#CP 1919

[saramencken]

Via @mattosman

[whatthehelloh]

Okay, so @brucesterling posts this, and yes, I know Joy Division, I mean come on, I'm an old GenX'er, of course I know them. Anyway, what I didn't know what the backstory to their Unknown Pleasures album cover. So, I did some research (aka googled it) and found this amusing and fascinating article in Scientific American, which also includes a YouTube video interview with the album cover designer and the impact of the image. Anyway, I went down a Joy Division, CP 1919, pulsar rabbit hole and thought I'd share.

[pav-anne]

unknown pleasures - joy division 1979

(really it comes from scientific american article on pulsars, cp 1919 in particular, super dense stars that rotate super quickly, something that fits totally the album from my pov)

[acquaconlimone]

La rappresentazione grafica degli impulsi di radiazioni elettromagnetiche inviate al ritmo di uno ogni 1,3373 secondi dalla stella di neutroni CP 1919, i battiti del cuore dell’Universo.

Il 15 giugno del 1979 i Joy Division pubblicavano "Unknown Pleasures".

[robbialy]

From • @welcome.jpeg The Story Behind Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ Artwork (1979) The iconic image from the cover of post-punk pioneers Joy Division’s debut studio album, Unknown Pleasures, has transcended its original aesthetic purpose developing into an unmistakable symbol of both rock music and pop culture. During production of the album, Factory Records designer Peter Saville was enlisted to help create the cover art for the burgeoning band. The original image was found within The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy by Bernard Sumner, with the distinctive and enigmatic drawing connecting with their persona. Saville toyed with the image, inverting its colour-scheme and opting to leave it without text, heightening its mystic. Whilst the artwork has become a universally recognized symbol, its origins are often overlooked. The image depicts the first radio pulsar ever discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell in 1967 known as ‘Cp 1919’. The frequency came from deep outer space every 1.337 seconds, emitting from a dying star as its rotation faced earth. Each pulse was separately plotted resulting in the sharp drawing of the intersecting lines used in the cover art. Despite Unknown Pleasures’ poor performance upon release, the album is widely recognized as one of the most influential rock and post-punk records of all time. The iconic imagery of the album has also developed a cult status, with many stating that the symbol has surpassed the record entirely. One of the most important references came in Raf Simons AW03 collection, in which the Belgian fashion designer collaborated with Peter Saville to pay homage to the imagery, adorning it across a variety of pieces. Many other fashion labels and brands have also utilised the distinctive artwork with the likes Supreme, Pleasures and Undercover producing products honoring Joy Division’s influential record. Due to the persistent popularity of the image many do not understand its true origin, with the frequency waves often viewed as a design of its own. However, to true fans of both astronomy and Joy Division the symbol that is Unknown Pleasures will forever remain culturally significant. by @oxygn__ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmd-WhMM7XGCiZRDU-xNzCkaAt1hPDXO1poVrw0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[alanshemper]

“There is this myth that the party ran like some kind of well-oiled machine, but it was never that well organized internally... The FBI did a much better job of keeping track of our members than we did unfortunately.”

—Dorothy Rae Healy, former CP member, quoted in San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958 by Robert W. Cherny (2024), p.114

[lboogie1906]

Grace P. Campbell (1883-1943), the first of three African Americans to join the Communist Party USA, was born in Georgia to Emma Dyson Campbell, an African American woman from DC, and William Campbell, an immigrant from Jamaica. After briefly relocating to Texas, the Campbell family settled down in DC. She moved to New York City around 1905.

She dedicated herself to community work. She donated her salary to aid the founding of the Empire Friendly Shelter, a home for unwed mothers, where she worked as a supervisor. She worked for the City of New York. First employed as a probation officer, she worked as a parole officer and became a court attendant for the Courts of Sessions.

She gravitated towards left-wing radicalism. She was one of the founding members of the 21st Assembly branch of the Socialist Party and one of the first African American women to join the Socialist Party. She ran on the Socialist ticket for the 19th District of the New York State Assembly in 1919 and 1920, receiving about 10% of the vote in both years. Though unsuccessful, she was the first woman of any race to run for public office in the state of New York.

