Weekend 176.0 (the Bilbao Effect)
(1) Found – The Comics Of Chris Ware: Drawing Is A Way Of Thinking I just finished Makeshift Metropolis by Witold Rybczynski so the timing of this “find” is serendipitous. Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Books
Weekend 175.2
“Decaying and dilapidated architecture resonates as loss, as evidence of the irreversible passage of time, yet architectural ruins emanate past grandeur.” — Daniel Worden, On Modernism’s Ruins: The Architecture of Continue Reading →
Weekend 175.0
“One realizes oneself only one piece at a time.” — Marcel Proust, The Fugitive (1) Christo Without Jeanne-Claude – Where monuments pretend to endure, their work suggests the fleeting nature Continue Reading →
Weekend 172.0 (Aerotropolis Edition)
Ready…Set…BUILD! (1) I am recycling a link from INSTAPUNDIT about photo-blogging an abandoned theme park because it reminds me of Spirited Away. (2) Cities of the Sky – From Dubai Continue Reading →
Miniatures
“The trains were also a bridgehead of a much larger scheme that was organizing itself in Walt Disney’s mind. At least as early as 1947 he had begun collecting miniatures—furniture, Continue Reading →
Weekend 171.1
(1) Stained glass in an 18th century library (2) Faith is an attitude; it is saying “Yes” when reason might well suggest “No.” Yet reason itself is without tone and Continue Reading →
Weekend 162.0
The blinking of its ruby lights could been seen at dusk from Windsor Castle, the terminal’s forms giving shape to the promises of modernity. – Alain de Botton (1) Airport Continue Reading →
Resplendent
The blogger with many visions™ is thawing. I just finished The Fighting Temeraire by Sam Willis. This book is more than a dry historical reprint; it is a graphic re-telling Continue Reading →
As true…
…today and it was then. “The problem was that Mumford, along with many other “progressives,” had a rather inflated sense of self-importance.” – James Mauro, Twilight at the World of Continue Reading →
Weekend 153.1
Just finished Hamlet’s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age and this excerpt from Lady Gaga and the death of sex seems apropos. Generation Continue Reading →