Yet more swings and roundabouts on the Dubai story:
Dubai's skyline is a mark of vitality, not superficiality / a brilliant
cave for sale / we haven't tried this, but are intrigued:
Pastiche, 'a dynamic data visualization that maps keywords from blog articles to the New York neighborhoods they are written in reference to, geographically positioned in a navigable, spatial view'. Now all someone needs to do is create one for Dubai.
Half Map Half Biscuit / a life in
coffee / the
Westinghouse Time Capsules /
How To Drive Exotic Cars, 'for Valet Parking Attendants, Car Enthusiasts, and Voyeurs' /
'Last' Woolies pic'n'mix on eBay. At time of writing,
this particular auction had slightly lost the plot, and those '800g of delicious nostalgia' were priced at £2,050,300. (update, apparently the
'Last' pic'n'mix fetched £14,500).
Langley Collyer: The Mystery Hoarder Of Harlem, who ended up
buried beneath the debris accumulated in
the house he shared with his brother Homer. Some more famous
squalor survivors /
The Day of St. Anthony's Fire, an example of
Ergotism.
How accurate was Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" about the future? /
I love you forever and always, via
kottke, from the era of the circle-as-dot on top of the 'i' /
Half Full Half Empty, a project by Barbara Bloom / a
modern hamlet, the start of a new experiment in collective living.
Booooooom, collating creative portfolios from various disciplines. A couple of links: paintings by
Leah Tinari and
Roberto Bernardi /
Shrapnel Contemporary, a weblog /
We Will Become, a weblog /
The Pop-up City, both visually driven.
Labels: architecture, linkage
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