Lange ist es her, endlich aber wieder soweit. Wir haben gebrowst, entdeckt und teilen mit: das hier können wir nicht für uns behalten. Das wird jetzt rausjehaun. Rinnjehaun, /A&C  

–– Candide Thovex doesn’t wait for winter.

–– A war to keep the peace turns into a cinematic stunner by Variable: „Rocket Wars“.

–– Too Young To Die: ARTE widmet Philip Seymour Hoffman eine Dokumentation und erinnert an den außergewöhnlichsten, herausragendsten Schauspieler unserer Zeit.

–– Rechtzeitig vor der Weihnachtsfeier: James Brown gives you dancing lessons.

–– Fvf besuchen den Galerist und Kunstsammler Juerg Judin in seinem Schöneberger Domizil: einer umgebauten Tankstelle.

–– Glück für Hamburg: „Unterm Strich“ heißt die Ausstellung mit Werken, Zeichnungen, Geschichten von Christoph Niemann, die das Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe vom 20.1 bis zum 10.4 ausstellt. Dazu kommt hier eine Homestory von It’s nice that.  

–– How he became funny: burgeoning comedy legend Louis CK speaks about George Carlin and the momentous inspiration the late comedic icon had on his career. 

–– The only way to see a scale model of the solar system is to build one.

–– The Future 100 takes a snapshot of emerging trends for 2016. 

–– „Blast“ features Ken Block's mesmerising drive through the Utah desert, is actually boring but strikingly beautiful. Worth a watch.

–– Formewla 1.

–– Lucky VII: Superfan J.J. Abrams on directing „The Force Awakens“. 

–– This anamorphic sculpture titled „Emergence Lab“ contains six handpainted images inside a large translucent cube. A visual feast.

–– Are you good enough to be a tennis line judge? 

–– The three finalists for World Goal Of The Year. And why Messis’s goal is an almost unbelievable achievement. 

–– „Widerstehe doch der Sünde“: Zombie surfers catch some waves to Nicolas Godin’s new opus.

–– Tom Kucy brings NASA’s Apollo Archive photos to life in his short film „Ground Control“.

–– Der 100m-Läufer Julian Reus erklärt, wie man 100m läuft. 

–– Steidl publishes a fantastic new edition of Eggleston's iconic photobook, The Democratic Forest. Anothermag.com considers the defining role it played in shaping his career and aesthetic. 

–– The Hobbit movies were awful, and now we know why.

–– Northern Iran plays host to some of the most remote and unexpected glaciers in the world. Klaus Thymann went there and brought beautiful photographs with him.

–– In 1976 the later to become design icon Dieter Rams sketched out some of his core beliefs in front of an audience in New York City.

–– For cinephiles: The „Hitchcock/Truffaut“ trailer.

Ob kurios oder interessant, wichtig, schön und sehenswert… wir entscheiden uns in der #12 für diese Fundstücke und wünschen aber mal ein herrlichstes Wochenende. Sincerely, A&C

–– The Verge’s stunning featurette about the digital masterminds at Industrial Light & Magic's secret ILMxLab and their vision for the future of entertainment. 

–– FURORE IV-speaker, illustrator & storyteller Christoph Niemann illuminates the creative community with this 99U talk. Here he candidly + insightfully works out how to overcome the three fears every creative faces. 

–– Einen noch, dann gehen wir: Drunken Germans auf der Reeperbahn in den frühen 60ziger Jahren. 

–– On the Street….7:30pm, Highline, New York City, The Satorialist. 

–– „Mach einen Haufen Geld oder stirb“… Die Soziologin und Autorin Sarah Thornton hat mit Kunst-Stars wie Damien Hirst über ihr Selbstverständnis gesprochen. Gefunden auf spiegel.de

–– Hip-Hop lyrics on art.

–– ManvsMachine has created a series of idents that are randomly generated using an algorithm and were created as part of a ITV2 brand refresh. 

–– Brilliant photographs of holidaymakers on cruise ships in the 1990s. 

–– Don't mess with a man with a mic. A must-watch if you love seeing bozo audience members get verbally owned by famous comedians. 

–– Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang uses gun powder to create art. 

–– Tucson wet microburst August 8th, 2015 

–– Makes your day: Stephen Colbert goes off script to tell Jon Stewart how much he means to the world. 

––  After finding some beautiful vintage image negatives in a thrift shop, depicting a woman at the beach in an ethereal, twilight setting, Meagan Abell became determined to find out more… 

–– 10 charming 8-Bit GIFs depicting every day life in Japan. 

–– Gefechte enden, Erinnerungen bleiben: Jakob Ganslmeier hat ehemalige Afghanistan-Soldaten, die an einer Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung leiden, eineinhalb Jahre lang begleitet und fotografiert. Gefunden im SZ-Magazin. 

–– Why did L.A. drop 96 million ‘shade balls’ into its water? 

–– Diving with a humpback whale and her newborn calf, Roca Partida in the Revillagigedo [Islands], Mexico. 

–– Sophia Loren 

Have a great one, /A&C

–– Sneak a peak at O’Neill’s UNREASONABLE film festival. 

–– Director and animator Jim Le Fevre has created a giant 3D stroboscope for SBTRCT.

–– Directed by Jan Wentz and  with amazing camera work from Stuart Graham: „True Soul Of Indonesia“ 

–– Building a dream: Peter Giacobbi is the builder, master fabricator, engineer and owner of this incredible 1959 Ferrari 250 TR recreation.

–– The Art Of The Car Chase 

–– The obsessively detailed map of American literature’s most epic road trips

–– Für Höhlentaucher ist Angelita ein ungewöhnliches Ziel. Wer hier nicht an Geistergeschichten glaubt, tut es nirgendwo. Gefunden auf spiegel.de 

–– Canadian artist Guillaume Lachapelle explores the infinite in this series of mysterious 3D printed dioramas titled Visions. 

–– A former Cement Factory is now the workspace and residence of architect Ricardo Bofill.

–– Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians deconstruct their songs and tell the stories behind how they were made. In the newest episode they breakdown "Them Changes" from Thundercat’s latest mini-album.

Der Weekender ist zurück, aber nicht ganz pünktlich. Deshalb für den goldenen Rest dieses hoffentlich sagenhaften Wochenendes schnell nachgereicht: all das, was wir teilen müssen, weil man so was nicht für sich behält. –– Allez, A&C

–– This week’s Hollywood trailers we digged a lot: David O. Russell’s „Joy“, David Ayer’s „Suicide Squad“ and Alejandro González Iñárritu's „The Revenant“. Plus we urge you to check out Scott Cooper’s „Black Mass“ and Denis „Villeneuve’s „Sicario“. 

–– When Tom Cruise goes to work it doesn’t feel exactly like nine-to-five… 

–– Another Tom challenged himself to find his next date. Offline. Watch this candid short movie by Samuel Abrahams. 

––  The tale of a former jockey in a wheelchair and his fight to ride again ended up as a  fantastic music video for Kodaline’s „Ready“. Directed by Abteen Bagheri.

–– Doug Aitken's travelling arts project, Station to Station, has arrived at London's Barbican Centre spanning music, film, dance, design and performance art. Here’s a film on the opening weekend. For more go to barbican.org

–– We have heard of this a while ago and still think it needs sharing: Google’s Project Soli. A truly stunning piece of technology.

–– Make a child cry. Oder: was Gutes tun mit dieser fantastischen App.

–– GENER8ION + M.I.A.’s „The New International Sound Pt. II“: directed by Inigo Westmeier, featuring the 36 000 students of Shaolin Tagou (no scenes were done in post).

–– You may haven’t seen it yet: Focusing on the lives and kitchens of six of the world’s most renowned international chefs, filmmaker David Gelb’s „Chef’s Table“ highlights their talents and passions. Enjoy the official trailer, watch it on Netflix.

–– Awww, lottery ads. They never fail to entertain.

–– Here comes the first look at David Simon's much-anticipated HBO miniseries „Show Me a Hero“. The network's new drama was directed by Paul Haggis, starring Oscar Isaac and a fantastic ensemble of renowned actors. 

