Journal This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory It’s finally complete; Kirby Ferguson’s latest episodic online documentary “This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory” posted its seventh and final episode last night.
Journal Ridley Scott's The Seven Worlds This is from earlier in the year, but I only just saw it. Ridley Scott made this short film for Hennessey and it is stunning.
Journal Night Of The Living Podcast interview I did an interview last night with Freddy and Kelley from the Night Of The Living Podcast. It was easily the most fun interview I've done but I haven't listened back to it, so there's a decent chance I talk a lot of nonsense.
Journal INFODUMP 33 is now live... It'll be in your inbox if you subscribe (or your junk mail folder if you're smart) or you can see it HERE [https://mailchi.mp/e20164f9f8ba/3tvbt58cwu-2331393?e=c45bcdb407]. If you're new to it and you like it, there's a subscribe box
Journal Robert Richardson Robert Richardson's work on Oliver Stone's movies and on Scorsese's films represents the pinnacle of the cinematographer's art. Latterly he's been doing amazing things with Tarantino and here he is talking to Deadline about "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood".
Journal A piece on Lovecraft I'd completely forgotten being interviewed for this piece and so I didn't think to look for it until today.
Journal On walking This, from the peerless Brain Pickings: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/01/10/kenneth-grahame-the-fellow-that-goes-alone/
Creativity Seven Days Walking - Box Set This has been the soundtrack to all my writing this year. Now Ludovico Einaudi's SEVEN DAYS WALKING project is complete (it was originally released over seven months). The download is around now, but the CD box set is available from November 1st. This is perfect Autumn music, perfect
Journal Hotel Okura Monocle made this 5-minute film about the Hotel Okura in Tokyo. The whole thing is a wonder of 60s Japanese design. https://monocle.com/film/design/end-of-an-era/
Journal Is Social Media Over? That's a stupidly broad question, to which the answer is very obviously "no". But I can't be the only person who has grown to loathe the circular conversations and pointless fights on Twitter and Facebook and who has started avoiding Instagram because it just
Journal Incredible picture of the Russian volcano eruption, taken from the ISS Sharing this from Colossal: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/07/raikoke-eruption/
Journal Featured Suzanne Moxhay Suzanne Moxhay is an artist working with photographs, which is to say that she has an incredibly intricate process, inspired by the matte painting technique movies used to use.
Journal Featured Suffolk Landscapes At the end of last week, I spent a couple of days up on the Suffolk coast, on a research/inspiration trip for the second series of our Mystery Machine podcast. I also found some time to experiment with some landscape photography.
Journal Some Amsterdam images An impromptu evening visit to the NDSM wharf; an old dockyard being transformed into a cultural enclave and artists' colony. Pictures taken last year on a Fuji X-E3 with a 35mm lens. Starting off at going through Centraal Station to ferry at the backWaiting for the ferryCrossing the waterAn
Journal These images are incredible Tennis Balls and Swim Caps Crowd the Frame in New Time-Lapse Compositions by Pelle Cass More to be seen at COLOSSAL [https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/05/new-photos-by-pelle-cass/]
Journal Fugitive Writing Machines The exciting news is that I have ordered a typewriter. It’s a Hermes 3000 which was manufactured in Switzerland in 1965 and is, I am reliably informed, “the Rolls Royce of typewriters”. This is a peculiar draw for me, as I’ve never had any interest in owning an
Journal Digital Minimalism I’m reading DIGITAL MINIMALISM [http://infodump.blog/] by Cal Newport, author of the excellent DEEP WORK. From the Amazon blurb: > The urge to pick up our phones every few minutes has become a nervous twitch that shatters our time into shards too small to be present. Our addiction
Journal California Typewriter I finally caught up with the documentary feature CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER last night and now I’m obsessed with finding a good reconditioned typewriter (I have an old Remington Rand that weighs a ton, but I’m after a Smith Corona Silent or maybe a Hermes). This is the perfect documentary
Journal Featured Ludovico Einaudi - Seven Days Walking A great writing/reading/thinking companion, the first two albums (so far) in Ludovico Einaudi “Seven Days Walking” series – he’s releasing one a month for seven months – are sublime. From the Qobuz write-up: > "After Elements in 2016, Ludovico Einaudi is continuing his exploration of nature with Seven
Journal Mythological Monsters A friend recently asked me for some recommendations for books on the mythology and folklore of the British Isles, with specific reference to monsters and mythical creatures. I grabbed some books down from the shelves and took snaps of them for him and I figured they might be useful or
Movies Deadwood, the movie One ought only ever be cautiously optimistic about movie trailers, but this has me squealing with delight.
Journal Short, Sharp Shocks Austin Kleon’s new book “Keep Going [https://austinkleon.com/keepgoing/]” is the latest in his incredibly inspiring series on creative practice. Kleon’s books are fast and punchy and great to look at and I find I go back to them whenever inspiration or motivation are flagging. A few
Journal Daily Routines I stumbled across this infographic, which is really interesting https://podio.com/site/creative-routines
