Alex Delamadeleine's project, les heures du jour, offers subdued horizons.
More on Delamadeleine's site.
Absolutely gorgeous library built into the earth in Chiba, Japan.
The cleft looks like a water drop when viewed from above. As you wonder into the approach and pass through the plowed ground, a corridor of bookshelves appears. Architectural elements such as beams and columns have been eliminated, while the concrete void slabs cantilever out from the outer retaining walls and wing walls. The floor, walls, and ceiling all have an earthen finish and connect smoothly, and the lawn that has been planted up to the vertical edge of the slab hangs down lushly and gives the space a sense of dampness. This detail allows for the balance of irrigation and water retention to be adjusted according to the season.
Designer is Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP and there are more images on their site.
Found via Yatzer.
The secretary's reactions on this clip are terrific. Looks like it was posted to Youtube by Alan Funt's daughter.
On a recent dog park walk, I found myself discussing the work of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh. I saw Leigh's new film, Hard Truths, on Thursday and it was as spectacular as anything he's ever done.
While walking and talking, I struggled to recall the name Nick Hedges, whose b&w work from '68 to '72 reminds me of Loach (in composition) and Leigh (in tone). Took me a few hours or googling to bring his name to mind.
More on Hedges' site. Also available in book form.
Gwen Coyne's iPhone Photography is probably better than yours. It's certainly better than mine.
More on Coyne's site.
The Center for Science in the Public's Interest (CSPI) offers up a Chemical Cuisine database rates additives — used to preserve foods or affect their taste, texture, or appearance — from ‘safe' to 'avoid.'
A direct link to the ratings is here. You can make a bookmark and save it on your phone's desktop. Come across an ingredient on a package and you want to know if it's safe? Check the database.
Eno, the Gary Hustwit-directed generative documentary that I mentioned in July gets its world streaming premiere tomorrow:
This livestream event is more than just the movie, it's a 24-hour curated film, art and music experience with multiple unique versions of the documentary generated around the clock and much more.
Streaming schedule and tickets ($24) are available at Anamorph.
You may know that in the 80s, Martin Scorsese directed Robert De Niro in a movie called The King of Comedy. It's the story of a comic so desperate to get on television that he kidnaps a Carson-esque talkshow host (played by Jerry Lewis after Carson declined the role) and refuses to release him until he's given a slot on the show.
But did you know that the film's screenwriter, Paul D. Zimmerman, who wrote the script in 1973, then called The Late Show with David Letterman asking for a slot? Letterman's producers agreed as long as Zimmerman's was willing to do some stand-up. As the Lewis character says in the film, "You don't just walk onto a network television show without any experience." It goes about as well as you'd expect. Stick around until after the credits for a bonus.
Molly White's guide to editing Wikipedia covers the basics in this ~30 minute video:
White is the person behind the newsletters and sites [citation needed] and Web3IsGoingGreat.
