Meanwhile #197

Oscars and sausages and disorder.

Very happy to see Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest win a couple of Oscars, especially for sound, which was used to devastating effect. Am reminded of Glazer’s Guinness advert Surfer – still absolutely slaps after 25 years – and its stunning use of silence. A24 have released a couple more thoroughly weird Neil Kellerhouse posters for the film and now I’m in the A24 store and somebody needs to take my credit card away from me at once … unless … should I get my kid a Midsommar t-shirt?

For more Glazer, I highly recommend tracking down his Directors Label DVD, featuring videos for Radiohead, Jamiroquai, Blur and Massive Attack. A bit of a sausagefest, but that whole series was an incredible snapshot of directors working in videos and advertising in the nineties.

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Another exceedingly deserved Oscar for Billie Eilish. Still my favourite sleeve and photograph from last year.

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A little disappointed the underrated Nimona lost out to The Boy and the Heron for Best Animated Feature Film, but it was to be expected. Interesting look at the design of the film here. Even more disappointing, the Academy continues to belittle animated films as content to keep the kids quiet; the Oscar coming across as little more than a pat on the head. Christopher Miller and Phil Lord wrote about this after the 2022 ceremony, and it still needs addressing.

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I completely missed Godzilla Minus One, but the soundtrack release designed by Matt Needle look gorgeous.

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Excited to see Chris Ashworth’s Disorder – “the first book dedicated to the career of a truly hands-on graphic designer, charting his ‘Swiss Grit’ approach from the influential Ray Gun magazine in the 1990s, through to his experimental type projects of the present day” – has hit its funding target.

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Scans of the original serialized Dune in Analog magazine. Surprised they haven’t reprinted facsimiles of these.

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“I continue to guard the mysterious and long-protected secrets of creative thinking, art-making, and storytelling that were passed down to me decades ago during my initiation ceremony (paddling and all) deep underground in the ancient Temple of Selfish Artists.” – wonderful post by Kyle T. Webster on the AI-adjacent lie of creative privilege.

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Have added start day with random PiXimperfect vid to my TeuxDeux. Aside from learning new Photoshop tricks, Unmesh Dinda’s presentation is just so damn calming.

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Okay, that’ll do. Must sleep now. Find me elsewhere, on threads, twitter, instagram, etc.