BE ITALIAN by Jimmy Angelina & Wyatt Doyle

Video made by Andy Biscontini, Italian.

Over a year in the making, Be Italian is the new release from Jimmy Angelina and Wyatt Doyle. It is a book of people pretending to be Italian, and Italians pretending not to be. It is not a coloring book. (But if you want to color your copy? Hey, it's your book. Have a ball, baby.)

Be Italian is an unprecedented visual history exploring Italian identity in motion pictures, from the early years of the silver screen through the modern era.

Italians as cowboys. Italians as Jews. Italians as Jews, married to Italians.

Italians as Mexicans. Italians as Amish.

Magic Italians. Space Italians. Italian Nixon.  

Italians who paint ceilings. Italians who heard you paint houses.

Italians you didn’t know were Italians. Italians who really aren’t.

Plus Robert Loggia.

Be Italian is available as a deluxe 11" x 8.5" hardcover and as a compact 6.5" x 6.5" trade softcover. These editions will be available everywhere. 

BUT... a limited signed and numbered edition of the deluxe hardcover is available exclusively from New Texture via our IndieGoGo campaign. For that, you'll pay the same price or less than buying the unsigned hardcover elsewhere, but the edition you'll get from us is signed by the authors and includes, as a tipped-in plate, an exclusive bonus Italian you won't find anywhere else.

Or, live a little and splash out on one of our IndieGoGo bundle packages, which include signed and numbered 8" x 10" art prints suitable for framing, plus secret bonus swag. Plus, we cover US shipping on all of it. You won't get that kind of love from Amazon!

Softcovers and deluxe signed and numbered hardcovers on offer at BeItalianBook.com are in stock and ship immediately!

 

 

Jules Burt Reviews MANEATERS [video]

 

Get Maneaters from Amazon here.

Happy Birthday, Eva Lynd!

A very happy birthday to men's adventure supermodel Eva Lynd!

We had hoped Eva could have joined us for PulpFest 2021, but circumstances and the general state of things made that impossible. But attendees enjoyed a virtual appearance by Eva via excerpts from a recorded interview made for the event. Those excerpts can be heard as part of the video slideshow below:

 

Purchase Eva: Men's Adventure Supermodel from Amazon via the links below. 

Buy the 186-page deluxe hardcover HERE.

Buy the 114-page softcover HERE.

Preview the deluxe hardcover HERE.

Jon E. Edwards on "WOW" PEOPLE With Kelli Sae

Tonight, New Texture recording artist and soul man at large Jon E. Edwards appears on "Wow" People With Kelli Sae. 

 Listen live on YouTube, 8 pm EST, here.

Jon E. Edwards' album Continental/International is available now from New Texture. For listening/purchase options, click here.

A DAY AT THE BEACH by Richard Adelman

 

 

“Wait a minute. You’re saying I’m going to pretend I’m taking Ellen out on a date?”

I was 12, and the idea of knocking on the Goldfarbs’ door, looking Ellen’s grandfather in the eye, and tricking him troubled me. Besides, taking Ellen out on a date was something I wouldn’t have the courage to do on my own behalf, so where was I going to find the courage to do it for my pal Whitey? 

“I don’t like this,” I said. “I’ve known Mr. Goldfarb all my life. I can’t lie to him like that…” 

Lying, in general, was fine. You had to lie in order to have fun. Lying to my parents was one thing. I had an account with them. There was stuff I’d done on the positive side to cancel the stuff on the negative side. And besides, they were my parents, so they were obliged to forgive me.  

Plus, the possibility of getting caught in this lie was greater than usual. Usually, I lied about a single event, like going to Brigantine or swimming in a forbidden spot. Those lies were controllable. We would take a trip, tell a lie, and it was over. But this might require many lies—perhaps a lie a night, for many nights. Very risky. And who was the beneficiary of these lies? Who was going to have all the fun?  

Not me.

Atlantic City, summer of ’63. A boy. A girl. And the other boy, who reluctantly pretends to date her to help his pal. A funny, nostalgic novel of young love, best friends, and poetry, acclaimed Teacher Tales author Richard Adelman perfectly captures one 12-year-old’s last great summer as a kid down the shore.

A Day at the Beach. An unforgettable time. An unforgettable place. An unforgettable novel.

