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.

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.

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

How American Purity Culture Led to a Shocking Affair — Mikita Brottman for Crimereads on her new book GUILTY CREATURES.

Roots of the American Southern accent.

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.