General links. Protecting Journalistic Integrity Algorithmically vs the ever-wonderful Photoshop disasters / Jonny Greenpeace's Worm Buffet, music mixes / a beautiful baby portrait / the Russian Utopia Depository, a 'museum of paper architecture' / Before and After in Church Hill, Virginia, via towards Spring, a local renovation blog / On Bunker Hill, 'a lost neighbourhood found' in Los Angeles.

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Abandoned Library in Russia, via Coudal. See also the Detroit Public Schools Book Depository image set, and the famous images of the bombed library at Holland House, bombed in 1940 but clinging on until after the war before being mostly demolished.

The Maxalding Method of Muscle Control and Bodybuilding, and its founders Maxick (Max Sick and Monte Saldo ((A.M. Woollaston), which leads onto this extensive site on The Great Eugene Sandow, an 'Online Physical Culture Museum' / Brochure collection from the heyday of the British motor industry / Pentagram Papers 37: Forgotten Architects (via archinect) / 'email apnea' - remember to breathe more (via caterina).

How to install Quake on a Nokia N95. More info. Downloads / Top 21 Architectural Monsters - World's Tallest, Biggest Buildings / Print Fetish, on magazine culture. See also Designing Magazines / MS paint album covers.

London Cross, 'a straight line walk across London': 'If you walk across a great city such as London in two straight lines, south to north and east to west - a cross-section - what do you find?' / the East London and City Beer Guide / Wonderbound, beautiful books, via plep / The Popsicle Sting, a weblog / The Malas Blog / the Yellow Owl Workshop, a weblog / we love websites like this: Everything I Know about Hyam Victor.

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The modernist houses pool. Little stabs of self-importance, dotted around the dreary ribbons that surround British cities. A lovely smattering of imagery of Robin Hood Gardens, modern crise-du-jour, at the sesqui.pedali.st, which rightly points out that the current debate about demolition is not about the building itself, but 'the profession's projection of architecture, its image, and the construction of its history.' (via Sit down man). The post also notes that the building was rarely published and was in fact 'RHG was something of a last stand for both British Brutalism and the Smithsons.'

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Low Tech Magazine, stuffed with great posts like Download, print, fold, paste, on paper models, and speculations like 'A World without Trucks,' investigating pneumatic delivery systems, some of which were proposed to span entire countries: 'In the Dutch plan, the city hubs would also offer the possibility to send goods to other cities, which would effectively turn them into a democratized courier service. It might also become possible to send goods from one home to another: email for things.' Wonderful. Of course, we already have something like this, called 'the post'. Also, Fantastic Journal, a weblog by Charles Holland of FAT. See also Sam Jacobs' Strange Harvest / Continuity in Architecture, a weblog.

An old song creeps out of the vaults. Something that belongs to the distant past, and feels almost impossible to duplicate or replicate today. Thought: is music with high levels of reverb more evocative - and therefore more nostalgic and memorable - than music without reverb?posted by things at 10:56 / 0 comments