Annie Duels The Sun (2010) by Angie Wang.
I’m interviewed again, this time by James at Cardboard Cutout Sundown. Covering familiar subjects for {feuilleton} readers: art history, design, Lovecraft, the genre/mainstream seesaw, etc. Related: Jeff VanderMeer previewed my design for the forthcoming Steampunk Reloaded.
• Battle over legacy of father of Art Nouveau. Prague authorities are demanding the paintings which comprise Alphonse Mucha’s Slav Epic be moved to the capital.
• The films that time forgot. David Thomson on ten neglected works including a cult favourite of mine, Jerzy Skolimowski’s Deep End (1970).
• The Viatorium Press: “Fine letterpress printing, digital typography, and hand painted illumination.” Among their recent productions is a poem by Clark Ashton Smith.
À la conquête du pôle (1912); Georges Méliès vs. Jules Verne.
• Taxandria, a feature-length collaboration between Raoul Servais, François Schuiten and, er, Alain Robbe-Grillet, is on YouTube. My earlier post about the film is here.
• Salvagepunk, or (maybe) Post-post-modernism: “How a music micro-trend heralds an emerging, internet-enabled, aesthetic movement.” See also the latest issue of The Wire.
• Drainspotting with Remo Camerota: documenting Japan’s creative manhole covers.
• Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of squid: a book devoted to Kraken Black Spiced Rum.
• After Stanley Kubrick. Christiane Kubrick on life without Stanley K.
• Pills and penises and kissing boys: Tara Sinn’s Kaleidoscopes.
• Found Objects: a hauntological dumping ground.
• Sandow Birk’s American Qur’an.
• RIP Frank Kermode.
• Feuerland (1968) by Theo Schumann Combo; Feuerland (1977) by Michael Rother; Feuerland (2007) by Justus Köhnke.