Online horrorshow

Are We Watching The Internet Die? (via MeFi) / related, How Google is killing independent sites like ours / not related: the sounds of horror. The Mega Marvin and the Apprehension Engine (which subsequently inspired the Tension Engine), custom creations for horror movie and video game soundtracks (via the Guardian). See also Morfbeats and the Ultra Mega Marvin / see also Spitfire Audio’s Labs series, a wide range of esoteric instruments.

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A giant new metaphor is due to set sail, maybe: Clive Palmer refloats Titanic II plans 10 years after first announcement / The legacy of the Apple Car and the gravitational pull of vapourware / Owen Hatherley revisits the 1983 Guide to the Architecture of London / amazing embroidered animations by Huw Messie / Rem Koolhaas’s work for Prada shows / Painting Nerds, films about painting / art by Ned Elliott; Samuel O’Donnell; Harriet Florence Wilkinson; Fiona White; George Rowlett’s paintings of garden designer Sarah Price’s garden / we got into this just as it ended: whos____who / Warbling, a curatorial project.

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Matt Berry on the art of library music / e.g a collection of tracks from Cavendish Music / AI-generated album covers prioritise virality over creativity / The Fledgling Movement to Rewild Golf Courses. Yes / The Magic of Video Game Landscapes / PodEngine searches podcasts / house tours at Cup of Jo / ‘Watch A New Chinese Car Clear Snow Off Itself Like A Big Dog‘ / the idiosyncractic architecture of Marcel Raymaekers / interesting foray into the complexity of the UK leasehold system, right to buy and the Brunswick Centre at Modernist Estates.

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In search of the vanishing digital sublime

Are there any conceivable benefits or useful practical applications of AI generative video? / related, how to automate writing, The Great Fiction of AI, ‘The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction’ / imaginary landscapes, generated the old-fashioned way by Kim Keever / a collection of Modern Illustration, with an accompanying ephemera blog / Lost Found Art, ‘Antique & Vintage Collections & Objects’ (via Kottke) / Inheritance, an old school interactive website about loss, objects and memory.

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Truth is stranger than fictions: ‘Billionaires’ Survivalist Bunkers Go Absolutely Bonkers With Fiery Moats and Water Cannons‘ / on a similar vein, the clickbaity news that ‘Migaloo aims to disrupt superyacht market with giant luxury submarine‘ / the two different types of people / ‘an etymological Tube map, showing the origins of station names’/ Temu and forced labour / a collection of emerging local journalism sources in the UK / time-lapse of Notre Dame roof restoration / Wrong, a monograph by Asger Carlsen / designing the 1977 Chevrolet Caprice / The Story of the Noguchi Table That Almost Wasn’t / the Camouflaged Cars of Tokyo, a book by Alice Ishiguro Tosey.

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Online investigators Bellingcat has a fascinating sideline in historical analysis / more technological fetishism / How to Succeed with Brunettes, 1967 / recommended fiction featuring labyrinths / related, new book: The Labyrinth of Rooms / eyes on North Korea / icy video games / a list of hoaxes / sound and more at Reverb Machine / escape space in a MOOSE / related, r/don’t look down / the growth and growth of French comics culture / Wings of Pegasus explains autotune and more / YouTube economics with Mary Spender / all hail The Slab, a monument to Tory failings.

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Art and archives, architectural oddities

A collection of covers from the Council of Industrial Design’s Design magazine. There’s also a full collection of Design issues from 1965 to 1974 at the VADS archive. For example, ‘In search of the town car‘, July 1966 / related, ‘Paris residents set to vote on plan to triple parking charges for SUVs‘ / an early revision of the Apple Vision Pro / Samsung created a circular tube map as a marketing gimmick / related, ‘Life expectancy at birth by area surrounding each Tube station’, at The Tube Map / related, transit patterns around the world at I Don’t Give A Seat / using a ZX Spectrum for ray-tracing / here’s hoping humanity survives to see the completion of the Zeitpyramide in Germany / oral history of smoking memories at Ask Mefi / ‘Where the forest meets the field,’ 2023, a mechanical sculpture by Tim Lewis / ‘Wrong architecture illustrations’ by Jean Jacques Balzac / tiny Tokyo housing recreated by artist Christopher Robin Nordström.

