Waterfall rapture
Behold this week’s very finest creative distractions.
Hello, hello.
“There are moments of overdirection, but the £13m revamp of the former Museum of Childhood in east London is a lighter, brighter magical toyshop” – Rowan Moore’s review of the rather lovely looking Young V&A. Can’t wait to visit – I’m holding out for October’s Japan: Myths to Manga exhibition.
A quick flick through Tadanori Yokoo’s Waterfall Rapture, a collection of 13,000 postcards of waterfalls that he started collecting as reference material when he became obsessed with e idea of painting one.
Okay so I need this limited edition Gary Hustwit print of a 1959 Braun TP 1 portable phonograph bedecked with a 7" of The Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun. Maximum summer vibe.
Favourite new absurd fact: the maximum size of a document in the current PDF standard is 381km x 381km. Curious to see if anyone has actually tried this, and what it is … probably an extrapolation of what’s behind the Mona Lisa.
Attack of the zeros and ones: the early years of digital cinema, as told by David Lynch, Miranda July, Michael Mann.
Book designer Steve Leard is launching Cover Meeting, a new book design podcast, which is rather exciting.
Watch Nimona. It’s REALLY REALLY GOOD.
“People need someone or something to believe in that’s bigger than themselves, and Dolly Parton is that to me because she symbolises [that] you can be whoever you choose to be with pride” – London-based photographer Alice Hawkins on a decade of dressing up as Dolly Parton. Like scenes from some kind of alt-Barbie movie.
That is all.
