The Shape of Paris
A skateboarder in Paris in summer. Shot so clean it looks like a different city.
The credits include trick acknowledgements.
Life is a series of THINGS THAT HAPPEN. These are some of those things.
The First Robot Ever Filmed
George Méliès, 1897. 45 seconds. Lost for over a century.
Found last month in a box in Michigan, left behind by a traveling showman who showed people moving pictures for the first time. His great-grandson drove the box to the Library of Congress.
Why Movies Don't Feel Real Anymore
A long essay on perceptual realism, indexicality, and cinematic qualia — on what it actually means for something to feel real on screen, and why we've quietly lost it.
Refik Anadol — Unsupervised
MoMA's lobby. A machine trained on the museum's entire collection, dreaming in real time on a 24-foot screen.
Saul Leiter — Snow
Saul Leiter, Snow. New York, 1960. via Artsy