#richardwright
Took my wife and daughter to see one of my very favorite concert films, Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii presented in IMAX. I must have watched this hundreds of times through high school and college, but had not seen it recently for many years. The new 4k restoration looks great and this is the band at the peak of their (post Barrett) powers.
#PinkFloyd #PinkFloydPompeii #PinkFloydLiveAtPompeii #IMAX #RichardWright #NickMason #RogerWaters #DavidGilmour
"The Great Gig in the Sky" is the fifth track on The Dark Side of the Moon, a 1973 album by English #rock band #PinkFloyd. The song features music by keyboard player #RichardWright and improvised, #wordless #vocals by session singer #ClareTorry. It is one of only three Pink Floyd songs to feature lead vocals from an outside artist. The Great #GigInTheSky was released as a digital single on February 10, 2023, to promote #TheDarkSideOfTheMoon50thAnniversary box set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWZ6hmHj2MA
"When I open a can of paint, I just love how it looks; I almost want to drink it." — British artist Richard Wright on training to become a signwriter.
From the Art Newspaper (@theartnewspaper@bsky.social) interview here: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/03/28/richard-wright-when-i-open-a-can-of-paint-i-just-love-how-it-looks-i-almost-want-to-drink-it.
PS. I've added Wright to the list of 'celebrity' sign painters here: https://bl.ag/celebrity-signwriters-past-present/. Thanks as always to Tony Mead for the ongoing tip-offs.
#Signwriting #Signwriters #SignPainting #SignPainters #RichardWright #Artist #Art
![It was definitely a pivotal moment of crisis and re-evaluation. I had a sense of tremendous disappointment in what I was doing, a sense of inadequacy and failure—that the work wasn’t good, that it was one bad painting on top of another. So I destroyed all the paintings I had made. This wasn’t a conceptual thing; it was because I thought they were shit. Training to be a signwriter wasn’t about changing my direction as an artist; it just struck me as a way that I could maybe make some money. I was good with a paint brush, I love lettering and I’d done a lot of design work for posters over the years. But something happened in the process of learning [signwriting] and it was to do with the delivery of the material. Painters express themselves, whereas a signwriter wants the delivery to be invisible. The artist’s personal touch is such a big facet of modern painting, and signwriting freed me from that because it is just the paint on the thing; it doesn’t pretend to be something else. Any symbolic aspect had been emptied out. It drew me to the language of graphics, and I could go to the studio with just the idea. When I open a can of paint, I just love how it looks; I almost want to drink it.](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/114/256/733/162/460/454/original/325fe196ecbdaa4a.jpg)
"If the nation ever finds itself examining its real relation to the Negro, it will find itself doing infinitely more than that; for the anti-Negro attitude of whites represents but a tiny part ― though a symbolically significant one ― of the moral attitude of the nation." ― #RichardWright #BlackHistory
Today in Labor History March 25, 1931: The authorities arrested the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama and charged them with rape. The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American youths, ages 13 to 20, falsely accused of raping two white women. A lynch mob tried to murder them before they had even been indicted. All-white juries convicted each of them. Several judges gave death sentences, a common practice in Alabama at the time for black men convicted of raping white women. The Communist Party and the NAACP fought to get the cases appealed and retried. Finally, after numerous retrials and years in harsh prisons, four of the Scottsboro Boys were acquitted and released. The other five were got sentences ranging from 75 years to death. All were released or escaped by 1946. Poet and playwright Langston Hughes wrote it in his work Scottsboro Limited. And Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son was influenced by the case.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #scottsboroboys #racism #lynching #rape #prison #langstonhughes #richardwright #novel #naacp #communism #books #author #writer #fiction #alabama #BlackMastadon @bookstadon
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is a nine-part composition recorded by English rock band #PinkFloyd written by #DavidGilmour, #RogerWaters, and #RichardWright, which was first performed on their #1974FrenchTour and appeared in their 1975 concept album #WishYouWereHere. The song is written about and dedicated to founding member #SydBarrett, who departed from the band in 1968 after dealing with mental health problems and substance abuse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiXNIjGX1hY
Dark Side of The Moon
Monster. Released March 1, 1973 ... #55 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and selected for preservation in the US National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Check out The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd on Amazon Music #pinkfloyd #darksideofthemoon #70srock #classicrock #progrock #rogerwaters #davidgilmour #richardwright #nickmason #music #musicsky…
https://robinbannks.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/dark-side-of-the-moon/
Card Name: Alhammarret, High Arbiter
Set: Magic Origins Promos
Description: Flying
As Alhammarret enters, each opponent reveals their hand. You choose the name of a nonland card revealed this way.
Your opponents can't cast spells with the chosen name (as long as this creature is on the battlefield).
Artist: Richard Wright
EDHrec: https://edhrec.com/commanders/alhammarret-high-arbiter #magicthegathering #mtg #AlhammarretHighArbiter #RichardWright #MagicOriginsPromos
"Time" is a song by English #rock band #PinkFloyd. It is included as the fourth track on their eighth album #TheDarkSideOfTheMoon (1973) and was released as a single in the United States. With lyrics written by bassist #RogerWaters, guitarist #DavidGilmour shares #lead vocals with keyboardist #RichardWright (his last until "#WearingTheInsideOut" on the band's 1994 album #TheDivisionBell). The lyrics deal with the passage of time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG2tZNOQWAA