Meanwhile #158
Behold this week’s very finest creative distractions.
— “There are moments of overdirection, but the £13m revamp of the former Museum of Childhood in east London is a lighter, brighter magical toyshop” – Rowan Moore’s review of the rather lovely looking Young V&A. Can’t wait to visit – I’m holding out for October’s Japan: Myths to Manga exhibition.
— A quick flick through Tadanori Yokoo’s Waterfall Rapture, a collection of 13,000 postcards of waterfalls that he started collecting as reference material when he became obsessed with e idea of painting one.
— Okay so I need this limited edition Gary Hustwit print of a 1959 Braun TP 1 portable phonograph bedecked with a 7" of The Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun. Maximum summer vibe.
— Favourite new absurd fact: the maximum size of a document in the current PDF standard is 381km x 381km. Curious to see if anyone has actually tried this, and what it is … probably an extrapolation of what’s behind the Mona Lisa.
— Attack of the zeros and ones: the early years of digital cinema, as told by David Lynch, Miranda July, Michael Mann.
— Book designer Steve Leard is launching Cover Meeting, a new book design podcast, which is rather exciting.
— Watch Nimona. It’s REALLY REALLY GOOD.
— “People need someone or something to believe in that’s bigger than themselves, and Dolly Parton is that to me because she symbolises [that] you can be whoever you choose to be with pride” – London-based photographer Alice Hawkins on a decade of dressing up as Dolly Parton. Like scenes from some kind of alt-Barbie movie.
— You probably maybe saw my Five Rectangles post the other day. I’m going to try it as a weekly thing for paid subscribers, so upgrade now if you want more!