How are all of us? Me, I’m … rested. After a fairly manic few months, I had two complete weeks off, so the three of us jetted off to Paris and it was LOVELY. Just a few highlights: Nathanaëlle Herbelin on the Musée d’Orsay; the Jean Julien set up at La Bon Marché; the Eiffel Tower (because of this one extremely tip: when reserving, set your laptop’s clock to French time); hitting each single comedian retailer on Rue Dante; and naturally the open high bus tour. I like an open high bus tour.
I used to be much less eager on seeing a duckling being eaten by a crow on the base of the Eiffel Tower. That was … not nice. Fascinating seeing how within the blink of a watch it introduced collectively onlookers from all corners of the world in a frenzy of despair and fruitless makes an attempt to assist. THANK YOU SYMBOLIC DUCKLING.
Some latest work for Footnote and the New York Instances over on my IG. Ought to most likely get about to updating my portfolio website sooner or later.
Discovered and scanned by P&C: The Operate of Color in Faculties & Hospitals, 1930. Eery as heck, like an anime highschool model of The Shining.
Very excited to see Ian McQue’s narrative artwork ebook MILESHIPS seem on Kickstarter. It has in fact smashed its funding goal, however get your title on that order listing now as a result of that is going to be stunning.
Simply found Magnum’s assortment of darkroom prints; iconic photographs (like this 1967 Erich Hartmann shot of a snowstorm in New York) marked up with all of the printing annotation and numbers and whathaveyou. A captivating arcane language.
Snail-mailed typewriter interviews, you say? Now that’s a pace of social media I can get behind.
Myself and the kid have been having a giant LEGO type yesterday and found one thing fairly great – the cabinets/dividers of Ikea Kallax cabinets are precisely two studs vast, and can maintain a easy bracket form unsupported. So many potentialities! Some pics of it in motion right here. Swedish/Danish cooperation at its most interesting.
See additionally: neat new Ikea adverts by INGO Hamburg.
Do I would like this Yoko Ono t-shirt?
That’s all.
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