mondo linko 1
[I'm going to try to get into the habit of posting more stuff on here. I post lots of links on Twitter but usually forget that there are probably people who never look there. So this is part 1 in an occasional series.]
#closeyoureyesanddrawbatman is brilliant [via @robgog and @injculbard] | related: portraits drawn without looking [via @jabberworks] | build your own Mo-Bot [via @neillcameron] | related: my review of Neill's book at Write Away | interview with John Porcellino [via someone on my UKCZI list] | interview with Kelly Supersonic | Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics, a conference at the Courtauld Institute that looks pretty good. I'm busy but you should go.
Chico & Rita is lovely film with amazing backgrounds and a great soundtrack. Worth checking on a big screen if you can, but there are lots of pics and clips here. There's a fun scene where a car falls apart, which must have been based on this illustration by co-creator Javier Mariscal | every appearance of Han Solo in the TV show Firefly. Like I needed another excuse to watch it again [via @ninagleams] | Firefly is notably missing from this article In Praise of The Sci-fi Corridor - so is Farscape - but the pictures are all great [via @moleitau]
In a similar vein, nice photos of arcades [via @johncoulthart] | New York Sleeps, lovely large format photos taken by Christopher Thomas early in the morning [on show in London until Feb. 26] | unlike morning birds such as Christopher Thomas, I really am more productive much later in the day, so I like cosmickitten's theory on night owls, because I, too, "am a watcherwoman by genetic destiny"
Camden Passage, Islington, 2006
Two bloggers from the early days made a welcome return to my feeds this week: Troubled Diva | Interconnected | related: @intrconnctd is on Twitter | (Matt is one of the most thought-provoking people I have ever met, and strange intriguing notions seem to fall out of his brain in the same way the rest of us breathe air.) | "Digital duct tape": if this then that looks really nifty [via @peteashton] | Pete's articles on The Future of Local, what it means to be "local" in the context of the internet, are worth a read.
Punch & Judy Festival, Covent Garden, 2009
How we engage with the places in which we exist: the poetry of the Shipping Forecast [via everybody] | related: a lovely obituary for Finisterre from a few years ago | A Cloudy Language, the poetry of weather reporting - more here. Lovely stuff [via @creativereview] | City of Sound: Flood. Dan Hill not only provides an outsider's first-hand (and first-time) account of the Brisbane floods, but also drops it into a historical and architectural context which provides some sharp lessons on why the damage needn't have been so severe in the first place. | *Hauntology* Flickr group | Remembering Trish Keenan | a live performance of Lunch Hour Pops by Broadcast. RIP Trish.