'Once you've established the principle that something works, you can be absolutely sure that the technology of it is going to improve steadily', once quoted by Aldous Huxley (whose wife, Laura Huxley died recently) in Techniques of Persuasion: From Propoganda to Brainwashing, by J.A.C Brown (Penguin/Pelican, 1963) / remembering the 1940s, including an Introduction to Utility Clothing. See also the Kevin Morrison Collection and CC41: The Home Front.

The 1971-1972 Graphis Annual / generative artworks by Michael Lascarides / ffffinding out, on the popularity of ffffound, which 'is to graphic design what Napster was to music', according to scintillating bullshit. The point being, perhaps, that the dawn of Napster and its ilk meant that suddenly people were overwhelmed with music that they had no time to listen to. Now we are overwhelmed with visual imagery we don't really have any time to look at.

More of that visual stuff at Malfunc[tion] / Resoulution, a collection of more visual things / Pockets of Space, a weblog / Otro, a weblog / the vintage Ladybird books pool / The Deptford Dame, a SE-London weblog / Cabinet of Wonders, a weblog in the grand tradition / Apothecary's Drawer on the Bessemer Experimental Ship, an articulated device. See also Bessemer's House, once one of the grandest mansions in South London, with its own observatory and suffragette ducking pond.

The Brains Behind Billionaire Homes, an article on the trials and tribulations of blank slate architecture. See also this 1997 article, The House that Bill Gates Built, half-underground and reportedly stuffed with electronics (although how many of these are still functioning as originally intended is an interesting point). Related. The 'demolition rate' in and around St George's Hill in Surrey ran at 12% in 2007, according to this Telegraph article on Superbia. Not sure what that actually means - that 12% of all houses sold (by agents like Savills, who also have the UK's most expensive house on their books, gathering dust) have been demolition and upgraded?

CCTV finally meets, a flickr set via Archinect / things that have happened since Duke Nukem Forever was announced, way back in 1997. The game is still not finished (via rps) / need more sleigh bell?

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