July 31, 2021
William Morris - Useful Beauty in the Home
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
- William Morris
July 30, 2021
July 28, 2021
The ‘Golden Age’ of British Watchmaking
"The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are often referred to as the ‘golden age’ of British watchmaking. The 1600s produced a plethora of highly skilled watchmakers, such as Thomas Tompion, George Graham and John Harrison, while the 1700s witnessed the fruits of their labour radicalise timekeeping on a global scale and welcomed another great British horologist to the fold in the form of Thomas Mudge."
July 20, 2021
Cara Delevingne's Dior Autumn-Winter 2021-2022 Haute Couture Day Diary
July 18, 2021
Lex Fridman Podcast #200 - Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy
July 17, 2021
Iris van Herpen x Dutch National Ballet - Biomimicry (2020)
"Iris van Herpen and Dutch National Ballet debut collaboration by unveiling the short film entitled ‘Biomimicry,’ featuring Jingjing Mao."
Iris van Herpen - Earthrise
"Iris van Herpen shows her latest collection ‘Earthrise’ during Paris Haute Couture Week on July, 5th 2021."
July 16, 2021
Kraft Suspense Theatre - The Deep End (Jan 2, 1964)
"How tall are you?"
"With heels?"
"With anybody..."
July 15, 2021
July 14, 2021
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1961)
"'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' is a seventh-season episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents made in the summer of 1961 that has never been broadcast on network television. The episode was scheduled to be episode #39 of the season. The story and teleplay were written by Robert Bloch, the author of Psycho, and the episode was directed by Josef Leytes."
July 12, 2021
Hustling (1975)
"Based on Gail Sheehy's book, 'Hustling' made prostitutes the sympathetic center of a story that presented the issue of sex-for-pay as a social problem with no easy solution. Shot for gritty authenticity on the streets of New York, 'Hustling' questioned who were the true lawbreakers in what is revealed to be a $7-billion-a-year business.
"Lee Remick stars as magazine writer Fran Morrison, a thinly disguised representation of Sheehy herself, who, while attending a public hearing on prostitution in midtown Manhattan, is inspired to write a series of articles on the subject, which she bases on face-to-face interviews with the hookers."
July 11, 2021
Victoria and Albert Museum - Yamaguchi Genbei: hikihaku woven obi
"For over ten generations, Yamaguchi Genbei's family have been creating exquisitely crafted obi (the sash worn with traditional Japanese clothing) using the intricate technique of hikihaku – a process of weaving with fine metallic, mother of pearl, or semi-precious stone threads."
July 10, 2021
Dziga Vertov & Yelizaveta Svilova - Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
"Roaring Twenties Soviet Union in 1929. Brought to life with AI. Filmed largely in Odessa, Ukraine. Not exactly the image which history has left us of the former USSR.
"For some more affluent women, there was fashion, parties, bobbed hair, makeup and the ubiquitous cloche hat so popular with girls across the globe in the 1920's. The position and roles of women in the USSR, in principle at least, were equal to men under the Soviet Constitution. The reality for the vast majority was very different. Millions ended up in gulags and a totalitarian system remained in place until the late 80's."
July 09, 2021
July 08, 2021
Morituri (1965)
"Japan, 1942. Mueller (Yul Brynner), a captain of the Nazi navy, is annoyed at being forced to accept a crew composed partly of criminals. Meanwhile the mission is urgent, as part of the shipment is seven thousand tons of pure rubber, which will fit German troops in Europe. Robert Crain (Marlon Brando), a German deserter living in India, is blackmailed by Statter (Trevor Howard), a Colonel of the English Intelligence Service, who wants Crain to board this same ship by posing as a Gestapo SS, for this shipment is also important to the Allies. Crain's function is to deactivate all explosives, which will cause the ship to sink when the captain senses that his cargo will be captured by the enemy."
July 06, 2021
July 05, 2021
The Dior Autumn-Winter 2021-2022 Haute Couture Show
Music: Quade - The Balance, Emile Mosseri - Rock Fight, Cucina Povera & ELS - Marmori
July 04, 2021
Lex Fridman Podcast #194 - Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic
After the 24-minute mark, Bret Weinstein's Theory of Close Calls.
July 03, 2021
July 02, 2021
July 01, 2021
The painter in question is Leonora Carrington
"With a mysterious smile on her lips," writes the Chilean film director Alejandro Jodorowsky, “the painter whispered to me, ‘What you just dictated to me is the secret. As each Arcana is a mirror and not a truth in itself, become what you see in it. That tarot is a chameleon.’"