For more than a decade, Gail Albert Halaban has been photographing people through their windows — with permission. She's got a series of photos from New York, Italy, Paris, Istanbul, and Buenos Aires.
And here's a BBC Provile of Halaban's project:
More on Halaban's site.
Because the Copyright lapsed and the film entered the public domain, the Internet Archive has a copy of Orson Welles' The Trial, based on Kafka's novel.
You can watch the trailer for the 4K restoration on YouTube. The version about is 720p.
via Metafilter.
Matt Haughey's got a blog post called A Guide to Using Signal for Government Workers, but it works as a guide for anyone and spells out in a simple-to-understand single page why you should be using Signal.
If you don't know Signal, it's like WhatsApp except it's run by a non-profit, not a billionaire (WhatsApp and Messenger are owned by Facebook). It's a free communication app that works world-wide and runs on Android, iPhone, iPad, and Mac desktops. Unlike Apple's iMessage Signal messages are always encrypted, which means no one (not even Signal) has access to them and they're therefor subpoena-proof.
Free. Encrypted. No billionaires or nasty corporations.
At a party the other night I met Tanja Tiziana, the photographer behind Not My Father's Slides, "a blog dedicated to vintage photographic slides — either found, rescued or donated." Fantastic project!
Someone's done a 4K restoration of Tango, Zbigniew Rybczyński's transfixing Academy Award-winning short film. I first saw this in 1993 when running Art & Trash, Toronto's greatest video store. Rybczyński was the first Pole to win an Oscar.
After The Tone is an archive of found answering machine incoming messages.
The people (person?) behind the YouTube channel Abandoned Films has finally taken on the Matrix, making a 50s-esque trailer for the film using AI.
AF have done a bunch of these before. I'm not sure what their relationship to Demon Flying Fox is, but surely they're related.
Apple is offering a free download of Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale's The You You Are in ebook or audiobook form (read by the actor).
For the confused among you, this is a fictional copy of a non-fiction book featured in the fictional Apple TV+ show, Severance.
In addition, the newly release Season 2 has an extraordinary new opening credits:
The sequence was created by Oliver Latta (A/K/A Extraweg), who has been making fantastic work for years:
Recently, I was at a party celebrating Robbie Burns Day and someone mentioned a show called Love On the Spectrum, which I’d never heard of. After listening to the description, I recalled a documentary from the 90s called How’s Your News?, about a team of developmentally challenged reporters. No one at the party had heard of it. Of course, the whole thing is on YouTube. I do remember it fondly.
Anthony Howe makes huge wind-powered sculptures, often out of stainless steel.
Sculptures range in price from US$45K to $400K.
More on Howe’s site and YouTube Channel.
