149<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A psychedelic burst of colour curls and shapes, this is the second picture (of two) which I purchased from a collector about a year ago. The other is the psychedelic angel I posted in 148, on the occasion of Mike's birthday.</span><br />
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I Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02351686811075422210noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046541815778203922.post-5458516204417427522013-08-09T00:00:00.000+01:002013-09-22T15:14:22.549+01:00Mike Hinge - 82nd Birthday Anniversary - Psychedelic Angel - 148<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Remembering that today is Mike Hinge's birthday, he would have been 82 years old. </span><br />
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I Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02351686811075422210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046541815778203922.post-27665057314473206852012-10-07T18:28:00.000+01:002012-10-07T22:23:40.230+01:00Mike Hinge - ONYX (The ONYX Group) <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The late sixties avant garde, counter culture art group</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://onyxcube.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Onyx%20Group">ONYX</a>,</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">which Mike Hinge was a member along with founding members JW Rainey, Ron Williams, Tommy Simpson and Patrick Redson </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> amongst others, now at long last</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have a blog. See it <a href="http://2onyx.blogspot.co.uk/">here</a>. This is exciting and I am looking forward to the journey. All the best.</span><br />
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I Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02351686811075422210noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046541815778203922.post-66565359095816127632012-08-09T09:10:00.000+01:002015-08-03T22:25:54.583+01:00Mike Hinge - 81st Birthday Anniversary - Alex Jay<br />
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<i>Hi! Alex, that Star Wars book [Return of the Jedi] you designed finaley
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<i>for household cleanser. Hearing the standard pop music on the radio nothing
outrageous & the color tube has </i></div>
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I Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02351686811075422210noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046541815778203922.post-90515636643830015592012-07-21T02:50:00.001+01:002015-08-03T22:28:47.079+01:00Mike Hinge - Good Times - Hard Times<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Good Times - Mike Emigrated in 1958 from New Zealand and Arrived in Los Angeles USA to study at The <i>Art Centre School of Design</i>, Mike's artistic career was about to go from one strength to another with an intriguing variety of employment at some major US companies around about their peak of success. Starting with his first employment in the US in 1959 as a designer for the <i>May Company</i> department store, followed by another designer job at a newspaper <i>The Los Angeles Herald Examiner</i>. It seems that there were no shortage of opportunities for Mike in these early days some albeit brief as an example in 1962 a four-month employment at <i>Reprise Records</i> (the record company founded by Frank Sinatra). <span style="line-height: 18px;">I</span><span style="background-color: white;">n 1966 Mike moved to New York and got </span><span style="background-color: white;">employment as an art director at <i>Young & Rubicam</i></span><span style="background-color: white;"> and afterwards at <i>BBDO</i> (</span><span style="background-color: white;">in 1967 gaining a prize at the </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">13th </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Annual <i>Type Director's Club</i> Show TDC XIII). Then perhaps the most e</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">xciting years to follow as Mike also working in experimental fine art and exhibiting; in 1969 he did the front cover for </span><i style="line-height: 18px;">Witzend</i><span style="line-height: 18px;"> issue 6 and in the same year came Mike's big break into SF from Ted White who </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">commissioned</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> interior and front cover illustrations for </span><i style="line-height: 18px;">Fantastic Stories</i><span style="line-height: 18px;"> and </span><i style="line-height: 18px;">Amazing. </i><span style="line-height: 18px;">The work from then on continued to flow steadily with more magazines and book illustrations up until around about 1985/1988 where the opportunities were becoming harder to find. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The S.F </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14.4pt;">Encyclopedia U.K </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14.4pt;">Publication that Mike mentions is The
Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Pan Books 1977 (page from the Encyclopedia with Face (1972) below)</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The front cover has a Mike Hinge Credit bottom left, this is the first Record cover I have found by Mike. If it had not been for Mike mentioning his trip to the second hand record store in this letter I am not sure how long it would have been until this one would have come to light, such an amazing find both letter and record cover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In one of Mike's resume's he wrote, "Record cover design ideas and comps.. Pick and buy type, use old engravings, lay down coloured zip on photoprints for wraparounds with bleed. (Reprise Records)".</span></div>
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I Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02351686811075422210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046541815778203922.post-85922137675108756282012-06-24T18:42:00.002+01:002012-06-24T19:12:53.187+01:00Mike Hinge - Resume 1<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Todays post is of Mike Hinge's resume</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> from the late 60's circa 1966/67, earliest entry from 1958</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">. Thank you very much to </span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.onyxcube.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Sanford%20Zane%20Meschkow" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Sanford Meschkow</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> for keeping this resume safely all these years and to </span><a href="http://www.onyxcube.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Matt%20Howarth" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Matt Howarth</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> for scanning and emailing them to me (there are also 5 more resumes from Sandford's files that I will share shortly). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Address: <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">55 West 14<sup>th</sup> Street</st1:street>, <st1:city w:st="on">New York</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:address>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">October
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"> Light Sculptures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">YOUNG
& RUBICAM, INC. – <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">285 Madison
Avenue</st1:address></st1:street> – <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New
York</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">N.Y.</st1:state></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">(Alan
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Exhibit design, posters, displays, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">corporate design,
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Street</st1:address></st1:street> – <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los
Angeles</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Calif.</st1:state></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">FREELANCE–Mike Hinge–739 X.
