• Watch the trailer for the newly-restored version of Fritz Lang’s masterwork, Metropolis.
• My cover design for Jeff VanderMeer’s Finch was voted best cover in the 2010 Spinetingler Awards.
• Figment announces the 2nd Annual Figment Album Cover Design Contest. The judge this time round is William Schaff.
• Two interviews at The Quietus: Jon Brooks of The Advisory Circle and Richard H Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire.
• “Merely a Man of Letters.” Jorge Luis Borges interviewed in 1977.
• Another Engelbrecht: The Miniature Theatres of Martin Engelbrecht.
• The Unearthing Box Set by Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins.
• The gays: RIP Felix Lance Falkon, author of the landmark study, A Historic Collection of Gay Art (1972). The Independent is the latest newspaper to look at sexuality in the animal kingdom.
• Publisher to Release Philip K Dick’s Insights Into Secrets of the Universe.
• Roger Ebert shows the world a draft of his unfilmed Sex Pistols screenplay, Who Killed Bambi? Jon Savage comments.
• Further Flickr sets: History of the Book/Typography and Dutch Graphic Design. Related: more Dutch graphic design at the NAGO.
• Far Red: Video by u-matic & telematique, music by Monolake.
• Has steampunk jumped Captain Nemo’s clockwork shark yet?
• An edge over which it is impossible to look.
• Songs of the week: See Emily Play by Pink Floyd and Metropolis by Kraftwerk.
Congratulations on the Spinetingler win John, thoroughly deserved as it’s a stunning cover.
Thanks, Anne, everyone seems to like that cover.
When do you sleep, John?
I’ve been anticipating Metropolis since the announcement in 08. Thanks for the Kraftwerk video, and of course everything else.
Bah, I’m such an ass to not mention–
Congratulations on a well-deserved award. The cover is gorgeous.
Thanks, Evan. And these posts are pretty easy to do, I just bookmark notable things during the week. Having a well-stocked RSS feed helps.
I already have Metropolis on DVD but I’ll happily buy it again for the missing scenes. The quality of the shots in the trailer is better than I hoped for.