Request: Mark, release The Fall

Hey, Mark, you’re spoiling the paintwork. I’ve been buying/ acquiring/ begging/ downloading/ buying gig tickets, for The Fall for twenty years. If you really want to be the Hip Priest, ditch your entire back catalogue in the public domain. It’ll be a riot, I promise you. How about it?

Update: bizarrely, this has been dugg. Go [...]

Communication networks: past, present and future

Over the last week or so, I’ve been joyfully ploughing my way through a series of lectures from the Long Now Foundation. Their excellent series of Seminars About Long-Term Thinking (SALT) is an ongoing outreach program of public presentations designed to foster interest in, and debate about, responsiblity for the common global future. The mp3s [...]

Electromagnetic skyscrapers

A bit late on this one, but anything worth it’s salt is more than a passing fancy, right? It’s also a curious beastie, not so much for the imagining, but the presentation. Let’s face it, speculative architecture is often no more than unreasonable architecture, but that’s no reason not to design. Hence the fact that [...]

Do You Fear Intelligent Machines?

Any regular readers may have discerned that I’m no fan of Digg. It’s not the theory behind the site, just the present state of it. However, Hrafn at Inkblot Earth emailed this morning to tell me about a question he wants people to digg and comment on: Do You Fear Intelligent Machines?
I’m as interested in [...]

Suburban and Industrial Monuments

I’ve had vague plans to write a short post about Bernd and Hilla Becher for a while. A post on A Daily Dose of Architecture gives me a good excuse to do so now. It links to photographer Mark Luthringer’s Ridgemont Typologies, a series of image arrays documenting the “American suburban landscape of consumption, status, [...]