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Byronic I by Boris Pelcer<\/a>. Via Full Fathom Five<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Music determines everything in terms of our narrative. Music demands, music suggests. Whereas traditional Hollywood animation is all based on character development\u2014you know, there’s Toy Story<\/em> and it’s Tom Hanks’s voice pushing the thrust of the action. For us, d\u00e9cor is all part of it. It’s the objects, a sense of atmosphere, the stimmung<\/em> (mood) of what’s happening in this landscape where the puppet is just, invariably, a tiny element.” The Brothers Quay<\/a> talking to JW McCormack about their films, and about Quay<\/em>, a short documentary by Christopher Nolan.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Croissants with Cthulhu: Stephanie Gorton Murphy<\/a> reports on the Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast at last week’s NecronomiCon. I didn’t attend this: abject silliness is the last thing I want at 8 o’clock in the morning.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “…a light daze for the rest of the afternoon, detrimental to studying but advantageous for daydreaming.” Italo Calvino<\/a> on his cinema-going youth.<\/p>\n

Only in that brief moment of absolute uncertainty \u2013 when both options seem equally plausible and implausible, when neither thought can be accepted or rejected, when everything can be explained and nothing can be explained \u2013 only in that moment do we really have this horror of philosophy, this questioning of the principle of sufficient reason. It is for this reason that Todorov qualifies his definition by stating that the \u201cfantastic occupies the duration of this uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eugene Thacker<\/a> in an extract from Tentacles Longer Than Night<\/a> (Horror of Philosophy, vol. 3), Zero Books, 2015<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 It’s always good to hear some new rumblings by Emptyset. The Guardian<\/em> has a stream of side 1 of the latest release, Signal<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 David Rudkin’s Penda’s Fen<\/em><\/a> receives a film screening at the Whitechapel Gallery<\/a>, London, on Saturday, 5th September.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sea Calls Me Home<\/em><\/a>, another song from the forthcoming Julia Holter album.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Digital visualizations of imagined future landscapes by Mike Winkelmann<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: The Ivy-Strangled Path Vol. IX by David Colohan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cherchez la femme: Women and Surrealism<\/a> at Sotheby’s, NYC.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At It’s Nice That: 50 years of A Humument<\/em> by Tom Phillips<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 April 16, 1963: Housewife on LSD<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Tentaclii: a Lovecraft blog<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Signal<\/a><\/em> (1981) by Phew | Signals<\/a><\/em> (1983) by Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno | Signals<\/a><\/em> (2010) by The Soundcarriers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Byronic I by Boris Pelcer. Via Full Fathom Five. \u2022 “Music determines everything in terms of our narrative. Music demands, music suggests. Whereas traditional Hollywood animation is all based on character development\u2014you know, there’s Toy Story and it’s Tom Hanks’s voice pushing the thrust of the action. For us, d\u00e9cor is all part of it. … Continue reading “Weekend links 273”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,2,42,851,29,7,22,26,3,44,20,19],"tags":[9217,7570,145,399,7572,104,6181,7160,1114,3188,3025,6662,407,3372,7571,124,7575,1117,8706,7577,7573,4962,164,7604],"class_list":["post-17183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art","category-books","category-drugs","category-electronica","category-film","category-horror","category-lovecraft","category-music","category-painting","category-science-fiction","category-television","tag-a-humument","tag-boris-pelcer","tag-brian-eno","tag-brothers-quay","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-cthulhu","tag-daniel-lanois","tag-david-colohan","tag-david-rudkin","tag-emptyset","tag-eugene-thacker","tag-full-fathom-five","tag-italo-calvino","tag-julia-holter","tag-jw-mccormack","tag-lsd","tag-mike-winkelmann","tag-pendas-fen","tag-phew-musician","tag-roger-eno","tag-stephanie-gorton-murphy","tag-the-soundcarriers","tag-tom-phillips","tag-toy-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4t9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}