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Secret 7” takes 7 tracks from 7 musicians and presses each one 100 times onto 7” vinyl’ / a newsletter about music from Andrew Wommack / sonic sculptures by Leonel Vasquez / illustrations by Sawako Kabuki / McMansion Hell reaches its apotheosis (via MeFi / a look at the pioneering computer art of Harold Cohen / Nuclear Engineering Wall Charts at New Mexico’s Digital Collections / see also the Digital Collections at the American Museum of Natural History / 17th Dutch colour at the richly illustrated tumblr of Medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel / a look back at Retro Jungle Production Techniques / Madeline and More: The Whimsical World of Ludwig Bemelmans.

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The daylight almost gone

Faircamp is a Bandcamp replacement (via MeFi) – looks tricksy to use, but interesting labels are to be found there, e.g Tryptophonic Records / meanwhile, on Bandcamp: music by Solar Halos / Steve Hillage’s 1973 The Golden Vibe / a fine, in-depth look at the skewed quest for The Perfect Webpage, or ‘How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same’ (at The Verge) / Painting with plasticine, 1958 / the GENERAL DYNAMICS (Astronautics) SPACE CARDS (via Kottke), hosted by Unkee E, one of those richly curated Flickr streams that makes Instagram look insipid / ‘Forest City: Inside Malaysia’s Chinese-built ‘ghost city” / a collection of 152 Visual Phenomena & Optical Illusions / immersive art by Nike Savvas / Sarien.net, ‘the authorized portal for reliving classic Sierra On-Line adventure games’ / see also Web Adventures, which allows you to ‘play classic text adventure games online for free through your browser’ / a collection of Dachas / revisiting the Rats Trilogy, “the literary version of Anarchy in the U.K.”

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On loss

The World’s Largest Cruise Ship Is a Climate Liability: ‘Taking a cruise generates “about double the amount of total greenhouse gas emissions” as flying’ / the sadly departed music journalist Neil Kulkarni selects his favourite writings from The Wire / remembering designer, writer and typographer Phil Baines / the story of Nicholas Saunders, influential but relatively unknown UK food and retail guru / Woolf at the Door, Inexpensive Progress on the objects lost when Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s house was bombed in 1940 / Scaleful, the nightmarish collages of Kyle Branchesi / more nightmares: 7 Top AI Tools for Generating Smart Architectural Plans /< Worst in Show, ‘created to draw attention to the least private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable gadgets at the Consumer Electronics Show.’

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Spinning around

The story of the Mellotron / music by Jarkhand Assembly / Emergency Money: Notgeld in the Image Economy of the German Inflation 1914-1923, a forthcoming book by Tom Wilkinson, has some eye-opening bank note designs / Porsche Carrera GT owners are currently not allowed to drive their cars, according to Porsche / the story of the Movement Computer Systems Percussion Computer, heard on tracks by the Eurythmics and Thompson Twins / can a hit song really by written in five minutes? / 4,000 of my closest friends, or why AI sucks for artists / The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same / beautiful maps at Grasshopper Geography (via Smithsonian / a limited edition version of Daisy Rickman’s album Howl is the first release from the Weird Walk Record Cult / Rowe & Williams is a gallery specialising in contemporary British art / the late Terry Bisson’s short story, Bears Discover Fire / many BBC Micros emulated inside your device at BBC Microbot / beautiful random animations at bleuje (both via b3ta) / more nostalgia at Old Vista, a search engine from 1999.

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Recovery positions

Art and design things. How London Transport’s roundel was nearly a rabbit, at Ian Visits / Controlled Demolition specialise in taking things down / the story of the Teenage Engineering Choir / ‘The Anomalist‘ is a journal and website that explores the mysteries of science, nature, and history’ / infographics at Very Small Array / Show of Stolen Goods, curated by Victoria Gill at Filet Space / Intangible Cultural Heritage: UNESCO status for the Shipping Forecast? / cemetery illustrations and other architectural ephemera by Agustine Coll / Brutalist Belgium / architectural paintings by Marie Lenclos / meticulous small scale environments at David Miniatures / the Skeptical Inquirer asks Is Bigfoot Dead? Yes. Yes he is / Lol on Goth / paintings by Kathrin Landa / the work of designer and historian David King / drawings by Paul Draper / paintings by Harriet Porter / ‘Poor Things behind the scenes: hair and make-up in Yorgos Lanthimos’ new film’, at wallpaper.com.

