Meanwhile #143
Ooh I’ve just discovered you can add footnotes. Can’t imagine how that would become in any way insufferable.
Been having a tidy up of my Pinterest boards recently (yes I still use Pinterest after all these years, yes that surprises me too), and adding a few bits and bobs to my collection of contact sheets. A particulate favourite, this set of Audrey Hepburn by Milton Greene for her Broadway debut in Gigi, 1951.
Shift Happens, Marcin Wichary’s massive new book about keyboards, looks really rather wonderful (as does its exemplary promotional site). To qwert1 your appetite a little more, this thread of fifty strange/esoteric/meaningful keyboards from Wichary’s collection is fascinating.
Can’t beat a good A24 auction, especially this one featuring cinematic ephemera from their book For Promotional Use Only. I mean, who doesn’t need a Fatal Attraction paperclip dispenser?
Portraits famous photographers have taken of their partners compiled by Isabelle Baldwin. Just a thoroughly delightful scroll. One perhaps valuable lesson from this thread: an awful lot of these portraits are shot in landscape.
Twenty mechanical principles combined in one useless LEGO machine. Hypnotic and genuinely enlightening. Imagine if every child in every school was given one of these to build.2
Dimensions, an ongoing reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday and fictional objects, is an incredibly useful resource and time-sucking procrastination hole.3
If you’ve seen the Pixar short Out, you’ll be needing director Steven Clay Hunter’s mum’s recipe for pizza casserole. PIZZA. CASSEROLE.
That is all.
Like whet, but more qwerty. Because keyboards. Qwert. I really shouldn’t have to explain this stuff to you, you’re not usually an idiot.
You know sometimes you type something and immediately worry that future historians will trace the first moments of the apocalypse back to you and your stupid idea and … yeah.
And came in handy for my new favourite star Wars theory.