The work of
Karl Hans Janke, troubled visionary: 'Even in the psychiatric department in the romantic Hubertusburg near Leipzig a man is thinking in such a way : Karl Hans Janke, a patient with unquestionable technical talent, sees himself as an artist and a technical designer. From 1948 until his death in 1988 he created about 4.000 works – for instance paintings and models of
strange spaceships,' part
Stanford Torus, part
Dan Dare. An entire book on Janke's work (in German) is available
here (pdf).
These were the
imagined aerial behemoths of the future, atomic power in the air (at
Fabio Femino's expansive website) / a selection of
skinny Japanese houses at
eye candy /
amazing urban landscapes used as background art in the film
Tekkon Kinkreet /
Rudy Burckhardt's Maine, photographs / a selection of
Braun electronics / a new way of
cook ing the books / a set of
abandoned swimming pools / art by
Gigi Scaria.
London Smog, a weblog /
Slack-a-Gogo, a weblog /
fallslikesnow, a weblog (
thanks) / the
Librarians' Internet Index /
doombot, a weblog / Japanese kids
learn about Corb, at
Atelier A+D / the
iPhone-optimized Japanese-English Dictionary at
U.S.Knitting. Thoughts on the iPhone? (only lately arrived on these shores) It's beautiful, tactile and utterly seductive, and makes the Nokia N95 feel like a galumphing clod of earth. And yet. It's really not there yet.
Live mp3s available at
The Ultimate Bootleg Experience / work in progress at
Archikubik, including today's cover image but
larger. See also the
Window Seat Europe book and
how to take pictures from your window seat /
Polaroid Transfers and Emulsion Lifts by photographer
Hilary Hitchcock, via
Bouphonia /
automatism, a weblog /
CubeMe, a weblog tracking the deluge of proto-modern design, flooding across the networks / a bit more on
Mark Power's photo essay
26 Different Endings, at the geographical limits of London's A-Z.
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