The attraction of the technological failure, and how the internet serves as a dispensary of extended footnotes to otherwise forgotten history. Take the
Sinclair C5, now firmly established in the canon of entrepreneurial also-rans, an idea not so much beyond its time, but out of time, the answer to a question that no-one was asking. But were it not for the internet, the C5 would languish in the very marginalia of cultural commentary, the nuts and bolts of its brief existence papered over by snide remarks, quips and references. Now every little dead end and half-baked idea is glorified and celebrated with its own chapel of rememberance or mausoleum, turning the internet into a repository of abandoned strands of human ingenuity.
*A forthcoming exhibition at the
V and A celebrates
small spaces, including 1:1 structures by seven international practices:
Rintala Eggertsson,
Terunobu Fujimori,
Helen and Hard,
Studio Mumbai,
Sou Fujimoto,
Rural Studio and
Vazio S/A.
Art saved from the Nazis /
art saved from itself / the second video ever posted on youtube was of
someone falling over / the
greatest extended takes in movie history / rounding up consumption, the
Amazon Filler Item Finder /
Linefeed, a design weblog / photographs by
Rob Hann /
amazing model village.
Wooden toys by
Take-g /
Tin Trunk, fashion history / paintings by
Steven Pennaneac'h /
Angry People in Local Newspapers /
Vintage Headlamp Restoration /
AE Worldmap, architecture aggregator /
Grange Hill then and now (via
haddock) / photography by
Marquis Palmer.
The
RV Hall of Fame (via
BBC) /
Sell Sell, a weblog /
Volume, an architecture magazine /
urban exploration: cathedrals. Great rooftop shots of Paris /
A decade that was not: in architecture too, on the aughties ('noughties'?) as ten years of architectural destruction and the failure of the profession to offer anything more than hollow symbolism in response.
Curiouscurious, a tumblr /
Every Bell That Tolls Me, a tumblr /
Baubauhaus, imagery cascade /
Exit Magazine's minimal YouTube presence is like the anti-iPad /
aKun, a tumblr, which introduces us to the work of
Chris Kenny and the concept of
desire paths /
Eventual Ghost, a weblog /
Annalogs, a weblog / the
Guess Where London? pool /
In Pictures: House Moving in Chile.
A selection of
editorial headings by Winsor McCay, 1867-1934 at
Golden Age Comic Book Stories (via
number61). What an absolutely marvellous website. The richness of the illustration on the following pages is breathtaking, all the more so for being scanned at half decent quality in epic quantities. The work of
Arthur Rackham;
Dugald Stewart Walker;
Kay NielsenLabels: illustration, museums, technology
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