Peter Wylie’s Concrete (Beton Brut) series of paintings / the Hitler publishing craze, and its many, many manifestations / many other projects discussed at Projects unedited, ‘Artists discussing their practice and experiences through personal blogs about the projects they’re working on, as they happen, wherever they happen.’ / Good Old Valves, car culture tumblr / Playtimes: A Century of Children’s Games and Rhymes, an online exhibition at the British Library, drawing hugely on the life’s work of Iona and Peter Opie (via Wonderland).
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Letter from Tokyo, ‘a personal diary on the tragedy of the Japanese earthquake’ / more on the ‘petition to save Chandigarh, Le Corbusier’s modernist city in India, [which is being] from being sold off bit-by-bit’. ‘The news the city’s iconic Corbusier-designed manhole covers were fetching upward of US $20,000 at auction in Europe and the United States raised alarms in international modernist preservation and Indian heritage circles’ / Folded in Place, abstracted maps by John Mann.
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Cope, a weblog / In all the simplicity, a tumblr / Animated Prints, a hypnotic, gif-filled tumblr / Enderby Outside, a tumblr / The Greggs Adventure, ‘A long-running series in which I review every sandwich and pastry sold by Greggs’ / Supervillain, a weblog about comics and film / Indistinguishable from Magic, a tumblr about graphic art / Character Design, a weblog.
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Viewliner Ltd, ‘a tour of Americana’, postcard-driven nostalgia filtered through the heyday of the American railway, from monorail visions to model trains (Atomic Cannon Car Kit) / hotel lost and found, a weblog (via Coudal / modern furniture for sale at Hans-Peter Jochum / when income grows, who gains?
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Ruins of Great Britain, a new spin-off from sit down man, you’re a bloody tragedy which collates the expansive and incisive urban trawls (e.g. trying to say nice things about Leeds). And also linked on the site, architectural criticism at The Charnel-House / some informative recent posts at a456, including the story of the Harvard Candle and Utopia for Sale, an in-depth examination of the idea of ‘good design’ and how it came to be such a dominant cultural force. We’ve also never visited the a456 tumblr before.
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Box Stories, a blend of the Little People Project and the work of Joseph Cornell, put through a Gallic Blender. More at the flickr stream / the ultimate pirate ship bedroom: more evidence of the high style/kitsch/absurdity of children’s rooms / ‘The six Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island from 1904 to 1910 were the greatest sporting events of their day‘.
