At a party the other night I met Tanja Tiziana, the photographer behind Not My Father's Slides, "a blog dedicated to vintage photographic slides — either found, rescued or donated." Fantastic project!
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166 PostsSomeone's done a 4K restoration of Tango, Zbigniew Rybczyński's transfixing Academy Award-winning short film. I first saw this in 1993 when running Art & Trash, Toronto's greatest video store. Rybczyński was the first Pole to win an Oscar.
Over the course of his prolific and varied design career, Jens Quistgaard created a series of peppermills for Dansk Designs.
The Peppermills of Jens Quistgaard is an exhaustive look at his designs.
Winners have been announced for the annual Close Up Photography of the Year Awards. Some incredible stuff.
Will Menzies / Loving Embrace
Winners in all categories can be seen on the CUPOTY site.
The best close up photo I've ever taken is probably this one:
The opening scene from the first episode of season two of Severance is quite a technical feat. Here's how it was done:
Emergence Magazine presents Shifting Landscapes, a documentary series, directed by Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, exploring the power of art and story to orient us amid the darkness of our time.
Following a musician, a poet, a writer, and a filmmaker who are each embracing the alchemical power of story to connect and transform us, this series opens ways of being that hold both catastrophe and love as our landscapes change and disappear.
I've only watched the first of the 4-film series, but it was well done and I'll hopefully get to the rest this week.
The full series is here: Shifting Landscapes.
Miniatua offers highly detailed collectibles and handcrafted miniature scale models of vintage IBM and computer gear.
There's also a to-scale recreation of the bedroom of the main character in the 1983 film, War Games, pictured above.
More on the Miniatua site.