She helped found the People’s Educational Forum, a Socialist organization that opposed Marcus Garvey’s nationalistic agenda. She assisted Cyril Briggs and other radicals in the founding of the African Blood Brotherhood, a secret fraternal order that advocated for armed self-defense, equal rights, and self-determination. She was the only woman among the founders of the ABB as well as the only woman to serve on the organization’s Supreme Council, where she functioned as the Director of Consumer Cooperatives.

She joined the Communist (Workers) Party in the early 1920s. Though she refrained from publishing and public speaking, She was an influential behind-the-scenes organizer. She hosted CP meetings at her house and was monitored by the FBI, which noted that she carried the Bolshevik red card and collected monthly dues for the local CP branch.

She continued to work in both the revolutionary and civil service sectors until her death. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[gmartinezmolina]

#RG @antanovalencia El 19 de marzo de 1919, hace 104 años, nació en Puerto Cabello, estado #Carabobo, Monseñor José Alí Lebrún Moratinos, IV Obispo de la Diócesis de #Valencia, nombrado el 17 de marzo de 1962, hace 61 años, por el Papa Juan XXIII, cargo que ejerció hasta el año 1972. . Recibió la Ordenación Sacerdotal de manos de Monseñor Gregorio Adam, III Obispo de la Diócesis de nuestra ciudad, el 19 de diciembre de 1943. Fue sucesivamente profesor, Director Espiritual y Rector del Seminario Diocesano de Valencia y al mismo tiempo desempeñó la Capellanía del Colegio Nuestra Señora de Lourdes. . Fue Obispo Auxiliar de la Diócesis de Maracaibo, el primer Obispo de la Diócesis de Maracay, Obispo Coadjutor de Caracas, luego nombrado XIII Arzobispo de esa Arquidiócesis y posteriormente Arzobispo Emérito de la misma. . Durante el consistorio del 2 de febrero de 1983 fue creado Cardenal por el papa Juan Pablo II recibiendo el Capelo y el anillo, siéndole asignada la Basílica de San Pancracio en Roma. Formó parte del Concilio Vaticano II. . Además fue presidente de la Conferencia Episcopal de Venezuela entre 1984 y 1990. . El Cardenal Lebrún murió en Caracas y fue enterrado en la Catedral Metropolitana de esa ciudad, siendo junto al Cardenal Jorge Urosa Savino los únicos Obispos de nuestras urbe cuyos restos no reposan en la Catedral de Valencia. . #ValencianosOrgullosos #ValenciaDeAntaño https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp-gZbEOGQa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[limantigua]

Fotografía del histórico Puente Balta; el primer puente de fierro levantado en la Ciudad de Lima. Se inicia la construcción en el año 1869 y finaliza entre 1918 y 1919. Sigue a @limantigua #vladimirvelasquez #limantigua #PuenteBalta #coleccionlimantigua https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp-UeBuuW-D/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"TREBITSCH LINCOLN SPY AND MONK, DEAD," Toronto Star. October 9, 1943. Page 4. ---- Once British M.P., Had Been Arrested in Five or More Countries ---- TURNED BUDDHIST ---- New York, Oct. 9 (CP) - Trebitsch Lincoln, whose career as an adventurer ranged from spy and smuggler to British M.P., Methodist preacher and Buddhist monk, died Thursday in Shanghai after an operation, the Tokyo radio announces.

Lincoln was born in Hungary about 1870. After serving as a German press censor, he was active in Afghanistan - where he was arrested - and in the Chinese revolution. He also served three years in a British jail on charges of espionage and forgery.

He came to New York in 1916, where he wrote a book, "The History of a Spy." He was arrested and extradited to Britain, where he was jailed and his citizenship revoked. Deported in 1919, he conferred with the ex-kaiser in Holland and joined the abortive Kapp government in Germany in 1920.

In 1921 he was accused of fraud In Czechoslovakia and was acquitted of treason and forgery charges in Austria, whence he was expelled. He then surreptitiously entered the United States and was arrested in 1922 for illegal entry. Later that year he was reported held in connection with the Fascist political murder of Giacomo Matteotti, Socialist leader in Italy.

