Weekend 215.0 (Inventors Edition)

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Winston Smith

(1) The Nucleus of the Digital Age: In pursuit of hydrogen bombs, a math genius and a brilliant tinkerer in Princeton developed the modern computer (WSJ) (2) A related quote Continue Reading →

Weekend 214.0 (Almost)

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Winston Smith

(1) The scan is from The Art of the The Secret World of Arrietty. I can’t scan the entire book BUT will add the abandoned gazebo (not tea house) in Continue Reading →

Weekend 213.4 (Made in England)

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Winston Smith

I was in NYC on Saturday to demo and purchase a Brompton from NYCeWheels. I spent half the demo trying to fold and unfold the bike and probably looked like Continue Reading →

Weekend 211.1 (Man is the measure…)

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Winston Smith

“But to me they were living and the turf that covered them was a skin, under which their muscles rippled, and I felt that those hills had called with incalculable Continue Reading →

Weekend 209.1 (Tires/Tyres)

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Winston Smith

Yeah. I’ve added a category for tires/tyres because of my obsession with vulcanized rubber. Photographs of tires/tyres for me are like hi-res food shots to foodies. I watched Tokyo Story Continue Reading →

Weekend 206.0

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373 (2) Fantastic hyperrealistic oil paintings by Steve Mills (3) Ways to Manage an Image (WSJ) (3a) The Art and Soul of Disney (4) Jean Nouvel: Continue Reading →

Weekend 204.0 (“Better Brits Than Brussels”)

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) 2021: The New Europe (WSJ) (1a) The Culture War Over Europe’s Money (WSJ) (1b) A sense of surrealism (Economist) (1c) A Point of View: The euro’s strange stories (BBC) Continue Reading →

Weekend 203.0

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) How Lord British Inspired Anorak (2) England, My England (Never Having Been There) (WSJ) (2a) Do you know WHO went to London? Toast!

Weekend 193.0 (Planes, Trains and Automobiles)

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) Window of the World (2) FIAT Drive In (3) Ryōmō Line (3a) East Japan Railway Company (3b) Iwafune Station (3c) Tribute to Makoto Shinkai (Part III) (4) Tony Parsons Continue Reading →

Weekend 192.1

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) Trouble on the China Express (WSJ) In a blistering essay titled “The Derailed Country,” posted online this past week and then quickly removed by censors, Han Han, one of Continue Reading →

Limestone Roof

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

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