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• Stanley Kubrick: a props odyssey. The Telegraph’s article on some of the props found amongst 900 boxes from the Stanley Kubrick archive.
• TDC22008 – The Type Directors Club have announced the winners in their eleventh open call for ‘Entries for Type Design’. Standouts for me are Ventura by Dino dos Santos and Restraint by Marian Bantjes and Ross Mills
• A Brief History of Avant Garde via Thinking for a Living™
• How many pixels! – Hasselblad’s 50 million pixel H3DII-50

Last weeks’ Sunday Telegraph published a four page special supplement on Stanley Kubrick. Featuring an interview with Kubrick’s widow Christiane Kubrick, extracts from his letters and images from the Stanley Kubrick Archive, it’s now been published online. There’s also a short interview with Stephen Berkoff on working with Kubrick. Next Sunday they’re running a photographic gallery of props; ‘Stanley Kubrick: a props odyssey’. Something to watch out for.

Channel 4′s Kubrick Season runs from July 15 to July 25. Kicking off the season is Jon Ronson’s ‘Citizen Kubrick‘ documentary. They’re then showing most of Kubrick’s films including the excellent ‘Day of the Fight’ and my favourite ‘Barry Lyndon‘. Left out of the season are ‘A Clockwork Orange’, ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, ‘Dr Strangelove’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket’.

As a taster to the season, C4 have put together a trailer recreating the set from The Shining. Using a single tracking shot with 55 actors including several look-a-likes and original equipment used in the film, it gives Kubrick’s point of view as he walks through the set.

Kubrick – A short film by Armen Antranikian will be shown this month on Channel 4. It’s shot as a talking heads style documentary and features varied reactions including director Tony Kaye’s to Kubrick’s films. Rumour has it they’ll be showing it alongside Jon Ronson’s documentary ‘Citizen Kubrick‘ as part of a Kubrick season.

• Stanley Kubrick – 79 – Hertfordshire, St.Albans. Interesting MySpace ‘homage’ page with a great collection of photos
• BBC’s IPlayer 2 goes beta. There’s been some major improvements to the interface but I guess the big news is that radio and tv are now in one place plus there’s improved functionality that allows for quick resume playing and personalisation
• Penguin announce the winners of their 2008 Design Award.
• Goosh.org. Google ‘unix-shell’ interface

• Limited edition Blue-Ray version of Helvetica with some great packaging from Experimental Jetset
• Getting creative with lego. 2001′s Discovery in lego as well as the EVA Pod, The Dawn of Man and 2010′s Leonov.
• Animoto – Slick online video creation tool
• China Design Now – Fantastic exhibition exploring China’s ‘new culture of design’ at the V&A

Fantastic illustrations from Brian Sanders who with one other illustrator was hired to record the making of Stanley Kubrick’s ’2001: A Space Odyssey’. The looseness and fluidity are at a complete contrast to the film. This article was originally published in The Independent Magazine on 20th January 2001. If anyone has a copy they want to get rid of let me know.

To celebrate the 80th Anniversary of Kubrick’s birth and the 40th anniversary of 2001, the Barbican are running all twelve of his features films, accompanied by an exhibition of items from the Kubrick archive. Shame they’re not showing the 70mm cut of 2001.

• John Moore’s photos of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto
• Stanley Kubrick Exhibition – Be nice to get this over to the UK
• The Napshell – Reminds me of Roger Dean’s ‘Home for Life‘
• Wired’s Top 10 Startups Worth Watching in 2008

• Single Hauz – Architecture inspired by city billboards
• Collection of ‘behind the scenes’ Clockwork Orange photographs. Originals can be found here.
• London underground inspired motorway map of England, Scotland and Wales