Archive for the ‘ Visuals ’ Category
For those of you who like your cities like your video games. [ READ MORE ]
CitID is collecting city logos. [ READ MORE ]
[via Metafilter] Some peculiar housing communities. But why would anyone in their right mind name a housing complex after the movie Alphaville? [ READ MORE ]
[via metafilter] An animation with clickable annotation of the architectural history of the Eldridge block between Rivington and Stanton. [ READ MORE ]
The NYTimes offers this one minute animation of the “history” of Midtown. Great soundtrack. Great animation. [ READ MORE ]
A great set of photos from 1910-1915 Russia, mostly out in the Urals. [ READ MORE ]
Don’t know if I linked to this before, but here is a site with quality photos of street corners in Manhattan. That is all. [ READ MORE ]
Babo, who has taken many similar photos, sends this link to Michael Wolf’s photos of skyscrapers. [ READ MORE ]
Here’s a curious twist on civic boosterism. [ READ MORE ]
Last night I started reading Ernst Bloch’s The Spirit of Utopia. It took me in the unexpected direction of a discussion of artistic form, design, and manufacturing. He seems to be arguing that quality applied art emerges from the merger of form and function and that modern industry must find a way to recover the [ READ MORE ]
ImprovEverywhere hosted a gallery opening on the uptown platform at 23rd Street recently. The story and pix. [ READ MORE ]
This piece by Theodore Dalrymple (what a name!) discusses a recent controversy in Sweden over the nature of art today as an empty Ponzi scheme built on egotism rather than transcendence. [T]wo errors…have contributed to the triumph of shallowness. The first is the overestimation of originality as an artistic virtue in itself; and the second is [ READ MORE ]
Great diagrams in anthropology, linguistics and social theory collected by John Curran. [ READ MORE ]
Metafilter provides a link to New York Moon, a webzine published in sync with the phases of the moon (one edition every two cycles). The current edition has reflections on New York’s lost sixth borough and anthropological photos of neighborhood trash. [ READ MORE ]
Ben Fry has compiled stunning maps of the Continental US using only roads, but using ALL of them. The results are gorgeous and double as a measure of population density (mostly). The images, especially if you look at the close-up maps, also call forth the question of the “mechanism” discussed yesterday. They look just like [ READ MORE ]