{"id":23874,"date":"2024-01-06T19:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=23874"},"modified":"2024-01-06T18:33:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T18:33:45","slug":"weekend-links-707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/01\/06\/weekend-links-707\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 707"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dragon and Tiger\u2014Designs for Lacquer Inro (no date) by Mori Genkosai.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0“But where have<\/em> all those copies of Corridor of Mirrors<\/em> gone? Sometimes I entertain the thought that an obsessive collector has amassed them in his library lined with looking-glasses, so that nobody else can possess the book but he, and he<\/em> can see them all, multiplied to infinity, as he stalks up and down in his scarlet smoking hat and velvet coat, and gloats.” Mark Valentine<\/a> on the mysterious unavailability of Corridor of Mirrors<\/em> (1941), a novel by Chris Massie. The film adaptation<\/a> made a few years later is one I’ve managed to miss, despite its starring Eric Portman and featuring the first screen appearance of Christopher Lee. Future viewing, I think.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0“The intrepid logician Kurt G\u00f6del believed in the afterlife. In four heartfelt letters to his mother he explained why.” Alexander T Englert<\/a> explains G\u00f6del’s explanations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Open Culture: Hortus Eystettensis<\/em><\/a> (1613), “the beautifully illustrated book of plants that changed botanical art overnight”.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Mix of the week: Aquarium Drunkard presents The Secret Hemisphere: New Age, Fusion and Fourth World, 1970\u20132002<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0New music: Phases Of This And Other Moons<\/em><\/a> by Field Lines Cartographer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Why Graphic Culture Matters<\/em><\/a> is a new book of essays by Rick Poynor.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0At Spoon & Tamago: Japanese Designer New Year\u2019s Cards of 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Steven Heller’s font of the month is Chutz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0At Dennis Cooper’s it’s Barbara Steele<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Hall Of Mirrors In The Palace At Versailles<\/em><\/a> (1970) by John Cale & Terry Riley | The Hall Of Mirrors<\/em><\/a> (1977) by Kraftwerk | The Room Of Mirrors<\/em><\/a> (2000) by Harold Budd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dragon and Tiger\u2014Designs for Lacquer Inro (no date) by Mori Genkosai. \u2022\u00a0“But where have all those copies of Corridor of Mirrors gone? Sometimes I entertain the thought that an obsessive collector has amassed them in his library lined with looking-glasses, so that nobody else can possess the book but he, and he can see them … Continue reading “Weekend links 707”<\/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":[2,30,42,4,29,7,22,3,13,10],"tags":[13258,9153,13257,4276,4077,8824,802,6177,122,3931,2903,13256,1463,352],"class_list":["post-23874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-horror","category-music","category-science","category-typography","tag-alexander-t-englert","tag-barbara-steele","tag-chris-massie","tag-christopher-lee","tag-eric-portman","tag-field-lines-cartographer","tag-harold-budd","tag-john-cale","tag-kraftwerk","tag-kurt-godel","tag-mark-valentine","tag-mori-genkosai","tag-rick-poynor","tag-terry-riley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-6d4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23874","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=23874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}