Monthly Archives: November 2011

Aerial overlords

Posted on November 29, 2011 by things magazine

White, the aesthetics of science fiction. An exhibition by Tom Sachs / Flight Assembled Architecture, an installation by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea. See also the Quadrotor Construction Team developed at the intriguing GRASP Lab at the University of … Continue reading →

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Pattern language

Posted on November 29, 2011 by things magazine

A blog list, Elmanco puts together a host of architecture and design blogs / Indie-Industrial, a tumblr / Herb Lester has a range of special Christmas packages for sale in its shop / the Dubai Graphic Encyclopedia is now available … Continue reading →

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Trees and tropes

Posted on November 26, 2011 by things magazine

The Atomization of the Image. Do 500 photoshopped images of the spraycan cop count as parody, political comment or simply Generation ADHD’s inability to meaningfully engage with anything? (via Our God is Speed) / Go n-eírí an bóthar leat, on … Continue reading →

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Here and there

Posted on November 24, 2011 by things magazine

The art of Robert McGinnis (nsfw) at the hyper-dense Naver Blog, a site that doesn’t just give you five images when forty will do, be it the wood engravings of Eric Fraser, the illustrations of Francis Xavier or Carl Larsson, … Continue reading →

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Making things

Posted on November 23, 2011 by things magazine

The Thingiverse, ‘a place to share digital designs that can be made into real, physical objects’. Right now there are things to print like the Sim City 2000 Tabletop Play Set, a snowflake, a Squirrelalope, a recorder and a 1:9 … 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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Sounds of the city

Posted on November 22, 2011 by things magazine

Herbert Distel’s The Museum of Drawers, 1970–1977 is perhaps one of the most prescient works of art of the pre-digital era. From MoMA: ‘Herbert Distel adopted the role of the museum curator when he invited artists from around the world … Continue reading →

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Swings and Roundabouts

Posted on November 18, 2011 by things magazine

The debate about Quinlan Terry’s Seven Misunderstandings about Classical Architecture is fascinating, but largely overlooks the reality that Terry’s buildings – as fine as some of them undeniably are – exist in a different socio-economic stratosphere to the rest of … Continue reading →

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‘…the ideal early medieval monastic community’

Posted on November 16, 2011 by things magazine

Visual Crit, on art and visual culture, especially Islamic art / infiltrating steam tunnels under American universities / photography by Sam Irons / Things I like, a tumblr / Oh! The Cleverness of me, a tumblr / The Memory Atlas, … Continue reading →

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The elements of drawing

Posted on November 14, 2011 by things magazine

Delayed Gratification is a magazine of slow journalism, a concept that very much appeals (being aficionados of slow publishing ourselves). Presenting itself as a quarterly magazine of record, ‘a combination of almanac, essays and reportage’, DG’s index page plots its … Continue reading →

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