FYI #29
Film: Edmund Cook, Photography: Elliot Sheppard, via the Modern House
‘Inside the light-filled rural hideaway of legendary artists Langlands & Bell’, via The Modern House. I was not familiar with the artists’ work before watching this short film.
An Inner-City ‘Country’ Garden That’s Full Of Life, via The Design Files
‘This Big Sur house is the essence of California cool’, via Wallpaper*
2024 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize winners, via the AGNSW. Laura Jones was awarded the Archibald Prize for her portrait of writer, Tim Winton.
Short video of artist Wendy Sharpe creating a wall mural during the installation of the exhibition, Wendy Sharpe: Spellbound. Open until August 11.
Tiny Awards 2024, a ‘small prize to celebrate interesting, small, craft-y internet projects and spaces which basically make the web a more fun place to be’
Happy Birthday, Sea Library. Celebrating six years of Anna Iltnere’s wonderful project in Jūrmala, Latvia.
Profile of surfer, Jock Sutherland, by William Finnegan (author of Barbarian Days), via the New Yorker
Revenge Of The Humanities, by writer Steven Johnson… ‘I do think it is undeniable that the rise of AI has ushered humanities-based skills into the very center of the tech world right now.’
Voice, taste, trust, scarcity, thoughts on what makes a good media brand at the moment, by Kyle Chayka, via One Thing
‘ABC Classic 100 charts how film, social media and video games have changed classical music's audience’, via ABC Classic
Stories are Weapons, Mark Dery on Annalee Newitz’s new book, via 4Columns
There and Back Again, Gracy Olmstead (author of Uprooted) introduces new Granola (her newsletter) readers to her writing work. The post includes a recipe for oatmeal chocolate chip cookies
Say My Name, an initiative ‘to decolonise the ways in which we understand and recognise names deemed as ‘tricky’, ‘unfamiliar’ and ‘foreign’ within Anglo-Australian contexts.’
Podcast listening highlights this week:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus speaks with Gloria Steinem on Wiser than Me. In her introduction she speaks movingly about her friends and Maira Kalman’s book, Women Holding Things.
Matt Gibberd with artist & designer, Luke Edward Hall on Homing In. Hall’s book, A Kind of Magic, looks wonderful.
Ruthie Rogers speaks with Savanah Leaf (artist/director) on Ruthie’s Table 4.
99% Invisible mini-series The Power Broker, breaking down Robert Caro’s biography of New York urban planner, Robert Moses. Episode one includes an interview with the author. The series will run all year.