Preview the book here. Buy it here.

Cover by Wyatt Doyle and Jimmy Angelina

Jules Burt Reviews EXOTIC ADVENTURES OF ROBERT SILVERBERG [video]

 

Get Exotic Adventures of Robert Silverberg from Amazon here.

Hall, Skrowaczewski, Zappa's FREE / REFUSE available NOW

 

The latest digital release in New Texture's Zappacrypha series of recordings by Stanley J. Zappa (and compatriots) is available now! Free / Refuse features Jacob Hall, bass; Nick Skrowaczewski, percussion, vibraphone; Stanley J. Zappa, saxophones. It was recorded by Hall at Audible Alchemy, Portland, Oregon, and mastered by Jeremy Stewart at Swan's Yowl.

Per Zappa:

"Three years after the release of Visions (by Leonard/Skrowaczewski/Zappa), Steve Lobdel was just about done moving his recording empire to his new facility. Jacob Hall was Steve's assistant. Jacob and I played in a group with the rhythm section of Steve's group, The Davis Redford Triad. Nick Skrowaczewski was in Portland at the time, learning the fine art of video editing. No sooner were Nick and Jacob introduced than they were sneaking off to eat chicken fried steak at the Interstate Diner for brunch together.

Lobdel kindly permitted Jacob to use the studio so we could record this Trio—the main attraction of which being a Studer tape deck with pitch control. This recording makes ample use of said pitch control, both to speed up and to slow down. This left a large impression (dent) in my 'sound vision' and only bolstered my vow never to take western harmony seriously ever again."

Buy it/hear it here.

Explore the album's packaging here. Photos and design by Wyatt Doyle.

Jason Cuadrado's TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE Tribute, "The Soot Man"

How does Jason Cuadrado follow up his acclaimed Twilight Zone tribute "Reap What You Sow"? With a tribute short to the much loved 1980s anthology series Tales From the Darkside (created by George Romero), "The Soot Man." 

From the video's description: Kat and her boyfriend, Manny are a couple of young grifters who go from town to town cleaning houses and robbing wealthy homeowners. Kat takes a job with a strange recluse, Ms. Calloway, and soon discovers that the house harbors dark, dangerous secrets.

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MANEATERS Hits the Water!

Summertime. When thoughts turn to sun, sand, surf...and sharks! Just in time for beach season, Men's Adventure Library editors Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle present Maneaters, a deep dive into long unseen shark-themed pulp fiction and savage full-color illustration art drawn from three decades of classic men's adventure magazines (or MAMs), most out of print since their original publication. In addition, these graphic, action-packed tales of shark encounters are paired with commentary and mythbusting by a celebrated panel of contemporary shark experts who separate the stories' fact from fiction.

"My God, the Sharks Got the Women!"..."Shark-Battling Dolphins Saved My Life"..."A Man-Eating Shark Pack Against Scuba Divers"..."The Headhunting Shark That Destroyed a Texas Family"..."The Sharks Got My Legs"...

Wild, untamed shark fiction and hard-nosed shark science collide in one high-octane, full color collection. There's never been a book like it!

Sharks and hard-boiled shark hysteria were an integral part of MAMs from the very beginning, regularly appearing as villains across the magazines' three-decade lifespan, in stories by the likes of Godfather author Mario Puzo and Robert Edmond Alter, and in the killer covers and interior art by pantheon illustration artists like Mort Künstler and Samson Pollen.

In addition to expert commentary and critiques, a preface by Steve Cheskin, creator of Discovery's Shark Week, and an afterword by Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus director "Ace Hannah" (Jack Perez) affirm the sturdy bloodlines between the shark terror of yesterday and today's sharkmania.

Maneaters is available as a 170-page softcover and as a 192-page expanded hardcover with additional content. Click here to sink your teeth in.

Expert contributors to Maneaters include:

Bruce Avera Hunter, marine conservation & naturalist photographer
Jessica Myers, marine scientist
Mark Royer, PhD
Bryan Keller, PhD
Tyler Bowling, marine ecologist
Sarah Fae Torre, marine fisheries biologist
Chuck Bangley, PhD
Gavin Naylor, evolutionary biologist
David Shiffman, marine conservation biologist
Yannis Papastamatiou, PhD
Caroline Collatos, marine biologist

 

EXOTIC ADVENTURES OF ROBERT SILVERBERG on We Are Cult

144-page deluxe hardcover edition (left) and the 120-page softcover. Silverberg portrait by Jimmy Angelina.

