Meanwhile #206
They had me at cream tea on arrival.
Welcome to Meanwhile, in which I bundle together the finest hyperlinks loitering in my tabs and drop them into your inbox – fuel for the week ahead. Check out previous editions for further inspiration, fascination and procrastination.
No idea how I’ve lived this long without seeing Jen Orpin’s oil paintings of British motorways, but they are bloody gorgeous. Like illustrations from JG Ballard’s personal collection of Ladybird books, with a bit of Gerry Anderson roadside architecture thrown in for good measure. This one right here of Forton services on the M6 needs to hang above my desk at once.
Pestka, Magdalena Wywrot’s stunning new collection of black and white photography is … hang on, where’s the blurb … “a gravity-defying, through-the-looking-glass portrait of the life of a mother and her adolescent daughter, a series of time-lapse dispatches seemingly beamed from a hermetic space station suspended high above a planet (and Krakow, Poland) where time is literally standing still”. Yeah, all of that.
Hello pages are the new about pages.
“Turn your passion into a brilliant book” – this week-long writing residential in a thatched cottage in Devon with excellent wordmongers
, and Simon Garfield is awfully tempting.What the internet looked like in 1994, according to fifteen webpages born that year. This is crazy, especially as the nineties was only ten years ago. Right? RIGHT?
A little blown away by A Quiet Place: Day One. No way did this second sequel have to be this good! Takes the basic premise of the original and uses it to explore a whole bunch of things that you wouldn’t expect from an alien invasion film. And Lupita Nyong’o gives one of the best performances of the year. It’ll probably be streaming by this afternoon, but this is definitely one to watch at the cinema if you can – all of that silence hits so much harder in a big dark room.
Run a Scottish bookshop for a week with Airbnb. This sounds … amazing?
From Olly Gibbs: “The changing of a prime minister and their new lectern really is like The Doctor regenerating and getting their new Tardis interior”. All very telling, especially Liz Truss’s Jenga design, which probably took longer to make than the time she spent in office.
I’ve had this little Lego robot animation bookmarked in my threads for weeks now. Just a friendly buddy who wanders about whenever that tab is open.
A collection of email sign-offs, most of which look like they were written by Jenny Holzer. I’m still quite proud of that one time I managed to send an accidental “all the beasts”, but mostly I favour …
That is all.