{"id":19862,"date":"2020-07-04T18:58:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T17:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19862"},"modified":"2020-07-04T20:15:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T19:15:23","slug":"weekend-links-524","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/07\/04\/weekend-links-524\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 524"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/calypsospots\/5361559012\/in\/album-72157616898123198\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/heisler.jpg\" alt=\"heisler.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Letter M from Abeceda (1942) by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/calypsospots\/albums\/72157612681026697\" target=\"_blank\">Jindrich Heisler<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At the BFI: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/news-opinion\/news-bfi\/lists\/ray-harryhausen-10-essential-films\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Thrift<\/a> chooses 10 essential Ray Harryhausen films. &#8220;This is, I can assure the reader, the one and only time that I have eaten the actors. Hitchcock would have approved,&#8221; says Harryhausen about eating the crabs whose shells were used for <em>Mysterious Island<\/em>. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/news-opinion\/sight-sound-magazine\/archives\/alfred-hitchcock-writes-thriller-methods-popular-cinema\" target=\"_blank\">Alfred Hitchcock<\/a> himself explains the attraction and challenges of directing thrillers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although largely confined to the page, Haeusser\u2019s violent fantasies were even less restrained, his writings littered with deranged, bloodthirsty, scatological scenarios.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/strangeflowers.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/02\/ludwig-christian-haeusser-1920\/\" target=\"_blank\">Strange Flowers<\/a> on Ludwig Christian Haeusser and the &#8220;Inflation Saints&#8221; of Weimar Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Death, Pestilence, Emptiness: Putting covers on Albert Camus\u2019s <em>The Plague<\/em>; <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/death-pestilence-emptiness-putting-covers-on-albert-camuss-the-plague\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Mulvaney<\/a> on the different design approaches to a classic novel.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A trailer (more of a teaser) for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7wzAPl3HxE8\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Last and First Men<\/em><\/a>, a film adaptation of Olaf Stapledon&#8217;s novel by the late J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Dennis Cooper&#8217;s: Spotlight on&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/denniscooperblog.com\/spotlight-on-james-purdy-the-complete-short-stories-of-james-purdy-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Purdy: <em>The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/al-jaffee-at-99\/\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jaffee<\/a> at 99: Gary Groth and Jaffee talk comics and humour.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/designobserver.com\/feature\/command-records-design-distinction\/40269\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Heller<\/a> on Command Records\u2019 design distinction.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/calypsospots\/albums\/72157616898123198\/\" target=\"_blank\">Czech Surrealism<\/a> at Flickr.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/sisterswithtransistors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sisters with Transistors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/igloomag.com\/reviews\/hakobune-solitude-polar-seas\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Solitude<\/em><\/a> by Hakobune.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pqHChUdb1zg\" target=\"_blank\">Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares<\/a><\/em> (1974) by Tangerine Dream | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XNl4Y2VERN8\" target=\"_blank\">Mysterious Traveller (Dust Devils Mix)<\/a><\/em> (1994) by System 7 | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Nre0hcDz5TI\" target=\"_blank\">The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra<\/a><\/em> (2018) by Anna von Hausswolff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter M from Abeceda (1942) by Jindrich Heisler. \u2022 At the BFI: Matthew Thrift chooses 10 essential Ray Harryhausen films. &#8220;This is, I can assure the reader, the one and only time that I have eaten the actors. Hitchcock would have approved,&#8221; says Harryhausen about eating the crabs whose shells were used for Mysterious Island. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/07\/04\/weekend-links-524\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 524&#8221;<\/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":"New blog post: Weekend links 524","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":[52,2,42,1029,9,4,29,7,5,43,3,14,20,18],"tags":[8563,10748,416,7805,3109,10749,10751,10752,7415,4372,7864,10747,8648,10750,262,1536,2419,10753,889],"class_list":["post-19862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art","category-books","category-collage","category-comics","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-magazines","category-music","category-politics","category-science-fiction","category-surrealism","tag-al-jaffee","tag-albert-camus","tag-alfred-hitchcock","tag-anna-von-hausswolff","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-dylan-mulvaney","tag-gary-groth","tag-hakobune","tag-james-purdy","tag-jindrich-heisler","tag-johann-johannsson","tag-ludwig-christian-haeusser","tag-matthew-thrift","tag-olaf-stapledon","tag-ray-harryhausen","tag-steven-heller","tag-strange-flowers","tag-system-7","tag-tangerine-dream"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5am","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19862","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=19862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}