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Tech things / the workings of an early 5,000-character Chinese typewriter / the Perkins Brailler mechanical braille typewriter / Citroën U55 Cityrama Currus sightseeing bus, 1955 / the International Journal of Computer Game Research / CES offers a Gallery of Tech Flops / explore the Apocalypse Recovery Computing Cluster / the golden age of gadget catalogues / a video exploring the depths of the Earth / a dispiriting and rage-inducing Minimum Wage Clock / a set of New Era Techno / Spacerock Mountain, an mp3 blog / the indispensable London Metropolitan Archives / The San Diego Lowrider Archival Project (via MeFi) / tales of a Lost Concept Car / a collection of classic Christian movies / the story of failed supersonic airport.

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New year thoughts and fancies

A cluster of links and things for 2024. Why [Apple’s] Vision Pro will change photography / a residential modular synthesis course with Tom Whitwell / the landscapes of Stephen Wong. Interview at Artnet / more art, this time a slightly deeper dive into the Berlusconi Collection, a wealth of ‘beauty and pleasantness’, including many ‘academic nudes’ / exquisite paper miniatures by Hannah Levesque / Fabian Oefner likes slicing things up / more sculptural chaos, the work of Thomas Deininger / Banksy 0, Peckham 1 / DIY Cronenberg with this umbilical iPhone cable (via Kottke) / a stark look at our architectural monoculture.

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The life of Winifred Pink, inter-war racing car driver and competitor at events like the JCC Dean Hill Climb. First link from the excellent Histories of Women Working in Engineering and Construction in the UK / the Little Wheels Museum, an expansive collection of diecast model cars / the worst tech failures of 2023 / Jim Henson’s Kermit-green Lotus / a collection of anti-social boardgames / a Gallery of Portable Gaming Systems / Christmas cards by legendary art directors / the enduring mystery of Oak Island.

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An excellent Spotify playlist in memory of architectural historian Elain Harwood / the football stadiums that never were / binaural brainwave generator / annual round-up of spooky podcasts / the synths of Roger O’Donnell / The Office Party, at Adam Curtis’s long-neglected blog (via clickclickJim) / Jesu’s Christmas EP / thanks to those who have suggested code tweaks and other upgrades to things. Happy new year.

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Hide and seek

Apologies for infrequent posts. How Money Laundering Works In The Art World / A wintry, ghostly Personal Anthology / a New York neighbourhood called The Hole / photography by Chris Mottalini / Booooooom is still going / the Metropole bookshop / Every Church in the World (via b3ta) / stick to pixel art, because ‘Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone‘: ‘Generating 1,000 images with a powerful AI model, such as Stable Diffusion XL, is responsible for roughly as much carbon dioxide as driving the equivalent of 4.1 miles in an average gasoline-powered car.’ / Portable Restroom Operator Magazine / the tale of Senegal’s Akon City, now home to tumbleweed and grazing goats.

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Music things. The band Glom / farewell to Moles / Walls Have Ears, a new SY bootleg / Rock Guitar Virtuosos: Advances in Electric Guitar Playing, Technology, and Culture, an academic study (via Guitar World) / Guitarcloud, ‘An archive of equipment used by Prince’ / Audio Samples from the collection of the Powerhouse Museum. A fantastic resource / fund The Light Pours Out Of Me, a documentary on the work of guitarist John McGeoch (via The Quietus) / screen shots, the shape of performances to come / comet shoegaze has returned to Earth on its regular circuit around the galaxy / Bleak Bliss, a music blog / modded instruments by Mystery Circuits / the story of the Synthaxe / Love Hulten gets some love.

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Google’s NotebookLM is US-only for now, so the decision to hand over your innermost thoughts and workings to the world’s largest advertising company can be held off for a bit longer / this clever AI extend songs for ever / certain people are workplace double dippers / is the wretched Cybertruck a harbinger of the future apocalypse or just a reflection of our dystopian present? / future illustrations and environments designed by Ralph Edenbag / explore the extensive photographic collections of the Conway Library / land art by Jim Denevan / not quite the clickbait visible from space that is the Gigaprojects / Up for auction: 1960s radar training station in Fleetwood, Lancashire (via Wowhaus) / Coilhouse Magazine, last decade style.

