Movie on photography.

Great scene when he somewhat nervously takes a full frontal picture of a couple trying to find their way in NYC. He seems just as surprised as I was with their reaction, when they gently halt him and ask him for directions, and totally ignore him taking their picture.

He seems a very nice dude too.

A Netflix documentary you can view on Youtube. Paula Scher is a designer specialized in typography. And she makes beautifully painted maps in her spare time. From the great Netflix series Abstract: The Art of Design.

Old but insightful documentary on Cindy Sherman.

I am a little bit into gardening these days. The guy helping us is also a photographer (and he likes The Velvet Underground).

We talked about how we liked wild flowers in the garden. He referred to Piet Oudolf, who I found out is a very famous Dutch garden designer. I had never heard of him.

We talked more. The gardener told me to look at Oudolf's High Line project in New York. For the abandoned High Line, Oudolf designed a " wild" garden with a natural look.

This reminded me again of the photographer Joel Sternfeld, who in 2000 made wonderful pictures of the High Line. His pictures were influential in the decision to repurpose the High Line after it was abandoned and turn it into a park. The park for which Oudolf was a co-designer.

Here's Sternfeld talking about his work in 2000.