JP and Mike Andrews use aerial photography to find colourful abstract and geometric shapes in scenes from everyday scenes around the world.
I’m a big fan of a good pencil. My favourite is the Palomino Blackwing 602. It’s easy to write with and fancy stationery makes me happy. The BBC has a short history of the pencil as one of the 50 things that made the modern economy. All the talk of the moon landing recently got me thinking about the old story about NASA spending millions to invent a pen that writes in space, while the Russians just sent their cosmonauts up with pencils. Turns out there’s more to the story as explained by Scientific American.
Yes, there’s been an inundation of space talk lately. I bumped into this list of innovations that only came about via the space program. So the next time you slip into your aerodynamic swimsuit, you know who to thank.
I’m currently devouring the Beastie Boys Book. It’s fun (there are sections written by the two surviving members as well as those from within their circle e.g the kid who introduced them to the internet), and it’s emotional (the presence of the band’s main force, Adam ‘MCA‘ Yauch is felt throughout and Horovitz and Mike D both heap sincere praise on their fallen comrade). It’s also evocative of NYC and visually exciting too. Rolling Stone has a good review, Vulture has an excerpt about making Paul’s Boutique and The Guardian excerpts a good section about their first tour to the UK.
I’m a huge fan of director Taika Waititi. The trailer for his new ‘anti-hate’ movie Jojo Rabbit has dropped this week. Looks funny, especially the scenes with Hitler, played by Waititi himself: “People used to say a lot of nasty things about me. ‘Oh this guy’s a lunatic. Oh look at that psycho, he’s gonna get us all killed.’” Waititi smashed it with Thor: Ragnarok among his other hilarious films.
