Inneresting 46
issue 46
April 2, 2021
Curbing Your Wanderlust Without Leaving Home
With temperatures and vaccination rates rising, it’s easy to let the mind wander to thoughts of taking a trip. Why not start with a cinematic vacation?
Sonia Redmond Zhao has a list of travel films from four decades and five continents.
Over at Taste of Cinema, Daxton Norton recommends a slate of road movies.
Online Museum Field Trips
The Louvre has put its entire collection online, joining a host of museums around the world that offer virtual tours. For example:
The Salvador Dalí museum in Figueres (Catalonia, Spain) offers a complete virtual tour.
Explore the Singapore Art Museum’s collection of contemporary Southeast Asian art.
The Smithsonian museums offer a variety of online tours and exhibits.
Traveling to Places That May Never Have Existed
Musician Andrew Pekler put together an interactive map full of carefully crafted sonic landscapes that charts out islands that were described in the early days of maritime exploration, but never had their existence verified.
If you’re looking for some more immersive exploring, check out this article from the East European Film Bulletin about the computer game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. Along with a breakdown of the game itself, it touches on the game’s debt to Russian filmmakers like Tarkovsky and the way the game drives the player’s exploration through a fictionalized version of the abandoned Chernobyl site.
And the nominees are…
Even if movie theaters aren’t ready to open back up, or you aren’t yet ready to step back inside, there’s another way to go on a trip with this year’s award-nominated films.
The Weekend Read app on iOS has some of this year’s most talked about screenplays in its For Your Consideration collection. Lose yourself in a good story, and learn about the craft of screenwriting while you’re at it.
To find out more, get Weekend Read in the App Store!
Some More Cool Things
Happy/sad that the Ever Given is no longer stuck in the Suez Canal? You can relive that brief feeling of the world uniting around one story with this simulator that allows you to try and pilot the misbehaving container ship.
Maria Sachiko Cecire writes in Aeon about J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis’s influence on fantasy writing, and the difficulty in separating modern takes on the genre from their most regressive ideas.
Seth Godin measures the value of distinctive creative work: The 30-foot rule.
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