Link Loves: Volume VII

The Oscars are over, fashion week is well underway, and I’m about to start uni. So this week’s links are a real mixed bag!

Green Book won the Best Picture Oscar this year, whether rightly or wrongly (which is ridiculously subjective to my mind). But here’s the behind-the-scenes version you really should know if you want to get your historical facts right.

And on the Oscars, I’d never heard of Selma Blair before (I’m not a big celebrity follower), but I can get behind a powerful photo, and an even more powerful story accompanying it.

Pixar’s animations always give the feels. Including this one that accompanied Incredibles 2 last year: Bao.

This essay on contemporary politics and the underlying issues behind what’s happening in the world today is essential reading. I’ve long thought that debate and intellectualism has somehow fallen off the radar, only made worse by the amount of phone-staring and information-bombarding we do on a daily basis. The call to action, that we have to analyse old ideas and come up with new solutions, really reckoned with me this week.

On a lighter note, Rouje dropped their new clothing collection. I mean, is there anyone who doesn’t want a bit of Parisian chic in their life?

This photo gets me in the gut, and now I have more books to add to the tbr pile.

While I’m seriously longing for Europe again, here’s a bit of interior style to fix it.

I went to the Kahlil Gibran exhibition at the Melbourne Immigration Museum this week, which is an absolute must-see. And this Brain Pickings article has my favourite passages from his book, The Prophet. Then read some beautiful extracts from his letters to his love, Mary Gaskell. Gibran is someone I will forever return to, because he simply touches my very soul.

Here’s a fabulous take on family portraits from Lee Friedlander. They’re somehow less documentary and more artistic, which is a fascinating concept to explore.

In the music world, I discovered the artist Sarah Bahbah on Instagram, who did this film for Kygo’s song Think About You, and it’s honestly the stuff that every music video should be made of.

And finally, I was absolutely saddened to hear of Andre Previn’s passing this week. He is perhaps most known for his conducting of the London Symphony Orchestra, but he was in fact first and foremost a jazz musician. He scored my two favourite musicals, My Fair Lady and Porgy and Bess and you can see how jazz was such a big thing for him in this truly magical album:

So, till next week -nat ❤🥀