–– Interview mit Jürgen Teller aus dem SZ-Magazin.

–– Is this the most dangerous movie ever made? No animals were harmed but 70 cast & crew members were.

–– Great track by Django Django for John Maclean’s superb Western „Slow West” (watch the film’s trailer here).

–– Regisseur Sebastian Schipper („Victoria“) spricht mit dem Zeit Magazin über Machtlosigkeit, Freundschaft und Rettung.

–– “The Man Who Saw America”: looking back with Robert Frank, the most influential photographer alive. A great piece by the New York Times.

–– Die Summen, die für seine Kunst gezahlt werden, nennt er schockierend. Manche seiner Bilder hält er für überbewertet. Ein freimütiges Gespräch mit dem Maler Gerhard Richter – gefunden im Zeit Magazin.

–– Featuring a turkey club sandwich and the voice of Max Minghella, director Gustav Johansson’s short for Vogue stars Dakota Johnson as a languorous and contemplative actor.

Freunde. Geht nicht ins Internet. Das Wetter, die Wolken und so weiter. Geht mal schön raus. Wenn es aber trotzdem sein muss, dann überlassen wir euch nicht den Wölfen. Sondern empfehlen dies. –– Gutes, A&C

–– Muss man einfach öfter machen, machen wir jetzt auch: mit Wonne mixtapen. „APRIL BY THE POOL“. 18 Tracks. 1h8min Mmmmusik auf spotify.

–– In words: A bizarre murder brings together three law-enforcement officers and a career criminal, each of whom must navigate a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes of California. Colin Farrell is Ray Velcoro, a compromised detective in the all-industrial City of Vinci, LA County. Vince Vaughn plays Frank Semyon, a criminal and entrepreneur in danger of losing his life’s work, while his wife and closest ally (Kelly Reilly), struggles with his choices and her own. Rachel McAdams is Ani Bezzerides, a Ventura County Sheriff’s detective often at odds with the system she serves, while Taylor Kitsch plays Paul Woodrugh, a war veteran and motorcycle cop for the California Highway Patrol who discovers a crime scene which triggers an investigation involving three law enforcement groups, multiple criminal collusions, and billions of dollars. In moving images: True Detective Season 2 Teaser.

–– Watch Edward Snowden explain password security to John Oliver. Or, even better: watch it all. (and while we are at it: here’s a legal download link to the oscar winning doc „Citizenfour“)

–– “Bringing letters alive is one of the most powerful ways to share the joy and tragedy of being human”. Benedict Cumberbatch reads 'My Dear Bessie‘. 

–– Fvf spend the day hiking in the Alps and gorge climbing near Charmonix with mountaineer David Göttler. 

–– The first trailer for Sundance sensation „Me and Earl and the Dying Girl“ has debuted online. 

–– Mary Russell’s Moment in Time: There was an era when private moments were in fact private and snapshots truly intimate. The fashion reporter and photographer has opened her rarely seen archives and speaks about those days. 

–– It's like taking a stroll through Wes Anderson's cinematic mind: an anonymous superfan has created an exhaustive, 166-track playlist of literally almost every song that has appeared in the director's eight-film ouvre.

–– Honda has launched the world's first never-ending YouTube film. While it all feels charming in its simplicity, don't be fooled by this effortless facade, as the technical lead describes the spot as "by far the most difficult job I have ever done". 

–– This is superbly stupid. 

–– Graphic designer Julien Knez created a series of retro VHS covers for modern television shows and movies, including Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and Guardians of the Galaxy. 

–– Ultraviolet visuals stun and awe in photographer Michael König’s new solar timelapse, „SUN“. In four hypnotizing minutes, the film pieces together 21 scenes from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s 4K footage that were captured over the past four years. 

–– Es gibt Maschinen, die gibt es gar nicht. 

A quick collection for a long and wonderful weekend. Take care, A&C

–– Beyond stunning: When the Bloom family took an abandoned magpie under their wing, they never expected it to become a story of an overwhelming and unique bond. Since then Cameron Bloom began taking pictures of his son’s unlikely friendship with “Penguin” which he publishes on his wildly popular Instagram account. (Here son Noah takes a shower with „Penguin“). 

