This is an old edition of Meanwhile from an inferior, more simian newsletter platform that has unhelpfully severed all the hyperlinks. It’s included here in the archive simply for sake of completeness.
Eery/beautiful photographs by Robin Friend of Manod, an abandoned slate mine in Snowdonia, where the National Gallery stored its paintings for safety during the Second World War.
“It’s been a little bit of a fluke, historically, that we’re able to rely on videos as evidence that something really happened.” – the era of fake video begins. Goodbye reality, it was nice.
A brief typographic history of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira.
I take a look at the unique formats and structures of jokes on twitter … and yes, it’s behind a subscriber paywall, but so is a brand new archive of 448 issues of Creative Review, so it’s definitely worth surmounting/burrowing under/paying for.
New favourite person on twitter: author/historian @PaulMMCooper. Tweeted a couple of exceedingly fascinating threads this week on British folly-ruins and the art manuscript repair. The sort of stuff I’d completely overlook if it was in a lengthy blog post or magazine article, but is somehow more digestible in thread form.
A wonderfully deep pool of covers, posters, sketches, etc. by iconic pulp illustrator Robert McGinnis. Very of its time – expect rugged surliness and much sensual draping.
Swedish kids celebrate their neighbourhood by designing a typeface.
I have pins. Mostly book and magazine covers, plus some posters and sleeves and comics. Basically lots of rectangles with words and pictures pushed into them at funny angles, as is my modus operandi.
The scratchboard art of Nico Delort hurts my mind it’s so darn beautiful.
Timothy Spall stars as a heroin-addicted DJ with a vintage knife in a bad youth hostel who must go on the run from a family secret so he can finally get custody rights of his arm in a messy divorce case … and other wonders of James Henry's UK TV Drama Pitch Generator.
Designer Duran Lantink discusses the process and inspiration behind Janelle Monae’s new trousers. You know. The new trousers.
That is all.