Over at Coudal today there is a link to Views of Glasgow and The Clyde 1911.
To supplement that I offer these links to the eclectic classicism of Alexander “Greek” Thompson – a fixture on the neo-classical Glasgown architecture scene. You really have to see the buidling in person though, they are fantastic.
+++ – digital re-creations
+++ – The Alexander Thompson Society
This is also nice – Hidden Glasgow – but more useful to you if you are actually over there. If you are, I will jealously wish you a good day. Send IRN-BRU.
This really is The Greatest Essay Ever. I saw it at TMN. Raw intellectual power. Just check out page 4, brilliant.
Walid Raad and the Atlas Group….
“Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography,” a project by Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari with the Arab Image Foundation. An installation of 3,600 passport photos – all the work of a single commercial photographer, Antranik Anouchian (1908-1991), who ran a busy studio in the cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic city of Tripoli in Lebanon, where Muslims, Christians and Jews coexisted. ++++
Walid Radd, as I have said before, rocks.
Early studies for 1-95, with beautiful drawings (check out the sections and perspectives). ++++ (via Coudal)
I need to read this, it MUST be good.
Also, I have taken to reading the very stimulating Le Coquette lately, which makes me only slightly jealous of the fact that some people get to live in Paris.
Chris Horton, you’ll be missed!
Chris Horton, you’ll be missed!
A bug-eating robot. It actually eats flies and digests them to get its power. Created by the good folks at University of the West of England. I am going to order a crate of cockroach eating ‘bots as soon as they are available, and let em loose under the sink.
We are enjoying a wonderful holiday break out in the Boston area. Eight inches of snow last night enabled me to go sledding today with a friends 3 year old and ma brotha. We had the little plastic toboggans, hitting speeds upwards of at least 4 mph!
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