Wednesday Wonders 26
Ruth Wylie, The Bride, De La Soul, 3-D scans, Sign Painting, Bonus - Derelict.
1. Ruth Wylie
The Royal Academy is hosting a retrospective of Ruth Wylie's work right now. If you get a chance to go, the experience of standing in the room, surrounded by huge pictures that are just entirely irreverent and joyful is quite something. You get the refreshing sense of an artist who is doing her own thing and doesn't care what anyone else thinks. And when you find out that she is 91, and that her career didn't take off until she was in her 70s, it's very hard not to think that there is hope for all of us.
2. The Bride
Maggie Gyllenhaal's second film is a mess in the best possible way; she has made the movie that she wanted to make, with very little regard for Hollywood convention. There seem to be more and more films like this right now, and that's a very good sign for movies. The cast are uniformly great, the visuals and music are stunning. See it on the big screen if you can.
3. De La Soul - Tiny Desk Concert
What do you need me to say?
4. 3-D scans at the Met
This is a very cool project.
Kate Mothes
5. Lettres Décoratives
French sign-painting. Who doesn't need this in their lives?
Kate Mothes
Bonus Item - Derelict War
An additional Wonder, from someone else in the audio fiction community... If you haven't come across Derelict, it's a sci-fi audio drama with a Lovecraftian sensibility: ancient artefacts, deep ocean secrets, and the strong sense that humanity is poking at things it really shouldn't. The show is a big hit in the space, with five million downloads and counting.
The blurb from producer (and friend of the Lovecraft Investigations) Michael Freiberg:
DERELICT is an immersive sci-fi horror podcast inspired by Alien, H.P. Lovecraft, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The story begins when an ancient artifact resembling a giant door is discovered at the bottom of Earth's ocean. To study it, the galaxy's most powerful corporation has built a massive, secret research base around it, determined to unlock the secrets of what lies inside. But some mysteries should remain buried, and some doors should never be opened.
Michael and the team are now crowdfunding the next chapter of the story. The campaign launched yesterday, and you can support it here: https://derelictwar.short.gy/cg-ac