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The work of Karel Martens is untouchable. Or, let’s rephrase that – it’s actually ultra-touchable (as in: tactile, physical, material):
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It’s a practice (or indeed, praxis) in which making becomes thinking, and thinking becomes making. (In that sense, it brings to mind the way Régis Debray once described “the professional typographer” as “the prime example of the working intellectual and the intellectual worker”). Seeing all of Karel’s work together, in the flesh, for the first time (in the current KM retrospective ‘Unbound’, taking place at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, running until October 26, 2025) is an electrifying experience – invoking the lost spirits of Dutch social-democratic structuralism, of stubborn materialism, but above all, radiating the pure joy of making. So do visit this exhibition – we strongly recommend it!

Every story has both show and tell to it. The good ones are more show than tell, but so much depends on how they're told. Here's a video essay, an editorial take: Star Wars is told as a fairy tale, and it's time for a remix.

De-Infantilizing STAR WARS (It Works) If you liked this one, come watch our The Acolyte review: https://youtu.be/wggR45TOH1AIf you want to support us further: https://www.patreon.com/BeghastChapt...

When it comes to photo restoration, it looks like AI isn't ready for prime-time. It's an interesting concept, though, and this sarcastic video makes me want to watch a good-quaility restoration of Hitchcock's "Vertigo." I didn't know that the film has colors that couldn't be shown until recently.

AI Can Ruin Movies Now, Too - Aliens and True Lies on 4k A belated review of Cameron's 4k filmography, arriving dead last but for the very firstest of first world problems.Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.co...

Might have called the owls a hootenanny.

A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other what the world is and what we are, for conveying the blueness of blue and the wonder of being…