Yesterday I watched the movie The Way, Way Back. At first I almost rejected the movie but me and my wife ended up watching it anyway. Seeing one of the posters, I mistakenly thought this was yet another youth movie. I´m so happy I was wrong. The movie left us with some very good feelings.

The story was touching, the movie was shoot in nice surroundings and the soundtrack was good (soundtrack on Spotify), but most importantly, the acting was great. Steve Carell played yet another character role, this time acting as the wicked and controlling stepdad. The acting by Sam Rockwell was pure pleasure to watch, Toni Collette, Maya Rudolph and Allison Janney were outstanding as always. The younger actors did really great too, Liam James and AnnaSophia Robb.

From the IMDB synopsis:

Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.

Trailer:

We fell in love with co-writer Jim Rash´s character Lewis:

Related reading:

• Jim Rash and Nat Faxon on The Way, Way Back: 'It's a rebirth'
• The Way, Way Back Trailer: Steve Carell, Jerkface
• "The Way Way Back" - a movie with plenty of laughs and lots of heart

Alex Honnold is an American rock climber who does amazing ascents of big walls without the use of any safety equipment.

In a segment of 60 Minutes, he's climbing the mountain face of Sentinel in Yosemite National Park. I couldn't believe my eyes the first time I watched this, seeing him looking into the camera smiling and whistling, and being so relaxed.

Photo credit: via alexhonnold.com.

This is what a drone operator might see in his camera when flying over Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa region of Pakistan:

In military slang, Predator drone operators often refer to kills as ‘bug splats’, since viewing the body through a grainy video image gives the sense of an insect being crushed.

To challenge this insensitivity as well as raise awareness of civilian casualties, an artist collective installed a massive portrait facing up in the heavily bombed Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa region of Pakistan, where drone attacks regularly occur. Now, when viewed by a drone camera, what an operator sees on his screen is not an anonymous dot on the landscape, but an innocent child victim’s face.

The installation is also designed to be captured by satellites in order to make it a permanent part of the landscape on online mapping sites.

The project is a collaboration of artists who made use of the French artist JR’s ‘Inside Out’ movement. Reprieve/Foundation for Fundamental Rights helped launch the effort which has been released with the hashtag #NotABugSplat.

The child featured in the poster is nameless, but according to FFR, lost both her parents and two young siblings in a drone attack.

The group of artists traveled inside KPK province and, with the assistance of highly enthusiastic locals, unrolled the poster amongst mud huts and farms. It is their hope that this will create empathy and introspection amongst drone operators, and will create dialogue amongst policy makers, eventually leading to decisions that will save innocent lives.

Children gathering around the installation:

Via Hyllat.

Web designer and visual artist Owen Perry has taken some incredible shots of the geyser field El Tatio located in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile.

Located within the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, El Tatio is the largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere and the third largest in the world. The field has over 80 active geysers and attracts tens of thousands of tourists each year who flock to see the incredible mineral formations and to bathe in hot geyser water. British Columbia-based interactive web designer and visual artist Owen Perry recently visited El Tatio and returned with these spectacular shots. Perry has a beautiful collection of travel and landscape photography you can explore over on Circa 1983.

Enjoy your cup of coffee and in the meantime lower your risk of getting type 2 diabetes. One interesting fact in the study done by the Harvard School of Public Health is that tea didn´t have the same protective abilities against the illness:

A study released by the Harvard School of Public Health has confirmed a direct relationship between the amount of coffee a person drinks and a lowered risk for type 2 diabetes.

According to the study, those who increased their daily coffee consumption by more than one cup per day over a four-year period experienced an 11 percent lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Those who decreased their consumption by more than a cup per day, on the other hand, increased their risk by 17 percent.

Researchers also collected the same data on tea consumption, but no correlation was found between the drink and the disease.

“I was really happy to see that the changes themselves were associated with risk,” said School of Public Health postdoctoral fellow Shilpa Bhupathiraju, the study's lead author. “Increasing coffee decreases the risk for type 2 diabetes, while decreasing it raises it.”

Featured image is from the article Fathers Day | Turkish Coffee by Stephanie Stamatis. Photography by Tara Pearce.

During Easter I watched the movie The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). Peter Gabriel did the soundtrack and it´s a wonderful listening. The album won Grammy Award for Best New Age Album 1990.

I´m also really fond of the cover art. It´s titled Drawing Study for Self Image II (1987) by artist Julian Grater.

