Author Archives: things magazine

Small things

Posted on June 14, 2010 by things magazine

Amir Zaki’s Relics series, the lifeguard tower as mysterious architectural totem (via Space Invading) / Locals vs Tourists, who takes pictures of what / Have you ever found a secret room in your (or anyone else’s) house?. See also the … Continue reading →

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Cities in 3D

Posted on June 10, 2010 by things magazine

Why is there no comprehensive 3D model of London in Google Earth? Back in 2007 there seemed to be some licensing issues and in the interim others have stepped forward with far more detailed models than are currently offered on … Continue reading →

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High camp and low culture

Posted on June 8, 2010 by things magazine

// My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning, a tumblr / the USAFA Cadet Chapel by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, a high camp modernist classic, largely unvisited by non-military personnel / related, X-planes, a tumblr / The Norman Foster biography … Continue reading →

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Hidden Loci and Technological Change

Posted on June 8, 2010 by things magazine

Why preserve Van Gogh’s palette? On colour theory and intuition in art: ‘Monet aimed to be as familiar with the colours on his palette as a pianist with the keys of piano, so he didn’t have to remove his eyes … Continue reading →

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More small things

Posted on June 6, 2010 by things magazine

What’s Your Time Perspective, a way of decoding what particular zone of the present different people operate in. Somewhere buried in all this is nostalgia, the ‘past positive’ way of thinking, a way of thinking that shapes the way we … Continue reading →

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Small things

Posted on June 3, 2010 by things magazine

Micro-blogging today and for the next few days / photographer Noshe updates his website / Cgunit, what hip illustrators and photographers are doing right now / see also Starno.net, a matte painting company / Brasilia in Pictures / love this; … Continue reading →

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The Architectural Uncanny

Posted on May 27, 2010 by things magazine

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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The future of reading

Posted on May 25, 2010 by things magazine

Into Orbit, Kosmograd on the ArcelorMittal Orbit: ‘Considered as a modern folly, I think it performs quite admirably’. A fine piece that considers provenance, media reaction, visual culture and architectural criticism: ‘Surrounding the structure is a totally unnatural crowd scene, … Continue reading →

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Visual platter

Posted on May 25, 2010 by things magazine

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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Random linkage

Posted on May 21, 2010 by things magazine

Photography by Monica Ouwens: volume two and volume three / Bustler brings together the 2010 RIBA Award winners / Architecture Draftsman, ‘exploring the expressivness of architectural space,’ work by Stefan Davidovici. See also this post at Y Mag, ‘A Mars … Continue reading →

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Modern archaeology

Posted on May 19, 2010 by things magazine

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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The birth of twitch culture

Posted on May 18, 2010 by things magazine

Some musings on Knight Lore, back when computer games were hard. The physical effort and time commitment one had to make to load a game from cassette meant that when you finally got it, you jolly well played it. Short … Continue reading →

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Ego surfing and coffee table publishing

Posted on May 14, 2010 by things magazine

So how long before all contemporary coffee table books are iPad-enabled? From an outsider’s perspective, the iPad looks at its best when it’s providing a bit of depth beneath the still image, a way of peeling back layers, zooming in, … Continue reading →

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A random grab bag

Posted on May 12, 2010 by things magazine

Matt Reading, a tumblr / photography by Juan Manuel González / Twenty Six Types, found letterforms / design at Ersatz Dreams / 529, a minimal tumblr, which sent us off on a Kurt Schwitters image hunt. There doesn’t seem to … Continue reading →

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A post that needs a punch card catalogue

Posted on May 11, 2010 by things magazine

Collected Visuals / Today and Tomorrow has a fine portfolio of the BMW M1 by Jan Baedeker / cars and architecture at the Parking Garage Pool / the Christian as Culture Making, the ‘rallying cry for a new generation of … Continue reading →

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Aggregated Curating

Posted on May 7, 2010 by things magazine

The 1851 Glove Map of London. An object that captures the imagination and is suddenly everywhere, tumbled, blogged, tweeted, etc, having first (?) emerged on Boing Boing back in 2008 after being picked up from an exhibition at the Field … Continue reading →

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Ghost Cities

Posted on May 5, 2010 by things magazine

Magnezium, photographs by Kuba Ryniewicz of Steetley Magnesite in Hartlepool. Described by the photographer as ‘the best post-human zone I visited so far in the UK,’ this well-recognised photographic location is also a favourite of urban explorers (in the top … Continue reading →

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All play and no work

Posted on April 30, 2010 by things magazine

Childhood games, art directed, by photographer Tim MacPherson. Reminiscent perhaps of the work of Tim Walker, who conjures up elaborate, self-indulgent fantasies for British Vogue (some more images here at Triin). See also Couch Cushion Architecture, A Critical Analysis (via … Continue reading →

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Tracing papers

Posted on April 27, 2010 by things magazine

The strangely neglected no man’s land that sits between maps as things to cherish, pore over and squint at, and maps as pure information is yet to be addressed, let alone synthesised and exploited. The internet has some very welcome … Continue reading →

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Curation Confusion

Posted on April 26, 2010 by things magazine

The Editor and the Curator (Or the Context Analyst and the Media Synesthete). Tomorrow Museum’s post adds a bit of heft to a subject we’ve blathered on about with increasing frequency these past 18 months or so (and we’re linked … Continue reading →

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