Category Archives: ruins

The Secret Garden

Posted on November 29, 2012 by things magazine

The tale of a secret theatre in Berlin, discovered by one Dirk Moritz of the Moritz Gruppe and posted at Design Porteur. From the site: ‘An old cabaret theatre from the roaring ’20s has been uncovered in the heart of … Continue reading →

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Making our way through landscapes, digital and otherwise

Posted on September 18, 2012 by things magazine

We cited artist Mary Flanagan a while ago. Flanagan’s Borders project, ‘video documentation of a series of walks, conducted virtually in popular, shared online multi-user worlds. The rendered landscape is beautiful and hypnotic and we are transported directly into [Henry … Continue reading →

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Up in the air, down on the ground

Posted on August 14, 2012 by things magazine

Luc Grateau makes miniature portraits on subway tickets / Peter Menzel’s Material World project invites the subjects to be photographed with their possessions (buy the book) / Budgies in Space, sending knitted toys into the upper atmosphere for charity / … Continue reading →

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Ghost towns and space ships

Posted on March 20, 2012 by things magazine

Ordos: The biggest ghost town in China. A swift transition from flagship real estate project and design utopia, we’ve touched upon Ordos in recent posts, most notably over Ai Weiwei’s documentary about Ordos 100, the city’s stalled super-community of European … Continue reading →

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Surrounded

Posted on February 28, 2012 by things magazine

The City of Samba, a remarkable tilt-shifted film. See also Fuck Yeah Aerial Photography / paintings by Emil Robinson / Open the Tower, Lego deployed as an architectural sketchbook / a blog from William Wegman / Sannah Kvist has taken … Continue reading →

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Tracking the decline

Posted on January 11, 2012 by things magazine

We are living in a trackable world. As well as the fascinating Flightrader24 site there’s also Marinetraffic.com, which parcels up the world into chunks of maritime movement. There may be more, but our favourite piece of realtime cartography is this … Continue reading →

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Woods and patination

Posted on December 6, 2011 by things magazine

We’ve commented before on the relative paucity of pre-aged consumer electronics, in comparison to industries like guitar manufacturer, where patina is treated as a highly prized extension of craftsmanship (a post expanded upon at a456). As well as ‘artist-endorsed’ models … Continue reading →

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Momentary lapses of attention

Posted on November 22, 2011 by things magazine

Unlike the steely, crisp documentation of momentary lapses of attention captured by Arnold Odermatt, photographer Diego Levy’s Choques project is far more visceral. This chronicle of traffic accidents in and around Buenos Aires is hypercoloured and violent (although there are … Continue reading →

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Death and destruction

Posted on October 7, 2011 by things magazine

Mistakes we made along the way: thoughtwax on the slow death of blogging, channeling Jared Diamond. ‘I feel sorry for blogging. How could something so great just wither on the vine? There are vast prairies of abandoned blogs now. Without … Continue reading →

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Down below

Posted on October 4, 2011 by things magazine

If only there existed a survey drawing of the Mole Man tunnels of Hackney. William Lyttle died in 2010 and his house is finally for sale, although it’s in a pretty parlous condition. One of London’s great modern myths, the … Continue reading →

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