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A Korean man living in Sweden documents his paternity leave with carefully crafted short videos. Using only subtitles, he reflects, narrates and tells stories from his daily life. The cinematography is excellent and he is a master of Swedish-Korean fusion cuisine.
posted by serathen at 11:59 PM PST - 20 comments

Australian-born feminist singer-songwriter Helen Reddy has died at the age of 78. Her 1972 song “I Am Woman” became a feminist anthem, winning her accolades and a place on the top 10 in several countries. In the 1970s, Reddy had 6 top 10 hits, and 3 #1 hits. Reddy also made forays into acting, with a role as the guitar playing nun who comforts a young girl (played by Linda Blair) in the disaster film Airport 1975, and as Nora in the 1977 children’s film Pete’s Dragon. An Australian biopic about Reddy called I Am Woman debuted at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, and had its theatrical release in 2020. Before it was completed, the filmmakers were able to screen the film for Reddy, who was living in a Los Angeles care home at the time, her ex-husband, and her two children. [more inside]
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 10:12 PM PST - 60 comments

Collectors Weekly introduces us to a collection of unpublished childrens' notebooks from all over the world. [more inside]
posted by frumiousb at 8:28 PM PST - 5 comments

Live stream for the 1st Presidential debate Trump and Biden meet tonight (in 30 minutes) for the first presidential debate. [more inside]
posted by loup at 5:33 PM PST - 790 comments

For a century, it has defined an American ethos in which goodness most often remains unrewarded and justice is capricious if it is served at all. It’s a vernacular art, framed by the voices of the losers and those who stand outside the law. This is only as it should be, for the genre was never meant to stick around. Noir was originally published in pulp magazines or as dime-store paperback originals, and its longevity is a testament to its tenacity—everyone’s most necessary survival skill.

Alta Online explores noir. [more inside]
posted by Lexica at 4:26 PM PST - 9 comments

In case you need just a little bit more horror in your life, Benito Cereno has returned with the 8th in his series of suggested spooky, scary, creepy or campy films available to stream this October. [more inside]
posted by subocoyne at 4:22 PM PST - 21 comments

"CARBORUNDORUM > /DEV/NULL" by Annalee Flower Horne is a ten-minutes-into-the-future science fiction short story that works as a feminist Parker Lewis Can't Lose/Ferris Bueller's Day Off homage/critique, and as a cri de coeur on teen girl agency. Thematically related short scifi stories: Claire Humphrey's "Four Steps to the Perfect Smoky Eye" on teen girls and those who restrict them, and Cory Doctorow's "Party Discipline", another celebration of teen girl hackers. [Content warning: rape]
posted by brainwane at 3:27 PM PST - 11 comments

Mesmer and Braid is a classic ARG promoting the new Myst-like puzzle game HoloVista (iOS), in which players become a young artist documenting “an opulent building on orders from a mysterious architecture firm…[where] the house is getting to know you too, better than you know yourself.” The ARG, which only just concluded, blew up on TikTok and was documented on a Guide, Reddit, and Discord.
posted by adrianhon at 3:08 PM PST - 10 comments

Office vacancies worldwide are expected to peak at 15.6% in 2022. Office leasing is not expected to get back to "normal" until 2025. How does that affect... stuff? [more inside]
posted by jessamyn at 11:57 AM PST - 104 comments

Brutally exploited by their bosses and landlords—typically also Jews who had arrived in America earlier— Jewish labor agitators came to understand that their numbers meant power. They organized strikes not only for better wages and shorter hours in the workplace, but also for manageable rents and improved living conditions. From 1907–1909, there were dozens of rent strikes in New York’s immigrant neighborhoods. Picket lines were set up in front of buildings with exploitative rents, many of which led to altercations with landlords, their hired goons, the police, and police marshals. In 1908, Morris Rosenfeld fictionalized the rent strikes in a short one-act play called Rent Strike, translated from Yiddish for the Jewish Current's Housing Issue.
posted by ChuraChura at 10:40 AM PST - 3 comments

Furnace and Fugue "brings to life in digital form an enigmatic seventeenth-century text, Michael Maier’s alchemical emblem book Atalanta fugiens. This intriguing and complex text from 1618 reinterprets Ovid’s legend of Atalanta as an alchemical allegory in a series of fifty emblems, each of which contains text, image, and a musical score for three voices. " A multimedia object from the 17th century. Links:

• See and Listen to Emblem 1: If Boreas once expand his windy womb...
• Talk on Oct 21 from the Warburg Institute

posted by vacapinta at 7:04 AM PST - 6 comments

An Intense Day on Crib Goch Brave Dave is a Youtuber and Mountain Leader who spends a lot of time in Snowdonia in North Wales. In March 2020 he & a friend were climbing the Crib Goch ridge in poor conditions. On the descent they bumped into another pair of climbers Tony & Ed. As they made their way down a steep, slippery slope Ed lost his footing and slid down the mountainside. The video shows what happened next. (Contains swearing and injury). [more inside]
posted by jontyjago at 6:00 AM PST - 16 comments

In a year of boneyards and bails outs - Guardian longread recounting the immediate problems facing the airline industry in 2020 and looking at how flight trends may change as a result.
posted by rongorongo at 5:19 AM PST - 54 comments