I'm a big fan of ButterDocs, the Google Docs replacement, but I do find Forever Notes interesting enough to share. It's not an app, but "a simple framework and scalable digital note-taking method for Apple Notes." Free.
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A Soft Murmur offers "ambient sounds to wash away distraction." Use the sliders to remove the thunder, up the waves, and add some fire!
Launched more than 15 years ago, The Art of the Title, "an online publication dedicated to title sequence design in film, TV, and beyond," is taking a hiatus. I hope it's able to make a comeback.
The Features were always worth a read if you're into title sequences.
London-based website, Modernist Estates, connects "owners of modernist homes directly with people who care about design and architecture." Long-term and short-term available.
For my vinyl-collecting friends, Freitag has re-introduced its iconic Nightclub messenger bag. Each bag can hold up to 30 records and is made of upcycled truck tarps.
Paste Magazine lists their top 100 Films Noir. Not a bad list, though I would have put Out of the Past as #1 and Chinatown as #2.
Some of these can be watched this month on The Criterion Channel's Noirvember service.
Tate Kids offers up this video to help (not just) youngsters express their feelings:
I won't be the first to link this, but it's so alive it's hard to resist. He dishes on Michael Jackson, Marlon Brando, Bono, Cyndi Lauper... pretty much everyone he thinks of.
[Marlon] Brando used to go cha-cha dancing with us. He could dance his ass off. He was the most charming motherfucker you ever met. He’d fuck anything. Anything! He’d fuck a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye.
He slept with them? How do you know that?
[Frowns.] Come on, man. He did not give a fuck! You like Brazilian music?
Jones died the other day at 91. Full interview is on Vulture's site: Quincy Jones: In Conversation.
Wonderful illustration work from Moon Patrol. Prints available at that link.
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