Related:

• Peter Gabriel - The Last Temptation Of Christ (Full album on YouTube)

NYC Type, originally founded in 2007 by graphic designer Jason Powers, has re-launched a new website under the creative direction of digital designer Matthew Anderson. The website is a digital gathering place for the typography and letterforms found in New York City. Currently, you can contribute by using Instagram and Twitter with the use of the hashtag #nyctype.

Founded in 2007, nyctype.com is a website built around community-sourced content. It is our belief that stories only get richer with the addition of new voices and perspectives. So, what you see now is the first iteration in an ongoing effort to build a platform for open, multi-dimensional online storytelling — it is our attempt to re-envision what storytelling in the 21st century can be: something accessible, educational, and fun.

Currently, NYC TYPE's images are generated by Instagram users utilizing the #nyctype hashtag. Soon, it will incorporate content of a higher fidelity, such as SLR-generated images, video, geo-tagging, and even traditional editorials.

The site is designed and built by Matthew Anderson and Daniel Hunninghake, with the support of a small group of advisors.

NYC Type´s fundraising video at Kickstarter:

Featured image illustration for NYC Type by Able Parris.

Story via @helenrice.

Related reading:

• Chicagotype

Ruan Hao of Hong Kong’s LYCS Architecture has designed a beautiful "multi-task" table called CATable. It will not only store your magazines, but your cat aswell.

If your cat keeps distracting you from work by sitting on your laptop keyboard or batting at your hands, the CATable, designed by Ruan Hao of Hong Kong’s LYCS Architecture, is the perfect solution. The desk features a smooth workspace on top with a warren of cubby holes just big enough for a kitten to crawl through below.

Cats’ characteristic curiosity is “greatly satisfied through repetitively exploring the unknown path behind the hole,” the designer writes. “It is a table for us, and a paradise for cats.”

It’s the ultimate blogger desk: play with your cat and get some writing done at the same time. When you’re ready for a break, just scoop the feline out and put it back on your lap.

Get that camera out of my face:

Images via Freshome.

The documentary Waterwalker by Canadian Bill Mason, who was a naturalist, artist, canoeist, author and filmmaker, captures the very essence of the majestic Canadian wilderness. Albert Ohayon who is the English film collection curator at The National Film Board of Canada, has written a lenghty piece about the making of the film:

The finished film was blown up to 35mm and screened for the first time at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 25, 1984. Response was muted and the NFB (which held all the distribution rights) opted to sell the film to television. Mason had always wanted the film to play theatrically, as he believed the big screen was the only way he could truly share the awe and wonder of Lake Superior with his audience. He convinced IMAGO to buy the theatrical rights from the NFB. They then rented one of the theatres at the Rideau Centre in Ottawa to show the film. It was a big hit, playing to sold out audiences for six weeks. As a result, Waterwalker was bought by Creswin Films and released theatrically throughout Canada in the fall of 1986, to positive acclaim. The film was also nominated for best feature documentary at the Genie Awards but lost to another NFB film, Final Offer.

An American distributor also picked up Waterwalker for theatrical showings stateside and eventually television sales were made to a dozen countries including Italy, China and Iran (as well as Canada, of course).

I invite you to view this film and share in Mason’s beautiful journey. Perhaps you will be deeply touched by its message like I was—or perhaps not. In either case, the beautiful images and haunting Bruce Cockburn music are sure to make a lasting impression on you. Enjoy.

A creative team based in Bremen, Germany has installed a marvelous light show inside Gasometer Oberhausen:

German creative studio Urbanscreen have just unveiled ‘320 Licht,’ a massive light projection inside the cathedral-like interior of the 20,000 square meter Gasometer Oberhausen in Germany (the same space that housed Christo’s Big Air Package last year). Urbanscreen utilized both the ceiling and 320 degrees of the interior space of this former gas tank to project a 22-minute loop of digital animation with 21 high-powered Epson projectors.

“This experience is based on the vastness of the Gasometer,” sound designer Jonas Wiese told the Creator’s Project. “We tried to work with that expression to make the space bigger and smaller, to deform it and to change its surface over and over while not exaggerating and overwriting the original effect of the room.” He continues, “the age of the screen is coming to an end, digital interfaces will dissolve and merge into the social space [...] we poetically contribute to this through art.”

320 Licht is part of the exhibition The Appearance of Beauty and will be on view through December 30th, 2014. Watch the included video above from the Creator’s Project to learn more about how it all came together.

I wish my city Gothenburg will transform their gasometer Gasklockan into something equally creative. It was once used for the music video Glorious with Andreas Johnson:

Featured image copyright by Thomas Machoczek.