Links

• The New Reading Environment at N+. What replaces Twitter as the defacto reading environment of the internet?

• Attack of the zeros and ones: the early years of digital cinema, as told by David Lynch, Miranda July, Michael Mann and more covers the early days of shooting film on digital.

• The Binge Purge at Vulture covers the current state of TV and where it all may be headed.

Reading/Watching/Listening

• I am currently reading The Five, which unearths the lives of the five (canonical) victims of Jack the Ripper. The book, so far, provides a fascinating snapshot of the lives of women in the Victorian era. It is very bleak.

• I recently finished the second series of The Patriot, an Amazon Original from 2015. It has such a wholly specific voice and tone, a kind of existential riff on the spy genre with Coen-esque characters and scenarios. Highly, highly recommended and the kind of TV that looks to disappear in the current spate of cost cutting.

• I also just started listening to Shelved By Genre from the guys at Ranged Touch which bills itself as a media criticism podcast. The first 'season' covers Gene Wolfe's 'The Shadow of the Torturer'.