The Lindbergh kidnap is a lesson for the McCanns - and the media, Ian Jack in the Guardian, in a piece about the parallels between the Madeleine McGann case and the Lindberg case, tells how the case inspired Isamu Noguchi's rather eerie radio nurse, which has become a totemic modernist object. Some more images. There are also visual parallels between Jacob Epstein's sinister Rock Drill, which coincided with the birth of the machine age, and the association of the machine with death and destruction. The Measures Taken on Epstein, Vorticism and Wyndham Lewis. Besides the other obvious references (fencing mask or abstracted Samurai mask) the sculpture is also weirdly reminiscent of the Royal Guards from Star Wars - a fool in the forest on the George Lucas connection.

Angela Singer, an artist working with recycled taxidermy. More about Singer at Coolhunting, and an interview at Nothing Mag / Phantom Cell Phone Vibrations (via kottke). So it's not just us, then / is BioShock art? Who gets to say? A literary reviewer? / a new book looks at the power of key domestic objects, Dr. Johnson's Doorknob: And Other Significant Parts of Great Men's Houses, a neat combination of shelter porn and literary detection.

Sealed Game Heaven, one of the more esoteric arenas of collecting. A counter to the unboxing phenomenon, which one could see as symptomatic of the desire for content and depth in a world of superficiality / artwork by Alexander Heaton, reminiscent of Zaha Hadid's early paintings / what publication sums up your specialisation? At ask me-fi.

From a review of Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Lustre comes this quote, '...we now look to photographs for guidance on what we should buy to look good in photographs...' / a fool in the forest also points us to these incredible images of Stockholm's Tunnelbana underground system / the photography of Eric Baudelaire / Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual, at Peterme.com / The Pritzker Architecture Prize on Flickr. posted by things at 09:58 / 0 comments