Hudson Ave.</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">–<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Calif.</st1:state></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">CLIFFORD
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</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">-</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">8201 Beverly Blvd.</span></st1:street><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"> <st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">Calif.</st1:state></span></st1:address><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>I Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02351686811075422210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046541815778203922.post-38126404266076337582012-06-14T22:22:00.001+01:002015-08-03T22:38:12.597+01:00Mike Hinge - Remembered by Ron Williams<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I have recently received an email from <a href="http://onyxcube.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Ron%20Williams" target="_blank">Ron Williams</a>, architect, artist and author of <a href="http://indoormodelairplanes.com/" target="_blank">Building and Flying Indoor Model Airplanes</a>. Ron was a friend of Mike Hinge, they were together in the Onyx group and they also both worked for <a href="http://mid2mod.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/donald-deskey.html" target="_blank">Donald Deskey Associates</a>. I was thrilled to read Ron's valuable memories and I am very pleased to share his message here which I think is a wonderful insight into Mike's persona, life and work. I hope that you find it as fascinating as I have. A very big thank you to you Ron. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I Googled Mike Hinge last weekend and discovered your blog. It's terrific. I'm the Ron Williams referred to in the material about Mike and his involvement with the "ONYX" group. I can tell a bit about Mike and my friendship with him during the late 70s and early 80s. It was pretty intense as I'm sure anyone's encounter of Mike would be.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I remember correctly, we met while we both worked for Donald Deskey Associates, the design firm. My background was in architecture and his, you know. ONYX was the getting together of Woody (J. Woodson) Rainey, Tommy Simpson, Mike and myself. There were many descriptions of what ONYX meant but largely it was an attempt to bring different sensibilities together and to resist the temptation to declare a manifesto. We published broadsheet/posters that we distributed to friends and colleagues and plastered on the walls of Manhattan's back streets. The name came from the definition of onyx as a many layered stone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Woody Rainey has taught and practiced architecture in Manhattan since the late sixties. Tommy Simpson has made his way as an artist since I can remember, showing and selling his work all over the North East. Mike exhibited with us showing his art work and published a poster, the Parsec City. Tommy came into contact with us but I can’t remember if he did any specific work that he considered an ONYX project.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Woody did a mandala like calendar for an eight day week and other sheets displaying abstract architectural ideas. My work illustrated architectural projects involving fantasy designs exploring extreme spaces.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I first met Mike he was living in a 1950s apartment building on West 16<sup>th</sup> Street just off 5<sup>th</sup> Avenue. He had a large studio apartment crammed with his work and ongoing projects. He was just beginning to explore electronic light sculptures and designing his type faces. The apartment was piled at least waist high with boxes and portfolios and with narrow passages between the collection to get to the facilities, the kitchen and Mike’s work area.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the time one of Mike’s main preoccupations was with the state of his collected works and collections stored in Los Angeles. He had trunks and boxes stored in a warehouse there and was defaulting on his rent, in danger of losing it all. I’m not sure what happened to it but the experience would be repeated again and again. I would lose contact with him now and then and in the interim his life would seem to go through many changes though he kept up his work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He moved to a loft on West 26<sup>th</sup> Street in Manhattan’s Flower district. The loft was high ceilinged and perhaps 30 by 80 feet. In a matter of months he had filled it with the voluminous material he managed to collect. He was a nightly dumpster diver and found a dumpster near a liquor store that threw out their empty liquor boxes nightly. He tried many different “brands” of boxes before he decided that J&B scotch whiskey boxes best served his needs. He labeled and stacked them, filled with material he figured would be useful or that he couldn’t resist collecting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He collected giant glass jars that had held pickles and even larger brown plastic olive jars from delicatessens and restaurants. These too were carefully labeled to describe their contents - the variety of those contents was mind boggling.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Often, when wandering around Manhattan with him I would discover that I was “talking to no one” as Mike would disappear when he would see a promising piece of paper on the sidewalk or in the gutter and scoot away to retrieve it. He had receipts, ticket stubs, cigar bands, cigarette packages, every kind of small paper souvenir of someone’s encounter with the city. The J&B boxes were filled with beer cans, brands I’d wonder how he’d found in New York, from all over the world. His glass jars were filled with match books. Unless he had an appointment with someone and a schedule to meet it could take forever for him to get from one place to another. He could not resist stopping into random bars and restaurants to ask for a card and a book of matches. I never saw him drink but he sure had a lot of beers (an unopened full can was prized above all).