July 30, 2014
Tim Blanks - Inès de la Fressange
"Before the nineties supermodels there was Inès de la Fressange. Tim Blanks looks back on the career of the quintessentially French model who was a longtime muse to Karl Lagerfeld and served as the face of Chanel."
Et aussi: Flea Market Shopping with Inès de la Fressange.
Thaxton House
"Saved from subdivision-hungry developers and given a $1.5M restoration, the only Frank Lloyd Wright home in Houston has returned to the market."
July 29, 2014
How much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy?
"Prescience can be tedious for science-fiction writers. Being proven right about a piece of technology or a trend distracts from the main aim of the work: to show us how we live now. William Gibson knows this as well as anyone."
July 28, 2014
Guillermo Del Toro talks Alfred Hitchcock
"Acclaimed art-house turned megaplex director, Guillermo Del Toro makes time for Jian Ghomeshi in Studio Q between master class lectures on Alfred Hitchcock at the Toronto International Film Festival's Bell Lightbox theatre."
For two players: Spacewar!
The Hingham Institute Study Group on Space Warfare
"In 1961, MIT’s lab acquired a Program Data Processor-1. The PDP-1 was about three refrigerators wide—tiny compared to the giant room-spanning computers typical to the ‘60s. Steve Russell, a graduate student working in the lab, fell in love with the machine the moment he saw it.
"Russell gathered his study group together: J. Martin Gaetz, Alan Kotok, Peter Samson, Wayne Wiitanen and Dan Edwards. They called themselves 'The Hingham Institute Study Group on Space Warfare.' This motley group of proto-hackers would create the first video game."
July 27, 2014
The Ruling Class (1972)
"The Ruling Class is a 1972 British black comedy film. It is an adaptation of Peter Barnes' satirical stage play which tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenic British nobleman (played by Peter O'Toole) who inherits a peerage. The film co-stars Alastair Sim, William Mervyn, Coral Browne, Harry Andrews, Carolyn Seymour, James Villiers and Arthur Lowe. It was produced by Jules Buck and directed by Peter Medak.
"The film is a 'commercial failure [...that] has since become a cult classic'; Peter O'Toole described it as 'a comedy with tragic relief'."
July 26, 2014
BAFTA Guru - Daniel Radcliffe: On Acting
Why living in permanent fear can be a good thing and the importance of being a sponge to your environment.
Deleuze: 8 cours de philosophie (Université Paris-VII)
"Gilles Deleuze Appareils d'État et machines de guerre (1979-80) Sur Leibniz (1980) Anti-Oedipe et autres réflexions (1980) Sur Spinoza (1980-81) Foucault/Les formations historiques (1985) Foucault/Le pouvoir (1985-86) Leibniz I/Leibnitz et le baroque (1986-87) Leibniz II/Les principes et la liberté (1987) Université Paris-VIII."
The Clerk's Tale
James Franco's short film based on a poem by Spencer Reece, starring Charles Dance.
Vanessa Paradis private concert for Chanel
'Love Song' (Live) from the singer's concert on July 9th held at the Trianon venue in Paris.
July 25, 2014
A man's got to know his limitations
When Rick McGinnis photographed David Byrne.
Making of the CHANEL Fall-Winter 2014 ad campaign "Coco Coach"
Featuring Cara Delevingne & Binx Walton.
July 24, 2014
False negatives
The upside-down world of Joan Fontcuberta.
What Jiménez didn't realise is that "Ivan Istochnikov" is a Russian translation of "Joan Fontcuberta" (both surnames mean hidden fountain).
July 23, 2014
David Lynch - The Air is on Fire
"The body of work of filmmaker, photographer, musician, painter and designer David Lynch is polymorphic and dreamlike. Through these many artistic practices, he invents a mysterious, disturbing, strange and poetic world.
The Air is on Fire, his solo exhibition presented at the Fondation Cartier in 2007, created an element of surprise by combining the most diverse facets of his artistic expression."
