Monthly Archives: March 2010

Perpetual motion and urban drifts

Posted on March 31, 2010 by things magazine

The ArcelorMittal Orbit is a bit like an explosion in a rollercoaster factory, part Tatlin, part Alton Towers. Self-consciously iconic, as all good quasi-permanent follies should be, it demonstrates the final evolution of the ‘pavilion’. It was probably the Barcelona … Continue reading →

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Illuminating the corners

Posted on March 30, 2010 by things magazine

Google’s Streetview has been hard at work, and large swathes of the British Isles have now been traversed, tracked, catalogued and uploaded. This empty sweep of Dartmoor exists online for no good reason other than as a place to stumble … Continue reading →

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Imaginary places in which to live

Posted on March 29, 2010 by things magazine

Move over Poundbury: buy a house at ‘The Village at Hiddenbrooke‘, the critically-reviled development that ‘translates [Thomas] Kinkade’s artistry into a neighborhood of extraordinary design and quality’, designed by William Hezmalhalch Architects. If only Britain’s best-known artist-architect, Will Alsop, could … Continue reading →

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Backs of things

Posted on March 26, 2010 by things magazine

Broken Camera, a tumblr / Death Drive, a photographic project by Dean Rogers (via The Defeatist). Sort of related, art by Simon Menner. Especially Boobytraps, Minefields, and the backs of some famous paintings / art by Paul Tebbott / Into … Continue reading →

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Forests and walled gardens

Posted on March 24, 2010 by things magazine

There’s something profoundly unimpressive about the built-in wind turbines at the new Strata London tower. Admittedly, they’re actually real (unlike the faux turbine stylings of the abandoned Anara Tower in Dubai), and necessarily experimental, but even so the potential contribution … Continue reading →

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Brand Extensions

Posted on March 21, 2010 by things magazine

The end of the promo copy: ‘This will further change the way people talk about those records. Traditionally reviewers weren’t just trying to communicate the pleasure of listening to something. They were also communicating the joy of possessing something. You … Continue reading →

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Museums in a Box

Posted on March 16, 2010 by things magazine

Books in the age of the iPad, or the future of things. We’ve been offline for much of the past month so the iPad kerfuffle has largely passed us by. The consensus seems to be that this is a device … Continue reading →

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This is an image test

Posted on March 12, 2010 by things magazine

An image test. Right now it looks like those old posts don’t want to come into our new template (although they’re still there). The refining continues.

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Starting afresh

Posted on March 10, 2010 by things magazine

A little bit of history. Back when things started to mess around with the idea of a regular weblog, a medium we’d seen and much admired, Blogger seemed to be the natural choice. Before that we ran something called the … Continue reading →

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This is a test

Posted on March 9, 2010 by things magazine

It will no doubt be the first of many such tests, all of which are aimed at making the all-new things experience better than the old one. Apparently there are 9 years of things posts floating in the ether. They … Continue reading →

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