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Category Archives: architecture
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 … Continue reading
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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, … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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Methods and madness
Let’s kick off with a couple of modernist houses for sale, old and new: The Dragons, and Willoughby Road / the story of MIDI / ‘Cold Lazarus TV spaceship prop sits in Leighton Buzzard front garden’ / snarky riposte to … Continue reading
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No-one can hear you
Ron Cobb’s semiotic standards for Alien, at Joe Blogs / listening again to Psychlona / Afrika Green’s superb Producer Vs Drummer series / Waxy tracks down Bobby Fingers /
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Dead and buried
The signs of Linear A: a paleographical database / the Talented Ladies Club crunches the numbers on MLM Misery / beautiful Notes.Art / ‘How 16 Companies are Dominating the World’s Google Search Results‘. Not exactly pleasant reading / lots of … Continue reading
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Five pillars of wisdom
Art / Proposal for Fourth Plinth, 2021, Goshka Macuga / On the Street, a new book by Edwin Heathcote / the world’s worst arts job listing?. See also the world of Jerry Gogosian / also related, First Sackler, now Bet365… … Continue reading
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Shiver inducing
Beautiful sky collages by Alex Hynder (via Kottke) / the end of London Rental Opportunity of the Week (via MeFi) / The “Unknown Heroes” of Drum Machines / bargain lair: the Old Defensible Barracks in Dyfed (via Cal Flyn) / … Continue reading
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European felines
How cats came to Europe, part of Frank Jacobs’ Strange Maps series. See also Mummy of an Egyptian Cat / Gaming Like It’s 1927, (via MeFi), the latest ‘annual public domain game jam’ that uses well-known IP that has now … Continue reading
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Flash back
Flashbak has a couple of galleries of London as it was it the recent past: King’s Cross before the ‘change’ and Photos of Vauxhall and South London in the 1980s. Both galleries feature the amazing photography of Peter Marshall / … Continue reading
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Lost at sea
Apologies for the downtime. On to the links. Enchanted Book collates rare book illustrations. Unfortunately, many of these will simply end up as fodder for the myriad art AIs that are flitting about, redefining the nature of commissioning, art and … Continue reading
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Creaking floorboards
Bit late for all this stuff. Architect Breaks Down 5 Haunted Houses From Scary Films / related, a new era of haunted house horror fiction / still scary, This House Does Not Exist, a sort of AI-powered Dezeen. AI is … Continue reading
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‘She mewed to every watery god’
‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes’ (Thomas Gray, 1747). The tub in question / one of the UK’s most important Modern Movement houses, High and Over, is for sale / the … Continue reading
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If pigs could fly
Tracing the History of the Green Book in Southern California / the Manhattan Population Explorer / selfie landscapes: ‘The Instagram capital of the world is a terrible place to be‘ / The Acrostic Edition, a short piece about the joy … Continue reading
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‘We are all hoarders now’
Digital hoarding: All is not vanity, an essay by Noga Arikha on our digital archives – ‘a new state of affairs in human history… no one knows quite what to do with the eerie fact that we seem to have … Continue reading
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Remain indoors
The tale of the unexpectedly real quest for Reagan’s golden walnut brain, a true story (via B3ta) about a parodic take on the Kit Williams’ celebrated Masquerade (1979), which can be read about in more detail at The Digital Antiquarian: … Continue reading
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Robot love
The future of robotics. Here are some Amazon Astro knock-offs – the grey area between ‘social robots’, toys, and home security devices: Miko, Misa, Vector, Skymee, Temi, Enabot, and countless other, presumably much lesser robots / a bit of Bowie, … Continue reading
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Slicker City
It seems that Michael Heizer has finally finished City, his 200-acre, $40m megastructure in the depths of Nevada , half a century in the making. A decade or so ago, City was still seen as something fragile and intangible, a … Continue reading
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Ruins of a life
Some more architectural insights: an interview with Eyal Weizman of Forensic Architecture / reviewing the writings of Mark Fisher / reviewing the life of Mike Davis / more Neom-related ragings: Line in the Sand, Head in the Clouds (‘Am I … Continue reading
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A shimmering city of snake oil
Minecraft has a lot to answer for. This week’s reveal of more ‘detailed’ plans for Saudi Arabia’s vast Megastructure/EcoCity/Groundscraper adds more confusion and improbability to what was already the stuff of fevered dreams. The renders are lovely, albeit ominously modelled … Continue reading
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