Paste Magazine lists their top 100 Films Noir. Not a bad list, though I would have put Out of the Past as #1 and Chinatown as #2.

Some of these can be watched this month on The Criterion Channel's Noirvember service.

This Australian couple has my dream job:

In a remote desert town in Australia, population two, a couple manages an emergency airport and keeps vacant cottages in pristine condition, waiting for visitors who never seem to arrive.

Tate Kids offers up this video to help (not just) youngsters express their feelings:

I won't be the first to link this, but it's so alive it's hard to resist. He dishes on Michael Jackson, Marlon Brando, Bono, Cyndi Lauper... pretty much everyone he thinks of.

[Marlon] Brando used to go cha-cha dancing with us. He could dance his ass off. He was the most charming motherfucker you ever met. He’d fuck anything. Anything! He’d fuck a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye.

He slept with them? How do you know that?
[Frowns.] Come on, man. He did not give a fuck! You like Brazilian music?

Jones died the other day at 91. Full interview is on Vulture's site: Quincy Jones: In Conversation.

Wonderful illustration work from Moon Patrol. Prints available at that link.

Also available in book form:

After his wife and two of his children were killed in Gaza, Al Jazeera journalist Wael al-Dahdouh became famous around the world for his decision to keep reporting. But this was just the start of his heartbreaking journey

A long-read for this week: The Tragedy of Palestinian Journalist Wael al-Dahdouh by Nasrine Malik for The Guardian.

Christopher Soukop's series, A Dimly Lit World, is absolutely sublime. Plenty more on Soukop's site. Christopher also has a Flikr Photostream.

This is from a few years ago but for some reason I didn't link it back then. So: Isaac Cordal's Urban Inertia series from Montreal.

Some stunning work in Saroyan Humphrey's Nightlight series of photographs. Many more under the link.

Hannah Levesque makes very detailed custom paper architectural models.

Many more photos on Levesque's site, including close-ups and interior details. Wonderful stuff. There, you can order a custom job, or even purchase a DIY kit.