Two things via Strange Attractor: a Taxidermia, over 50 examples of stuffing in contemporary art practice, accompanying the Taxidermia Wurzeltodensis post at Suzanne's site, and The Dulwich Horror, in which the overheated London property market meets the Great Cthulhu, courtesy of artist Dean Kenning / an afternoon at the Stamp Show, courtesy of Draplin Design / slice of vice, serving up relentless portions of tasteful modernism / d/visible, an online visual culture magazine / similar themes at Your Daily Awesome.

Extenuating Circumstances, Dan Hon's weblog / Mural Mania, a Hungarian architecture weblog / bustler collates architectural competitions from around the world / Abandoned.ru seems to have gone the same way as its subjects / the MagCulture weblog, which links PrimPerfect, a Second Life design, which seems to embody the oak'n'brass neo-Middle Earth aesthetic. Orcish Modern, perhaps.

'Other than browsing a bookstore's shelves, there’s probably nothing better for this bookophile than browsing publisher’s catalogs — if only the books themselves took up as little space,' notes Steven Heller in Confessions of a Book Catalog Reader over at Design Observer. Just lately we've taken to asking for pdfs of books and keeping those in lieu of the finished object; it certainly helps with storage problems.

'The prisoners' hidden life, or, Insane asylums unveiled : as demonstrated by the report of the Investigating committee of the legislature of Illinois, together with Mrs. Packard's coadjutors' testimony', over at the University of Illinois Library's Digitized Book of the Week. Imagine if modern book titles were that long and self-explanatory. posted by things at 23:47 / 0 comments