February 27, 2007
Who says architecture doesn't pay? Foster + Partners are selling their firm for an estimated £300 million (thats over $US 0.5 billion) & Zaha Hadid had a 2006 profit of over £1m (that's US$ 1.6 million!!)
February 26, 2007
February 25, 2007
Totally useless and formulaic piece from NYTimes on Escape From New York
author can't afford Williamsburg, so author decides to move to the Midwest, selling off all her possessions (don't you need beds and kitchen supplies in the Midwest?)
February 23, 2007
February 22, 2007
February 21, 2007
China Aims to Shed Its Dirty Dragon Image
China to set up a carbon-credit exchange market
The Myth of 'Superstar Cities'
more on this, later...
February 17, 2007
The Times published on a subject we've been talking about for three years: More Girls Take Part in High School Wrestling. Previously on girls wrestling
February 16, 2007
it begins...
On the rise of ultra-small homes: BLDGBLOG: With nothing else to do but sit here and grow old & Think Small
Georgia State House Rep. Ben Bridges (R) & Texas Rep. Warren Chisum (R) both sent out a letter claiming, the earth is not rotating, nor is it going around the sun, and theories to the contrary are the works of a Pharisee Sect of Judaism - oh, and evolution is derived from
Rabbinic writings in the mystic ‘holy book’ Kabbala dating back at least two millennia
your Republican lawmakers at work...
February 15, 2007
Cast Concrete Speakers using the lost-wax technique
cool idea, but the end product doesn't do the process justice
Music video using infographics: A Tried And Tested Method (via Kottke (of course))
February 14, 2007
Getty Conservation Institute investigates Paints’ Mysteries Challenge - oil-based paint's properties are well tested, but acrylic and other contemporary materials are less known
Some Valentine's Day Links: Marian Bantjes: 150 hand drawn Valentines & The Comic Valentine of mid-Victorian England
February 13, 2007
On Conservatives Propensity to call for Assassinations
...we once again see conservatives (or in Reynolds' case "libertarians") displaying an almost childlike faith in the competence, honesty, and efficacy of the federal bureaucracy insofar as that bureaucracy is tasked with dishing out lethal force that they would never in a million years ascribe to, say, the people in charge of the Endangered Species Act.
Anthony Bourdain discusses Food Network (via)
Ace of Cakes is my newest favorite cooking show, while Giada De Laurentiis can basically tell me to cook whatever (I don't care...)
February 12, 2007
Paris has a new surface light rail called the Tramway des Maréchaux who's route follows Adolphe Thiers' boulevards in the 13e, 14e & 15e arrondissement and often are on grass right-of-ways
The new corporate logo: Dynamic and changeable are all the rage. Identities such as Pentagram's new Saks identity and Google are explored, but the best (so far) is the The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics which has a logo that changes every time it is used, see also pdf on the design (via)
Transit Gratis: Should transit be treated as a inaliable social right, or a material system? See also Comparative Analysis of Transit Bandwidth and my riff on Adam's ideas, Transit Policy: Whole Cost of Transit
February 10, 2007
New York Congressman Anthony Weiner Rips the "Republic Party"
more like this, please
February 9, 2007
More Super Mario Brothers Music: Super Mario Brothers Beatboxing Flute
Thierry Gomez plays Super Mario Brothers on guitar
DeCadence (an A Cappella group at UC Berkeley) sings Bitches Ain't Shit - A Capella in the manner of Ben Folds
the market for white people singing rap/hip-hop seems endless
February 7, 2007
Creating type based on letter usage: Frequency of use typeface
The Accumulation Project is a curated assemblage of daily objects. Both the Public Transit Audio and the Daily Paper accumulations are projects I've wanted to do
Schuerman: Moynihan Station renovation & Madison Square Garden Swap on the horizon
