The Guardian spoke with genius Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr about his 2011 retirement and why he's teaching 20-somethings about art in Sarajevo.

Tarr's films are not to everyone's tastes, but I find them rather captivating. It is not hyperbole to say that absolutely no one makes or has made films like Tarr. I have not seen them all, but my favorite of those I have is The Turin Horse, which was his final film. It is about two and a half hours long and contains only 29 cuts. Long shots are his signature shot. Satantango, perhaps his most famous film, is seven and a half hours long.

If you'd rather not invest such time into one of Tarr's films blindly, here's a 40 minute essay that offers a decent introduction to his work. Below that I've linked two you can currently watch for free.

The Turin Horse is online in its entirety, as is Werckmeister Harmonies.

Via Metafilter.

Magdalena Wywrot's forthcoming Deadbeat Club title, PETSKA, looks to be fantastic.

Full details on the title are on the DeadBeat Club site.

MIT Tech Review offers a brief, weird history of brainwashing.

L. Ron Hubbard, Operation Midnight Climax, and stochastic terrorism—the race for mind control changed America forever.

A brief, weird history of brainwashing

L. Ron Hubbard, Operation Midnight Climax, and stochastic terrorism—the race for mind control changed America forever.

MIT Technology ReviewAnnalee Newitz

As an added bonus, how sweet is this video of TheFlippist at Pee-wee's Playhouse:

Gil Rigoulet has an almost overwhelmingly fantastic trove of photos taken in the 70s and 80s in Napoli, Chicago, England, Quebec, and France.

The street was the best window and I plunged my camera uncomplicated by traveling North America, and Europe from east to west. No obligations, no command, just to see the world around me.  

Phenomenal work. See more, including his landscapes, Polaroids, self portraits, and more on his site: GilRigoulet.com

Some wonderful work by Anna Cabrera & Ángel Albarrán, who collaborate as Albarran Cabrera.

All of these images are from their series Nyx:

The name of the Nyx series comes from a Greek creation myth. There are many of them and often they begin in darkness. As children of the Mediterranean living in Barcelona, we learned of the story of Nyx through several poems by Orpheus in which Nyx is depicted as the origin from which all creation emerges. 

The rest of the series is here.

The Burn My Eye Photography Collective has some superb street photography categorized by theme. I've provided credit when it's been shared.

Plenty more on the Burn My Eye website.

Abigail Goldman is an investigator in the public defender's office. As part of her job, she visits morgues, observes autopsies, and studies pictures of crime scenes. To relax, she turns nightmarish imaginings into precise, red-splattered miniatures.

More on Goldman's website.

Extraordinary work from Pat Perry.

And not just murals:

Lots more to see at PatPerry.net.

These photos were sent to me and they're apparently up around Toronto. Anyone know if there are more? Or who made them? Would like to buy them a drink.

Update: hepta on MetaFilter pointed out that these were designed by Spring Magazine and that they've provided soft copies for you to print and post yourself. Fantastic!