Punctum:

Studium:
Interlude Films
Interludes

Stewart Brand: “This six-part, three-hour, BBC TV series aired in 1997. I presented and co-wrote the series; it was directed by James Muncie, with music by Brian Eno. The series was based on my 1994 book, HOW BUILDINGS LEARN: What Happens After They’re Built. The book is still selling well and is used as a text in some college courses. Most of the 27 reviews on Amazon treat it as a book about system and software design, which tells me that architects are not as alert as computer people. But I knew that; that’s part of why I wrote the book. Anybody is welcome to use anything from this series in any way they like. Please don’t bug me with requests for permission. Hack away. Do credit the BBC, who put considerable time and talent into the project. Historic note: this was one of the first television productions made entirely in digital— shot digital, edited digital. The project wound up with not enough money, so digital was the workaround. The camera was so small that we seldom had to ask permission to shoot; everybody thought we were tourists. No film or sound crew. Everything technical on site was done by editors, writers, directors. That’s why the sound is a little sketchy, but there’s also some direct perception in the filming that is unusual.”

Audio clips from online dictionaries sing the hits of yesterday and today

Whenever I see a copy of Blue Monday I have to buy it. I can’t bear the thought that it might otherwise get thrown out. End up in a landfill site somewhere. Criminal. Currently I have 5 copies of the Fac 73 version. But this is nothing compared to Erol Alkan’s 14 copies. A fact which acted as a catalyst for this very work .

I bought my fourth copy from an amiable guy at a car boot sale. I think it cost 50p. He was interested in my excitement at the fact that the sleeve was slightly different to my other copies. It was devoid of the die cut sections. Another surprise was in store. On playing it I noticed the first two beats were missing.

I even love the tune when a bit’s not there.

Bits and pieces of the Blue Monday Owners Club via the Internet Archive.

German Latin Disco Soccer: the way to go.

“The elevator swished up like a gigolo’s hand up a silk stocking.”

A. This is the cover of Architectural Design for April 1977.

B. I was born in April ‘77.

C. … Therapy!

A collection of [choose your own adventure: a) good; b) vintage; c) amusing] architectural magazine covers assembled by no2self.

Chris Marker:

maybe French,
likely Russian,
87 years old,
filmmaker,
photographer,
writer,
poet,
seldom interviewed,
lover of cats, owls, bears, and wolves,
&c.

and now?
… well, now this would be his YouTube channel.

Enjoy.

Ida Ekblad

Mao

Bonsai

Kermit

by Daniel Young & Christian Giroux

Thanks Tad!

If you want it, if you want it.
Go and get it, go and get it.
If you got it, If you got it.
Don’t lose it, don’t lose it.
If you lose it, if you lose it.
Don’t want it, don’t want it.

San Francisco band Los Microwaves released this album in 1981. Thanks to the people at Mutant Sounds you can still listen to it, and to many other moments of aural joy, twenty-seven years later. If I did believe in God, my prayers would most certainly be with them.

A series of collages from 2004 by Bojan Sarcevic. I’m almost irrationally drawn to these. Read the Frieze article here, and see the full series here.

We do.

From a series of animations Philip Glass made for Sesame Street in 1978.