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last time I saw his loft, he had the same environment he had on 16<sup>th</sup> street but times 4 or 5. The stacks of green J&B boxes reached nearly to the ceiling and the aisles between the collections made the place seem more a library or very special warehouse than a home or studio.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We would wander into an out of each other’s lives periodically. I would bump into him and hear that he had lost his last place and that he was living in the studio of someone he was working for. Then he’d have a new place.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I drove Mike down to Reading, Pa once to visit a bunch of his comic/SF pals. He introduced me to Steranko; his followers had discovered the low rent residential area that beat out anything for hundreds of miles. Mike was always on the verge of poverty, living a life of feast or famine during the years we hung out. I think Pennsylvania became a back up for him as a cheap place to live after he saw how the Steranko crew had adapted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the late 70s or early 80s I introduced him to a bunch of artist friends that lived in the Tribeca area. They were pioneer lofties moving into and working in the area’s many loft spaces as SoHo became too gentrified. At a party at one of the lofts on a Halloween, if I remember correctly, he showed up with the night’s most outstanding woman and proceeded to give the entire assembly a lesson in dancing. The question of the night: “Who was that guy?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mike was quite secretive in many ways. I was surprised to learn of his age on this blog because that was a taboo subject when my friends and I knew him. New Zealand was as much as he would say about his past and nothing about the place at that. When he agonized over the loss of his collections in L. A. he would reveal as little as possible. Knowing how reluctant he was about his history, we would not press him but would tease him occasionally about his unknown age.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His taste in music was universal except for one thing about which he was vehement: he could not stand voice. To him to sing was all but sinful and he would not hesitate to express his displeasure with the singer’s art. Opera was the last straw.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My friendship with Mike went dormant during the mid 80s as we both found new pursuits with which to engage. I had written and illustrated a book that was inspired by a short trip we took in 1976 when we visited an international model airplane meet at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Like many of the encounters and friendships one makes in Manhattan, we went our separate ways. The friends we had in common had all moved out of the city. I discovered that he’d died a few months after his passing and could not find much about him on the web. I often wondered what happened to the things he collected – they were attractive to him not as individual objects but as they represented areas of work, design and as a cumulative expression of life. If I had the money at the times his collections were threatened, and the sense to know how important they might be, I would have done more to help him keep them going. Too soon old, too late smart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What is Onyx? I remember when I first read about Onyx it was in a book <i>"The New Visions A Collection Of Modern Science Fiction Art"</i> published by Doubleday 1982. There was a short biography for Mike which I later found the full version <a href="http://onyxcube.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/mike-hinge-biography.html">here</a>. In the biography it said <i> "Onyx display, Wittenborn bookstore"</i> brief but intriguing. I concluded at the time that it was perhaps to do with Mike's set of 8 posters that I had started to collect and had seen advertised in Algol Magazine Summer 1975, one of the posters being called, Onyx Cube seen <a href="http://onyxcube.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/mike-hinge-006.html">here</a> in the original Algol advert . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Over the next few months I would come across another references to Onyx and then one day <a href="http://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.co.uk/">Alex Jay</a> sent me a scan of a magazine <i style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"> "Design Quarterly 78/79: </i><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">A Special Double Issue on 'Conceptual Architecture'", </i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">seen <a href="http://onyxcube.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/mike-hinge-80th-anniversary-alex-jay.html">here</a></span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"> </i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">and it was then that I began to understand, Onyx was an artist collaboration. In that magazine it cited four members Ron Williams, Mike Hinge, Charles Albatross and Tom Simpson. With this lead, I searched on the internet and found an article in French entitled <i>Mutations v.0.8</i> providing a tantalising description of Onyx. Below is a Google translation of that description: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">"</span><span style="line-height: 14px;"><i>ONYX group was born in New York in the late sixties. It was founded by architects that we know by the pseudonym they used at the time: Charles Albatross, Mr. & Mrs.. Harvey And The Grapefruit Orange, Patrick Redson, Okra Plantz, Tom Fulrey, Lili Piuschin, Mike Hinge, A'Lloyd. ONYX expressed their theories on architecture outside professional boundaries and conventional, through audiovisual performances and what we call a mail art. The posters of ONYX are perhaps the best examples of their operation shock, desecration of the concept of art and architecture at the time of their realization. Mail architecture was one of the instruments used to invent new ways of "doing" of architecture. Each poster was designed in every detail with great care, from graphic design to choice of colors (mostly two-color), passing through the text, often deliberately ironic and encrypted. The posters were produced in a limited number still. An advertisement stated that they were sold by mail ...