–– For hundreds of years, women in the South Korean island province of Jeju have made their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor. These phenomenal portraits by Hyung S. Kim show the „Women of the Sea“.

–– Ein Journalist fotografiert ein Mädchen in Syrien, es streckt die Hände in die Höhe. Das Bild geht als Tweet um die Welt und bewegt Tausende. 

–– Psychiatry and Human Behavior Professor, James Fallon, spent years studying the brain scans of psychopaths. Then he looked at his own brain scan and made a startling discovery.

–– Two legends at work: Seasick Steve and Tom Jones in an impromptu radio performance. 

–– "Don't be a dick" – Us talks us through creating great music videos. 

–– Philip Galanes: When people talked about how revolutionary the film “Boyhood” was — filming a child actor over many years — did you ever think, “What about Sally Draper?” Growing Up on ‘Mad Men’: A Conversation With Matthew Weiner and Kiernan Shipka. 

Have fun, enjoy, take care, A&C

–– „Easy Rider“ is a beautifully crafted atmospheric short by Thibaut Grevet about a motocross family affair‎.

–– A must watch: „Every gun has a history. Let's not repeat it.“ 

–– California inspires me: An animated interview with Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh. 

–– OK GO made a very OK GO-esque commercial for a chinese furniture store that is full of perspective tricks and clever camera work. Watch the clip and how they made it.  

–– One of those fantastic Sunday sketchings by Christoph Niemann.

–– Awww, Mr Bingo…

–– 25 ideas of what the design landscape will look like in 2020, according to the most innovative designers of 2015.

–– Lance Page’s new short, "Kilauea: The Fire Within“, is a breathtaking 4K-close-up of the most active volcano on Earth.

–– Let’s thank imgur-user ‚minicity‘ for uploading these fascinating 142 behind-the-scenes images from the Blade Runner production’s model-shop. 

–– „Skihopp“: David Ryle catched fearless ski jumpers mid-flight at Oslo's Holmenkollen jump hill. See the photo series on his website and watch his short movie on Nowness.

–– Editor Jake Swinney’s supercut „first and final frames“ is an illuminating cinematic experience.

–– „Composing Movement“ is an 8min exploration of Akira Kurosawa’s timeless cinematic craft & artistry. Tony Zhou invites viewers to join him in "studying the master, possibly the greatest composer of motion in film history“.

–– The ingenious Dieter Rams reveals how architecture has influenced his work, what apple gets right and the kind of design he truly hates. 

–– We Are Blood is a modern day skate epic featuring top skateboarders as they travel the globe pushing the limits of what's possible on a board, celebrating the unconditional bond created by the simple act of skateboarding. Directed by Ty Evans, helmed by Brain Farm. – more on weareblood.com  

–– „Knockout“ ist ein tolles neues Buch aus dem Ankerherz Verlag.

–– History's most iconic photos recreated as miniature still lifes. 

–– Take an otherworldly, filmed journey through Hang Son Doong, the world's largest cave  and see photos from National Geographic's recent exploration and an animated timelapse gif. 

–– The making Of Shylight – beautiful unfolding kinetic lights that bloom like flowers. 

–– HBO’s ‘The Jinx’ will turn your stomach and drop your jaw.

Der Weekender #6 serviert heute, was uns die letzten 5 Werktage lang überraschte oder kickte, umwerfend unterhielt oder eindringlich informierte. –– Habt ein herrliches Wochenende. Sincerely, A&C

–– Watch the heartfelt, gutwrenching first trailer for the upcoming HBO-documentary „Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck“. The movie blends Cobain’s personal archive of art, music, and never-before-seen home movies with animation and revelatory interviews with his family and closest confidants. Read an interview with director Brett Morgen here. 

–– Lionel, can you warm up Ter Stegen, please? With your weaker foot? 

