Killian, I'll be back!

Not much in the way of independent content this week, I'm afraid, just a whole bunch of links. 

I just ran the Loughborough Half Marathon with a cold that has been plaguing me for weeks and then drove all the way back home. I'm beat. 

Also, my knees feel like they need replacing and I'm walking around like a drunken old man. 

So you get links this week and a recommendation at the end. 

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In Praise of 'Sneaky Feminism' 

A piece on Fury Road over at BMD, focusing on Eve Ensler's involvement with the production. 

YouTube has a Fake Peppa Pig Problem

Well, this is weird. 

Ben Wheatley Interview @ Little White Lies

I can't wait for Free Fire. 

Multiversity Annotations

Someone is annotating Grant Morrison's Multiversity. One to save for some downtime. 

Darwin Was A Slacker and You Should Be Too

A Nautilus article arguing that it's not the amount of hours you put in, but the quality of those hours spent creating/practising that matters. 

Finally, someone on Reddit compiled a pretty exhaustive list of all of those Video Essay channels on YouTube (Nerdwriter and Every Frame A Painting being the most famous examples). Enjoy!

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In my half exhausted fugue state I ended up sailing through the three episodes of Netflix's Five Came Back this afternoon. The documentary is an adaptation of sorts of the book of the same name by Mark Harris. It follows directors George Stevens, Frank Capra, William Wyler, John Ford and John Huston as they all become involved in the war effort in various capacities during WW2. The film shows their documentary output from the war and also details the effect the conflict had on their post-war work. 

Blame it on the exhaustion, blame it on the fact that this world is far too cruel lately, but the closing speech from Capra about hope and love amid the evils of the world got me all emotional and acts as a clarion call for creatives in these dark, cruel times. 

Seek it out. Then go read the book. 

Until then...