Via PD Smith, an enormous archive of old Pathe footage. Scraps of old film on all subjects including Richard Seifert, Tokyo in 1948 (for David Peace fans), Cardiff's proposed comprehensive redevelopment, Fire testing in tower blocks, and Glasgow's millionth new home.
Voyage to the amazing Plastic Island.
Telegraph codes, stand-in words used to cut telegram costs. The system is fascinating - mostly for the definitions. Via MeFi.
Twenty book reviewer cliches. I'm guilty of at least half of these at one time or another, I'd I'd be interested in meeting the reviewer who isn't. Nevertheless, it's a good list of words to avoid.
Faux Panels followed me on Twitter. It's amazing stuff.
Even web 2.0 needs pen and paper.
A post by William Drenttel on the new-look Design Observer kicks off a sprawling debate about the rights and wrongs of Rem Koolhaas. What to make of Rem Koolhaas? A post for another day. In the meantime, Things asks if the CCTV building is based on pornographic imagery.
Brilliant microbudget Mexican sci-fi. “What you are about to see, Commander, is the most advanced in Modern Technology ...” (All via the Twitter feed of Mario Ballesteros, who has a wonderful blog. Have a look at these extraordinary churches, for instance.)
Tokyo's Narita airport has been hobbled by recalcitrant farmers. The aerial photographs of the airport - with truncated runways and taxiways diverted around irregular plots of land - are surreal. The Forbes article about "nail houses" made me think of the chapel of what was the Middlesex hospital, now isolated in the middle of the Middlesex's cleared site.
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Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Sunday, 2 August 2009
Jotter: August 09
Alexander Trevi indulges in an entertaining riff on Thanet Earth, drawing on some of the Guardian's coverage and an old piece by me.
Beautiful 1960s Czech collage illustrations for HG Wells' First Men in the Moon. Via the Twitter feed of PD Smith. In a similar vein, some amazing woodcuts on Bibliodyssey. Also via Bibliodyssey, Brodsky & Utkin - fantastical megacities and structures.
Suburban layouts. From the comments on this post on Sit Down Man. City road networks grow like biological systems. Field guide to freeway interchanges.
Should Roadside Memorials be Banned? (Via Pruned.)
The "Great Fire of Soho". London by photo locations - beautiful map.
The Loss of a Thousand Years: Istanbul erases the world's oldest permanent Gypsy neighbourhood. Building demolition goes very badly wrong in Turkey - the building rolls over onto its roof rather than collapsing. (Via Metafilter.)
Rivers of Trash - extraordinary photography of waterways choked with rubbish. "There are poor neighborhoods with so much trash covering their waterways that rats can run across it – as well as the cats that chase them." The solution to this problem is ... to move nearby so that they sit three metres from the river bank. Sorted.
Skymall product reviews. The horror, the horror. Via Mefi.
The architecture of Mega-City One, and Nemesis. Via Mefi.
Dark Doings - slightly NSFW photography/mixed media art. Via Boing Boing.
Google and the End of Wisdom.
Sound and light art projected onto buildings by Kit Webster. St John Street notes, not dissimilar to the whiteboard system of communication that for a time obsessed me and Sizemore.
Parish notices: Comments are working.
Beautiful 1960s Czech collage illustrations for HG Wells' First Men in the Moon. Via the Twitter feed of PD Smith. In a similar vein, some amazing woodcuts on Bibliodyssey. Also via Bibliodyssey, Brodsky & Utkin - fantastical megacities and structures.
Suburban layouts. From the comments on this post on Sit Down Man. City road networks grow like biological systems. Field guide to freeway interchanges.
Should Roadside Memorials be Banned? (Via Pruned.)
The "Great Fire of Soho". London by photo locations - beautiful map.
The Loss of a Thousand Years: Istanbul erases the world's oldest permanent Gypsy neighbourhood. Building demolition goes very badly wrong in Turkey - the building rolls over onto its roof rather than collapsing. (Via Metafilter.)
Rivers of Trash - extraordinary photography of waterways choked with rubbish. "There are poor neighborhoods with so much trash covering their waterways that rats can run across it – as well as the cats that chase them." The solution to this problem is ... to move nearby so that they sit three metres from the river bank. Sorted.
Skymall product reviews. The horror, the horror. Via Mefi.
The architecture of Mega-City One, and Nemesis. Via Mefi.
Dark Doings - slightly NSFW photography/mixed media art. Via Boing Boing.
Google and the End of Wisdom.
Sound and light art projected onto buildings by Kit Webster. St John Street notes, not dissimilar to the whiteboard system of communication that for a time obsessed me and Sizemore.
Parish notices: Comments are working.
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Jotter: July 09
Ross Racine's fantasy suburb art. (Via Mefi.) See also Hubert Blanz's runway art (via Pruned), and the work of Neil Montier. Me on Neil Montier.
Good magazine's amazing photos of the LA Freeways: Traffic!
How to spot a phoney review.
K-Punk quotes Greil Marcus and Ian Penman on Michael Jackson, to powerful effect.
Industrial Span, Dead Cars, Burnout, Roadside Memorials - beautiful, evocative films by Ashley Perry.
Isometric Hong Kong map with a SimCity aesthetic - amazing. Via Bezoar.
Flood destroys road in minutes. Building in Shanghai falls over, lies on side remarkably intact.
Functional topiary.
Carnivores! Keep being awesome!
Viz's Top Tips is on Twitter.
Email patterns within organisations can predict disaster.
Sri Lanka arrests astrologer for political prophecy. Which is basically what I researched for my undergraduate dissertation, only in medieval England, not in Sri Lanka. Dangerous business, political prophecy.
Good magazine's amazing photos of the LA Freeways: Traffic!
How to spot a phoney review.
K-Punk quotes Greil Marcus and Ian Penman on Michael Jackson, to powerful effect.
Industrial Span, Dead Cars, Burnout, Roadside Memorials - beautiful, evocative films by Ashley Perry.
Isometric Hong Kong map with a SimCity aesthetic - amazing. Via Bezoar.
Flood destroys road in minutes. Building in Shanghai falls over, lies on side remarkably intact.
Functional topiary.
Carnivores! Keep being awesome!
Viz's Top Tips is on Twitter.
Email patterns within organisations can predict disaster.
Sri Lanka arrests astrologer for political prophecy. Which is basically what I researched for my undergraduate dissertation, only in medieval England, not in Sri Lanka. Dangerous business, political prophecy.
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