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A map of things kind of related to comics ‘We were debating whether it was totalising or not and so to demonstrate an alternative scheme, we used comics at the centre of a Greimas semantic rectangle.’ – Schulze and Webb blazing an intellectual/playful trail so bright it hurts my eyes. Beautiful. (tags: comics diagram semantics …
Found via hockertonhousingproject.org.uk news – Bob the Builder goes green: Bob the Builder has gone green! Parents of small children watching Bob the Builder episodes this week may have been bemused to see Bob installing an aerial on a yurt, a window in a dome and attending to a problem at the sunflower oil processing …
Back and forth: Owen responds with added detail about some of the recent Letraset people appearances, pointing out that a couple of them once made an appearance on The Human League’s album cover: Being Boiled – Circus of Death. Where next? Does anybody know the source of the other graphic on the album?
And there I was thinking I ruled the roost when it came to sharing architectural images of days gone by. A link by thingsmagazine.net to nastybrutalistandshort caught my eye for another reason when I spotted a Gorden Cullen sketch taken from a book that currently resides on my bedside table*: Homes for Today and Tomorrow …
Cambridge Journals Online – arq: Architectural Research Quarterly ‘…arq acts as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge work covering all aspects of architectural endeavour…’ (logged because I just noticed the RSS feed for article titles) (tags: architecture magazine pdf rss journal)
Program | Situated Technologies Podcasts of recent Architecture and Situated Technologies symposium (tags: architecture technology podcast)
Friday’s tutorials with my post-graduate students from BSA introduced me to a new, influential figure in contemporary architecture. I met him some time ago, but until now hadn’t considered his importance. Say hello to 2D_Man_Backpack: He’s one of the default figures in the industry changing software, Google Sketchup. I’ve used him myself in models before, …
Submit Response » Separated At Birth – Hyundai + Gazprom From the traffic jam I was stuck in at the start of the day, to my mobile, into Twitter, on to Jack, onto his blog, back to me in my RSS feed, on to my del.icio.us linklog, to my blog at the end of the …
EcoCentric Electrisave monitor ‘…Designed for use in the home or small office, the Electrisave shows you how much electricity you’re using at any one time…’ (tags: environment home)
Archinect : Features : Architecture’s Second Life ‘…When it comes down to it, from an architectural perspective, Second Life just sort of replicates suburbia…’ I’m slightly embarrassed that the only thing that’s prevented me from making some spaces in SL is that I’m too mean to pay for the land. (tags: architecture gaming software virtual) …