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January 15
kateoplis: Nope, this is not a still from Blade Runner. It’s smog in Beijing. 

kateoplis:

Nope, this is not a still from Blade Runner. It’s smog in Beijing. 

December 22
“The Future is Unwritten” RIP Joe Strummer 8/21/52 - 12/22/12  The music of the Clash changed my life. His  Meeting Joe Strummer in Sophie’s one night in New York in 1989 was one of the high points in my life. 

“The Future is Unwritten”

RIP Joe Strummer

8/21/52 - 12/22/12 

The music of the Clash changed my life. His  Meeting Joe Strummer in Sophie’s one night in New York in 1989 was one of the high points in my life. 

October 28
slavin: …Saville talks about creating the album cover, lifting the image verbatim from a science book depicting the very first reading of a pulsar from 1967. […] When pulsars were first discovered, their measurable emissions were so strictly intervaled (ticking like a clock—hence the Pulsar brand of watches), that scientists couldn’t ignore the possibility that they could have been created by a distant intelligent species to serve as lighthouses across the cosmos. So when someone looks at Unknown Pleasures and doesn’t really know what they’re looking at, they actually can re-create a very specific place and time in science, when the Universe sent mankind a signal that we didn’t yet understand.

slavin:

…Saville talks about creating the album cover, lifting the image verbatim from a science book depicting the very first reading of a pulsar from 1967.

[…]

When pulsars were first discovered, their measurable emissions were so strictly intervaled (ticking like a clock—hence the Pulsar brand of watches), that scientists couldn’t ignore the possibility that they could have been created by a distant intelligent species to serve as lighthouses across the cosmos.

So when someone looks at Unknown Pleasures and doesn’t really know what they’re looking at, they actually can re-create a very specific place and time in science, when the Universe sent mankind a signal that we didn’t yet understand.

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cometsmeteoroids: Black Sun and Inverted Starfield Image Credit & Copyright: Jim Lafferty

cometsmeteoroids:

Black Sun and Inverted Starfield

Image Credit & Copyright: Jim Lafferty

(via itsfullofstars)

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For nearly two decades I’ve been saying that network culture in architecture isn’t parametric or generative design. This is a great example.    archiveofaffinities: PLAN FOR A SMALL CITY 005

For nearly two decades I’ve been saying that network culture in architecture isn’t parametric or generative design. This is a great example.   

archiveofaffinities:

PLAN FOR A SMALL CITY 005

October 4
Mr. Wright, why don't you sit down and shut up?

Bruce Graham, interviewed by Detlef Mertins

DM: How was Mies significant for your work? 
BG: He was significant, but Chicago architecture is a broader historical thing. It isn’t just Mies. It isn’t just one person. Louis Sullivan wasn’t exactly stupid. The structures of Louis Sullivan are also very clear, very clearly expressed. By the way, that’s why I went to Holabird & Root first, before I went to SOM. They had a tradition of doing structural engineering and architecture together.

DM: Wasn’t it also Mies who suggested that you do that? 
BG: Yes. When I was a student, I came from Philadelphia to see him. He received me. He was a very nice man, a very simple man. I asked him where I should go to work, and he said Holabird & Root.

DM: What else did you talk about with Mies? 
BG: We were good friends. There wasn’t another intellect like him in the city. There just wasn’t. The person I didn’t like, as a person, was Frank Lloyd Wright. He was a real son of a bitch. I gave him hell one time. He was giving a speech at the University of Chicago and was blasting me. So I finally got up and said, “Mr. Wright, why don’t you sit down and shut up?” And I walked out. It’s ridiculous for an architect to criticize another architect that way. But by that time, he was a little insane. He certainly wasn’t a constructivist. Fallingwater nearly collapsed. He wouldn’t listen.

DM: Did you see Mies as a constructivist? 
BG: Yes.

