Category Archives: Media
Lots more viewing
Vivian Maier
Yesterday I watched a facinating documentary on the photographer Vivian Mair. I love what I saw of her work. As an archivist the whole story is also intriguing. Here is one of her pieces. Look closely at the gentleman on the phone. From what the documentary shows, Maier wasn’t afraid of showing aspects of the human condition that others turn away from.
Toast of Tinseltown
Love Toast and there is a new series on BBC Two. (Everyone needs more comedy in these dark times.) The intro features a great piece of phone box artwork and this gets a bit more of an explantion in one of the episodes:
Screenshots continued
Real crime
We’ve started watching ‘Mindhunter’, set in the USA in the 1970s. There was mention of a serial killer who, when expecting to be hunted by police and finding he was not, rang in from a phone booth to confess. Here’s a screen shot from Wikipedia:
Lockdown viewing
Part of my Lockdown viewing has included all the repeats of ‘Agatha Christie’s Marple‘ and other Christie versions.
4:50 from Paddington 
4:50 from Paddington
Then I moved onto Poirot and in the image below we have a murder IN the phone box:
Then there’s all the other TV I’ve watched, including:
Arlington Road 
Arlington Road
Dredd 
Greenland
The Girl with all the Gifts 
Gantz
Posting these I realise how bleak my viewing has been, so here’s something a little brighter:
House of Games 
House of Games
Kim’s Convenience 
Have I Got News for You
Your Honor
We just started watching ‘Your Honor‘ and this shot appears in the first 10 minutes or so. I love the way it’s constructed, with balance and form and colour.
Google honours the icon
Gile Gilbert Scott, the English architect who designed the red telephone box, was born on the 9th November 1880. Google celebrated this with a fancy remake of its own icon.