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An end of week grab bag

Apologies once again for the rather ragged state of the front page. We decided that a shift from wordpress.com to wordpress.org was called for, and one tutorial later the switch had apparently been made. Of course, the little blanket fort … Continue reading

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Zig-zags and hidden messages

The upcoming Balfron Project (via Blueprint), ‘a large-scale photographic event to be staged at the Grade II listed building Balfron Tower. Shot on film with a large format still camera, the event will result in a mural sized photograph presenting … Continue reading

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Visiting imaginary places

Our apartment, by Topsy Design, another contemporary exponent of ‘living over the shop‘, or rather, ‘living within the shop.’ Whereas traders once used to shoehorn their living quarters above their working quarters, the evaporation of production and the growth in … Continue reading

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The origins of the persuasion industry

/ The last of the Madison Avenue mavericks of Mad Men: ‘Meet Jerry Della Femina, the door-to-door salesman who became become so influential in US advertising he’s Peggy Olson, Don Draper and Bert Cooper rolled into one’. His 1970 book, … Continue reading

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Cities in (Empty) Space

The Pop-Up City, ‘an online magazine by [placemaking agency] Golfstromen which explores new ideas, trends, strategies and methods for a dynamic and flexible interpretation of contemporary urban life.’ We have never come across a placemaking agency before. We like their … Continue reading

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Collections, big and small

The Sands Mechanical Museum, incorporating the Coin Op Game Museum and the Pocket Watch Museum, a personal ‘virtual museum’. It doesn’t have the scope of Cyberheritage, the quite awesome extensive UK site devoted to collating all forms of historical material. … Continue reading

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Catios and Chevys

A fine example of corporate BrandSpeak gone awry, ‘Saving Chevrolet Means Sending ‘Chevy’ to Dump: ‘…one way to present a consistent brand message, the [G.M.] memo suggested, is to stop saying “Chevy,” though the word is one of the world’s … Continue reading

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The Hidden Posters of Notting Hill Gate

Photographs by Michel Gravel / 19 epic Lego guns that actually work / art by Jeanette Barnes / old pictures from a bottom drawer at NASA / German children’s books / paintings and drawings by Wesley Burt / London at … Continue reading

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The Architectural Uncanny

A set of photographs of Poundbury by Dennis Gilbert. There’s a studied blankness here, an almost subconscious attempt at sabotaging the contrived neo-classical picturesque that Poundbury supposedly represents. It’s unfortunate perhaps that the modern archetype the town most closely resembles … Continue reading

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Visual platter

An illustrated foray into archives. Decorated books online / the Eckersley Archive / Books and photographs on Aeronautics / Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period, by Paul Lacroix / the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive … Continue reading

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Modern archaeology

A random assemblage of links, with forgotten modernity lurking just under the surface. View to Corrupt, ‘each time you view this page it writes a portion of your IP address to a random location in the image shown above. With … Continue reading

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Anniversaries and agoraphobias

It’s 50 years since the inauguration of Brasilia (although the above image comes from a Niemeyer/Burle Marx project for Ibirapuera Park in Sao Paolo). If you want imagery of Brasilia, Leonardo Finotti’s incomparable Brasilia Project should be enough. “It’s obvious … Continue reading

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Backs of things

Broken Camera, a tumblr / Death Drive, a photographic project by Dean Rogers (via The Defeatist). Sort of related, art by Simon Menner. Especially Boobytraps, Minefields, and the backs of some famous paintings / art by Paul Tebbott / Into … Continue reading

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Forests and walled gardens

There’s something profoundly unimpressive about the built-in wind turbines at the new Strata London tower. Admittedly, they’re actually real (unlike the faux turbine stylings of the abandoned Anara Tower in Dubai), and necessarily experimental, but even so the potential contribution … Continue reading

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Brand Extensions

The end of the promo copy: ‘This will further change the way people talk about those records. Traditionally reviewers weren’t just trying to communicate the pleasure of listening to something. They were also communicating the joy of possessing something. You … Continue reading

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This is an image test

An image test. Right now it looks like those old posts don’t want to come into our new template (although they’re still there). The refining continues.

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This is a test

It will no doubt be the first of many such tests, all of which are aimed at making the all-new things experience better than the old one. Apparently there are 9 years of things posts floating in the ether. They … Continue reading

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Welcome to things magazine 2.0

This will ultimately become the new home – and face – of things magazine, just as soon as we’ve sorted out all sorts of online jiggery-pokery.

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