Today marks ten years since this infographic back page about the Kowloon Walled City was published by South China Morning Post. I explained in a few lectures the ins and outs of this project, and now I will do it here. Long 🧵
500 years ago there was a painter called Pieter Bruegel who changed the course of art history.
And his paintings are unlike anything you've seen before...
Watched Busting (1974) back in the 70's when Elliott Gould was one of the coolest actors around & Robert Blake wasn't a creepy murderer they were in this great gritty cop actioner directed by Peter Hyams very of it's time as far as PC attitudes but ahead of it's time with style👍
I watched William Friedkin's SORCERER last night for the first time in many years, and it remains an absolute masterpiece. Almost unbearably suspenseful and grueling, it must have been one of the most difficult movies to shoot ever!
Victor Hugo is most famous for writing beloved novels like Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
But he was also one of the greatest painters of the 19th century.
And Hugo's art, kept secret until after his death, is unlike anything you've seen before...