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Category Archives: Uncategorized
Small things
Covered Cars, a photoset / new updates to the Wing Mirror Project / Epic Citadel, the Unreal Engine in a browser (Firefox only) / One Week One Band tackles Neil Young in an impressively comprehensive fashion / Kateoplis, a tumblr … Continue reading
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An apology about an apology
Try not to think of us as terrible, dirty liars, but although the winding down process feels very real, we’re clearly never going to stop looking – and finding – stuff. Perhaps the act of taking a step or two … Continue reading
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Random things
A Historical Atlas and Gazetteer of Europe from Year 1 to 2000 / more dronery: one / more dronery: two / Bedroom Cassette Masters Volume One Old skool, ‘lo-fi vintage electronica produced in bedrooms across the world between 1980-89′, download … Continue reading
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Something for the commute
The origins of the Grumman Goose (above): ‘In 1936, a group of wealthy residents of Long Island, including E. Roland Harriman, approached Grumman and commissioned an aircraft that they could use to fly to New York City’ / Majestic Plumage, … Continue reading
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Link round-up
The Architectural Record rounds up architectural websites, the good and the bad thereof. Mostly architectural journalists get incredibly frustrated with tricky navigation, links that can’t be saved and pictures that can’t be clipped… / The Great Myth of Urban Britain … Continue reading
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Historic simulations
We loved this book: scans from the 1984 publication Creative Computer Graphics, by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton (via Coudal). Jankel and Morton created Max Headroom, inspiration for the still mysterious Max Headroom pirate TV incident, recently solved by redid … Continue reading
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Catalogues and Collections, part 2
/ Things magazine is always looking, but the sad reality is that if it’s not on the internet it doesn’t exist for us. And that’s a problem. Our own archives are a case in point; until we get our house … Continue reading
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Tumblrs for Monday
Wandering Eye, a tumblr / Bojkowski, book cover tumblr / On the Borderland / Nina Perlman / a lula me contou / old lawrence / Ministry of Propoganda (is it just us, or is the old term ‘they have a … Continue reading
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End of week link collection
Slow Motion Glide through Bath Spa station, the short film by Graeme Taylor (via b3ta), has inspired a music video / 35mm Pinhole Hasselblad by Kelly Angood. See also the Olivetti Valentine / Flat Elephant, an installation by Shin Egashira … Continue reading
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An end of week grab bag
Apologies once again for the rather ragged state of the front page. We decided that a shift from wordpress.com to wordpress.org was called for, and one tutorial later the switch had apparently been made. Of course, the little blanket fort … Continue reading
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