Audio.Out, an enormous collection of early acid house tunes and remixes, including acid brass, a coda to a three-part (1, 2 and 3) post on KLF remixes / more mp3s, Built on a Weak Spot; Pogo a go-go; The Devil has the Best Tuna / The Staufenberger Repository, things and scans and a helpful insight into East London fads and fashions (e.g. bike polo) / another glimpse into interior lives: Aspiring, 'a series of aspiring Baltimore models taken in their own living spaces' by photographer Jay Parkinson (some images nsfw).

Photolimits, documentary photography from around the world. The evocative images of an abandoned/destroyed world in RRonny Smedts' Re-construction are frustratingly untitled / an online SimCity-type game that focuses on energy consumption and distribution: Energyville. (CoS is now on the other side of the world but still seems to have a better idea of what's going on in London than we do). The original SimCity. City Creator, a similar idea / vintage color photos of US cities. Big, bulbous cars, shopfronts with elaborate, unique typography, the absence of logos, pre-modern architecture.

A lovingly curated site dedicated to the Action Transfer. Now we'd like to see scanned examples of scrappy, transfer-less paper covered in dense forests of biro, with the occasional overlooked limb or fragment of explosion still stuck to the paper (via). We hadn't made the Letraset connection before now / Robert C.Glover's 1000 Prints project, via Sara Pearce's Art weblog / the Compendium of Communist Biography / a weblog by Ethan Bodnar.

As seen above, Isolated Building Studies, photographs by Metroblossom illustrating buildings that are either 'pioneers or survivors, built by gentrification or decayed by divestment.' More than anything else, they show the death of context, the cycles of land and the patterns of land ownership, the long vision of town planning and the unpredictability of urbanism / the Google Earth Game, reality versus simulation.

Architects on screen, a flickr set. Some day in the future there will be dedicated flickr archaeologists, whose task will be to sift through the site's jumbled servers and reconstruct a coherent image of early twentieth century life. They will probably conclude that everybody was obsessed with collecting, visual repetition and juxtaposition / Soup, a personal aggregator site / Bathing Beauties, winners of a competition to create a 21st century beach hut / Tin Tabernacles, 'Churches, Chapels and Mission Halls in Britain' / an early car simulator / American adverts for the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.posted by things at 21:06 / 1 comments