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READING: BEYOND THE LIGHT HORIZON, Ken MacLeod (UK) (US+)
ORBITAL:
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Watch shop Hodinkee teamed up with minimalist design house Braun to create the BN0279. The grey 40mm mechanical watch is as simple as it gets, with hints of color calling back to Braun’s alarm clocks from the 70s.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Braun design lately, so it was weird to see this pop up in the feed today. Sadly, there’s only a hundred of them and they’re a grand apiece, which seems quite anti-Braun. Clearly I will covet one of these odd things forever.
Comments closedThe Daily Heller: Milton’s Paradise Lost and Found – PRINT Magazine
“Milton Glaser: POP by Mirko Ilic, Beth Kleber and me showcases more than 1,000 pieces from the mid-1950s through the mid-’70s, including hundreds of book covers and jackets, many forgotten for decades. Rather than closing the book on Glaser’s “pop” era, our book opened the doors to further lost artifacts, now found. Ilic has continued to uncover the covers of more than a dozen books that were completely unknown to us as editors, and probably forgotten by Glaser himself.”
Comments closedLove these simple titles, very much of their time, for HAMLET AT ELSINORE, BBC 1964:
More a note to self: Robert Eggers’ NOSFERATU is about to go into test screenings. So details will leak. I’m interested in this, because NOSFERATU is a brave and crazy thing to attempt, and I like that.
I’ve seen trailers, and, I think, a clip or teaser, for Timm Kroger’s THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, and here’s a review, in which this caught my eye:
It’s like Carol Reed shooting the best Philip K. Dick/Agatha Christie collaboration.
Speaking of PKD, the prologue – the German TV interview – also seems indirectly inspired by an incident in the writer’s career. While attending a conference in which Dick was to receive the critical attention for which he had yearned for so many years, he blew it all by claiming his books were inspired by interstellar communications. Whether this was a sincerely held belief is open to interpretation, but it does show the danger of playing with reality (and amphetamines, in legendary doses).
I’m hoping that MUBI gets it.
The Norwegian series THE ARCHITECT sounds great, and here’s a piece on its design choices. This image gave me strong WORLD ON A WIRE vibes for some reason.
The trailer is terrific.
Enjoying the design choices for the food products now being offered by NOMA Projects. I never got to eat at NOMA, obviously; and, of course, now I never will, as the restaurant is closed. But I have read Rene Redzepi’s books (which are excellent), and even got to talk to him a couple of times back in the days when you could use Twitter to talk to people. And now they’re releasing food products, which promise the tiniest hint of what it must have been like to dine there. I really hope it works out for them.
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The film posters of Cruz Novillo; I’m about to lose 30 minutes of work time to this link.
Newsletter is done and ready to go out Sunday morning. Just fed all the plants. Inbox is probably around 100, and it’s Bandcamp Friday, so my Bandcamp inbox is probably bulging at the seams. But I am scripting with one hand and developing new ideas with the other, and I don’t care. Am avail on email and messaging apps, but expect time delays. Back here on Tuesday, as it is Old Man Gets New Hat National Holiday on Monday. Happy weekend to both of my readers.
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