Some old photos of New York City
I love New York and I love colorised old photos. Here's one plus the other.
The Hit (Stephen Frears, 1984)
Notes
Interesting and/or cool stuff I've come across from art, design, technology, photography, movies I've watched and liked and, occasionally, my thoughts.
In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter, 1994)
Camino di Satana, one of four fireplaces at the Villa Della Torre in Verona, Italy.
Immortal Beloved (Bernard Rose, 1994)
New York City, 1960, by Robert Doisneau
"A Dealer in Artefacts" by Ludwig Deutsch, 1887
No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh, 2021)
Nayenezgáni (Killer of Enemies) is a mythical hero from Navajo mythology who, along with his brother Tobadzischini, rid the world of the monstrous evil gods, the Anaye.
via reddit
Hotdog stand, 1963, New York, by Evelyn Hofer.
via The Guardian
Barton Fink (Joel Coen, 1991)
'The Temptation of St. Anthony' by Joos van Craesbeeck, 1650.
Noted, March 2022
Assorted bits and pieces I've noticed this month.
Lux, the makers of the excellent iPhone camera app Halide, have penned a long piece on the camera module of the iPhone 13 and where (phone) photography is headed, with lots of pictures, too. Highly recommended reading if you too are thinking about the future of cameras.
via pixel envy
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Lisa Whittington-Hill likes biographies and memoirs and, having read a bunch of them, noticed that they tend to be gender-biased – all the dirty, spicy, private details are expected from women, at the same time, men can pretty much write about whatever.
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The Wire is cool, but some of the prototypes for the detectives might have been kinda bad cops in reality.
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Back, way way back, phones, the kind that are for making calls only were the electronic service. Hacking these telecom systems, be it with the help of electronics or social engineering, or both was called phreaking. This The Verge story is about one of the best phreakers of her time who suddenly pulled the disappearing act.
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While it undoubtedly helped spread some great ideas and inspired people with stories of human tenacity, the TED talk has also been rightfully mocked for being blind to its own hubris. Oscar Schwartz for the Drift mag on the history and legacy of the conference with notable moments, both good and bad.
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Held in the notorious Silivri prison, 90 kilometers from Istanbul, for the past six years, Fevzi Yazıcı designed a unique typeface. He drew it with a pencil in his dimly lit solitary-confinement cell and named it “Firdevs,” for his wife. - "Letters from a Turkish prison"
via Jeffrey Zeldman
Fear of getting noticed.
Jeffrey Zeldman on boring, ignorable design (and writing):
The lead client blinked, cleared his throat, and finally said, in a thick Irish brogue:
“I’m afraid it’s far too clever for our needs. It calls too much attention to itself on the page,” he explained—as if getting a distracted newspaper reader to notice his company’s message was a bad thing.
The lead client asked us to set “Ireland $399” in bold type, stick a shamrock in one of the 9s, and call it a day.
Fear of getting noticed is a terrible thing. It’s also a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Skateboarding was banned in Norway for 11 years, from 1978 to 1989, which, obviously, made skaters build gnarly ramps like that one in the woods.
via reddit
The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino, 2021)
Japan is littered with vending machines, always beaming, always ready to (mostly) quench your thirst, or appetite for pretty much anything you can think of. And not just in the cities – I once came across one, very conveniently, halfway up the hill at the Fushimi Inari-Taisha.
The photo above is by Eiji Ohashi, who has been photographing the lonely-looking machines – here's
part one, part two, part three and part four.
Penn Station, Newark, 1935
via Édouard Yvess
Navajo riders in the Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, 1904, by Edward Curtis.
The Green Knight (David Lowery, 2021)
The Dubai Frame.
Photo by Bachir Moukarzel.
Sunday afternoon at the country store, Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939. Photograph by Dorothea Lange of the "Migrant Mother" fame.
Image courtesy of Library of Congress. Here's a colorised version.
Narrow Margin (Peter Hyams, 1990)
Kubrick reportedly drew inspiration for Barry Lyndon's soft, warm, painting-like candlelight scenes from realist painters Adolph Menzel, author of the above "Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci" or "The Flute Concert", painted in 1852, and Petrus van Schendel, who's work is very, very candlelit.