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The sands of time

Art. Assemblages by Lesley Hilling / NOX, sad self-driving car installation by Lawrence Lek / on David Yarrow, ‘… Ansel Adams run through Midjourney, a Pirelli calendar shot by a Fallout streamer,’ at Plaster Magazine / hmmm. the thing magazine / vintage children’s book covers from an alternative dimension / Bobby Fingers for president / Lost in Cult present a book on Moebius-inspired game Sable / Art on a Postcard winter sale / Violet Hour, ‘an online fundraiser for Choose Love projects in Gaza and Southern Israel’ / collage art by Michael Deragon / Ink Squasher, printmaking and letterpress work.

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Music. ‘Listen to the sound of Wikipedia’s recent changes feed. Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions. Pitch changes according to the size of the edit; the larger the edit, the deeper the note’ / a live soundtrack to the 1925 version of Phantom of the Opera, improvised by GROK / delving into a cassette-based in-flight audio player / videoseconds, an archive of lost and found VHS-recorded gigs / Larry Katz interviews musicians and more (via MeFi).

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Tech. A museum of Internet Artifacts / remembering Marc Newson’s Ford 021C concept car / A Collection Of Original Factory Bertone Blueprints at Silodrome / stories of cars and humans by photographer Ruben Fidalgo / a visual explainer of How AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Bard work / Gingerbeard Man’s blog includes fascinating digressions like the early computer art of Barbara Nessim, old Japanese pixel/dot art software and a card game on the Casio CALEID XM-700 Mobile Navigator.

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Other stuff. a look at the 4 million volumes in the Awesome Books warehouse / Diggers Docs, ‘a tribute to the San Francisco Diggers’ / Where the Wildensteins Are, tales of art collecting and tax dodging / the closed cities of the Soviet Union / build new houses on Millionaires’ Row! Build new houses on golf courses! / the hapless tale of Hackney Walk.

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On a dusty road

The Loneliest Road in Every State in America (via tmn) / add the sound of drama to your day / an interesting musing on living with aphantasia / DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs (via MeFi). See also The Sharper Image catalogues at the Internet Archive. The UK equivalent would the Argos Catalogue, linked here by Retromash to a collection on Issuu (which has become a hot mess of ads recently) / The Great American Fraud, by Samuel Hopkins Adams on the evils of ‘Patent Medicine’, 1905 / Mechanical Creations, amazing handmade automata by Oliver Pett / buy the (trashed) Lamborghini Countach from The Wolf of Wall Street.

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A selection of London things. fascinating extract from an upcoming book on London’s Street of Sound, ‘Denmark Street / sort of related, a documentary about Soho in 1956 / old school homework win: the symbolism survey / Georgie Wolton’s 34 Belsize Lane, arresting modernist decay / the evolution of ‘Brixton Village‘ / London’s future skyline, with 11 new towers planned before the decade’s end / a new biography of pop artist Pauline Boty, along with an exhibition at Gazelli Art House.

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Buzz words

Shock of the old: the amazing, infuriating history of the electric car. ‘By 1900, a third of all cars on the road in the US were electric’: see Electric Car Charging Stations in Chicago, 1916 / “On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog.” / ‘Secret 7” takes 7 tracks from 7 musicians and presses each one 100 times onto 7” vinyl’. On behalf of War Child / Historic England is after information about local ghost signs. They could probably start off by having a look at Sam Roberts’ excellent GhostSigns.co.uk / related, the Take Courage House / curse that eminently reasonable and pleasant Dutch Cycling Lifestyle (via b3ta) / David Shrigley’s 1984 / a very silly expensive house / Wainwright dunks on Heatherwick / Quake goes Brutalist / take a visit to the IKEA Museum.

