Weekend 195.0

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) Confessions of a Typomaniac (WSJ) (1a) 20 Nice Elegant Fonts (2) High-Value Rust on Wheels (WSJ) (3) Peer-to-Peer Pioneer Sees New York Bicycles Pier-to-Pier (4) Illustration by Rory Kurtz

Weekend 194.0

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) Kay Kamen is on a list of people I would like to interview. (posthumously of course) Through all their adversity, all the economic ups and downs, they (Walt and Continue Reading →

Weekend 193.1

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Winston Smith

To put this in plain terms, Americans and their institutions have tended to choose the self-interest and individualism of the free market over the nationalized model more prevalent in postwar Continue Reading →

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 192.2

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Winston Smith

To make use of one’s time as one deems fit is one of man’s main objectives in life. At the office, at home, wherever, each person needs to keep track 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 →

Weekend 192.0

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Winston Smith

A day in NYC… (1) 194X–9/11: American Architects and the City @ the MoMA (1a) The Life and Death of Buildings at the Princeton University Art Museum [FIELD TRIP] (2) Continue Reading →

Weekend 191.0

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) Un’Introduzione al Disegno Italiano (2) China Train Crash Shows Fast Expansion Problems (3) Spending dispute halts airport construction (3a) Dulles Metro station should be functional and awe-inspiring (3b) Airports 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 →

Limestone Roof

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

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