Austerity

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Winston Smith

My nomination for word of the year. The other would be “unexpectedly”. Related Irish Cutbacks Pile It on for ‘New Poor’ The measures are draconian. The government plans to shed Continue Reading →

Thanksgiving Weekend 2010, Part II

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Winston Smith

(1) Architecture: Memories, Modernism and Our Concepts of a Misremembered Future (2) The soundtrack to Nostalgia for the Future by Lisa Mezzacappa. The Tent of Tomorrow structure and the crumbling Continue Reading →

Thanksgiving Weekend 2010

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Winston Smith

(1) Where Time and the Timeless Intersect (WSJ) (2) The Raptures of a Tragic Visionary (WSJ) (3) Shifting Gears: Brian Piper, Bind ’09, and the bike for the new American Continue Reading →

Weekend Retreat

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Winston Smith

I spent the weekend at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, MA. and took this photo on our way to the Abbey Church on Sunday morning at 6:40. I’m not really Continue Reading →

Weekend 159.0

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Winston Smith

Metro-North Pulls Ahead Disney Profit Declines 6.7% Advertising students at Northwood University working on Honda campaign (My Alma Mater) “The point is when they want to paint you as nuts Continue Reading →

Epic Architecture

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Winston Smith

(1) Epic Mickey Director Wants You to Break His Game The developer worked with Richard Garriott on Ultima VI. (2) Sculptures of architecture in plaster – Detailed right down to Continue Reading →

Weekend 158.0

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Winston Smith

Illustration by W.T. Mars (1) Medieval Stained Glass Science (2) Orval Brewery (3) Monks who make world’s best beer have a message

Weekend 157.3

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Winston Smith

Random quotes from crap I’ve read… “He became something of a virtuoso of the most excruciating and unrequited love. The memory of a voice or glance fed his imagination for Continue Reading →

Weekend 157.2

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Winston Smith

This lonely hill was always dear to me, and this hedgerow, which cuts off the view of so much of the last horizon. But sitting here and gazing, I can Continue Reading →

Weekend 157.1

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Winston Smith

(1) Japan Adds a Global Gateway Noteworthy “Narita had been the brainchild of Japanese bureaucrats when it opened in 1978, and efforts to expand Haneda had, for years, been shelved Continue Reading →