–– Another sublime take-away gig by blogotheque. „Lee Fields, in track suit and sneakers, standing on the Pont des Arts, singing as if he’d been dumped there on a bench like an untouchable.“

–– „Paar schöne Stunden waren das“. Die FAZ spricht mit Jürgen Teller und wir hören gebannt zu. 

–– Palm Springs/California bills itself as a Mecca of midcentury modernism, boasting one of the world’s largest concentrations of architecture from the likes of John Lautner, Richard Neutra, and more. See Tom Blachford approaching them with a sleek photo series.

–– „Asphyxia“ by Maria Takeuchi and Frederico Phillips captured movements with two XBox One Kinect sensors to craft a striking fusion of dance and technology. There’s a making of, too.

–– GIF of the Year: Obama on a Skateboard. Doesn’t mean the other contenders haven’t been less impressive. We laughed hard @ thegifys.com/

–– Boston Dynamics takes it to the limit.

–– Yes, they actually exist.

–– „Ich bin sehr oft auf die Schnauze gefallen“. Tolles Interview mit Hubert Burda, gefunden im SZ Magazin. „Frage: Ihre erste Zeitschriftengründung war 1969 das Männermagazin M. Das Cover zeigte einen Mann, der mit nacktem Oberkörper Kopfstand macht und dabei buschiges, verschwitztes Achselhaar sehen lässt. Ihre Mutter kommentierte Ihr Gesellenstück mit den Sätzen: »Der Vater hat deine Zeitschrift in die Hände gekriegt. Jetzt isst er nichts mehr. Du bist schuld, wenn er stirbt!«

–– A year ago, Benjamin Clementine played live at Burberry Prorsum Menswear Show.

–– Miss the 90s? 

–– Skateboarding in Palestine. A NOWNESS journey to the Middle East with the inspirational SkatePal team. 

–– A new chrome extension let’s you hang the world’s greatest paintings right in your browser.

–– The first ultra HD footage of the Himalaya shot from above 20,000 ft, featuring the most stable, crisp, clear aerial shots of these mountains ever released

–– The true origin story of the new mac book. Weil wir den Gedanken nicht ertragen, dass es diese Woche jemand verpasst haben könnte.

Ab sofort immer zum Wochenende: Inspiration und so, im Aggregatzustand Internet. Jetzt nicht nur für ausgewählte Kollegen, sondern alle die wollen. Habt herrliche Tage + take care, A&C

–– Director Richard Linklater shares his five keys to great storytelling and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s rules for a successful collaboration

–– MIT Technology Review on breakthrough technologies in 2015

–– Dancing paper: Japanese designer and maker Ugoita T. assembled this clever electromagnetic stage to bring paper cranes to life

–– Ein den Gegner unmittelbar vernichtender Tischtennistrick

–– One of those lists that can make your day

–– Want to fall in love with Los Angeles?

–– Daft Punk unmasked (birch plywood, 63 1/2 x 39 1/4 x 21 3/4 inches)

–– Rennsportherzrasen

–– Life-sized cardboard pop-up desks can be opened and closed like a book offering up a makeshift office or dining room nearly anywhere

–– Schon mal im Kalender tätowieren: World Press Photo Award-Ausstellung bei Gruner + Jahr/Hamburg, umsonst ab 30. April

–– Schwerkraft, verarscht

–– CrabvsOctopusBlockbusterhomevideo

–– The unskippable ad

–– Australian Comedian brilliantly points out the absurdity of America’s gun laws

–– Teaser for „Love & Mercy“, a biopic about the Beachboys’ Brian Wilson, premiering next week at the SXSW Film Festival

–– The faces of homelessness – fantastic portraits by Jan Banning

–– They say it best when they say nothing at all: the Oscars without dialogue 

–– The graphics were the best part of the oscars. Here's the guy who made them außerdem: „It’s completely terrifying, working up 24 title sequences in a few weeks…“

–– Spray paint portals by German street artist 1010

–– Stunning kickstarter campaign by Kyle Haines featuring his design for a motion lamp filled with heated ferrofluid that can be manipulated with a pair of magnets

–– Muslim protester's gather in Melbourne then get the shock of their life when Patriotic Aussies surround them and show them who's boss

–– A book tank

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