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Massively recommended if you want to brighten ups your twitter feed with some stunning New York street photography: follow book cover designer, illustrator, photographer Henry Sene Yee. That shot up there has been living in my likes for months.
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Thanks to one popping up in Andor (thinly disguised as a “navigational unit”), I’ve once again got a craving to get my hands on a Polaroid SX-70. This promotional film produced by the Eames Office in 1972 is simply darling. Particularly impressive is the staggering amount of technical information it gets across clearly in opening sentence.
III — Present & Correct have updated their blog, a torrent of splendidness and joy. Recent favourites include Tokyo’s architectural robots, a 1958 graph paper catalogue and Terry Jones dressed as a cake. Some good stuff in the shop too: who can possibly resist an Electro-matic Index?
IV — Photographer Bill Ray and writer Joe Bride recall several weeks spent with the Hells Angels in 1965 for a LIFE piece. These amazing photos never ran in the magazine at the time. I particularly love the jukebox shot.
V — Jo Walker provides some insight into how she created the beautiful cover for Pushkin Press’ new edition of Akimitsu Takagi’s 1948 novel The Tattoo Murder – described as “a gruesome classic Japanese locked room mystery set in the exotic underworld of Yakuza tattoo culture”, which is pretty much everything I want from a book.
VI — Fantastic thread from Will Ross, examining eye tracing and spatial orientation in Mad Max: Fury Road. With total mastery over the visual grammar of film, George Miller avoided the carnage on screen being too chaotic to comprehend by adhering to one core principle throughout: keep the action in the centre of the frame.
VII — Part Gorey, part Ghibli, all stationery, the mysterious Post-it note art of John Kenn. Love his answer when asked why he started the project: "So I wouldn't die. (I know it is a silly answer, but I just HAVE to draw and I HAVE to tell stories and I have to do it fast, and by doing it this way on post-it notes I can get it all out fast, so that I won't stress myself (or bore myself) to death.)"