'
We're in danger of losing our memories', in which
Dame Lynne Brindley, BL CEO, worries about the impermeance of digital culture and the ongoing problem of archiving the world (via
me-fi). The
Daily Mail quotes historian
Tristram Hunt: 'Do we want to keep the
Twitter account of Stephen Fry or some of the marginalia around the edges of the Sydney Olympics? I don’t think we necessarily do.' Hunt rather misses the fact that history is shaped by marginalia. Mind you, Lynne Brindley predicted the
end of conventional printing by 2020 back in 2005.
Stuffing our faces (with information),
redub on the cultural loss of 'freezing things in print' /
roof dwellings from a bygone era (via
Treehugger) /
emu graphic design has a weblog / digital culture tracked at
serial consign /
Delayed Echoes, a weblog / a movie of
Greeble City over at
Digital Urban - demonstrating
how quickly the building blocks of imaginary digital cities can be put together.
Beirut is an amazing cityscape. Images by
Cristobal Palma /
infuriating piece of retro-post-digital design /
300 images from 1800 sites (via
see saw) /
Bryan McKay's weblog /
Unburying the Lead, tumbling with more words than one usually finds on this kind of site /
Vaughn Shirley's weblog. See also
Filthy Skies /
Cut with flourish, a tumblelog.
Must we kill the street? at
sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy, which also links to
Au carrefour Ètrange, a mostly nsfw trawl through old imagery / photographs by
Gaia Cambiaggi /
Sy Willmer builds houseboats and other things /
but does it float, a tumble log /
Windows 7, is it worth it?
Marginalia and other crimes, a photographic survey of 'the destruction to the collections [of the Cambridge University Library' caused by some of its readers' /
The Valve, a literary organ / William Mullingar Higgins's book
The House Painter, or, Decorator's Companion ('Being a Complete Treatise on the Origin of Colour, the Laws of Harmonious Colouring, the Manufacture of Pigments, Oils, and Varnishes: and the Art of House Painting, Graining, and Marbling: To Which is Added, a History of the Art in All Ages') was published in 1841. The '
plates' which illustrate it are actually painted paper which is grained or marbled by an artist'.
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