Illustration by Adolf Hoffmeister for a Czech edition of The First Men in the Moon by HG Wells.
• It’s good to hear that Czech animator Jiri Barta is back at work on his long-gestating feature film based on the Golem legend. The new iteration looks like a reimagining of the entire project.
• Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: The First Men in the Moon by HG Wells.
• This week in the Bumper Book of Magic: Ben Wickey breaks down more of his Great Enchanters pages.
• At Colossal: Charles Brooks photographs the interiors of musical and scientific instruments.
• At Igloomag: Philippe Blache on neo-noir, doom jazz and related atmospheric music.
• At The Daily Heller: The book-brick that is the 1,264-page Emigre Specimen Encyclopedia.
• New music: Changing States by Matmos, and Of Shadow Landscapes by Skotógen.
• At the BFI: Josh Slater-Williams selects 10 great Japanese time-travel films.
• Lawrence English remembers the sound-art pioneer Alan Lamb.
• Tunde Adebimpe’s favourite albums.
• Time Machine (1967) by Satori | Time Machine (1968) by Lemon Tree | Turn Back Time (1971) by Time Machine
Brilliant Jiri Barta news!
I like the new banner at the top of the site. Do you have a name of the artist/printmaker and its title please ?
Here’s another one for the Time Machine mix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C15LXv4uEDI
Caspar: Thanks, I’d not heard that one before. There’s also Time Machine by Stray from the same year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSu4gd1jXAA
Jerry: The header is a detail from one of Piranesi’s views of the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli. His prints turn up a lot here, he’s one of my favourite artists.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tempel_van_Vesta_en_de_Tempel_van_de_Tiburtijnse_Sibille_in_Tivoli_Altra_Veduta_del_Tempio_della_Sibilla_in_Tivoli_(titel_op_object)_Gezichten_op_Rome_(serietitel)_Vedute_di_Roma_disegnate_ed_incise_da_Giambattista_Pi,_RP-P-OB-39.357.jpg