Meanwhile #195

Vasilis Marmatakis, Black poster art, Sunshine and Jodie Foster being cooler than you can ever hope to be.

Always happy to see a new post from one of my favourite Instagram accounts, high.school.high – a wonderful collection of vintage school yearbooks. This 1974 cover from Woodlawn High School, Baltimore is quite lovely.

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Posterers gonna poster: Vasilis Marmatakis on creating the Poor Things art, and Matt Ferguson on the process behind his gorgeous poster celebrating 25 years (!) of The Phantom Menace. Elsewhere, Reel Art Press’ Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art looks stunning. Time to clear some space on that coffee table.

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I’m very slowly collecting Penrose Annuals, but I can never remember what each one contains, so this online index spanning almost a century of volumes is quite handy.

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“The specific failure of the data-driven times we live in is that it’s impossible to turn ‘how many books those chairs sold me on’ into a profit and loss line item.” – Casey Johnston laments the loss of the big, comfy bookstore reading chair.

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We rewatched Danny Boyle’s Sunshine the other day. Not sure it entirely works, but fascinating to watch a young Cillian Murphy play a physicist whose mission is to save mankind by setting off the exact chain-reaction Oppenheimer was trying to avoid. And calling a ship “Icarus 2” will never not be funny. Pleasing to discover Gia Milinovich’s official production blog is still online. Wish more films would be this generous with pre-release behind-the-secenes coverage.

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Albert Lamorisse, director of Oscar-winning The Red Balloon, also invented Risk. Did everyone know this? I did not know this. Everyone should know this.

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Logo Rhythm, Jim K Davies and Jamie Ellul’s massive new book on the history of the band logo, looks a little bit fantastic. Very happy to see this surpass its kickstarter target.

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Jodie Foster, 1984. Cooler than you will ever hope to be. Sorry.