{"id":22817,"date":"2023-05-20T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=22817"},"modified":"2024-05-05T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T11:50:11","slug":"weekend-links-674","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/05\/20\/weekend-links-674\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 674"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/LRO\/news\/lro-farside.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/moon.jpg\" alt=\"moon.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Far Side of the Moon, as photographed by NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/LRO\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;It goes against centuries of traditional belief to accept that the moon is barren, that it is indifferent, that it is innocent of any role in monthly spikes in the crime rate or in the cycles of menstrual unreason. When telescopic observation had found nothing on the near side (Roger Boscovich had established by 1753 that it lacks even an atmosphere), the far side still remained a site for the projection of fantasies of a different, neighbouring world.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cabinetmagazine.org\/issues\/50\/smith.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin EH Smith<\/a> working his way towards a history of the dark side of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;It shocks me that movies still lean in so hard to all these outmoded gay narrative tropes: coming out, coming of age; very identity-oriented representations of gay characters. It\u2019s much easier to represent a gay boy who\u2019s repressed in high school and comes out and makes friends. It\u2019s very mainstream, and kind of played out.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/14873\/bruce-labruce-interview-the-visitor-no-skin-off-my-ass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruce LaBruce<\/a> on cinematic trends in relation to his new film, a gay-porn take on Pasolini&#8217;s <em>Teorema<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Cartoon Brew: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/tools-of-the-trade\/floors796-pavel-sannikau-228987.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pavel Sannikau<\/a> explains how he developed his own techniques of digital animation in order to create the ever-expanding <a href=\"https:\/\/floor796.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Floor796<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 There&#8217;s always more Poe: <a href=\"https:\/\/eighthtowerrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/mysterium-incubus-et-terror-music-inspired-by-edgar-allan-poe-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mysterium, Incubus et Terror<\/em><\/a>, Poe-inspired music by a variety of artists, plus illustrations by John D. Chadwick.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Smithsonian Magazine: The results of a themed contest in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/see-15-breathtaking-shots-from-the-close-up-photographer-of-the-year-challenge-180982177\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Close-Up Photographer of the Year Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mixes of the week: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ambientblog.net\/blog\/2023-05\/saddest-chord-mix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Praise of the Saddest Chord<\/a> at Ambientblog, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djfood.org\/the-funky-eno-pt-s-2-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Funky Eno Pts 2 &amp; 3<\/a> by DJ Food.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Steven Heller talks to Hungarian artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.printmag.com\/daily-heller\/the-daily-heller-a-visual-magician\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Istv\u00e1n Orosz<\/a> about his Escher-like drawings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Unquiet Things: <a href=\"https:\/\/unquietthings.com\/the-art-of-darkness-spotlight-caitlin-mccormack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caitlin McCormack<\/a>\u2019s ghostly chains of knotted memory.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Spoon &amp; Tamago: Intricate and organic sculptures by ceramicist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spoon-tamago.com\/eriko-inazaki-ceramic-sculptures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eriko Inazaki<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 New music: <a href=\"https:\/\/callsuper.bandcamp.com\/track\/illumina-with-julia-holter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Illumina<\/em><\/a> by Call Super with Julia Holter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MIghUfCim-k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dark Side Of The Mushroom<\/em><\/a> (1967) by The Chocolate Watchband | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2-wtudBuq3g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dark Side Of The Star<\/em><\/a> (1984) by Haruomi Hosono | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mD7Ga_r115g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>On The Dark Side Of The Sun<\/em><\/a> (live) (2003) by Helios Creed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Far Side of the Moon, as photographed by NASA&#8217;s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. \u2022 &#8220;It goes against centuries of traditional belief to accept that the moon is barren, that it is indifferent, that it is innocent of any role in monthly spikes in the crime rate or in the cycles of menstrual unreason. When telescopic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/05\/20\/weekend-links-674\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 674&#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":"","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":[52,2,29,7,5,22,3,12,13,41,15],"tags":[145,2094,12843,12845,4941,93,12844,8218,1716,308,12846,3372,6921,569,12842,1493,1536,6959],"class_list":["post-22817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-music","category-photography","category-science","category-sculpture","category-technology","tag-brian-eno","tag-bruce-labruce","tag-caitlin-mccormack","tag-call-super","tag-dj-food","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-eriko-inazaki","tag-haruomi-hosono","tag-helios-creed","tag-istvan-orosz","tag-john-d-chadwick","tag-julia-holter","tag-justin-eh-smith","tag-nasa","tag-pavel-sannikau","tag-pier-paolo-pasolini","tag-steven-heller","tag-the-chocolate-watchband"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5W1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817","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=22817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}