DM: What did you talk about with him? 
BG: How the wine was. Once in his old apartment he had an easy chair with a table and his cigars and his martini and all the furniture against the wall—somebody asked him why he didn’t move into 860 Lake Shore Drive. He said, “There’s no place to put the furniture. I was born in a little village in Germany. I can dream and imagine this new world, but I can’t live in it.”
September 29
This is one of a large number of plans from Archive of Affinities. Although on the surface these reveal a similarity to Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter’s postmodern collage techniques as explored in their Collage City, we can also see some crucial differences here that reveal this project to be part of network culture. Chief among these is that, on the one hand, these plans demonstrate a forced relationship between unlike elements and, on the other, these plans lack any trace of rupture or artifacts of their collision. This is a paradoxical inversion of postmodern design, in which elements would be chosen for their contextual nature, but when collided would retain traces of their violent encounter while also announcing their inability to ever produced a whole. In other words, what we see is atemporality at work, not a postmodern revival.     archiveofaffinities: PLAN FOR UNWILLING SYMMETRY

This is one of a large number of plans from Archive of Affinities. Although on the surface these reveal a similarity to Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter’s postmodern collage techniques as explored in their Collage City, we can also see some crucial differences here that reveal this project to be part of network culture.

Chief among these is that, on the one hand, these plans demonstrate a forced relationship between unlike elements and, on the other, these plans lack any trace of rupture or artifacts of their collision. This is a paradoxical inversion of postmodern design, in which elements would be chosen for their contextual nature, but when collided would retain traces of their violent encounter while also announcing their inability to ever produced a whole.

In other words, what we see is atemporality at work, not a postmodern revival.    

archiveofaffinities:

PLAN FOR UNWILLING SYMMETRY

September 19

Hello, Nothing

I started updating my iPhone to iOS 6, but something went wrong so it needs to be restored. It need s to be connected to iTunes

Then we had a power outage so I lost Internet.

I hooked up my Honda gas generator which is powering the fridge, base computer system, phone, and Internet (no hot water though, we upgraded to a new high efficiency system so it needs electricity to work, plus it needs to wait 6 hours after power comes back for us to restart it).

I’d post something about this on my blog except that my site is down because of a hardware failure at Dreamhost.

Too bad Revolution is such a bad TV show. I could sympathize. 

Kazys

September 15
Google adds 'Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon' game to search engine | Film & TV News | NME.COM

Google has built the infamous ‘Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon’ game into its search engine.

The game, a playful variation on ‘Six Degrees Of Separation’, is based on the idea that any Hollywood actor can be linked to Bacon in six associations or fewer because theFootloose actor has enjoyed such a prolific career. When the game first spread in the 1990s, Bacon seemed unamused, but he has since embraced it, using its popularity for a charitable website called SixDegrees.Org.

Now the game has been automated by Google. When a user types the phrase “Bacon number” into the search box, followed by the name of any actor, Google will produce that actor’s “Bacon number” and show how the two are linked.
September 14
AAPL Now Equal to Entire 1977 S&P Market Cap - Tech Trader Daily - Barrons.com

Apple is worth more than all of the companies in the 1977 Standard and Poor’s index.

S&P Dow Jones Indices’ Howard Silverblatt this afternoon writes that the stock’s surge has brought it a market capitalization surpassing the one-time value of the entire S&P:

Apple is trading at a new high of $695 per share (old high was $685.50), with a total market value of $651.5 billion. When I started at S&P in May of 1977 the entire market value of the S&P 500 was $623 billion (T was #1 with $38B, then IBM, XON, GM and GE – EK was #6 and S, which was Sears, was #7). It was not until August of 1978 that the index reached the $650 mark (when IBM was #1 with $43B, then T, XON, GM, GE, EK at #6, with S down to #9) – now, 34 years later, one company is $650 billion. So in October of 2046 will some issue be worth $13.9 trillion? FYI – the Aug,1978 to Sep,2012 full market value growth calculates to a 9.3% annualized rate (I have an app that calculates it – it called a hp12c, circa 1981, when T was back to being #1 in market value).