Category Archives: linkage

Up, up and away

Posted on April 11, 2012 by things magazine

A random selection of things. Are these the ugliest buildings in the world? Of course not, but aesthetically challenged architecture is increasingly the subject of linkbait round-ups like that one / a tumblr devoted to Crazy Walls / (via Ask … Continue reading →

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End of week selection

Posted on April 6, 2012 by things magazine

End of week link selection. Cities, a series by Atelier Olschinsky presented at Magical Urbanism / Cheese, a tumblr (sketchbooks and scrapbooks, not actual cheese) / quirkily perverse contemporary taxidermy by This Must Be Designed By Idiots. See also the … Continue reading →

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A selection of links, part 2

Posted on March 30, 2012 by things magazine

Some end of week links, part 2. Car culture in China – an end to the official obsession with Western status brands? / Mark Power’s series on the Airbus A-380, industrial design on a Europe-wide scale / A crime of … Continue reading →

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A selection of links, part 1

Posted on March 30, 2012 by things magazine

Some end of week links, part 1. Built Dublin, ‘A love letter to architecture and public space in Dublin, Ireland.’ / the blog of Frank Chimero / once and for all, they’re LEGO bricks, not LEGOs / two enthusiastic sites … Continue reading →

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Mapping the origins

Posted on March 29, 2012 by things magazine

Yesterday’s post sparked a bit of debate about content creation, consumption and the nature of making links, copying, pasting and imitating. Yesterday’s minor flurry of interest in Memepool ably illustrates the evolution of the weblog from tempting textual wonderland into … Continue reading →

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What these trays have seen

Posted on March 21, 2012 by things magazine

Photographs of developer trays by John Cyr: ‘By titling each tray with its owner’s name, I reference the historical significance of these objects in a minimal manner than evokes thought and introspection about what images have passed through each individual … Continue reading →

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Infinite monkeys and infinite links

Posted on March 14, 2012 by things magazine

I’m not a ‘curator’, an interesting debate on the nature of online attribution. The bone of contention is the proposed Curator’s Code, ‘a system for honoring the creative and intellectual labor of information discovery by making attribution consistent and codified, … Continue reading →

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On the Richter scale

Posted on March 2, 2012 by things magazine

The Archive of Years to Come, ‘a book-ageing machine, a chrono-chamber. Inside the machine, a book lives an accelerated history, a synthetic timeline [using] UVC radiation lamps and high humidity levels.’ / top tip: counter any propaganda value contained in … Continue reading →

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Cruising, or ‘travel without tears’

Posted on February 19, 2012 by things magazine

We’re all in the same boat, aren’t we?, Adam Curtis on the world of the ‘funship’, and how they are floating kingdoms, a law unto themselves: ‘And in the strange fun-world of the superliners the waiters, the cabin staff, the … Continue reading →

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Crumbling models and London’s past

Posted on February 10, 2012 by things magazine

Broken Houses at AnArchitecture, a project by Ofra Lapid: ‘I find these photos on the web while pursuing an amateur photographer from North Dakota who obsessively documents the decaying process of these houses. His photographs are used to create small … Continue reading →

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Future visions

Posted on February 6, 2012 by things magazine

Hidden underground drinking-water reservoir in Houston / life of an architecture student, a tumblr / NASA concept art, generating more love and interest many decades past its completion than it ever did when it was new. We recently received a … Continue reading →

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The year end approaches

Posted on December 20, 2011 by things magazine

Random things today and the start of a holiday recess. Has Abu Dhabi gone bust? / will refurbishing the Sydney Opera House really cost $1.1bn (Australian dollars) / the Skyscratcher, the ultimate accessory for cat-loving architects (or architecture-hating cat lovers) … Continue reading →

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Ups and downs

Posted on December 13, 2011 by things magazine

Gionarle Nuovo closed over four years ago. It now exists as an archive / The Paper Collector / Chicken Wire Fabrication Video / re-visiting Get Carter / The Up House / 2011: The Year in Band Names / the Raagini … Continue reading →

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Here and there

Posted on November 24, 2011 by things magazine

The art of Robert McGinnis (nsfw) at the hyper-dense Naver Blog, a site that doesn’t just give you five images when forty will do, be it the wood engravings of Eric Fraser, the illustrations of Francis Xavier or Carl Larsson, … Continue reading →

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A massive, useless shoebox

Posted on November 1, 2011 by things magazine

The story of the Eagle Transporter from Space 1999 (via Coudal) / the Museum of MADI (the Movimiento Artistico De Invencion) / Failure Magazine ‘is the online publication full of humankind’s boldest missteps’ / a cover archive of Italian design … Continue reading →

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Mars needs

Posted on September 7, 2011 by things magazine

‘Mars to Stay‘, the ‘proposal that astronauts sent to Mars for the first time should stay there indefinitely, both to reduce mission cost and to ensure permanent settlement of Mars’. Lots of concept art and chest-beating at MarsArtists. See also … Continue reading →

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Daily bits, 5 of 5

Posted on September 2, 2011 by things magazine

Final bits and bobs scraped up off the cutting room floor / Marc Fisher’s Public Collectors link set on delicious is well worth an extended browse through. A few samples: markings found in books / the many treasures of Bill … Continue reading →

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Daily bits, 4 of 5

Posted on September 1, 2011 by things magazine

Many things collected and collated at The Memory Atlas / instant sidebar addition for Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities, which ‘features new acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript … Continue reading →

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Daily bits, 3 of 5

Posted on August 31, 2011 by things magazine

Letterology has a post on the newsletters produced by the Curwen Press / Darwination Scans, scandal sheets, mid-century tabloids and small ads. The above image is from the Johnson Smith & Company Catalog No. 148 (1938) / Working Lives in … Continue reading →

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Daily bits, 2 of 5

Posted on August 30, 2011 by things magazine

Elaborate illustrations by Erwin Kho / drawings by Serena Olivieri / Ribbon Farm on the epic story of container shipping, an extended review and essay around Marc Levinson’s book The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and … Continue reading →

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