Jalou Galerie, 'les archives de L'Officiel de la Mode' (via
On Shadow, mildly nsfw), a treasure trove of archive imagery from France's
L'Officiel de la Couture et de la Mode, dating back all the way to the
first issue in 1921. The above image shows a selection of covers from
1933, when Leger was clearly all the rage.
*A fine exposition on several contemporary topics,
Who Stole My Volcano? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dematerialisation of Supervillain Architecture / we missed this:
Life Without Buildings interviews Charlie Kaufman, on the occasion of the release of
Synecdoche, New York, a film about a world within a world (rather than a film within a film, the original meta digression that denoted a knowing post-modern treatment).
Official site.
It would be a bit trite to point out that video games pioneered the art of packaging alternate realities, giving us the ability to casually acknowledge the grandiose yet also macro scale world vision demonstrated by Kaufman's protagonist, Caden Cotard. From the look of the stills, the film has a patina-rich analogue feel, something that seems increasingly within reach of digital fx houses (see this 'making of' piece about
Eternal Sunshine...). Kaufman's imaginary world is always explicitly just that - imaginary - a multi-layered set in which places and people from the 'real' world are mirrored and imitated. We look forward to it.
*Other things. A happy coincidence that the NYT should publish a story ('
A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence') on the same day as an entirely
fake edition of the NYT was distributed, "all the news we hope to print", with the
website here /
small drawings, a weblog.
Eating bark, a weblog / the
John Peel wiki page /
nutty's nuggets, a weblog /
tigerluxe, a weblog / the photography of
Christopher Herwig, via
O Meu Outro Eu Esta A Dancar, a weblog with occasional nudity / photography by
Deirdre O'Callaghan / a
2D flash version of
Mirror's Edge, a game that presents the imaginary city as a place of perpetual movement.
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