Meanwhile #212
Gazing towards the infinite and towards the bowels of mother earth … and muffins!
Director Steven Zaillian and cinematographer Robert Elswit reveal the methods, ideas, and secrets of the Ripley’s meticulous black-and-white visuals. As a huge fan of the almost perfect movie, my expectations for the show were low … but fine, I concede, it’s bloody wonderful. More adaptations1 like this please.
Visual effects magazine befores & afters looks at the impressive array of seamless VFX shots in Ripley.
More gorgeous photography – Richard Weston and fammily follow in the footsteps of Mr Ripley along the Amalfi Coast.
More Farrow-meets-Kubrick than the rest of Richard’s pics, that up there is Anish Kapoor’s Dark Brother at Museo Madre. No family holiday is complete without a big black hole in the ground filled with nothingness and despair.
Back in blighty, The World of Tim Burton is opening next month at the Design Museum. I’m very much “love the early stuff, and then … ehh” on Burton2, but heck I’ll still lap this up. Can’t wait to see the range of gift shop merch. I love gift shop merch.
The Folio Society have continued their Dune series with a new edition of Children of Dune, illustrated by Hilary Clarcq. At some point I’m going to get all three of these books and make a little sandy shrine to them.
Pretty certain that Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944) are some of the most beautiful images ever made. Do I need one of these on my wall? If so, which one? All of them, you say? Every wall? FINE.
A brief history of a graphic design icon: Chip Kidd/Sandy Collora/Tom Martin’s Jurassic Park logo. Features the greatest fax of all time.
Very pleasantly surprised to find myself alongside other fantastic newsletterists in this week’s Substack Reads digest, curated by
.3 Apparently I’m a “known quantity in design circles” and should be enjoyed with a dirty vodka martini. This is all I’ve ever wanted.An LP a Day Keeps the Doctor Away – excellent guest post by
on , delving into the world of educational record sleeve art.“I have been told to stop stealing muffins from the bakery. Unfortunately, it’s the only way to keep my lucrative muffin stand in business. Everyone is fine with this.”
That is all.
If anyone needs me, I’m out here perishing on the “remakes and re-adaptations are distinct cultural entities that each deserve their own critical discourse” hillock.
Slavishly copying Burton’s art occupied most of my time at school. Ideally this show would have one room dedicated to nothing but nineties teenagers’ exercise book doodlings of stripy snakes and Edward Scissorhands.
This has created quite a spike in subscribers, which will immediately correct itself the moment I hit Send on this thing. Nothing loses you newsletter subscribers quite as effectively as sending a newsletter to your subscribers.
The greatest fax of all time indeed! I love that story.