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A Fist With The Thumb Tucked In

This little stone fist is over three thousand years old. Maybe more. It was loose in the bottom of a large box of Egyptian artefacts that I was asked to photograph for a museum.

I was fascinated by it because at the time the logo for my Documentally Podcast was a fist.

The fist I had chosen was nothing like this though. This Egyptian fist has the thumb tucked in and my fist was based loosely on Hunter S Thompson's two thumbed fist on his Gonzo logo. There was no formal connection to the Socialist fist as many thought.. That likeness was not intentional.

I have googled, researched and even looked in dusty books at the library to try to find out why the thumb is tucked in on the Egyptian fist.. Was it a secret society? A religious icon? Is it sign language?

Perhaps it was meant to confound a bored blogger 3000 years later forcing him to post the image online just incase someone out there in the ether knew the answer..

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Filed under // design documentally egyptian fist gonzo history hunter s thompson ourmaninside peyote photo

Posted October 4, 2009

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Beaver Wax

I've been in a few bands over the years. Some never left the bedroom recording studios they were born in. One hit the decks of the late great John Peel and others toured the UK bars and Uni's brushing dangerously with the possibility of becoming something.

I was just trawling through an old photo folder and found a mock up image for an album cover than never got made. 'Beaver Wax' were formerly (and i think latterly) called Reptile Sounds and after the death of one of it's members we drifted apart.

Here is the image and one of our unfinished track's I found on my hard drive.