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It’s my turn now. Gmail are obviously starting to relax about numbers for their beta test, as I’ve now got 6 invites to give away. Mail me if you’d like one.
writing
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mobclubbing
You might remember that I previously wrote an entry about the flash mob event in Birmingham that happened last summer, this year the meme seems to have evolved into something called mobile clubbing. There was dancing at Euston station on Friday night. It looks like a pretty cathartic experience, I wish I’d been there. I’d …
perspective
The first thing in painting is that the objects it represents should appear in relief, and that the grounds surrounding them at different distances shall appear within the vertical plane of the foreground of the picture by means of the 3 branches of Perspective, which are: the diminution in the distinctness of the forms of …
piggy
but she’s a girl says; ..I rather like the brashness of it, for no reason that I can really justify. I normally hate brash buildings, but the bullring seems to be so ugly that it sort of passes out the other side and becomes attractive. Like a warthog. Nice. A warthog in chain mail perhaps?
tribe list
For completeness, here’s a list of tribes that I follow on tribe.net: (except for all you lazy oiks who just read me via RSS, who’ll see absolutely nothing)
mall(ed)
Whilst there’s plenty I dislike about the Bullring shopping centre, I should point out that the linear mall that stretches across the site is actually quite successful. The proportions are good and the voids between floors make for good views across the different levels. From a couple of places you can also see parts of …
gabion
As I pressed the send button on my ftp program for this entry, my ArchNewsNow e-mail landed simultaneously in my inbox. It points me to Whatever happened to Canadian understatement? by Hugh Pearman.
canope
Will Alsop’s modelling department must get through a helluva lot of cocktail sticks.
code speak
Apart from the fact that documents like the one I’m about to quote are beginning to state the blindingly obvious, it’s also becoming necessary to talk them up their importance a little: This appendix to the B_ S_ Housing Market Renewal Prospectus sets out the strategic design strategies that will help deliver these objectives on …
but you can’t see them
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