</i>"- see <a href="http://web.mac.com/fpleutin/plusgroupweb/blabla/Entr%C3%A9es/2007/3/3_Mutations_v.0.8.html">source</a>: </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14px;">In October last year, Alex Jay sent me another set of exciting scans from a publication called Arthropods, published by Praeger 1972. This was a double bonus as it mentioned EAT (another art collaboration Mike had been involved with) and Onyx... However there were no Mike Hinge pictures, that didn't matter as the images were fantastic, mind blowing and I knew that this was a group that deserved much more attention. Here from the magazine are the images and text. Enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14px;">See more Onyx at the <a href="http://www.frac-centre.fr/collection/collection-art-architecture/index-des-auteurs/auteurs-58.html?authID=139">"Frac Centre" website</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Mike Hinge - Elephant Trunk 3 of 4 (#4023). Marker pen on cream velum. Approximate size 25x31cm. Date unknown. Unsigned.</span></div>
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Mike Hinge - Photograph taken by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_I._Porter">Andrew Porter</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunacon">Lunacon</a> possibly early 1970's. Thanks very much for the excellent photo. Mike looks as if he's up to some mischief with that expression. Nice smart suit and snazzy wallpaper too! </div>
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Mike Hinge - front and back cover for Witzend magazine 1969. </div>
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01: Yellow plate mechanical (photostat of circuit diagram pasted on illustration board; the photostats shrank a bit)
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05: Robots artwork (ink drawing on Strathmore bristol board)</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's Chinese New Year! Thanks very much to<a href="http://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com/"> Alex Jay</a> for sharing his 1989 postcard from Mike</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBwhZUWz1aK_aANwo4-PmJreasA29VLHG_u4BhXwLSdYUqq4pRyzcjlsdyLmNAenAN9OG2xaPA74aj0-JeiRnQFz_weRmT9m7G_HMNZRAu9WTHHCXyPCQG9-5gjdSWS1szvKjyVNRfkrdh/s1600/MikeHinge31Mar89b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBwhZUWz1aK_aANwo4-PmJreasA29VLHG_u4BhXwLSdYUqq4pRyzcjlsdyLmNAenAN9OG2xaPA74aj0-JeiRnQFz_weRmT9m7G_HMNZRAu9WTHHCXyPCQG9-5gjdSWS1szvKjyVNRfkrdh/s640/MikeHinge31Mar89b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
Here is a postcard from Mike to <a href="http://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com/">Alex Jay</a> wishing him a happy new year. Nice clear handwriting and an intriguing message which I shall let Alex explain what Mike is referring to in a moment. A short message but clearly shows Mike's appreciation for his friends phone call and the goodies that he had sent... but who is Mary (M&M's)?<br />
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Alex says "This Chinese New year or Lunar New Year arrives January 23. As you know, it's
the year of the dragon. Back in 1989 Mike sent this postcard with the year of the snake. This
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Travel back in time to 1989 and I would have been in my late teens and I was a massive fan of The Sisters of Mercy and Xmal Deutschland they were and still are amongst my top favourite bands! As well I also liked and still like Joy Division, New Order, Cabaret Voltaire, Wire, Durutti Column, Ultravox, OMD, Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre and also aware of Japan, Roxy Music, Brian Eno and Mike Oldfield . However at that time and until now I hadn't really heard much of Tangarine Dream or Penguin Cafe and not at all of Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze or Seventh Wave. </div>
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Front of Postcard from Mike to Alex.</div>
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Happy Chinese New Year - The Year of the Dragon.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">Mike Hinge - </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"> Fire Hydrant (CITY SLICKER)</span><span style="background-color: white;"> (2 of 2)</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">. Pen and Ink on "Crescent Cardboard Company" Illustration Board, Cold Press Surface. No. 300, Medium Weight. Approximate size 38x50.5cm. Date 1962. Signed.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"> </span></span>I Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02351686811075422210noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046541815778203922.post-12102178035570440582012-01-09T13:53:00.000+00:002012-01-09T13:53:02.046+00:00Mike Hinge 139<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">Mike Hinge - </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"> Fire Hydrant</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"> (1 of 2)</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">. Pen and Ink on "Crescent Cardboard Company" Illustration Board, Cold Press Surface. No. 300, Medium Weight. Approximate size 38x50.5cm. Date April 1962. Signed.</span></span>
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Mike's signature (a reflection is from the original protecting plastic wrap that's still in place).</div>
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