Ctrl-N/ journal
April 19th, 2009
English architecture blog.
Archive for the 'urbanism' Category
Richard Price and Junot Díaz on the Death of Times Square and Importance of Ghosts
October 1st, 2008
"We always talk about New York as a 'global city,' but I think we have too much of a two-dimensional view of where it begins and ends. The same way that millions of people flooded into the city—for the first time, in a very concrete and dynamic way, New York has sent colonies to other places."
The Journal of Urban Typography
August 31st, 2008
Photos of often haphazard type and lettering.
Where I’m Cooking From
May 31st, 2008
Moriah's collected some of the stuff she eats. Minor master of macro food photography.
Municipal Archive
May 31st, 2008
Kio's blog collecting encounters with strangers.
Mile-High Skyscrapers and Floating Cities That Never Were
May 11th, 2008
Wired's collection of planned and imagined architecture.
Comfy in Nautica
May 5th, 2008
"coolness is having courage / courage to do what's right"
The Usborne Book of the Future
March 20th, 2008
ROBOTS / FUTURE CITIES / STAR TRAVEL (star travel?).
Charles Simonds
March 2nd, 2008
Passersby found them on windowsills, on the brick facades of abandoned buildings, and in empty lots. The artist imagined these to be homes for a nomadic population he called "the Little People."
Tom Petty’s Los Angeles
February 21st, 2008
Hell yes.
Hugh Ferriss
December 23rd, 2007
The master of speculative, atmospheric, unrealized architecture.
You Won’t See This Again
December 22nd, 2007
By all rights I should be linking to the linked-to City of Sound entry, but the most compelling part of it was this photo, effectively a synecdoche for all (documentary) photography. Just stunning.
List of Songs about New York City
December 18th, 2007
Sure are a hell of a lot of these.
Mysterium der Straße
December 3rd, 2007
Another image along the same lines as the previous one, this time from an exhibition at the Met.
Eerie Street (Unheimliche Straße)
December 3rd, 2007
Part of the Foto exhibition currently up at the Guggenheim. I was a little overwhelmed and disappointed by the Richard Prince retrospective, but I'm tempted to say that this photo might have been worth the price of admission. update: someone ganked it for their flickr - there's a nice big version here.
Bortle’s Dark Sky Scale
October 9th, 2007
An ascending (descending?) measure of typical levels of visibility of heavenly bodies at night.
Ghost station
October 6th, 2007
Blog for an installation in the Toronto subway system using subsonics and infrasonics as a way of approaching the modern city, and the paranormal. via rupture.
Satellite image of New York
August 14th, 2007
Working on a map for work, using this as a basis. The high contrast makes it look like most of midtown and the financial district is flooded, when in fact they are not.
Downtown Train
May 3rd, 2007
"Will I see you tonight, on a downtown train? All of my dreams just fall like rain, all upon a downtown train."