Author: Marcus Trimble
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Greebling
Today Things magazine told me about Greebling — the adding areas of detail to flat surfaces; generally with regards to the surfaces of spacecraft in science fiction. Like the fetishistic steampunk movement, the practice revels in the aesthetics of industrial age engineering; all bolts and exposed mechanisms.
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Modernism in Australia — A Collaborative Map
In response to the limited scope of the recent exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum “Modern Times: The Untold Story of Modernism in Australia” Dan Hill at City of Sound has orchestrated a collaborative map of modernism throughout Australia. With contributions from Dan, Rory Hyde, Martin Miles, Stuart Harrison, Andrew Maher, and ourselves, the map has…
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Google leeks details of its planned web browser
Google leeks details of its planned web browser in a comic book by Scott McCloud. As marketing campaign’s go, it is somewhat unexpected. But also awesome. + Apparently the browser will be launched tomorrow.
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ummm Monocle on the Perfect Desk
I love Monocle mag, but sometimes I sincerely hope that they are taking the piss just a little bit…
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Today in Geometry — Boolean Intersections!
Boolean Matryoshka [Link] Venn Torso [Link]
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Ad-Busters on hipsters
Ad-Busters on hipsters: “An amalgamation of its own history, the youth of the West are left with consuming cool rather that creating it. The cultural zeitgeists of the past have always been sparked by furious indignation and are reactionary movements. But the hipster’s self-involved and isolated maintenance does nothing to feed cultural evolution. Western civilization’s…