He made a dramatic visit to London in 1926, where his son, a British army private, was executed for murder. In 1931 he became a Buddhist priest and the next year. with closely shaven head and arrayed in a bright yellow silk robe, he turned up in Berlin as "Chao Kung" (Enlightenment of the World). Two years later he travelled through Canada accompanied by six Buddhist nuns and four monks.

[lofijazz]

[startorialist]

Soooooo this happened today, and in addition to throttling our Twitter mentions, we’ve been alerted to some fantastic threads we somehow overlooked, including this amazing rug from Jaime Odabachian’s eponymous family business. Odabashian was founded in 1921 by Jaime’s Armenian grandfather, and the company’s mission is to weave stories through design, literally.

As Jaime explained in his email to us: 

The rug was produced in a hand-tufted technique and is a tribute to the work of the discovery of the first Pulsar by Jocelyn Bell and Anthony Hewish in 1967 and the subsequent use by Peter Saville of the image to design the iconic “Unknown Pleasures” album cover by Joy Division. 

We exhibited the rug at Zona Maco Art fair in 2017 and they are available on a made-to-order basis. 

Pulsars are the surviving remnants of supernova explosions, rapidly spinning neutron stars emitting a beamed column of light (like a lighthouse) along one axis while rotating around another axis. The rug features 80 successive periods of the first pulsar observed, CP1919, stacked on top of one another. The original image was produced at the Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico. 

If you aren’t already familiar with the image, this article via Scientific American goes deep into the origin of the design. And this short YouTube video explains how the pulsar data came to be transformed into the classic Joy Division album cover which took on a life of its own (including this DIY version!). Lastly, Summer wrote about both pulsars and Dame Jocelyn Bell for Syfy Wire last year. 

You can follow Odabashian on Instagram and Facebook, and be sure to check out our other pulsar themed posts here. 

- Summer & Emily

[time-is-an-allusion]

Okay but it’s fun having an f/o who’s from a particular time period bc then you can listen to music from that time and pretend you’re listening to it together

[latefrequencies]

Getting excited abt getting to include a certain joke in RSG sooner than I thought I would (it's the one where Ford recognizes the cover of Unknown Pleasures as Pulsar CP 1919)

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

This image represents a stacked plot of radio signals from the  first pulsar (CP 1919) ever observed, which also happened to serve as the inspiration for Joy Division’s 1979 album cover Unknown Pleasures.

[lboogie1906]

General Harry Haywood (February 4, 1898 – January 4, 1985) A radical theoretician, anti-colonialist, labor organizer, and civil rights activist, he was one of the most prominent and influential African American Communists of the twentieth century. He was born in South Omaha, Nebraska. He migrated to Chicago after serving in WWI and organized community defense during the 1919 Chicago race riot. He joined the African Blood Brotherhood and became an official member of the CPUSA. He traveled to Moscow where he studied at the International Lenin School. He made his greatest intellectual contribution to the American Communist movement: the 1928 and 1930 Comintern “Resolutions on the Negro Question,” which theorized the right of self-determination for African Americans in the southern Black Belt through the creation of a sovereign Black nation-state.

He helped found the CP’s League of Struggle for Negro Rights. He was active in LSNR campaigns against lynching, tenant evictions, segregation, and legal frame-ups and served as the organization’s president (1934-36). He joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and fought alongside Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War.

He became estranged from the Party in the post-WWII era. He spoke out against Earl Browder’s accommodationist line, as well as Nikita Khrushchev’s destalinization reforms. The Party disavowed the theory of self-determination in the American Black Belt in 1957, he denounced the decision and was expelled from the Party two years later. He spent the remainder of his life helping to build the Mao-aligned New Communist Movement and mentoring a new generation of Black radicals in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Author of scores of essays, pamphlets, and treatises on a variety of topics, Haywood’s major works are Negro Liberation, published in 1949, and his 1978 autobiography, Black Bolshevik. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence