book_baton-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

secret history Stuart has ”>run his leg of the race. He highlights the wonderful Secret History by Donna Tartt. Had there been 6 books on my list, this would have been in there too.

book_baton-2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

more secret history Jack ”>pledges his allegiance as a fellow Hitch Hiker's nut and provides a more balanced opinion of Secret History.

book_baton

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

Book Baton I've been passed a blogging baton. It used to be about music, ”>then Matt Webb decided to let it evolve into a discussion about books. He ”>passed it to Peter Lindberg and now it has come to rest in my ever expanding list of things to do.

bookwiki

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

I heart wikis For one reason or another I find myself in the middle of four1 different books at once. It's causing a bit of a log jam and I'm not really progressing any of them very well. Last night while I was noodling about with ”>my wiki I decided that I should do something to encourage myself to get some more reading done. Posting

camoufleur

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

Camouflaged Macintosh Eek. More coincidental links this morning - I just found a review of a new book about the history of camouflage and its impact on fashion, ”>DPM: Disruptive Pattern Material.

DPM includes a comprehensive guide to the camouflage patterns issued to soldiers of 107 nations around the world and, for the first time in print, thoroughly documents the rise of camouflage outside the armed forces - its…

don_quixote

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:57:09+00:00

knowing when to be tags: cheesecake, books, ideas, quote Changing a tyre in the pouring rain is not a good way to start the day. Buying yourself a new book, swiftly followed by good coffee and cheescake is the only way to improve your mood. In fact I can't think of a better way to improve your mood in any given situation than the book-coffee-cheesecake maneuver.

fasternotes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

Faster notes I've been making a start with my BookNotes idea. A few interesting quotes have been pulled from the pages of Faster. (see ”>previous post for details)

how_to_think

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

The Illegitimate Extension More generous offerings of excerpts from good books I own; I've been moving things on to the new set of shelves I've just finished building and unearthing a few delights. Tonight it's the turn of How to Write, Think and Speak Correctly edited by C.E.M Joad and published quite-a-long-time-ago (there's no date in it) by Odhams Press.

iiideath

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

it's good to talk Notes on TimeAndTheHunter/IIIDeath (page 87) Despair not. Just when you were beginning to feel thoroughly dejected about Calvino's proposal that there is no longer any real connection between anybody or anything now that we've become complex multi-cellular organisms, rather than simple cells adrift in the promordial soup

jane-jacobs-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

best block Polis and Curbed have hooked up to propose ”>a contest to name the most Jane Jacobsian block in New York City:

The idea is to celebrate the “street ballet” of your favorite block, not just because you like it, but because it exhibits the characteristics that Jane Jacobs enumerated as essential ingredients to a quality urban life.

jane-jacobs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

RIP Jane Jacobs Tags:JaneJacobs, book, urbanism Toronto's Mayor, ”>David Miller:

Jane was a champion of diversity, a diversity of buildings, residence, businesses and other nonresidential uses and different people of different ages in an area at different times of every day. She gave us eyes on the street.

jasper-fforde

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

book upgrade Tags: authors,fiction,books I've never read any Jasper Fforde, but having just visited ”>his web site and stumbled upon such delights as his 'book upgrade centre' it's become clear I have no choice but to add all his work to my wish list.

leger

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

creative reaction For Rod McLaren and his ”>How We Work series. Fernand Léger, painter (1881-1955) by Siegfried Giedion

Léger rebuilt his country place in the Chevreuse Valley without an architect. He thought it would serve him for a long time.

librarything-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

now you see me Ok, so that won't have been a lot of use to you if you read it via RSS - visit the entry in your browser to see the full librarything.

librarything-2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

useful things It seems that the last 12 months has indeed been the year that the WWW finally got useful. Ten years on and we finally got there. Blosxom, Bloglines, Usemod, Flickr, PlanetPlanet, Moblog.co.uk and now Librarything

librarything

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

library thing I've been trying out librarything.com...

little_nemo-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

little mickey? To see the full image when you visit the flickr page, click on the 'all sizes' button and choose the original image size. The text should be readable then. On closer inspection I've just noticed that one of the characters looks a bit like Mickey, the star of the Sendak book. It's a little difficult to tell, as Mickey spends most of the book stark naked, rather than covered in a large over coat like the one he wears in this adventure. It's surely some sort of parody though.

