Neil Krug
The photography of Neil Krug.
The photography of Neil Krug.
‘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!
The work of China-based Raydesign.
‘In an effort to win Cully & Sully’s Cheffactor, a cooking competition in Ireland, Alan Travers created the Stop-Motion Biscuit Cake video of his girlfriend Dee’s legendary chocolate biscuit cake’
Found via Laughing Squid
‘the terror of suffocating to death in a closet’
May visit a few stores today just as a behavioral study.
Title card and trailer for Black Friday (1940).
Found via nineteenfortyone