{"id":29885,"date":"2026-04-04T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=29885"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:46:20","slug":"weekend-links-824","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2026\/04\/04\/weekend-links-824\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 824"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“A view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft\u2019s windows after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026. The image features two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 I was surprised this week to find myself quoted by David Hudson<\/a> at Criterion Current in an overview of the schedule for Cold War Visions: Nuclear Anxiety in Eastern Bloc Cinema<\/a>, a short season of films that will be showing at the Barbican throughout this month. One of those films is Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker<\/em>, a cult film round here, which a handful of lucky Londoners will be able to see on a big screen.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u90aa\u795e\u4e09\u5341\u516d\u666f<\/em><\/a> (Thirty-six Views of the Evil Gods<\/em>) is collection of drawings by Takeki Yamada that combine Hokusai’s celebrated views of Mount Fuji with beings from Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. I’m a little underwhelmed by the results but the book is out there for those who want it.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: Last and First Men<\/em><\/a> by Olaf Stapledon. (Previously<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Coming soon at Unquiet Things: The Art of the Unknown: A Visual Treasury of the Esoteric, Uncanny, and Unexplained<\/em><\/a> by S. Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Public Domain Review: Elizabeth I\u2019s manuscript copy of Pierre Boaistuau\u2019s Histoires Prodigieuses<\/em><\/a> (1559).<\/p>\n

\u2022 New music: Enter the Nuummite Cosmos<\/em><\/a> by Brotherhood Of Sleep.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At the BFI: Where to begin with Peter Weir<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A Brief History of the Dust Jacket<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Out Of The Unknown<\/em><\/a> (1984) by Died Pretty | Brian’s Nightmare \/ The Unknown, Part One<\/em><\/a> (2005) by Robin Guthrie \/ Harold Budd | A Gift Of Unknown Things<\/em><\/a> (2017) by Teleplasmiste<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft\u2019s windows after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026. The image features two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.” \u2022 … Continue reading “Weekend links 824”<\/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 824","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":[2,42,4,7,26,3,20,13],"tags":[214,14507,104,13005,14508,802,1687,7702,569,10750,9616,14506,14504,4516,1852,14505,8801],"class_list":["post-29885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-film","category-lovecraft","category-music","category-science-fiction","category-science","tag-andrei-tarkovsky","tag-brotherhood-of-sleep","tag-cthulhu","tag-david-hudson","tag-died-pretty","tag-harold-budd","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-katsushika-hokusai","tag-nasa","tag-olaf-stapledon","tag-peter-weir","tag-pierre-boaistuau","tag-reid-wiseman","tag-robin-guthrie","tag-s-elizabeth","tag-takeki-yamada","tag-teleplasmiste"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7M1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29885","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=29885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29889,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29885\/revisions\/29889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}