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Utterly random 23 Aug 2013 | 09:23 pm
Architectural visualisations edge ever-closer to perfection, using ‘imperfections’ to fool the eye. From our perspective, the role of the render as a promotional tool is seemingly outweighed by the ee...
Another fine mess 22 Aug 2013 | 05:31 am
The late Elmore Leonard’s great opening lines / the fonts of Kem Weber and Disney’s deco obsession / Exploring Los Angeles’ forgotten stairways to the stars, a journey up the concrete steps of LA: ‘Ou...
Rooftops and fields 16 Aug 2013 | 05:18 pm
End of the Public: ‘It is a jumble sale of bits and pieces, a graveyard of interactive technologies with no apparent purpose. It makes the Millennium Dome look like a triumph of curatorial coherence.’...
Posts and tunnels 15 Aug 2013 | 12:52 am
Not Another Bill is a way of turning the mail into a place of potential delight: ‘Subscribe for yourself or treat someone special to receive a collection of wonders each month, the product of collabor...
Things 14 Aug 2013 | 04:07 am
How to tell good people from bad people / Thomas the Tank Engine and ‘story gravity’ / Great Album of the Week, a music tumblr / Archery, art, geometry and gifs / the Sugar Series by Emily Blincoe: co...
Worst case scenario: thinking the unthinkable 9 Aug 2013 | 04:09 pm
It is already the practice of the encyclopedia to create a database dump, a record of the data from the Wikipedia database, on a regular basis. This data is compressed using the highly efficient Honda...
Is Ove Arup included? 8 Aug 2013 | 04:59 am
Lego goes for the burn with the new Architecture Studio set (number 21050), containing ’1210 bricks and a 272-page guidebook endorsed by leading architects’. All the bricks are white, so presumably Ne...
Sounds inducing fury 5 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
This conceptual design for a ‘building eraser‘, i.e. a robot that automatically scrubs out unwanted structures has shades of I, Robot. Robot demolition is actually a thing – Swedish industrial giant H...
Things from here and there 2 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm
Other things, a long list to make up for a few weeks of absence / speculative plans for a Mission to Mars, one option of presumably many / social media fuelled road trip across the American West / Cen...
Bring the sun 24 Jul 2013 | 05:52 pm
The Mirror (Lo Specchio), via Core77: In the far northwest corner of Italy, in a quiet valley dominated by steep hills, is the tiny hamlet of Viganella. It’s centuries old and mostly uninhabited. In ...
