{"id":8091,"date":"2010-10-17T01:51:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T01:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=8091"},"modified":"2013-02-03T04:08:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T04:08:31","slug":"weekend-links-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/17\/weekend-links-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 34"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Halloween in Austin, Texas this year will look and sound like this<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Blade Runner<\/em> will prove invincible<\/a>“: Philip K Dick’s letter of praise to the film’s producers. Related: one of the Blade Runner<\/em> designers, Syd Mead<\/a>, has recently styled New York’s Bar Basque<\/a> and Foodparc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cI decided to go into fields where mathematicians would never go because the problems were badly stated…I have played a strange role that none of my students dare to take.\u201d RIP Beno\u00eet Mandelbrot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Science and poetry<\/a>: “a richly vexed topic badly in need of rethinking”. Related: Why the Singularity isn’t going to happen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In case you missed this week’s earlier announcement, a reminder that I was interviewed at Coilhouse<\/a>. My vanity: it knows no bounds.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Franklin Booth’s illustrations for The Flying Islands of the Night<\/em><\/a> (1913) by James Whitcomb Riley.<\/p>\n

\u2022 On the Verge<\/em><\/a> (1950) by Maurice Sandoz, illustrated by Salvador Dal\u00ed. Also this<\/a> and this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bowie Sphinx, 1969. Photo by Brian Ward.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Laughing Gnostic: David Bowie and the Occult<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Moonlighting as a Conjurer of Chemicals<\/a>“: Isaac Newton’s alchemical interests.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “A sense of otherness that goes right back<\/a>“: Alan Garner at Alderley Edge.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jimmy\u2019s End<\/em><\/a>\u2014Alan Moore\u2019s new feature film and spin-off TV series.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The It Gets Better Project<\/a> now has a dedicated website.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Quicksand<\/em><\/a> (1971) by David Bowie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Halloween in Austin, Texas this year will look and sound like this. \u2022 “Blade Runner will prove invincible“: Philip K Dick’s letter of praise to the film’s producers. Related: one of the Blade Runner designers, Syd Mead, has recently styled New York’s Bar Basque and Foodparc. \u2022 \u201cI decided to go into fields where mathematicians … Continue reading “Weekend links 34”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,42,4,7,5,48,3,16,20,13,19,23],"tags":[634,103,1869,1861,1864,2272,1292,1301,1237,1863,1865,1867,1845,1866,667,87,1862],"class_list":["post-8091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-film","category-gay","category-illustrators","category-music","category-occult","category-science-fiction","category-science","category-television","category-work","tag-alan-garner","tag-alan-moore","tag-benoit-mandelbrot","tag-blade-runner","tag-brian-ward","tag-coil-group","tag-coilhouse","tag-david-bowie","tag-franklin-booth","tag-isaac-newton","tag-james-whitcomb-riley","tag-maurcie-sandoz","tag-maurice-sandoz","tag-owen-hatherley","tag-philip-k-dick","tag-salvador-dali","tag-syd-mead"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-26v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091","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=8091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}