Wyatt Doyle, co-editor and designer of the new release from the Men's Adventure Library, Exotic Adventures of Robert Silverberg, talks about the history behind Silverberg's "lost" stories for Exotic Adventures, a short-lived men's adventure magazine/bachelor mag hybrid from the late 1950s.

Read all about it at in "He Watched the Secret Sex Rites of Uganda" on We Are Cult, here. 

Buy the book from Amazon here.

Carolina's CURSED Out Now!

Proud to announce the digital release of the new album from Carolina, Cursed, on New Texture.

CD and LP release to follow.

Listen here: https://album.link/i/1573801655

Carolina is...

Christofer Lincoln - vocals/guitars 

Matt Brown - guitars 

Morgan Keator - guitars 

Jimmy Angelina - bass 

Troy Williams - drums/percussion

 

Carolina on Bandcamp: https://carolina4.bandcamp.com/

Arts for Art's On_Line Salon featuring John Blum

"Mark Hennen, John Blum, Jackson Krall in Performance & Discussion. Suggested minimum donation is $5. Donations go towards funding artist fees. Arts for Art's On_Line Salon series features live streaming FreeJazz performances and conversations every Tuesday and Thursday."

Visit John Blum's site HERE.

First Chance, Last Chance for Four New Zappa Discs

 

First Chance, Last Chance. 

We’re releasing four new CDs from Stanley J. Zappa (and friends). They are available right now from Amazon. They will only be available to purchase until June 4th, a matter of days. We had hoped to stagger these releases and keep them in print indefinitely, but our manufacturer has rather suddenly announced other plans about manufacturing them. (It’s Amazon, and they are assholes.) 

These albums will be made available as downloads; this is great music and we want to keep it available. So if you like downloads, you’re in luck. But if you like CDs? If you like physical media? Groovy packaging, designed by New Texture's Wyatt Doyle? Time is short. Very short. So short, that if you want to own copies of these extremely limited pressings, you’d better get cracking. Like, now. 

Know that since it’s Amazon manufacturing the discs to order and filling your order, and they don’t seem to like us much, you can expect fulfillment to take longer than usual. (We don’t like them either.) 

Think of it like those rare Dylan discs, released to maintain copyrights in small "get 'em while you can" quantities. 

Think of it like those recently released Stones outtakes, which seem to be the same kind of thing. 

Think of it like we’re losing our manufacturer, but we still want to release these albums on CD, because that's exactly what's happening. 

Think of it any way you like, but if you want these albums on disc, you’d better move fast. You’ve only got ’til June 4th. 

Buy links and music previews below.

Free/Refuse by Jacob Hall, Nick Skrowaczewski, Stanley J. Zappa 

https://amzn.to/3f52gDV 

Crossing Guards by Daniel Carter, Steven Leffue, Catherine Sikora, Stanley J. Zappa 

https://amzn.to/3tZGLbW 

The Stanley J. Zappa Quartet Plays For The Society of Women Engineers 

(Wyatt Doyle, Mark Leonard, Nick Skrowaczewski, Stanley J. Zappa)

https://amzn.to/342EUZm

Turkey Bacon Donuts Bitches by MANZAP REBORN 

(Andrew Wedman, Stanley J. Zappa) 

https://amzn.to/3f2oxlR

 

Also going out of print (as physical releases): 

Sing-Song Songs by Stanley J. Zappa

https://amzn.to/2SVYB2z

Live a Little by Manzappaczewski 

(Nick Skrowaczewski, Andrew Wedman, Stanley J. Zappa)

https://amzn.to/3wlDEwr

New Texture CDs Going Out of Print June 4

For years now, we’ve been releasing music—physical CDs, anyway—via Amazon’s CD manufacturing platform. Recently Amazon sprung it on us that they’re abandoning the service entirely, and abandoning along with it the many artists and small labels who have paid to utilize it these last few years. This decision by Amazon puts many of our CD releases in a tricky spot. (On the bright side, it means we’ll be dealing with Amazon a lot less.) 