little_nemo

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

Little Nemo in Slumberland I've been looking through a catalogue of designer chairs and between the pages of photos and construction drawings I found this (click on the images for full size): ” title=“Photo Sharing”>”

moore

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

dear santa More letters and a suggestion for your (”>my) Christmas wish list. It was my boss's birthday last week. Here at the office we usually end up spending a considerable amount of time trying to decide what gift to get when birthdays come around. This time the solution came to me in a flash and I was left wondering why I hadn't chosen it in years gone by.

nemo_explained

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

I wake up to Nemo A little while ago ”>I posted a plea for help with a cartoon I had found in an old catalogue. ”>Peter, with the help of his boss, kindly ”>did a translation for me with help of flickr notes.

notonthelabel

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

toss your salad I'm missing my daily reading slot now that I've started driving to work instead of taking the tram. However, ”>Radio 4 is providing an adequate substitute as I drive along the M6 hoping not to get stuck in a jam. This week's

rationalist

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

Rationalist Annual [rationalist.jpg:out] I bought this a few years ago and then promptly forgot about it until this evening when I walked past my book shelf. I turned to the essay with the most promising title - Aesthetic Experience and the Problem of Evil by Margaret Knight - and found this:

redhouse

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

book reviews A link for fellow parents: Red House online book sellers are advertising for volunteers to help with reviews of childrens books.

Calling all mums and dads! Were looking for the parents of babies and toddlers to join our young Red House Readers, reviewing and recommending books to other mums, dads and teachers. We will regularly send you brand new picture books and novelty books to test drive with your little ones and well look forward to publishing your opinion bot…

resolution2005

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

dough, water, paper and what links them together For no better reason than wanting to keep up with the neighbours, I'm writing this evening from the kitchen worktop whilst waiting for some dough to rise, risking the ingress of flour with every key tap. It's not quite the same as

seminal_text

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00

seminal texts ArchNewsNow provides a ”>link to an article about how '...Markus Breitschmids book, “Der bauende Geist. Friedrich Nietzsche und die Architektur,” or “The Building Spirit. Friedrich Nietzsche and Architecture,

special_form

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:24+00:00
It will find you brooding One of the problems/benefits of being who I am and doing what I do is that it effects the way I think about everything. Every space turns into a floor plan in my mind and every city becomes a scale model to pick up and turn over in my hands. I dream in exploded axonometric cross sections. Well, the ones that don't involve naked girls at least.

the_dark_arts-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:25+00:00
sleepover Karim has pointed out in the comments that the British Museum organise sleepovers. I checked the web site and discovered that it's part of the ”>Young Friends club. They hold about 4 a year and they are themed. See you there!

the_dark_arts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:25+00:00
the dark arts
”>The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Tonight the museum possessed an almost oppresive quality. Long shadows encroached everywhere, and the usually soaring vaulted ceilings appeared as a low, black void.

townscape_2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:25+00:00
cullenesque part 2 juxtaposition “...the direct relationship between two categories, village and countryside. The unequivocal character of both is brought sharply together, there is no fluffing.”
” title=“Photo Sharing”>

townscape_3

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:25+00:00
le urban design
More on Gordon Cullen's Townscape:
My 4 year old son has three modes of operation: drawing, climbing and watching TV. That's it. There are no others. The first two are easily explained by the science of genetics, the third less so, but I write that having spent the last 4 hours mesmerised by my PC monitor, so perhaps that one's my fault too.

two_thousand_six_reading_list

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:25+00:00
My 2006 reading list. ” title=“Photo Sharing”>” width=“375” height=“500” alt=“2006 reading list” /> From the top:

Seneca: On the Shortness of Life

Deleuze and Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus

Giedion: Architecture, You and Me

Pevsner Architecture Guide: Birmingham

Iain Banks: The Algebraist

Dostoyevsky: Notes from the U…

vonnegut-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:25+00:00
route just found the source of this Vonnegut article - via ”>biroco, via ”>cloud23 back to ”>In These Times.

vonnegut

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:25+00:00
Vonnegut and Dostoevsky If the ”>Hitch Hiker's Guide taught me how to read, then ”>Slaughterhouse 5 taught me what to read. In it one of the characters says, Everything you need to know about life can be found in The Brothers Karamazov; I tried it, he was right.

what_is_architecture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T18:54:25+00:00
life and soul A while ago I had the pleasure of suggesting a good book to Peter over at ” alt=“Peter Lindberg ”>tesugen.com. He has repaid the favour twice over ”>by encouraging me to read What Is Architecture? by Paul Shepheard. I read it during the Christmas holidays, being sure to carry a pencil with me at all times so that I may mark the ideas I wished to pass on to others…

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