Category Archives: ephemera

Community Plumbing, ‘How the hardware store orders things, neighborhoods, and material worlds’ / Some reflections on my roadtrip across the western United States / The Disco Files: 1973-78, New York’s Underground Week by Week By Vince Aletti. See also Antonio … Continue reading →

The battle continues: Freelance Wars. See also the great Madmen Integrated tumblr / a tumblr collection of video game backgrounds / Silicon Cities by photographer Heiko Hellwig / a collection of concrete in the former Yugoslavia / a photobook about … Continue reading →

A depressing piece about New Zealand’s potential future role as a home for disenfranchised billionaires (via MeFi) / the most interesting modern houses in Yorkshire / The Best Things Found Between the Pages of Old Books, at Atlas Obscura (via … Continue reading →

A View From a Hill, over one hundred two minute sound snippets, ambient noises and short pieces from all around (via Transpontine) / Pentagram has designed this beautiful book about East London / a typical slice of the wit and … Continue reading →

Photographer Jeffrey Milstein’s series on Amusement Parks / Modernist Estates’ favourite Instagram accounts / hunting the lost river of Paris / musings on Citroen concepts from the 80s / farewell to Wendell Castle / farewell Slayer / Hidden London / … Continue reading →

Mary Lee Berners-Lee, an obituary of an amazing life / skiing without snow / the London Time Machine (via Coudal) / Brazil in 10328×7760 – A 10K Timelapse Demo / Straight outta Romford: Britain’s hard-man movie scene, an insight into … Continue reading →

The Vestaboard, when you want text messages delivered on old-fashioned train announcement boards / Superseventies is a tumblr devoted to said decade, includes the occasional that might reflect badly in the modern era/ a London charity shop scavenger hunt (via … Continue reading →

Google mapping versus Apple mapping and the use of ‘commercial corridors’ as mental maps for urban navigation: ‘areas of interest‘. Sort of related, Strava Art. See also this then and now series, aerial views of Chicago taken in 1914 with … Continue reading →

Cyriak’s latest is all about horses / the sound of a gif / a recent Google Doodle celebrating coding for kids / good overview – with simulations – of the challenges facing carbon capture / airport runways, abstracted / the … Continue reading →

A tale of derring-do, boundless courage, optimism and rank ignorance: self-taught rocket scientist plans to launch over ghost town. Leaving aside the flat earth theory, amateur rocket travel is a truly eccentric niche. A few years ago, Copenhagen Suborbitals was … Continue reading →

Various things. paintings by Yoko Akino / 13 Horror Films for Architecture and Urban Design enthusiasts / Jony Ive on Apple Park / interactive novation fun / car models by Stephane Dufrene / Ministry Assistant is an app designed for … Continue reading →

Medical ‘innovation’ issue. Sergio Canavero Is About to Perform the First Human Surgery — and There’s Nothing to Stop Him. Maybe includes mild spoilers for the recent BBC R4 drama, Tracks. See also, These conjoined twins can share each other’s … Continue reading →

Construction photographs by Mårten Lange / the sound of the underground, fifty albums you probably haven’t heard (or even heard of). Mine the comments for more / also related, an elegy to the cassette tape / other forgotten media, The … Continue reading →

Some views of Japan, an Instagram about the small stuff by writer Naomi Pollock / a box of maps: Everywhere, from Herb Lester / Sirens of Chrome, a gallery and interview at tmn about the motor industry’s use of spokesmodels, … Continue reading →