More from Aerotropolis…

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Winston Smith

…or red courtesy phone for Mr. Friedman. “The aerotropolis and authoritarians go hand in hand. The first is a city built from scratch to chase economies of speed; the second Continue Reading →

Weekend 190.1

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Winston Smith

Someone once asked Goethe what color he liked best. “I like rainbows,” he said. That’s what I love about architecture: If it’s good, it’s about every color in the spectrum Continue Reading →

Weekend 190.0

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Winston Smith

Absolutely gorgeous summer day in New England! (1) Bright Colors Struggle to Bloom in South Korea’s Silver-Car Nation (WSJ) (2) Adventure on the Rails (WSJ Magazine) (3) Custom Cycling’s Big Continue Reading →

Weekend 189.0 (July 4th)

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) Tacita Dean Reflects on Time (WSJ) (2) Walt Disney and the Founding Mouse (3) The Insidious Evils of ‘Like’ Culture: In our age of online view counts and retweets, Continue Reading →

Weekend 188.0

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) Magnetic Color Cubes® by The Orb Factory (2) Festival of colors (Design You Trust) (3) Birth by Sleep (KH 358/2) (3a) Disney Epic Mickey Digicomics (4) Television: Pan Am Continue Reading →

Weekend 187.0

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Winston Smith

“But if flight represents freedom, reinvention, and self-renewal—and barring all of that escape—then the terminal itself has evolved into something resembling a destination…They’re amnesiac places with no future and no Continue Reading →

Weekend 186.0

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) Morris Mini Cooper S (Flickr) (2) The Terrifying Truth About New Technology: Do robots and Twitter make you nervous? Growing old is what you’re really afraid of (3) Kumho Continue Reading →

Weekend 185.0 (Austin Edition)

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) (1a) GOOD DESIGN: stories from herman miller (2) Game On (Austin Monthly) – Short article about Richard Garriott (aka Lord British) and the video Continue Reading →

Weekend 184.0

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) Coast to Coast in Eight Days (WSJ) (2) Lost in a World Without Roots (WSJ) (3) ‘Down and Dirty’ with the Disney Girl (4) A Macy’s branded bicycle? (5) Continue Reading →

Now your ageless bell…

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Winston Smith

“A date, being mere kronos, has no character. It is almost nothing. It is a one-dimensional line, the circumference. A line can have no color. Only kairos, only a two-dimensional Continue Reading →

Limestone Roof

Our history now descends from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust.

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