links/2024w06
Experimenting with returning links to being their own weekly post (or perhaps twice-weekly, on Weds and Sat?), a hodgepodge of trailers and quotes and more. Plus it’s easier to update these at the last minute than it is trying to update the newsletter before it sends (and K said she enjoys clicking through them so there). Anyhow…
Fans Flock to Witness a Single Chord Change in John Cage’s 639-Year-Long Organ Performance | artnet
See Stunning Photos of Pompeii’s Wall Paintings and Mosaics, Now Compiled in a New Book | artnet
You may take my money now. Dan Trachtenberg To Direct New Standalone ‘Predator’ Movie ‘Badlands’ As 20th Century Expands On Universe | Deadline
Her work is amazing, modern art in quilt form: Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee’s Bend Quilter | American Age Fashion
HIGH AND LOW is my favorite Kurosawa film; I'm hopeful that this will be better than the last time Spike Lee remade the work of an Asian filmmaker: Denzel Washington & Spike Lee Reunite For High And Low Remake | Bleeding Cool
A Portfolio: Ji Zou | Juxtapoz Magazine
Just finished A RAGE IN HARLEM, and Himes has already become one of my favorite authors. Good timing, NYT: The Crime Novelist Who Was Also a Great American Novelist | NYT (paywall)
And finally, an intriguing read on the notion of embodiment and the potential for prostheses to become a mix of personal sculpture and human augmentation: Why prosthetic limbs need not look like real ones | The Economist (paywall):
links/2023w06.2
A day in the life of living on ransom: How high costs for diabetes medications have led to a flourishing black market | NBC News
😮: Spider-Man Noir Series From Oren Uziel In Works At Amazon | Deadline
Stunning: OMA creates "stage for storytelling" for Dior exhibition in Tokyo | Dezeen
Geralt got hammered: Someone Help This Witcher 3 Fan Who's Being Haunted By A Hammer | Kotaku
Hopefully gets Winham the credit she deserves for shaping a generation of music photography: Fever Technique: The Spectral Photography Of Francine Winham | The Quietus
The Emancipatory Visions of a Sex Magician: Paschal Beverly Randolph’s Occult Politics | The Public Domain Review
Figured this was why TCM did another special: Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy Battles His Toughest Foe: Copyright Lawyers | Vanity Fair