My good friend and amazing actor and multi-hyphenate of many talents Dana Omar over in Chicago is putting together a pilot for a powerful passion project of hers called STUCK. She's reached a good 49% of her funding goal and has about 17 days left to raise the rest! Many great rewards ensue.
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Thomas Flight on Hollywood's Obsession with Ambition, or rather a video essay on Ambition vs. Mindfulness as seen through Christopher Storer's THE BEAR vs. Wim Wenders' PERFECT DAYS.
Warren Ellis on Giorgio De Maria's THE TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN.
Aditya Bidikar on blurring the lines between fiction and non-fiction in film.
I was taken enough by the Ryue Nishizawa-designed Moriyama house enough to see what I can find out about the man who commissioned it. This what my feeble inquiry has turned up:
Yasuo Moriyama is a Japanese individual known for his unique lifestyle and his collaboration with architect Ryue Nishizawa. He is often referred to as an “urban hermit”.
I reckon Moriyama and I would get on quite well.
There's a film about him and his house, logging here for a future watch.
Social media influencers based in India may be required to register with the government and meet with evaluation committees — Arjun Singh Sethi
Syd Mead's production design and concept art — Heth Madzo's massive Flickr collection.
Berlin’s culture budget for 23/24 is about £840 million. The Creative Scotland annual grant-in-aid from the government, to cover the whole of the country, is only £68.5 million as of 2024 — Heather Parry on how UK politicians are making life shit (wait till she sees America).
[Netanyahu] claimed, amid roars of cheers, that the number of civilians who have been killed in Gaza is “practically none,” echoing the genocidal mantra “There are no innocents in Gaza” that Israel has repeated throughout the war. — Seraj Assi for Jacobin
Documentary Area — Free documentaries.
MuscleWiki — Click on a muscle, check the equipment you have, and a demonstration of an exercise for that particular muscle pops up.
“Ditko appeared at the first New York Comicon, held in 1964 with around 100 attendees... He never made an official convention appearance again. ” —Rolling Stone.
If a crowd of 100 was mortifying enough, imagine what might happen to the man if forced to attend a comicon today.
China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of 5 large nuclear power stations per week — GlobalEnergyMonitor.org
The Psychological Tactics in Israel's War on Lebanon — TIMEP
As an aside: A close reading of colonial history can help us deduce that a sure way to tell who the aggressor is would be by identifying which side is dropping leaflets (excluding both WWs, which can best be described as the Wars Between Colonizers).
Alphabet City Comics — whereby each panel corresponds to a letter in the alphabet. Fun constraint from Matt Madden.
“Nobody I know likes capitalism, yet HERE WE ARE.” — Kelly Sue Deconnick
Brainoids
“AI and the nature of intelligence are hot topics, as is using DNA as information storage, and printing organelles to study how they develop and function. Including brainoids, little self-contained blobs of neuronal tissue which display patterns of regular electrochemical activity, and raise ethical problems about whether or not they are self-aware.”
How American Purity Culture Led to a Shocking Affair — Mikita Brottman for Crimereads on her new book GUILTY CREATURES.
H.G. Well's THE TIME MACHINE audio drama from the BBC circa 2009.
“Alan Moore is a writer and magician from Northhampton. He's a stranger to hairdressers.” — That's one way to introduce Alan Moore. From the documentary DON'T GET ME STARTED by Stewart Lee, which makes a case for blasphemy, or anti-censorship rather. Inspired by protests against a play he had written, the documentary highlights various measures taken in the UK to curb creative freedoms. It would be interesting to see a follow up of sorts done today, given how “Freedom of Expression” seems to have become an argument for some to be openly racist, at least in America. It's either that or what some are calling “Woke culture”, which in my opinion is a bad term for what you might describe as a culture of disingenuous virtue-signaling. It's messy out here in these ununited states.
Sharks on Cocaine — National Geographic.