Growing stocks of unsold cars around the world. There's nothing like seeing a supposedly desirable object, one that is intended to represent your taste and character, stacked up and racked up to reveal their total lack of distinguishing marks. The above image is of Corby, Northamptonshire, where Gefco keeps unsold new cars before distributing them to dealers. The Guardian's photographs have a snatched, paparazzi-style feeling - as if they were stolen glimpses of something you're not really supposed to be seeing / a series of models by architecture students at Kingston University, deliberately emulating the work of Thomas Demand / a work of Daniel Eatock's, the Prismacolor Pen Print / Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems, 1937-2009.

Picdit suggests a collaborative project of imagery of objects thrown in the air, referencing the beginning of 2001, a Space Odyssey (the flying bone cut into the space station or objects being dropped (Martin Klimas's ceramic sculptures , or Naoya Hatakeyama's Blast Series, or even high speed photography or this set of 25 photographs taken at exactly the right moment (the type of post that gets sneakily 'syndicated' by numerous weblogs, so apologies if that wasn't the original source).

Related. Simon Hoegsberg's vast photograph 'We're All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence' is cinematic in scale, but defiantly low-key in terms of subject and composition. Shot in Berlin in Summer 2007, the finished piece is 100m long. The (usually) detached subjects float in horizontal space, occasionally engaging with each other across the frame or lost in their own thoughts. Hoegsberg's other work is worth a look as well: Professional Fury, life on the road with Denmark's premier heavy metal band, and The Tower of Babel, an abandoned project on New York.

The Skira Yearbook seems to be a fairly accurate summation of the current state of architecture / another page of links: architexture centrifuge / one to watch, New Architects in Latin America / now voyager, a weblog / Always Looking, a weblog / welcome reddit people. The project page you might be looking for is here: Survival in the City, 1974.

Where can I live?, houses for sale arranged according to commuting distance / photographs by Eric Tabuchi. We, naturally, like the ruins series / photographs by John Wycherley / always looking, a weblog / sunbathing on a crane (via Building magazine).

Also capturing the moment, but in another way.Things Our Friends Have Written on the Internet 2008 captures the passing ephemera and text of the weblog world and translates it, effortlessly, into a desirable package (although thanks to its tabloid paper format it's still arguably more ephemeral than an object like tmn's Manual). magCulture has an excellent post on the publication (which is sadly all gone).

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