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Future Library, by Katie Paterson: “One thousand trees have been planted in Nordmarka, a forest just outside Oslo, which will supply paper for a special anthology of books to be printed in one hundred years time. Between now and then, one writer every year will contribute a text, with the writings held in trust, unpublished, until the year 2114.”
Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos explain how Yasujiro Ozu made the transition to color filmmaking. “Here’s the only thing you need to understand about color. It is not absolute.”
Eigendrum, a study of the vibrating plane by Basel Ashraf, which allows you to “draw any shape and hear it as a drum.” More specifically, it “solves the Laplacian eigenvalue problem on the shape you draw with real finite elements, so every frequency you hear is computed, not sampled.”
Brian Eno on the sound of failure: “when the medium fails conspicuously, and especially if it fails in new ways, the listener believes something is happening beyond its limits.”
The Complete Kubrick box set, from the Criterion Collection, available in October: “collected here for the first time are Kubrick’s thirteen features and three shorts, all restored in 4K, with their original soundtracks alongside the 5.1 mixes, restored and remastered…all housed in a singular box inspired by the director’s legendary archive.”
For all the flâneurs out there: the new Kruunuvuorensilta bridge opens to pedestrians today at 14:00. Built for the sole use of public transport, pedestrian traffic and cycling, the 1.2-kilometer-long bridge is one of the longest of its kind in the world. More here.
For all the “ironic points of light” out there: W. H. Auden’s September 1, 1939.
For a wintry weekend ahead: When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie — But One Is Werner Herzog, or comparing two documentaries about volcanologist-filmmaker team Maurice and Katia Krafft.
Case Study House #22, or the Stahl House, is now on sale, for the first time in the home’s history. Original construction cost in May 1960: $37,500. Asking price in November 2025: $25 million. Los Angeles!