Tuesday, 23 April 2024
quote [ “The biggest limiting factor right now is that almost everything that anyone wants is has to be from existing IP,” says Johnston, whose newest project is an animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “The Twits” for Netflix. ”And that that the notion of an original idea is somehow scary, certainly to a marketing entity, because they just have to work harder to get it into the public’s consciousness. That’s the bummer.” ]
Notes on copyrights, reusing and remixing, featuring some remarks from Dntel in the end. Thumb via some 10 year old mix from the latter.
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Monday, 22 April 2024
quote [ Get the classic novel Dracula, emailed to you in real time as it happens. ]
That was a promise too interesting not to mention. Reminds me of this other gamey dialogue that reads the whole of Moby Dick to you (can't seem to find it, gladly). Via Fallen London newsletter.
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Friday, 12 April 2024
quote [ “They wanted a pretty-looking male foot, basically. And I was like, ‘I don’t actually know any of my male friends’ feet’. So I just randomly asked some friends and they were like, Oh, yeah, Tom has the nicest feet in the world!” ]
Great interview on a movie prop builder with nice photos.
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Wednesday, 10 April 2024
quote [ look at those tongue & groove joints, it just slides apart!—and they’ve spent 35 years storing, moving, protecting and conserving the pieces of it. ]
how cities handle public art and conservation documented on the deconstructed Serra sculpture from the 80s. Links to another example in Paris.
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Tuesday, 9 April 2024
quote [ From the early ‘70s to the late ‘80s Armin Hagen Baron Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene pursued a lifestyle that very few had attempted before or have attempted since. Armin dedicated all his time exclusively to the pursuit of sexual satisfaction and streamlined every action, decision, and all creative output to be in the service of that mission. ]
ok, so technically they're doing an apartment tour…
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Monday, 8 April 2024
quote [ Without a distributor, presses like Black Lawrence and Noemi are completely cut off from their main sources of income—and for some, SPD might have been the only affordable option left. ]
Ouch! news like these are hefty punches.
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Saturday, 6 April 2024
quote [ The rise of public digital surveillance is both a symptom of and an attempt to address a larger problem: that our own neighbors may be strangers to us. ]
Interesting musings on control and belonging and stuff.
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Thursday, 4 April 2024
quote [ others have pointed to Condé Nast’s original motive behind acquiring the website in 2015: to tap into “a very passionate audience of Millennial males.” […] This moment represents a new low for music journalism as a whole. ]
The more absurd the reasoning, the easier it is to believe.
thumb: State Library and Archives of Florida, via commons.flickr-Search for "Pitchfork"
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Wednesday, 3 April 2024
quote [ "The problem is they've almost got it right here, but they should curl down rather than up. Other than that, it's Fluctus." ]
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Sunday, 31 March 2024
quote [ To increase public access to archival photography collections,
To provide tools and resources to help interested researchers enhance the photographs’ descriptions and other metadata, and To return this new information to the contributing cultural member organizations, and To protect and attend to the long life of this unique collection. ] a nice tool – launched this year – to easier follow through permissively licensed archives on Flickr. Found via blog of Alex Chan (working at Flickr + having co-build this portal)
thumb is Hong Kong radio station '69 via The National Archives UK "most recent" feed.
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