The story behind that burning man photo on the Pink Floyd Album / I don’t have a lot of time for Nick Cave as a politically literate person but at least he wrote a nice thing about Nina Simone / Brenda Vale on Autonomous Houses / The Climate House in a building which was ‘saved‘… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #11
Sunday Scraps #10
Caresse Crosby‘s mad life (no decent biog yet) / On whether there’s a sense to history / The history of California based Architectural Pottery (yes that’s the name of the business) whose founders interviewed J.B.Blunk / Pain scales / Immunology and intuition / Dos and don’ts of designing for accessibility / World Wide Waste /… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #10
Using Twitter when you’re creative
I think of Twitter as – 50% the comment section of local newspapers – 20% malicious content – 30% inspirational quotes, gifs and cultural references. I look for gold in that 30%. That’s why I stick around. — Alexandra D-S (@iotwatch) July 31, 2020 (Two men are grunting and shuffling about my apartment fixing a… Continue reading Using Twitter when you’re creative
Sunday Scraps #9
Sam Chermayeff (his father was a graphic designer, his grandfather was a product designer) is an architect talking about collective housing like his grandfather’s peers used to / the art of Constant (there doesn’t seem to be many video interviews which is annoying) / a decaying 1960s modernist seminary built by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #9
Sunday Scraps #8
A deep clean of some phone tabs which have been opened since last November. HoroHoro Cookies (found in Kanazawa) / Katrien de Blauwer’s exhibition at the Foto Museum in Rotterdam (one of my favorite artists) / I didn’t necessarily agree with this NYTimes article on the patriarchy of Alcoholics Anonymous but it was an interesting… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #8
Sunday Scraps #7
Human Systems (Berlin) / The home and ‘digital glimpsing’ / The first 1968 First Things First graphic design manifesto / Arthur Pieper’s House / Jonny Hill’s house for the wealthy Corbetts /First Things First 2020 podcast on climate change education / the now demolished 60 Hornton Street house / the powerful myth of sunscreen /… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #7
Sunday Scraps #6
(Office deep clean kind of day) The problems of restoring light art / The open society and its enemies / Japan Dome House / Mr Straw’s House / the architect Charles Holden / Excellent pecorino and almond biscuits / Allan Octavian Hume who ran the South London Botanical Institute and was linked to Helena Blavatsky‘s… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #6
Sunday Scraps #5
Phil made a list of music videos shot in the Barbican/ Google stopped describing gorillas because it couldn’t figure out how to identify black people / decolonising design / cosplay innovation through patents / indie magazine economics / Bernard Leach (potter) / cats instead of things in the Underground / Digital Earth Fellowship cfp /… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #5
The end of the sea: climate change and where to start?
My favourite novel is Oceano Mare by Alessandro Baricco. In it, (amongst many intertwined stories) a painter tries to paint the eyes of the sea with sea water and a scientist tries to ascertain the end point of the sea. Futile exercises, but it reminds me of climate change. Where do you start? Where does… Continue reading The end of the sea: climate change and where to start?
Sunday Scraps #4
Post-pandemic workplaces 1 2 / a book about sentient lightbulbs / Kevin Kelley turned 68 and gave young people some advice / Bela Banathy’s book on changing social systems / furniture music (coined by Erik Satie) / the paper that coined and defined ‘wicked problems’ / Un Chien Andalou online / The NewYorker about Lorraine… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #4