h/t to Guillermo del Toro for his reading list.
I really appreciate travel magazine Flaneur’s singular focus on just one street in a city for each issue. The Berlin-based publication’s latest actually concentrates on a large district this time. Their new issue explores Moscow’s Boulevard Ring in the center of the capital city. The 190 page, 5 chapter edition is packed with stories on writers, artists, photographers, history, and culture. You can read more about the magazine on the website and find a bookshop that carries Flaneur near you.
Last year, Indonesian journalist and filmmaker Muhammad Ridwan Alimuddina decided to to quit the rat race and make a major life change. Inspired by his love of books and a heartfelt commitment to literacy, he built his own traveling catamaran library. Now he sails the remote islands of West Sulawesi on the Perahu Pustaka bringing books to children and adult learners.
You can always get the latest from the inimitable Tom Gauld at his website.
To mark the launch of Bose’s Get Closer campaign for Quiet Comfort wireless headphones, Grey London has created a one minute video that shows dancer Maëva Berthelot moving through the deserted streets of London. Dancing through locations that range from Piccadilly Circus, Regent Street and on a Tube car, the video provides a view of the city that is familiar yet oddly disconcerting. Berhelot dances to a track called Alchemy by TALA and the routine was developed by renowned choreographer Simeon Qsyea.
“We never quite believed we would actually be able to lock down central London in such heavily populated and high security areas. We used a helicopter for the aerial shots, which had understandably strict airspace rules. We held back traffic and people for a few minutes each take. This wasn’t easy to produce,” says Dominic Goldman, Executive Creative Director, Grey London. “Most of this was captured in camera with minimal clean up in post. All shot beautifully on film in a variety of locations as our hero moved through the city from the gritty emptiness of East London to the heart of W1, all captured through the lens of legendary DoP Mattias Rudh and directed by the magical Jaron Albertin.”
Copenhagen-based artist Johan Deckmann walks that fine line between irony and insult with his hilarious book cover creations.
Even though I just returned from Amsterdam a few weeks ago, this sweet little film from the Holland Marketing Board has me yearning to return. You may find “The Tale of Kat and Dog” a bit saccharine, but by the end you’ll be checking Kayak for flights.
You may recall French digital artist Julien Nonnon’s marvelous video mapping project from last year when he projected images of nattily dressed animals on the walls of Paris. Now his new project #Le_Baiser, inspired by the work of poet Alfred de Musset, illuminates Parisian facades with images of more than 100 kissing couples.
Last month, Penguin’s science fiction imprint, Penguin Worlds, republished a series of important sci-fi titles with radically redesigned covers. Here’s a sample:
Travel Between The Pages 