So great: If Stanley Kubrick had directed Game of Thrones and Saul Bass had designed the poster.
Pair with the legacy in film and design Saul Bass did leave.
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Making of the incredible A Boy and His Atom, the world’s smallest movie made by moving actual atoms frame by frame.
Meanwhile, Disney chief scientist Heinz Haber, born 100 years ago today, explains the atom in a 1957 Tomorrowland broadcast and a wonderful related illustrated book titled Our Friend the Atom.
Since I was an infant, I have feared my father’s den. Based on [its] ancient relics and mass clutter, I have since referred to the location as “Steven Heller’s Cave.”
Nicholas Heller, son of the inimitable design critic Steven Heller, takes us inside his father’s legendary den – a bibliophile’s paradise.
Pair with this fantastic Design Matters interview with Heller.
For Saul Bass’s birthday, the title sequence for the 1956 adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days, which one brave Victorian female journalist set out to replicate in real life.
A Boy and His Atom – to explore the limits of filmmaking, IBM scientists create the world’s smallest movie, made by moving actual atoms frame by frame with IBM’s scanning tunneling microscope.
How far we’ve come in the half-century since Disney’s Our Friend the Atom.
The loveliest thing you’ll watch today: Tilda Swinton and Roger Ebert’s widow lead a 1,500-person Barry White dance-along honoring Ebert. Pair with Ebert on writing, life and mortality.
Stories were more like dreams spoken aloud.
The Last Bookshop – wonderful short film by Richard Dadd and Dan Fryer imagines a world in which only one bookstore survives.
Complement with The Joy of Books, a stop-motion rainbow inside a bookstore, and Carl Sagan on books.
Famous films, books, and movies reimagined as Dr. Seuss art.
Pair with the secret art of the real Dr. Seuss.
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In 1987, Ebert’s words of encouragement made a strong impression on me, a brainy fat kid who felt less comfortable in his skin than in the darkness of a movie theater. I didn’t grow up to be a movie critic (or a journalist or an actor). But in that year, I began to feel more confident in myself as a writer. I found my voice, and in time, felt less awkward in my body.
The letter Roger Ebert send a teenage boy who aspired to be a film critic. Also see Ebert’s advice on writing and life and how Alfred Hitchcock had similar impact on a boy’s life.
If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what they seem to be about. Look at a movie that a lot of people love, and you will find something profound, no matter how silly the film may be.
Such gorgeous vintage Polish film posters. Complement with these equally striking vintage Soviet propaganda and art posters.
Newly revealed storyboards for Hitchcock’s The Birds, released 50 years ago today. Pair with Hitchcock on the “fright complex.”
At the American Academy in Rome, filmmaker Nicholas Heller follows Visiting Artist Ann Weber on her daily rounds, scavenging cardboard boxes out of dumpsters, collecting ideas from architectural details and Bernini sculptures and creating sculpture in her studio.
My Definite Chief Aim
I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental super star in the United States. In return I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting 1970 I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.
Bruce Lee
Jan. 1969
A hand-written note from Bruce Lee, courtesy of Cojourneo. Complement with Bruce Lee’s only existing TV interview from two years later and other famous resolution lists from Susan Sontag, Marilyn Monroe, Woody Guthrie, and Jonathan Swift.
