links/2024w07

• I've been familiar with Vidocq's wild story for awhile, but this excellent longread is a perfect summation: Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective | The Public Domain Review

• Artist Pandora Graessl’s Transportive “Amor Fati: When the Fire Bit Me” Exhibition | Cool Hunting

• The five finished minutes included in this piece are incredible: The Russian Animators Who Have Spent 40 Years Animating Gogol's "The Overcoat" | Open Culture

• Yours for $25k: Brian Eno's light-up turntable changes colour in "complex and unpredictable" patterns | Dezeen

• Art Bites: Surrealist Painter René Magritte Was a Master Forger, Too | artnet

• Autodidacts FTW: Noriko Sugiyama Transforms Old Kimono Into Luxurious Landscapes | Spoon & Tamago:

At around age 60, with her 3 children all grown up and out of her hands, Sugiyama decided to relocate from Saitama up north to Iwate prefecture where she had relatives, and was closer to her birthplace of Aomori. She obtained her chiropractors license and opened a small practice where she served the local community for over 10 years. 

One day, Sugiyama found a pack of discarded colored markers near a dumpster. Noticing that they were still in good shape, she decided to take them home and begin doodling. Soon, images of trees and rivers all inspired by the nature of Aomori began pouring out of her and onto the pages of a sketchbook. After a year or so of sketching with the markers, Sugiyama remembered her mother’s colorful kimonos that had been stored away. There was no use for them in storage so the artist, whose creative juices were now flowing, decided to begin incorporating them into her work, which eventually led to a style she has coined as “Kimono Reborn Art.”

https://www.spoon-tamago.com/noriko-sugiyama-kimono-reborn-art/

• Excited for this one: Wagner + Jones + Dracula = instant sale: Dark Horse to bring DRACULA BOOK 1: THE IMPALER to eager blood fiends this October | ComicsBeat

• Fourteen views of Himeji Castle | {feuilleton}

• Favorite headline of the week: Yakuza member selling soda arrested for extorting money from ninja spreading flyers in Asakusa | SoraNews24

• Seatbelts inform Steady walking aid for elderly dogs | Dezeen

• ‘Black Panther’ Costume Designer Launches Otherworldly 3D-Printed Handbags | Yanko Design

• Dream home = found: A Pair of Backyard Cabins Are Worlds Removed From Their Main Residence—But Only Steps Away | Dwell

• And finally, a wonderful look inside OSU's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. Need to make a return trip sooner rather than later… Inside the World’s Largest Comics and Cartoons Collection | Hyperallergic

Today’s Oblique Strategies card being more than a bit appropriate. Thanks, Eno.

stuck stuck stuck stuck stuck

OK that didn't last long: now it's irritating. But now I know I can, if necessary, move over to something else for a couple of days or a week. Not sure it will help, though – this thing's been like this for awhile now. Last time I let this happen, it took me seven years to realize it wasn't a novella but a paragraph. Won't let it subsume me that much again.

(Unlike then, not afraid of running out of ideas if I give up on one: those things are a dime a dozen. What takes doing is finding the rhythm that both satisfies the present moment (got that part) and provides a means of continuance to the next (that's the tricky part).)

At the point of using Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies (which are very cool and helpful in getting me to think outside my normal thought patterns)

Might be doing two daily text things here (depending on the number of workblocks in the day), just to give me something to jump to if I get stuck like I am now. PARASITE post-script in afternoon, probably. Already on my favorite films list. So good.

Also: POKER FACE is brilliant.