Category Archives: ephemera

Observed around the web

Posted on July 3, 2020 by things magazine

Running Car ‘Faces’ Through An AI Face-Processing Algorithm Is Amazing And Terrifying / enjoy the slow pace of the Ogmios School of Zen Motoring / The accidental dystopia of major construction sites (via K) / Moldova Shuts Down Bootleg Helicopter … Continue reading →

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Life in lockdown

Posted on June 25, 2020 by things magazine

‘numb‘ is a short film about life in lockdown by the teen filmmaker Liv Mcneil. Recommended (via MeFi) / The Booksellers: ‘This was once a clubbable – and very male – profession that hardly changed for centuries, run by a … Continue reading →

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Get me out of bed

Posted on June 24, 2020 by things magazine

Play with Google’s Shared Piano / Soulwax and the hunt for the EMS Synthi 100 / music at A Certain Kind Records / another label to check out, I Heart Noise / photographs by Jan Koster / Milcho Pipin’s photographs … Continue reading →

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Folded up

Posted on June 16, 2020 by things magazine

For Sale: Eppich House II by Arthur Erickson (via Wowhaus) / former Medicine frontman Brad Laner has a treasure trove of audio on his bandcamp page / more concrete, sorry. On Le Corbusier’s housing at Fruges / sort of related, … Continue reading →

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Is it hot or not?

Posted on June 12, 2020 by things magazine

Artwork by Liam Devereux, especially the Nighttime Series (via This Isn’t Happiness) / the Autohistorian has many Flickr albums of old school charm / A Typology of Lego Computers at Present and Correct (via Kottke) / music from Ovlov / … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on this and that

Posted on June 10, 2020 by things magazine

The Urban Adventures of Keïteï. Related, exploring the Millennium Mills / music by rincs / Not Pulp Covers, a tumblr / linked most everywhere but well worth your time, the Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality, a staggering amount … Continue reading →

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Unattributed

Posted on June 1, 2020 by things magazine

Random things / blind auctions like the Art on a Postcard series are always intriguing / a Brutalist renovation project for the brave, courtesy of Wowhaus / icons at risk / art presented by The Jealous Curator / Return of … Continue reading →

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How random can you get…

Posted on May 23, 2020 by things magazine

The Historic Stainless Steel Trifecta, the return of the stainless steel Fords. Delorean eat your heart out / Photos of Huawei’s European-Themed Campus in China / castles you can buy, you know, just in case / a house within a … Continue reading →

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No sessions for you two

Posted on May 14, 2020 by things magazine

An impressive collection of John Peel Sessions on YouTube, collated by Formerly Known as the Bollocks, which serves as an aggregator for music info and links / related, Peel as gatekeeper / an abandoned American urban exploration website / 1st … Continue reading →

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Torcere a bordo piscina

Posted on May 12, 2020 by things magazine

A new platform for performance: is the future of entertainment in video gaming? Sort of related, It’s Cool to Look Terrifying on Pandemic Instagram. Filters go mainstream / Artifacts from the archive, 175 years of the Scientific American / personal … Continue reading →

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The big empty (day something or other)

Posted on May 10, 2020 by things magazine

17 Artists Capture a Surreal New York From Their Windows illustrations by Charlotte Ager / the Bugatti factory that barely was / the great Curbed.com is becoming part of New York Magazine / the stats of the Scarborough Grand Hotel … Continue reading →

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Frames per second

Posted on May 7, 2020 by things magazine

But how are you feeling? diamond geezer presents a cube of Coronavirus complications / DC Punk, for free, Dischord discography to stream (via boing boing) / upgraded to 60fps, ‘the oldest recorded film’, the ‘Roundhay Garden Scene‘, Leeds, 1888, taken … Continue reading →

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Changing ways

Posted on May 3, 2020 by things magazine

The great British art quiz / Artbreeder, ‘simply keep selecting the most interesting image to discover totally new images. Infinitely new random ‘children’ are made from each image.’ / music by Spectral Gates / music by Conifold / The Sand … Continue reading →

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Islands in the stream

Posted on April 23, 2020 by things magazine

A Short History of London by Simon Jenkins, reviewed at The London Society / Columbia and Pea Islands, the ultimate in self isolation about 6 miles from the Bronx / the story of the Thingstätte: ‘Between 1933 and 1936, so-called … Continue reading →

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Walkthrough (1 of 1)

Posted on April 20, 2020 by things magazine

A homemade Russian Ark, Hermitage, a ‘one-take journey through Russia’s iconic Hermitage museum shot entirely on the iPhone 11 Pro‘ / The Architecture of Surveillance: The Panopticon Prison, photographs by Romain Veillon (via Architecture of Doom) / Wallpaper* magazine’s World … Continue reading →

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It was down the back of the couch

Posted on April 18, 2020 by things magazine

Solar Pandas / fun little kids’ art project: A Space Between, making global connections through colour / sort of related, Pushing the Envelope: Mail Art from the Archives of American Art / ‘It is only adults who ever feel threatened‘, … Continue reading →

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Road trains and loud noises

Posted on April 16, 2020 by things magazine

For some reason, way back in 2013, we clipped this link about Melbourne’s East West Road Link back in 2013, a major infrastructure project that is still mired in controversy over cost, routes and delays. Road infrastructure projects are going … Continue reading →

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Four wheel drift

Posted on April 15, 2020 by things magazine

A couple of things via Kottke: Spinnable 3D Models of the British Library’s 16th Century Globes and Weird Stock Photos, a place where Bosch-meets-Photoshop for the first time / did you assume that the screeching tyre sound on old American … Continue reading →

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Land ahoy

Posted on April 14, 2020 by things magazine

All over the place today. On the link between C. S. Lewis and Trumpian Doublespeak at Better Living Through Beowulf / art by Dagoberto Rodríguez / yet another dramatic ‘barn find’ video, although this falls more into the category of … Continue reading →

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Losing count already

Posted on April 11, 2020 by things magazine

‘Apple is now the largest watchmaker in the world by revenue, outselling the entire Swiss watch industry‘ / the Himalayas have reappeared on the horizon in northern India as pollution decreases / see also ‘It’s positively alpine!’: Disbelief in big … Continue reading →

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