things is an occasional publication, edited by an independent group of young writers and historians as a forum for the free discussion of objects, their histories, meanings, past, present and future.
http://www.thingsmagazine.net/index.rdf
Add to your Website!
A selection of city models (via me-fi ). Tom Vanderbilt expands upon the Beijing model at Design Observer / Owen Hatherley on London Open House ( official website ). London Photos on the same event : back in model land again.
This post digest is 13% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read A selection of city models (via me-fi). Tom Vander... (Links)
The classic Grace Jones Citroen commercial, directed by Jean-Paul Goude and featuring a giant Jones spitting out a CX. The car maker once prided itself on its artistic collaborations, including Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Klein and Marc Riboud.
This post digest is 13% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read The classic Grace Jones Citroen commercial, dire... (Links)
Kathryn Hughes argues that 'by making light work of sending images - copies, in effect - around the world, the internet actually increases the mystique and value of the original object, which can be viewed only in one place at one time.'
This post digest is 13% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read Hunger for the corporeal, or how simple objects ... (Links)
Even more substantial pieces (try Fears and Kahn, for example) function so much better in the mind. Perhaps that's the same for architecture; the ephemerality of the open-plan, glass walled modern house (e.g. post -war Florida ), rarely survives into the present with any grace.
This post digest is 12% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read The stark truth about polymer-saturated environm... (Links)
The night-time photography of Thomas Weinberger (via The Cartoonist ) / the art of Formula 1 is currently running at London's Design Museum (new website, thankfully). Actually, it's called Formula One (TM) The Great Design Race, but that sounds far too pretentious).
This post digest is 12% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read ArchitectureChicago Plus, Lynn Becker's weblog abo... (Links)
Revisited, Pathetic Motorways, delving into those little slips in the British motorway network that don't really deserve the title. Aficionados of tarmac in all its forms can visit Chris's British Road Directory, which has a database, some histories and a selection of bad junctions.
This post digest is 14% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read Revisited, Pathetic Motorways, delving into thos... (Links)
There must be millions of square feet of silos dotted around the world, encouraging fascination and even speculation; a company calling itself 20th Century Castles has registered MissileBases.com, and claims to have sold 27 remnants of the Cold War Era to happy homeowners.
This post digest is 13% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read Old houses, secret rooms and converted missile s... (Links)
The latter has obvious real world applications, and not just for entertainment (arguably the Gorillaz live experience is an example of AR): imagine overlaying information on your immediate surroundings onto your spectacles, for example.
This post digest is 13% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read Enter the VirtuSphere for completely immersive p... (Links)
Arguably, the internet is our new mode of Mass Observation, thanks to sites like Grocery Lists, or the many overheard sites: in the office, Law School, in New York, Dublin, London, the UK, or Athens (Georgia), etc, etc ). Our mp3 collection is out of control.
This post digest is 11% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read The New Yorker delves into the background of Mas... (Links)
The css is currently a bit wonky, and there's still no 2006 set to compare it to but with a bit of luck we'll get around to it in the next fortnight or so. Foster and Partners ' extraordinary new Pyramid of Peace in Kazakhstan is given the Hugh Pearman treatment.
This post digest is 22% of the original post size. Uncompress
Read After yesterday's mention of 20 Sites n Years we... (Links)
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next
Enter your search term in the field below.
If you enjoy things magazine you may also like to read:
The following one-click bookmarking links are made available for your convenience.
Backflip
BlinkBits
Blinklist
blogmarks
Buddymarks
CiteUlike
Connotea
del.icio.us
de.lirio.us
digg
FeedMarker
Feed Me Links!
Furl
Give a Link
Gravee
igooi
kinja
Lilisto
Linkagogo
Linkroll
looklater
Magnolia
maple
netvouz
Newsvine
Open Tag Directory
Raw Sugar
Shadows
Simpy
Spurl
Squidoo
tagtooga
Technorati
Wink
wists
Yahoo My Web
The following one-click subscription links are made available for your convenience.
reddit
