The Illegitimate Extension

More generous offerings of excerpts from good books I own; I’ve been moving things on to the new set of shelves I’ve just finished building and unearthing a few delights. Tonight it’s the turn of How to Write, Think and Speak Correctly edited by C.E.M Joad and published quite-a-long-time-ago (there’s no date in it) by …

The Urban Idyll

Notes from The Paul Jennings Reader – Collected Pieces 1943-89 There are moments in even the busiest urban life when our relationship with the city is suddenly changed. A meeting ends early, we have time off to see a doctor or solicitor – whatever it is, for a couple of hours we stroll, we are …

fresh start

Comments are back on. I’ve deleted all the previous comments – it’s the best way to tidy up at the moment, I’ll remount the non-spam ones as soon as I’ve filtered out the rubbish. If you’ve uttered something enlightening here in the past, sorry but you’ll have to say it again.

incredible furniture

My son and I went to see The Incredibles last weekend. It’s very, very good. Contrary to what you might be expecting, I’m not going to add anything to the numerous comments already published elsewhere about the styling and set design. Whatever needed saying has been said and, let’s face it, I’ve been banging on …

A good year

Only a year has passed and I’m already a vintage according to The Times:

spam, spam, spam, spam

Comments are off again. I’ve just been nailed with 244 spam entries.

Camouflaged Macintosh

Eek. More coincidental links this morning – I just found a review of a new book about the history of camouflage and its impact on fashion, DPM: Disruptive Pattern Material. DPM includes a comprehensive guide to the camouflage patterns issued to soldiers of 107 nations around the world and, for the first time in print, …

mixing and scratching

I was reluctant to upload this entry; partly because it uses a quote from What Is Architecture? which will also be included in a future write up I’m working on, but also because I’m in danger of looking like I’m on the payroll at Icon magazine, since this is the third item I’ve lifted from …

musical chairs

Everything’s connected at some level. I’ve uploaded the sketch of the Orgone chair, as promised in a previous entry, and added some notes on the flickr.com page. It’s a somewhat hurried affair, I think I must have sketched it whilst walking away from the Marc Newson stand at the show. As you can see, I …