The growth in sites for art direction reference continue to proliferate. The latest is Spy Vibe, a site devoted to the set design of the 1960s era spy film (via Dwell). There's also a weblog / Aporva Baxi's expanding collection of Nintendo's Game and Watch at the Eye blog / large scale photographic works by Wang Qingsong, including Dream of Migrants, 'a very disappointing scenario'.

Getting some comment, The Demon-Haunted World, 'the past and future of practical city magic', an essay by Matt Jones. This engaging romp through futurism past and present, from the Stanford Torus to Chile's long-lost Project Cybersyn, is fundamentally a call to arms for enabled objects, devices that facilitate our interaction with the city in ways which will parallel the growth of the automobile industry in the C20. It's no coincidence that one of the very first webcams pointed at a coffee pot.

Recreate catastrophic astronomical events with the space explosion Photoshop tutorial / New Red Tractors at the Factory, Luoyang, China / imagery of Lost London, via me-fi, and also see Hermione Hobhouse's amazing book Lost London (images from which found their way onto an earlier Skyscrapercity forum post, Your city's lost heritage: Buildings that should never have been demolished).

Owen Hatherley recently wrote of a tragic tale of two Thamesmeads in Building Design (after, we think, undertaking this walk chronicled at youyouidiot. The tags say it all: sarcasm, brutalism and romanticism, the triptych of emotions generated by British architecture of the past half century).

Heavy little objects, a self-explanatory journey into 'material obsession' / Boars and Fury, a tumblr of ideas and language / -pli - plic - plex, a thesis blog (new genre...?) / the White Noise of Everyday Life.

Labels: architecture, linkage

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