Monthly Archives: December 2015

Christmas bundle

Posted on December 25, 2015 by things magazine

A rag tag bundle of things, probably to sign off for the year. Christmas and the Interior / the perfect 2015 Christmas card / World Maps Without New Zealand, the country that always seems to fall off the edge / … Continue reading →

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Keeping it all together

Posted on December 18, 2015 by things magazine

All about the Commonplace Book, the Moleskine of history (via MeFi) / sort of related, from last year, Tiny Letters to the Web We Miss, Joanne McNeil on TinyLetter and the resurgence in small scale, low key blogging / Works … Continue reading →

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Links coming thick and fast

Posted on December 15, 2015 by things magazine

Presets – Digital Shortcuts to Sound (via MeFi) / Is there still any point collecting books?, ask Howard Jacobsen / versus Tsundoku, ‘the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves’ / a very beautiful essay, … Continue reading →

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Glass, steel and distant views

Posted on December 11, 2015 by things magazine

Kuala Lumpur airport seeks owner of ‘abandoned’ jets. Three unclaimed 747 freighters. Something to do with Air Atlanta Icelandic, a less than reputable organisation according to this post / Fractal Gears / Barbie haunts your dreams / Novelty Magazine, issue … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Destinations

Posted on December 8, 2015 by things magazine
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All in the wrist

Posted on December 7, 2015 by things magazine

Harry Winston Opus 14, a £400,000 watch that distills about fifty years of American pop culture into an unsurprisingly bloated statement / also just in time for Christmas, passive aggressive shopping guide / maybe buy them the must-have personal scooter … Continue reading →

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Return to sender

Posted on December 5, 2015 by things magazine

Legofy any image (via MeFi, which also links a simpler version for the github averse) / paintings by Jason Barner-Rasmussen / Modernist Estates posts on the 1937 documentary Kensal House, a celebration of this ‘visionary gas-powered community in north-west London’. … Continue reading →

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The furious five

Posted on December 5, 2015 by things magazine

Peter Guenzel’s photo essay on Lotus captures the extreme effort the British sports car company went to launch five concept cars at the 2010 Paris Motorshow, heralding a new era for the company. It was an incredibly ambitious plan, one … Continue reading →

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On the Beach

Posted on December 1, 2015 by things magazine

The modern ruin is the perfect trope of the technological era, a perfect blend of nostalgia, retro utopianism and brutal schadenfreude. There can be few more complete composites of these elements than Dellis Cay, a proposed development of starchitect-designed villas … Continue reading →

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