May 2012
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May 31st
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Buick XP-300 concept car, 1951
Buick XP-300 concept car, 1951 via retronaut.co
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Untitled
Thanks to innovations in building materials, design technologies, and construction tools, a new generation of architects can finally realize structures that would have previously remained mere dreams. This emergence of a new vernacular of radically sculpted buildings, rooms, and installations melds rigorous usability with a playful and cutting edge aesthetic, facilitating highly functional yet...
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The screen as a form of work space.
Where We Work The fascination with the personal spaces of creative individuals is established, even familiar: Many people clearly want to see the artist’s studio, the writer’s desk. Projects like From Your Desks and Windows of The World respond to that desire, and aim to connect us to space and place in a way that possibly reveals something about a creator: The objects around her, the view...
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A Century at the Ballpark
A Century at the Ballpark Fenway during the 1912 World Series. Note the fans in front of the ad-shrouded left-field wall, not yet the Green Monster. Boston lost this game, but won the series. via observatory.designobserver.com
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Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg premieres...
Georgi Zelma, Fitness Parade on Red Square, 1935, Gift of Janice Tuckwood in memory of Donald A. Tuckwood. ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- Picturing a New Society: Photographs from the Soviet Union 1920s–1980s explores how photography was used in the development and propagation of communism. It...
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A.L.F.A. 40/60 HP, 1914 | Retronaut
A.L.F.A. 40/60 HP, 1914 “The A.L.F.A 40/60 HP was a race and road car made by A.L.F.A (later called Alfa Romeo). Its top speed was 125 km/h (78 mph). 40/60 HP production and development was interrupted by the First World War, but resumed briefly afterwards.  Giuseppe Campari won the 1920 and 1921 races at Mugello with this car.” - Wikipedia via retronaut.co
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Timothy O'Sullivan Photography exhibition opens at...
Timothy O’Sullivan, American (1842-1882). Sand Dunes, Carson Desert, Nevada, 1867. via artdaily.org
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April 2012
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Los Angeles looks to revive mythic past...with...
Los Angeles looks to revive mythic past with streetcars in four-mile Broadway-to-Figueroa loop In this undated file photo, passengers in a public transportation tram, right, look out the windows as they are stalled in a traffic jam in downtown Los Angeles. Half a century after the last of the lost Pacific Electric Red Cars rumbled through Los Angeles, a move has begun to return...
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Retro-futurism
Here is the dream that gradually gets closer to reality: cars that drive themselves, without us even looking at the road: … and the modern version of the image above (from German artist Gunther Radtke): (image via)
Apr 24th
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"Screenshots of Despair": Design Observer
“Screenshots of Despair” “No one currently likes this,” via Nevver and Screenshots of Despair. “No Friends,” by Apple’s Game Center, via Screenshots of Despair. via observatory.designobserver.com
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“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ‘science...”
– 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will | Music | Inventory | The A.V. Club
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Science on the March - 1952
(“Science on the March”, Popular Mechanics, January 1952 - illustrated by A. Leydenfrost, via)
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