‘You’ll see Playland, our oceanside amusement park which was closed in 1972, very rare footage of the SkyTram (an extinct ride over Seal Rocks and Sutro Baths), and a brakescreeching ride down the Crookedest Street in the World.’
From 1955: Color Cinemascope footage of San Francisco by Tullio Pellegrini.
Found via Boing Boing
Film for the New Zealand Book Council, produced by Colenso BBDO and animated by Andersen M Studio.
And you can snag a copy of Maurice Gee’s Going West here.
Found via Daniel Will-Harris
‘Death does determine life . . . . Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalised by reason. For me death is the maximum of epic-ness.’ –Pier Paolo Pasolini
Luca Finotti’s The Last Obsession. Featuring Tom Ford’s Fall/Winter collection.
Bérénice Bejo as Peppy Miller in The Artist.
Finally saw it last weekend. Beautiful little nouveau ‘silent’ film.
The photography of Alex Prager.
Last month, Prager completed a 13 ‘cinematic villain’ piece for the NYT Magazine. View Touch of Evil here.
‘This film was made by his company as a presentation to AT&T executives. It would have extended to be shown to the public, but a number of his ideas in the film were not ultimately adopted, like his phone booth designs, and men’s and women’s uniforms.’
Complete pitch by the master. It’s everything anyone ever wanted to know about how good logos and visual identity systems work. From 1969. Historical details here.
Found via Scott Stowell
‘Watch the definitive documentary on the husband-wife design icons’
A new biography on Charles and Ray Eames is airing on PBS this week. Powerful and unflinching, more than just chairs. Playful optimism, powerful clients, amazing budgets, odd obsessions. Narrated by James Franco, titles feature the incredible Eames fonts.
Watch it online here.
Above, the IBM Pavilion at the 1964 Worlds Fair.
Below, Eames’ complete short film The Information Machine. Commissioned in 1958 by IBM, it was designed to get a fearful population to trust this perceived-dangerous, unknown mechanical variable: Computers!
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