Last weekend I went to see Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest Very Important Movie, “The Master.” I’m not sure I can recommend it — it’s like spending two hours with largely unlikeable people — but personally I thought it was an amazing cinematic achievement. Anderson is a craftsman of the highest order, and every scene and shot is rich with artistry. It’s not a profoundly enjoyable movie, but you might enjoy it nevertheless.

Over at Cigarettes & Red Vines, they take note of the fact that “many, many of the scenes present in the film’s marketing did not make it into the finished film.” This blog post is an inventory of the clips prominently featured in the movie’s trailers; the writers also discuss how they likely would have fit into the narrative that was ultimately released. It suggests that there is at least a longer, more expansive cut that may one day make it to video or even to theaters. Count me in.

Christopher Moloney prints out stills from movies, carries them to the real world locations where they were shot, holds them up so that the stills mesh almost perfectly with the scenery, and then takes another photo. The results look like this:

It’s beautifully done. See the full tumblr here.

I’m not sure it’s right to say that this Tumblr blog collecting dramatic photographs of brutalist architecture is wonderful, but it’s certainly fascinating.

See more, lots more, at the site.

This happened while I was on vacation last week: Stephen Coles and company relaunched their wonderful Fonts in Use site, opening it up so that anyone can submit samples of type in the wild.

“Today we introduce the Collection, a much larger archive of typographic design open to public contributions. With this new site, our visitors become collectors. Submit your own work or other examples of typography you admire. Build a page of your contributions, a reflection of your typographic taste, headlined with your profile and bio.”

It’s already a great resource, and it will only become more valuable over time. Read about the relaunch here.

The Spanish studio Atipo photographically re-created A.M. Cassandre’s famous “Dubo Dubon Dubonnet” poster.

There’s a video of the process here, but more to the point, the project is a promotion for Cassannet, the studio’s new, Cassandre-inspired typeface — which is free.

Back in June, Patrick Radden Keefe wrote this harrowing investigation of the Mexican drug trade in The New York Times. In this New Yorker blog post, he considers the parallels between reality and the popular and critically lauded cable show “Breaking Bad.”

“the show’s portrayal of Mexican cartels is devastatingly accurate. It has been suggested that [show creator] Vince Gilligan has a sick mind, but nothing he could dream up, even the unfortunate fate of Tortuga, can rival the creative barbarism of the cartels. Many viewers were repulsed when Walt and Pinkman used acid to melt a body in an early episode, but this is such a common disposal technique in Mexico today that it has acquired a nickname — the guiso, or ‘stew.’”

You can read the full blog post here. The Times article is also worth a read, though most people won’t find it nearly as fun. And if you’re in the mood for even more bummer content, The New Yorker itself ran an amazing article on the power of Mexican drug cartels late last month.

My friends over at Mule Design launched this daily summary of the top news of the day not long ago and it’s attracting well-deserved attention. I didn’t realize that I had played a small part in its genesis, but this Read Write Web story uncovers the sordid truth. You can tune into Evening Edition daily at 5:00p here.

The antiquated illustrations in this Flickr set are charming, but what I find really terrific is that many of them capture the artifacts of the mechanical paste-up process that used to define the craft.

Yellowed masking tape, the texture of illustration board, colored pencil markings, rubber stamps… you don’t see that stuff much, even though vintage art can be found in abundance on sites like Pinterest. View the full Flickr set.

On the occasion of its centennial, Paramount asked the design firm DKNG to create this poster, in which one hundred of movie studio’s iconic films (one per year) are represented as, um, icons.

The prints are 24 x 36 inches and look beautiful, but regrettably the limited edition run of 3,500 is only available to Paramount employees. Nevertheless you can examine the poster at high resolution on the DKNG blog.

A totally mesmerizing series of motion graphic experiments done in a 1980s sci-fi style.

See them all at Mrdiv.tumblr.com.