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

links/2023w29

• If it works, an amazing breakthrough: Driving cancer cells to commit suicide | The Economist

• Mysterious Labyrinth Found Hidden Under a Church in Mexico | Science Alert

• Ohio's pretty accurate, at least in my neck of the sticks: I Asked AI What Europeans Think Americans From Every Single State Look Like… | Buzzfeed

• In which I learned the phase "ice cream zombie" and became determined to work it into something: Aichi woman arrested for stealing ice cream from a delivery truck because it was too hot | SoraNews 24

• Take (more of) my money, Criterion: FREAKS / THE UNKNOWN / THE MYSTIC: Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers out in October | Criterion Collection

• Dream house = found: Solar-Powered Off-Grid Treehouse Perfectly Combines Nature, Sustainability + Luxury | Yanko Design

• Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836) | The Public Domain Review

• Please let this happen: Anchor Brewing workers trying to save 127-year-old San Francisco institution | Washington Post

• The collision of this with vantablack will cause the destruction of timespace, certainly: Scientists Have Developed the Whitest White Paint Ever Made—So Reflective It Can Cool Surfaces | artnet