Category: General
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ut på spåren igen
Going to Austria, BRB. Talking at the Futures Brought To Life symposium, with various other veterans of what was once the Weird Futures scene. Livestreams will be available, apparently, if you’re not in town.
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peter cook
Yep, the Archigram guy. (Insert your own “Dudley Moore notable by his absence” gag here.) From his just-now-ending retrospective exhibition at Louisiana, Denmark. A fifty-plus-year career of drawing the wildest way-out shit and still managing to package it as architecture*; an inspiration for eccentrics of all sorts. Beating that sort of path for yourself anywhere…
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drink up, bar’s closed
Well, that happened quickly, didn’t it? Twitter’s board demonstrating that (to use a lovely British turn of phrase) they have the breaking strain of a KitKat… Now seeing lots of second-hand reports of exodus from the birdsite, and I ain’t gonna judge, because I went and stopped using it (again) back at the turn of…
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peak scandinavia
Got yer moderately graphic but also slightly ironic Lego easter diorama right here, guv.
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on those who cry wolf
Apropos of everything at once and nothing in particular, I found myself thinking this morning—not for the first time—on the interpretations we have of fables and mythical archetypes, and how they don’t always stand up when you think a bit harder about them. One might argue that this is just a limits-of-metaphor issue, and yeah,…