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Next time around

Photographer Anna Huix’s project, Tales beneath the melting ice / art and film by Rafael Sommerhalder / AI meets Capability Brown / spooky forest / a map of the world of Aleister Crowley / the Index of Aesthetics / a profile of the late Georgie Wolton / Michel Faber on Tinnitus / diagrams of remote lighthouses / the story of the Sandown Clown / How to upset an artist / the Star Trek chair catalogue / search for text in amongst the David Rumsey Map Collection / Maps on the Web / in search of PG Wodehouse’s England / something Sir Pelham Grenville would have approved of: Conkers: the unlikely contact sport taking London by storm / Hospitalithings, ‘A quiet observation of objects found in places of accomodation’ (via b3ta).

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The TapeOp podcast / Webcurious, now you’re talking / manuals, manuals, manuals / Shift Happens, a book by Marcin Wichary / Hidden Architecture / the rise of the stylish British car boot sale / a few links about how U2 and co set about creating their show in the Las Vegas Sphere / related, Marco Brambilla’s contribution to the show / Czech village priest sorry for smashing pumpkins / illustration by Stella Murphy / Alison, a graphic novel by Lizzy Stewart / illustration by Ardhira Putra / five best St Vincent songs / ‘Everyone at this gig looks just like you‘ / Rivian loses $33k on every truck it sells / the death of automotive patina / One Revolution Per Minute, a short film about the dizzying chaos of low gravity orbit.

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Subsidised clothing repair: “Starting this month, anyone in France who has shoes resoled or clothing repaired will receive a subsidy. The repair bonus of between six and 25 euros is intended to encourage consumers to visit cobblers and tailors instead of throwing away old shoes and clothes.” (via MeFi / apologies for all the Guardian links.

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Atomic lifestyle

A disparate variety of interests, starting with Modern Art in Mid-Century Comics / vintage and quirky gear at Sound Gas, like the Suiko ST-60 Poetry Trainer, one of a small range of synths created to mimic the sounds and instruments of traditional Japanese music / art by Manshen Lo / Dorothy Sing Zhang photographs her subjects as they sleep / art by Adam Nathaniel Furman / paintings by Colleen McGuire / “The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca. 1850–60)” / ‘The rich, creative life of Moomins creator Tove Jansson‘ / Harry Beck’s Imperial Airways Map / how U2 tamed the world’s largest LED screen / what is the future of the electric guitar? / Curepedia, a new monograph with work by Andy Vella / Forgotten Worlds, ‘a celebration of old video game magazines’ / who on earth owned Hasbro’s U.S.S Flagg Aircraft Carrier Playset, a toystore behemoth from 1985 that was 7’6″ long / speaking of extraordinary, ill-considered scale, here is ‘Everything you need to know about Saudi Arabia’s 14 “giga projects”” / elsewhere, in the real world. When planning goes wrong: a tower block so bad it must be pulled down. A victory for planners or disaster for residents / fancy a clutch of orange Aston Martins? / the Lancia Bertone Sibilo, 1978.

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Deep underground

The mysterious space beneath Seoul / a fine address with potential, No. 1 the Thames, Isle of Grain / recommended treasure house museums / the alternative Metropolitan Line, a fantasy by artist Mark Cowie / extreme speedrunning in digital audio workstations / The Greg Jein Collection Hollywood Auction, includes plenty of Tribbles / the secrets behind designing a great fictional brand for TV and film / The NID Tapes, ‘Electronic Music from India 1969-1972’ / more NEOM numbness / Swerve, a magazine for new writing and visual art / the Fall Foliage Prediction Map / the London Open House infrastructure Map.

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Off the (expensive) map

Making up for lost weeks / architectural art and installations by Germaine Koh / another look at James Mollison’s photographs of children’s bedrooms around the world. Mollison’s projects are superb: Owls, The Disciplines (music fans outside concerts), and these diptychs of collectors and their collections. The photographer has also curated The Memory of Pablo Escobar, a collected archive of 350 photographs about the life of the late drug dealer / objects from the John Elgar-Whinney collection of clandestine radios and cipher machines / a doll’s house by Marialaura Irvine (via w*).

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The ASMR of TysyTube Restorations / ‘Why Henry Ford imported a Cotswold cottage to Michigan’ / Chris Barber is an artist who uses programming / ‘Nine outlandish architecture proposals unlikely to see the light of day‘. These would once have been called ‘provocations’, but most people these days would probably refer to them as ‘time-wasting’ / meanwhile, this stunning synagogue in Brighton is facing demolition / ‘paying homage or ripping off?‘ / House tour of a new work by Brown & Brown Architects / play wipEout in your browser / more internet exploration. Old school rules / London-Tubemap.com is the place to go for all things diagrammatic.

