The Apartment at the Mall, relatively scant documentation of an art installation/luxury apartment in a mall in Providence, NY. It didn't
end well. Shades of
Being John Malkovich (also
via) /
Size is everything to a mayor consumed by edifice complex, Jenkins lambasts Livingstone, as does, slightly more predictably,
Boris Johnson / step back to a golden age with the
London Transport Museum's online archive / the
nmca: magazine cover archive /
AArchitecture, a new publication out of London's
Architectural Association / more print,
making Cabinet, via
magCulture / related, the
Museum of Printing Presses at
Briar Press.
John Bagnall on the art of
John Bratby and 'the smelly oil-paint, crew-neck jumper and goatee bearded art of the former Kitchen Sink era'. An official
John Bratby site to accompany a recent sale. Bratby's work could be
genuinely seedy (Bagnall's examples are taken from the
Tate's collection), the visual equivalent of the early writing of John Fowles. These paintings are almost
Stuckist in their frustrated
intensity.
If only I hadn't...', extracts from a new
Book of Regrets /
Travels in Toon Town, alternative futures and graphic novels. See also our captures of
Mega City One / old but good, the
Lost Formats Preservation Society / '
When the Space Age Blasted Off, Pop Culture Followed'.
Dipping into the 'military historioblogosphere',
Airminded, 'Airpower and British Society, 1908-1941', Brett Holman's weblog to accompany his ongoing PhD research. Holman has a sub-blog called '
Scareships', which tracks the set of unexplained pro-UFO sightings in the years before the First World War. 'According to contemporary newspaper reports, thousands of people saw mysterious airships flying over Britain between March and May 1909, and again between October 1912 and April 1913. There were at least fifty separate reported sightings in the former period and more than eighty in the latter.' As Holman points out, although German Zeppelin's were the most obvious answer, 'for all but a tiny minority of mystery airship sightings the possibility of German involvement can be ruled out' / the
perfect airship at
Alternative Technology / all about the
Zeppelin /
vintage aviation photographs from the
First World War.(Below, from
Punch, June 20th, 1917).
The 1961
Woolwich Autostacker was a completely automated 256 place car park, with pulleys and conveyor belts that shifted your car into place. Built at a cost of £100,000, it never really worked. The Autostacker was demolished the following year at a cost of £60,000. It was designed by
STC. Modern
Robot Parking Garages pop up regularly as
things to marvel at. See
Robo Park.
Flossmanuals, 'free manuals for free software' /
lhooq magazine, a cascade of images / in a similar vein, but with a more art/illustration focus,
Grass Roads (e.g. two sample entries,
Ronald William Fordham Searle and
Futurism). Both these pages take forever to load. Finally,
me and utopia. All three weblogs are the work of one person, Christopher Panzner / merging
RFID tag readers with phones /
BD's The Carbuncle Cup returns for the 2007 season.
The Objets D'Art Of Architects: 'In November 1982, Nan Swid and Addie Powell asked nine architects to lunch at the Four Seasons in New York to unveil their idea: a company that would produce
housewares designed by
leading architects.' Perhaps one can trace the current fetish for all things designer back to
this one moment in time. They had Hadid before anyone else.
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