Vinyl, the documentary, the first part of Alan Zweig's entertaining 2000 documentary about vinyl obsessives / Loop are back / 11 Awesome Comic Book Hideouts / This New Ocean: The History of Space Flight / the tallest abandoned structure in Russia / cloth escape maps of Europe at Sean Gillies' blog, via The Map Room / The Donnell Library Center: A Eulogy In Pictures (via BB) / more James Ravilious.

Differences in perception. Russia! magazine has an entertaining feature where the team from Curbed check out the new Russian architecture, the predictably disastrous blend of monumental, moderne lite and brash beyond belief. English Russia regularly throws up galleries of this kind of thing, almost all of it depressing / Yulia Tymoshenko is the current Prime Minister of Ukraine, and exceptionally adept at image-making. Her site's gallery contains over 7000 photos.

Rennart presents 'Spindles - a photo album and diary of silent film actress Irene Rooke's hideaway' in Dungeness, dated 1927 / all about the Fender Jaguar.net / Folding Baguette makes the Magic Light, which sound like it defies physics but is actually a rather more analogue version of the touch interface.

Buy Old Childrens Books.com, with many galleries / Just Like the Movies, 9/11 preimagined after the event through existing movie footage. We are overwhelmed with images of destruction, most of which are taken utterly for granted until cunningly re-cut in such a way / examples of unusual words from The Meaning Of Tingo, a book we foolishly passed up on a charity stall last week / The Onion's Atlas of the World.

Alan Taylor - Kokogiak - runs The Big Picture, a website we adore and which sets a standard for visual presentation on line that few other sites have stepped up just yet. While the image-driven weblog, tumblelog, whatever, has proliferated over the past 18 months, few people are exploiting the true size of the screens we have in front of us.

Tracking politics and economics. Rather than watching hemlines (or anything else) we should be checking the multiplex: 'Apparently politically conservative times coincide with zombie movies and liberal times with vampire movies.' (via me-fi).

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