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Weekend Worker, ‘a glossy A4 compendium of South-East-Londinian (and beyond) nightlife, working life, music, stories, commentary, letters and politics’. Be quick because it sells out fast / Electricity Club chronicles electronic music / an acid bassline generator / new music from Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan / ‘new’ song from World Domination Enterprises / Not/But, a comic strip / Very Expensive Maps, a blog about cartography / here be cats: the ongoing search for ABCs in the UK / exploring the ghost village of Imber in Wiltshire. See also this 20-year-old gallery / art by Simon Palmer / Wonders and Visions, a forthcoming book charting the ‘visual history of science fiction’, at Unbound / ‘… are there really UFOs in Port Talbot?‘ Photographs by Roo Lewis.

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The raw and the cooked

How did property developers fail to sell a single flat in the Balfron Tower development? More at Frame. A backlash against brutalism and/or gentrification? / not related at all, is AI revolutionising architecture? / related, The Great British Housing Disaster / coming soon, Modernism Beyond Metro-Land / Ravenchord, a radical piano design / Past and Future: A fundraiser for Beirut Heritage Initiative, made with sampled sounds of construction (via CDM) / a castle for sale / a look back at the history of Ultimate. More here / Kim Gordon talks to w* / back issues of The Nib are free to download / Next slide, please: A brief history of the corporate presentation / more saucers in art: Mark Bryan. Related. Buy Billy Meier’s extraordinary photographs of extra-terrestrial dustbin lids / portraits of fighters on fire, via Meanwhile / Guy LaBorde, ‘musical parkour course’ / animated watercolours by Gaku / I’ve been dealt a bad hand / paintings by Alex Schaefer / the Evolution of Steve Albini.

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Pfft yeah, difficult innit

Wired is 30, a delve into an archive of a generation of prediction, some of it wishful thinking, some of it terrifyingly on the nose / ‘If ZZ Top wrote Kill ‘Em All‘ / ‘Instrumental Psychedelic Prog-Rock trio TFNRSH‘ from Tübingen, Germany’ / rugged hoteliers wanted / ‘The Enticing Mysteries of UFO Photography‘. See also the work of Piotr Szczur / ‘How Cruise Ships got so big‘ / the Zenith Space Command remote control / Geometrize, transform images into geometric compositions / boxy, but good, and now over: the end of Volvo estates? / spec your baby Ferrari / ‘The end of the (virtual) world: what happens when the servers are switched off‘ / CartoMetro, a collection of ‘detailed maps of urban transports’ / Pfft yeah, difficult innit / Autoenshittification: How the computer killed capitalism / When BMW met Rover / recycle via Lego Replay / the Illustration Chronicles (via Meanwhile / Architecture de Collection / a short history of the Mellotron / reprinted to remember, John Hersey’s 1946 New Yorker article on Hiroshima.

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A journey into sound

A 70s Funk soundtrack Mixcloud / The History of Acid House, a YouTube channel / the best field recordings on Bandcamp / a podcast about 80s music / Stock, Aitken and Waterman and the sampler that made their sound / concerts, concerts, concerts / the entire discography of proto-Foals band The Edmund Fitzgerald / remembering Drive Like Jehu’s Rick Froberg / Yuri Suzuki’s Ambient Machine / a Timeline of the Fender Jaguar / the Green Shade Diary, a traditional blog / Lego, Lego, Lego: a massive set of instruction booklets. See also, Lego electronics / the amazing Archives.Design, ‘a digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives / a new pavilion for Dulwich Picture Gallery?

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Ring ring

Wake up to a brief history of alarm clocks / the London Medieval Murder Map / on the trail of the Yeti / beware of the blob / remembering car designer Peter Horbury / Lamborghini barn find / LeTourneau’s Land Trains (via Jalopnik) / Big Tech is Watching You Drive. While Big Oil is busy pushing myths about driverless cars / the annual Crap Games Competition / Apple ][ Myst “Demake” (via Ars Technica) / on gaming and architecture / Manuel Alvarez Diestro’s photographs of the skyscrapers of the Mediterranean coast.

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