I've just watched this 4-part Netflix series, Adolescence, and it is extraordinary in every way. Writing and acting, yes, but technically, it's a marvel: each episode is a real-time hour shot in a single-take. For those who've seen it and wondered how it was possible, this making-of should shed some light:
I highly recommend the show. It does remarkable job of handling complex topical subjects and is among the best television I've ever seen.
Lockdown caused Rachel Spelling to switch from painting large wall murals to tiny works on paint chips.
More at Studio Spelling.
Steve Messam is a British environmental artist renowned for his large-scale, site-specific installations that transform and reimagine everyday environments.
More on Steve's website.
50 Watts is still going strong after almost 20 years. It describes itself accurately as "a growing archive of weird and wonderful visual ephemera from around the world."
I was once somewhat obsessed with Orange Grove Tool Sheds and Utility Boxes of Oliva, Spain. I photographed thousands over the course of just a few months.
Joe Eszterhas, the screenwriter of Basic Instinct, Flashdance, Betrayed, Music Box, and many others, once said that all his screenplays discuss the same thing. If you've seen these films, you'll know that they're quite different from one another, so it's a rather curious comment. Then he said, and I'm paraphrasing, "But I wasn't aware of it. It was someone else who pointed it out to me, the theme that I return to over and over again: Can you really know the one you love?" Indeed, that is what all those films are about.
I once heard author and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano say that he writes the same book over and over again and that he likes to think of himself as a photographer with one subject. Before exploring them again, he just moves the camera to see them from another angle.
I like when artists do this. When they repeat themselves without being repetitive. It seems to me that this is what Seth Armstrong is doing with his urban landscapes:
Wonderful stuff. More on Armstrong's site.
That's three from Laurie Lipton. See the complete series: Day of the Dead.
There's also this, should you want more:
There's an airport in St. Maarten (SXM) that's famous for how close it is to the beach. Josef Hoflehner's got some spectacular shots of the planes coming and going.
You can view the whole series on Hoflehner's site.
For those of you who think these may be faked, or collages, here's an extraordinary vid of one landing (posted 9 years ago, so pre-mainstream-AI):
On Youtube you can also find vids of tourists intentionally standing behind the planes in order to be propelled by their exhausts during takeoff.
From Square America.
A few photos taken by a Chicago cabby in the 70s, including several great portraits of his fellow drivers. From Square America, which has the rest of the series.
Someone vandalised our building, so we had to do something about it.
There are few things I hate more than taggers. RevengeFont is a very cute response.
The first four pictures are from DiDonato's Home series. The last two are from the Elsewhere series.
Everything visible at BookeDiDonato.com.
