HONG!
This girl is my favorite! =]
Heygate Estate
There is a brilliant article on the Heygate Estate and the demise of modernist social housing projects in today’s Guardian (view here). I am a big fan of architectural modernism. Although I worry about the consequences of the very middle class fascination with failed social housing projects and the patronising rhetoric of many commentators as … Read more
Ursula Stressned
Spotted this brilliant Austrian campaign yesterday. Created by Copy_paste in Vienna as a tribute to Viennese nightlife & clubland, the video had 4/5000 hits when I looked yesterday and now has 28,000 and showing no sign of slowing down soon. It caught my eye not only because of a few familiar faces from my time … Read more
The Lament for Icarus
Herbert DraperOil on Canvas
I AM ELECTRIC
’I am electric. I’m a computer. Don’t attempt to keep no secrets from me. If you make me bored, I hit my keyboard. You’ll be erased from my memory. AC/DC it’s OK by me.”
Form ever follows fuction
A short but beautifully articulated quote from Louis H. Sullivan. Sullivan coined the term “form [ever] follows function” in his article ‘The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered’: “Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight or the open apple blossom the toiling work horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at … Read more
Feeling festive?
No, me neither. Try this: my friend Chris Flatline’s (Mild Peril) version of The Snowman http://chrisflatline.tumblr.com/
Castle Greyskull
Castle Greyskull is born, Stoke Newington. Click for high res.
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