Buran Suprematism, a Kosmograd post that either reveals the ease with which the hard-won aesthetic discoveries of the early twentieth century come to our tech-filled lives, or the prescience with which these visual pioneers were able to foresee an unimaginable digital future / Animated Engines (via Autoblog) / The Architecture Observer is a new online publication that boldly eschews a scattering of shiny images in favour of large chunks of text offering insight into issues like architecture festivals / the Devil amongst the Tailors, Aberrant Architecture’s 21st century recreation of the classic pub game / 101 Spectacular non-fiction stories.
//
Leadholder, the drafting pencil museum. Related, The Genius Pencil, a Salon piece about the Blackwing, cult pencil par excellence: No Ordinary Pencil: A Portrait of the Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602 / Quigley’s Cabinet, a weblog with a focus on ‘death and the anatomical body’ / Future Headlines works well as an archive page / B-U-I-L-D, an image curation tumblr.
//
ZX Spectrum’s chief designers reunited 30 years on. Releated, Buzzsaw+, a brand new Spectrum game published by Cronosoft / related, a huge collection of Spectrum clones from around the world, some of which, like the Soviet Hobbit, were wholly unofficial.
Interesting photos!
Thinking of the ZX Spectrum, you may be interested in Horizons, a free two-day conference about the computer and those who created/programmed it: http://www.imperica.com/horizons
Pingback: Lazy Reading for 2012/04/29 – DragonFly BSD Digest