© Jonathan Djob Nkondo / It’s Nice That (via Vimeo)
The mentality behind all my work is to tell a story in a unique way. Simple stories, few elements, with a smart way to add narrative
You can definitely see this mindset of Jonathan Djob Nkondo shaping all of his beautiful short films, but I’m especially intrigued by this one from 2018 called Comfort Zone.
The essential principal of business —of occupation in the world— is this: figure out some way in which you get paid for playing.
© nomena (via Vimeo)
© nomena (via YouTube)
nomena is investigating new types of space perception. research and practice, academic and commercial, technology and aesthetic.
As mentioned in the about section of this blog, I love projects which cross-scale in media and studios (and creatives) who work interdisciplinary. Japanese studio nomena by Shohei Takei is such a studio, working at the intersection of art, design and science to create amazing tactile projects.
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.
Interesting article from Metropolis on the urban design of Japan’s capital and Why Tokyo Works.
The most influential companies in the world put all their energy into getting us to click, react, and consume. If you work on a computer, procrastination awaits you everywhere, all the time. How do you beat it and get things done?
A well-written, practical guide from one of my favourite studios, Swiss-Japanese iA Inc., to help End Procrastination —just in time for the upcoming new workweek.
© SoundWorks Collection (via YouTube)
The Sound of Dune provides some insights on how the truly marvellous soundscape was designed that accompanies the absolutely astonishing visuals of the recent screen adaptation of Dune.
I’m going to write a long-form essay –like the one about Her– on director Denis Villeneuve’s latest masterpiece, after having seen it more than once, but for now, I’m just leaving this here alongside my strong recommendation to go watch it on the big screen. This is exactly the material movie theatres are made for.
soundworkscollection.com/post/the-sound-of-dune-with-director-denis-villeneuve-and-sound-team
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This Thanksgiving, the A24 Screening Room invites viewers to spend a week at The Beach, in a new kind of sensory viewing experience that transcends traditional television.
Not much context on this one, I just really enjoy this trailer for The Beach —not to confuse with the Danny Boyle movie of the same name from 2000. It’s mesmerizing, ominous and a little bit strange, but not as weird as Lamb, another recent trailer by publisher A24.
Given the fact I really like some of the movies the company has put out in the past –2015’s Ex Machina is one of my favourite sci-fi movies for example and I’m still pretty mad I missed The Green Knight when it was playing in cinemas earlier this year– I’m intrigued to find out more soon.
© ibi / creative commons license (via YouTube)
© ibi / creative commons license (via YouTube)
© ibi / creative commons license (via YouTube)
Another YouTube channel with beautiful music accompanied by beautiful, atmospheric imagery, fitting my current autumn mood extremely well. What’s more, the music by ibi is published under the creative commons licence (CC BY, to be precise), so you are allowed to use it for your own projects if you credit the Berlin musician. The free wav files are available via bandcamp.com.
‘Nichts ist sicher auf dieser Welt’, sagte ich. ‘Aber zumindest kann man an etwas glauben.’
Tsundoku (積ん読) is a beautiful Japanese word describing the habit of acquiring books but letting them pile up without reading them. I used to feel guilty about this tendency, and would strive to only buy new books once I had finished the ones I owned. However, the concept of the antilibrary has completely changed my mindset when it comes to unread books. Unread books can be as powerful as the ones we have read, if we choose to consider them in the right light.
Having a bunch of unread books piling up on my bedside table and jamming up my shelves, I can absolutely empathize with Anne-Laure Le Cunff on this one. After reading her essay on the power of unread books, I won’t feel as guilty about getting more and more books despite those waiting already to be read anymore —I’m just building an antilibrary myself.
Now I just need a similar explanation to justify getting new records, even though I still haven’t listened to all of the ones I own already.
Es gibt einen Stil, in dem man gute Musik hören sollte. Und eine Haltung.
© PaprTape / Label Engine (via YouTube)
© PaprTape / Label Engine (via YouTube)
© PaprTape / Label Engine (via YouTube)
© PaprTape (via YouTube)
While watching the short Antonio Carusone did for the release of the –beautiful looking– new book Selection: Architecture by Carl Barenbrug and Ivan Moreale, the used ambient music caught my attention. Apparently, it’s from Tony Yang aka PaprTape, who has a lot of atmospheric videos on his YouTube-channel.
His ambient EP “A Midafternoon Dream” is available on Soundcloud and Spotify, and some of the tracks are being sold digitally via Bandcamp, in case you want to support the work of the musician more directly.
Minus is a finite social network where you get 100 posts—for life. While you can reply to a post as often as you like, every time you add to the feed, it subtracts from your lifetime total. When you reach 0 posts left, that’s it. No exceptions.
As mentioned in one of my first posts and repeatedly brought up since then, I think social media is fundamentally flawed in this day and age, a sentiment Ben Grosser certainly would agree upon.
In his work, the artist focuses on the cultural, social, and political effects of software and his latest project, Minus, is his take on a social network. It shares some aspects with traditional social media websites –like a main timeline and personal user profiles, but every user can publish only one hundred postings in total.
You can read more about the fascinating project on the artist’s website or join the network yourself —something I wouldn’t recommend for any other social network.