Amazon says they will continue to accept orders for CDs manufactured by them through June 4th. Which means after that date, many of our CD releases will be out of print. The download versions will remain available, but until we can sort out new options for physical media production, actual CD copies will be hard to come by. 

So if you’ve been putting off purchasing any of New Texture’s CDs, you’d better get that order in, pronto. They are about to become collector’s items. 

Purchase links below.

 

Reverend Raymond Branch, I've Got Heaven on My Mind 

https://amzn.to/3wlPffc

Stanley J. Zappa, Sing-Song Songs  

http://amzn.to/1Uo5VrF

 

Josh Alan, Sixty Goddammit  

http://amzn.to/2hnHTVX

 

  Map of the Moon (s/t) 

http://amzn.to/2eCSycK

 

 Jimmy Angelina (s/t)  

https://amzn.to/2xZExy8 

   

  Jon E. Edwards, Continental/International  

https://amzn.to/2Gp38SD

 

 Manzappaczewski, Live a Little  

https://amzn.to/2RvZ8Vn

Wyatt Doyle's "And the red death held sway over the dollar store" @ Gallery 30 South, 03/01–03/26

"Doyle’s eye and his camera’s eye capture those moments of junk-store epiphany, of accidental revelation, which lurk un-noticed in the most taken-for-granted parts of everyday run-down America." —Bill Shute, Kendra Steiner Editions 

Abandoned places, decaying spaces, toys nobody wants. Things that are gone, things that remain. “And the red death held sway over the dollar store” at Pasadena’s Gallery 30 South exhibits photographs by Wyatt Doyle from his acclaimed collections Dollar Halloween, I Need Real Tuxedo and a Top Hat!, Buty-Wave Is Now Closed Forever, Jorge Amaya Doesn't Live Here Anymore, and recent work. 

Photography with a narrative bent, capturing people, places, and things, from California to Tennessee and back again. Through March 26. Books and signed, limited edition prints available via the gallery. The show is available for online viewing here.

Jason Cuadrado's "Reap What You Sow"

 

 

Congratulations to our pal Jason Cuadrado, who's released his painstaking creation of a "new" vintage Twilight Zone episode to YouTube. "Reap What You Sow" replicates the look, sound, and feel of a vintage TZ episode more closely—more perfectly—than any other tribute I've seen. It's a remarkable achievement. But let us allow Jason to speak for himself:

I've been obsessed with The Twilight Zone ever since I was a kid. No other show sparked my imagination and horror like Rod Serling's original anthology opus. I've had to live with the crushing disappointment of missing an opportunity to be part of that seminal moment in television history.  

Thanks to Unreal Engine, I was able to enter The Twilight Zone myself by going back in time to write and direct an episode of the original series.

This is that episode as it premiered in 1964 for season 5.

The film was written and completed in about a month using Unreal Engine 4.25 as the main creative hub (and time machine). Characters were designed in Daz Studio, imported into Reallusion's Character Creator 3 for mesh refinement, and finally iClone 7 as the main bridge to UE via Auto Setup and LiveLink.

Motion capture was recorded using the Perception Neuron Pro system. Facial capture and finger animation were achieved with iClone's Motion Live (plus an iPhone X and Leap Motion controller).

Props and locations from Daz would go through Maya for smoothing before being exported to Unreal. The wonderful Unreal Marketplace supplied the rest.

Audio was recorded with the Rode Wireless Go and a Maono AU-A04H.
The opening credits were done in Unreal and After Effects. The final edit was completed in Premiere.

Although I did most of the performance capture myself, I didn't do it alone. I had to rope in my dad and aunt since, during a pandemic, you work with what you've got. Thankfully my aunt is a professional and my dad is a trooper. Just goes to show what you can create with the resources around you on a single computer in your living room.

This short film was made with love for fans of the series (and just in time for the traditional New Year's Day marathon). And if you haven't seen the show, please check it out in all its incarnations (available on CBS All Access) to truly appreciate Rod Serling's legacy.  

Disclaimer: The Twilight Zone, logo, and its music are the property of CBS Television Distribution. This is a not-for-profit fan production and is not affiliated with the rights owners. This is not for commercial use. It's for the love of the show.

This has been The Twilight Zone...

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