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Michelle Thompson is a "British digital illustrator, cutting-up and reassembling images from recent history, to reflect contemporary themes and popular culture."
Love In the Afternoon // Skater
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More of Thompson's work is on her Foundation page and her Objkt page.
"Kyiv Type Foundry is conserving the architectural heritage of Ukraine by pulling typefaces out from underground." It's Nice That explains.
Not exactly sure what it is about Michael Wolf's photos of Paris rooftops that I find intriguing, but there's something there that captivates.
More on Wolf's site.
For more than a decade, Gail Albert Halaban has been photographing people through their windows — with permission. She's got a series of photos from New York, Italy, Paris, Istanbul, and Buenos Aires.
And here's a BBC Provile of Halaban's project:
More on Halaban's site.
Because the Copyright lapsed and the film entered the public domain, the Internet Archive has a copy of Orson Welles' The Trial, based on Kafka's novel.
You can watch the trailer for the 4K restoration on YouTube. The version about is 720p.
via Metafilter.
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!
Someone'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.
