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Anime Architecture

I love shit like this. Frames are from C – Money, Soul and the Possibility of Control.

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Quickly

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 … Continue reading

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Bad luck

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 … Continue reading

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Never not blogging

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 … Continue reading

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Media List

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 – … Continue reading

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Down at the Kwik-E-Mart

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) … Continue reading

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The blog cupboard has been a little bare lately

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 … Continue reading

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Rem Koolhaas Prada epicenter Beverly Hills

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 … Continue reading

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Another iteration – getting closer

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Another house

I am loving this loft-style house by Kazuhiko Namba for MUJI.

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no plumbing

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 … Continue reading

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And I’m gonna keep on loving you

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 … Continue reading

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