Pentagram on the interactive exhibitions they created for the Detroit Institute of Arts.
FontStruct - make fonts online - looks interesting! via Kottke
Crazy building cover - is that Beverly Hills??
Josh Kopelman on Lifecycle Messaging - dovetails with the Wired article on SuperMemo.
Song of the day: Robyn, Who’s That Girl. Great pop single. She’s backed by The […]
Architecture: Inside The World’s First Billion-Dollar Home. Actually $2bn. I sort of like the exterior - well, I like that it’s not some Romanesque monstrosity one logarithm too large - but the interior looks like a midrange hotel, and that’s because it was built by “Perkins + Will and Hirsch Bedner Associates, the designers behind […]
Games: Snatcher Pilot DS: The Snatcher demo disc ported to Nintendo DS - quite an achievement. Snatcher’s an old cyberpunk game by Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear Solid. You’re going to need a NintendoDS flash card to play. Via Insert Credit.
Jules Guerin: The Chateaux of Touraine: Four pages with images from this incredible 1906 book […]
Here’s what’s on my queue - what am I missing? I’ve heard a lot of the talked-about music and seen a lot of movies that’ve come out this year but haven’t read a lot of books.
Books
Fiction
Audeguy - The Theory of Clouds
Bolano - The Savage Detectives
Ellis - Crooked Little Vein
Jin - A Free Life
Nersesian - […]
I live in LA, so I went to see this 7-Eleven in Burbank they turned into a Kwik-E-Mart for the promotion of The Simpsons Movie. And yes, by posting this I’m participating in said promotion (even worse - without payment) but whatevs, because it was pretty cool. They ran out of Buzz Cola and Krusty-Os […]
I started catching up on this huge pile of unread magazines I have; here are some things that caught my eye…
Good
Mike Davis - City of Quartz: Circa 1992, in Los Angeles “[…] a whole generation is being shunted toward some impossible Armageddon.”
Wired
Battles - Mirrored [72mb mp3 album via MediaFire]: I’ve been hearing about this album […]
Yesterday I went to meet Rem Koolhaas at the Taschen store. He was lovely and old, which is great - it would have been terrible if this master was a young-looking 45. I was going to take a picture, but forgot to load the memory card in my camera!
And today was the opening of his […]
So I’m teaching myself how to use SketchUp, which is an amazing 3D sketch program for OS X - it’s geared towards architecture, and the learning curve is really gradual. Anyway, for practice, I made a model from the first sketch of my writing house.
I am in love with OMA’s CCTV project for China. In Content Rem alleges that the Chinese government, while displaying a more rigid face to the world than Europeans and Americans, is really more invested in progressive capital-C Culture as they transition to capitalism - the tendency a vestige of their Communist past. Rem hates […]