Reinventing the Mall touches on Victor Gruen's fatal optimism for the mall as an architectural 'centerpiece of an alternative urban development'. Enter Westfield in West London (quietly rebranded from White City), a 'a new retail empire [that shows] sublime timing for students of paradox'. The piece refers to the Kiralfy brothers, entrepreneurs and special effects pioneers, who we mentioned in this post a few months ago.

Huffduffer, collating sounds as if they were images / homemade basement Lamborghini / two mp3 blogs, both of which open up new avenues: Stratosphering and Una Piel de Astracan / Emilio Ambasz's Casa de Retiro / wire sculptures by Fritz Panzer.

Seen everywhere, but still worth mentioning: In Twin Peaks, then and now images of the 1990 TV series. Hard to imagine something this bleak, analogue and, well, moist, getting picked up by any TV network today (via). See also the Twin Peaks Archive.

Swift weblog round-up: Under the Net, worth bookmarking / newbying / Gromblog / Hit or Miss, a tumblr / unconventional novels versus books that never existed. posted by things at 23:38 / 0 comments