William Fisk's absolutely delightful paintings of inanimate objects are stunning.
These are his Polaroids but he's painted a variety of items. Check the motorcycle below.
See everything on Fisk's site. Note that these are huge, in most cases more than five feet high.
Looks like the CBC did a piece on him. Unfortunately I could only find the trailer.
Gorgeous work from Phyllis Shafer.
"I believe that a kind of transcendental essence lies at the heart of all natural forms and objects."
Many more on Shafer's website.
Rarefilmm is an archive of 100s of hard-to-find, little-known, or mostly-forgotten films. I've bookmarked a few for future watch: the documentary Pasolini, un delitto italiano (Who Killed Pasolini); Peter Bogdanovich's At Long Last Love; Pedro Costa's O Sangue; Xích lô; Bashu; and, just for laughs, the english-dubbed version of one of my all-time favorite films, Le Samourai (directed by JP Melville): The Godson, pictured below.
Some of Bernhard Lang's award-winning aerial photography. These are from his Adria Series and were taken from a helicopter in Italy in 2014. More on his site.
"Why are buildings today simple and austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented? The answer is not the cost of labor."
Samuel Hughes' piece for Work In Progress explores this idea.
For the next week or so you can back the Demon Box on Kickstarter.
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A few weeks ago the film geek internet lost its mind because Tony Zhou made the first new episode of Every Frame a Painting in many years. Though I thought the episode was fine, my favorite of his is the one below.
If you're not a film buff and have never really understood what makes one film dynamic and another a bore — of if you're unaware of what a director does, or what blocking is, give it a watch:
And if you enjoyed that, the whole series is here.
Street photographer Meryl Meisler's got a new book, Street Walker. It's available from Eyeshot and they're only printing as many copies as are pre-ordered.
Elvis & Kresse make bags, wallets, and rugs from upcycled firehoses, parachutes, and rescued Burberry Leather. I find their size decisions to be rather odd (for instance, the bag below does not fit a Macbook Air) and I've never been a fan of companies gendering their products, but I can't deny they make gorgeous items that are intelligently and thoughtfully designed. Wonderful details.
Elvis & Kresse
David Szauder creates these Anatomy Sweaters using AI, which unfortunately means you can't purchase them.
You can, of course, view more on David's Site.
