The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist
New book alert: The Movie Art of Syd Mead. This man has single-handedly brought into existence the look and feel of some of the most amazing fictional worlds in movies (Star Trek, Blade Runner, Elysium, Aliens, TRON) and now there's a book that details some of the work that went behind designing these landscapes. I want to live in this guy's head.
PBS: The Race Underground
I forget if I've posted about this. Maybe I have. But in case you're hearing about this for the first time, here's a great documentary film from PBS' American Experience about the race to build the nation's first underground subway in Boston and New York.
The film is based on the book The Race Underground b Doug Most.
Grifters Code: Documenting Modern Graffiti Writing
Damn. Look at these books. I cannot wait for these to be released. I saw the preview video of this and it looks amazing (sorry, it's a private video so I can't post it here).
Mark your calendars: February 8th release date!
Rebooting my book-a-month goal: The New York Nobody Knows
In October of last year, I kind of stopped reading because I just didn't feel up to it anymore. It kind of made me a little sad that I stopped reading because I knew after 2 months of not achieving my goal of one-book-a-month that I'd never catch up (because I'm a very slow reader). So I just gave up.
But with the new year -- and a look back at my ever-growing Amazon book list -- I'm going to give it another try. To start of 2017, I'm going to finally crack open a book that I've been meaning to read for a while now. It's The New York Nobody Knows by William B. Helmreich. I went to the LIBRARY yesterday to get this book. If it's good, I'll buy a copy for myself so I can make notes. Based on the first chapter, I think it looks like I will.
Buy the book below and read along with me!
Life in six panels: Old Master Q creator Alfonso Wong dies at 93 | South China Morning Post
Man, I sort of read a lot of these Chinese comics growing up. And when I say read I really mean just looked at the photos because most of the time, Alfonso Wong was able to tell a pretty hilarious story without any words.
Langdon Clay: Cars: New York City, 1974–1976
Every year for Christmas I buy myself a nice little gift -- from me to me. You know, what normal people do. Anyway, I thought about not doing that this year simply because I haven't really had any one thing stick out at me as something that I wanted to treat myself to. But I just saw this Langdon Clay book and maybe this might be a good fit.
The book combines two things I love, NYC and old cars, and presents them as works of art in glorious color filmstock. All the images are shot on Kodachrome on a Leica and are beautifully scanned for presentation. Check out some images below.
