— Ella Kemp talks to designers, archivists and publicists (and her personal mother and father!) about creating and preserving authentic film posters within the age of streaming. Nice lengthy learn from Letterboxd.
— What occurred to the cockney riviera? Oliver Wainwright on the botched regeneration of brutalist utopia Thamesmead.
— Okay, I’m assuming not less than a few of In the meantime’s subscribers are merely itching to be mysterious, rich benefactors, sure? So who needs to purchase me a Leica Q2 Monochrom? Or higher but, an armour-plated one?
— We’re massive followers right here of the Unfinished London movies Jay Foreman has been throwing on the web over the past twelve years, so it’s at all times a deal with when a brand new episode drops. The newest, What went flawed with the tube map? is especially attention-grabbing for all you Harry Beck followers.
— Someday I’ll clear an enormous sq. house in my backyard for a studio. However not simply your typical glorified shed, moderately a Kiosk K67, the Sixties Yugoslavian mass-produced modular design that truly went into manufacturing.
— Analysing Sight and Sound‘s biggest movies of all time ballot. Appalled to confess I’d by no means even heard of the primary movie, however hope to repair that quickly.
— It’s the top of the yr, so in fact the web is nothing however best-of lists proper now. I contributed some phrases to Quick Firm’s greatest guide covers of 2022, plus Mark Sinclair’s roundup for Artistic Assessment is especially good. My annual choose of movie posters (my fifth!) for the journal can be about to occur – watch this house.
— One listing I might/ought to make is Envied Journeys of 2022, and the highest spot would go to This Northern Boy’s two week circumnavigation of Iceland, a rustic I one way or the other nonetheless haven’t visited. His pictures are scrumptious. Someday I plan to comply with in his footsteps.
— (Critically, dearest benefactor, think about the unimaginable black and white scenes I’d seize with my treasured, armoured Monochrom)
— The Mist at 15. An oral historical past of Frank Darabont’s gut-wrenching Stephen King adaptation. I like this movie a lot. Professional tip: watch the black and white director’s reduce for final Outer Limits vibe.
— Jason Kottke is again! The positive hypertext producer’s web site has regularly been filling up with a mixture of outdated and new posts to maintain you busy, together with why the High Gun: Maverick mach 10 scene is sort of a excellent pop music, the NYPL’s assortment of bizarre objects and a brief historical past of the banjo.
— I broke some folks with the phenomenal camouflage of the snow leopard.
— When Tom Waits offers you an image of himself on a t-shirt in lieu of babysitting fee, heck yeah you’re going to put on it until the end of time. Fairly presumably the best merchandise of clothes in existence.
This was initially posted on In the meantime, a Substack devoted to inspiration, fascination, and procrastination from the desk of designer Daniel Benneworth-Grey.
Header picture by Adam Jang.
