Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Scientists have found evidence of mass death due to the plague 5000 years ago, which goes against the prevailing theory that plague wasn’t that deadly until more recently.
A long oral history of Steven Spielberg and his career. “He’s a terrific collaborator. He himself is a continuous lightbulb flickering on and off with one idea after another, but he’s not terribly protective of an idea.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
30-disc set includes:
- 4K restorations of Kubrick’s thirteen features and three shorts, with their original soundtracks alongside the 5.1 mixes, restored and remastered
- Over twenty-five hours of interviews, documentaries, and behind-the-scenes materials
- Kubrick’s international version of The Shining
- A new 4K restoration of Vivian Kubrick’s behind-the-scenes documentary Making “The Shining”
- Newly recorded commentary tracks featuring filmmaker Lee Unkrich (editor of the book Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”) and author Michael Benson (Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece)
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
I appreciate what 2K/DENMARK’s Klaus Krogh says about their ambitions when he and his wife started the company:
When I started this company together with my wife, I said we got to become a very very small company. Why? Because we are going to put so much effort into each and every assignment that nobody’s going to pay for it. So we are not going to grow any. Now almost 40 years later, we have the very best customers. We have customers in 43 countries. We do typesetting in Chinese and Japanese. Why? Well, because we take care. We do our very best every time.
Tags: 2K/DENMARK · design · Klaus Krogh · typography
The trailer for Klara and the Sun, directed by Taika Waititi and based on the bestseller by Kazuo Ishiguro.
AI Economics for Dummies. “The Wall Street Journal’s business editor moves into Alex’s house, having accepted a part-time position as Alex’s human footstool. He never asks to see the books.”
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
Thousands of handmade ceramic tiles form the collaborative "Shape of Movement."
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article In Guadalajara, a Ceramic Tile Mural Mimics a Sun-Drenched Ecosystem appeared first on Colossal.
Great piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates on how “the portrait of America as an imperial power cuts against its self-image as a righteous cradle of democracy” and what that means for the next Black president.
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
The forthcoming show 'The Death of Beauty' at Track 16 investigates intersections of identity, desire, and consumer culture.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article David Daigle’s Elaborate Punch-Cut Paper Pieces Excavate Commercial Imagery appeared first on Colossal.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
A new seismic phenomenon: seismic waves from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake ricocheted off the Earth’s core and shifted the entirety of Japan 6 millimeters to the east, enough to disrupt GPS measurements.
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"The cultural discourse around avoiding alcohol never convinced me—and why sober up when the world is burning? Then life intervened."
