Author: Marcus Trimble
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Some Upcoming Events
Firstly, Mark Smout and Mette Ramsgard Thomsen who are out here for the Urban Islands Studio are speaking at Tusculum this Tuesday. I am a big fan of Smout Allen’s work—which you may have seen in Pamphlet Architecture 28 Augmented Landscapes—and CITA’s investigations into fabrication and interfaces look extra-interesting, so am looking forward to this…
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Jacques Tati Retrospective
The Cinémathèque Française is currently hosting a major Jacques Tati retrospective with over 650sqm of design, costumes, film extracts, soundtracks, and stekchbooks. via Blueprint
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Julius Shulman Dead at 98
Renowned architecture photographer Julius Shulman has died at the age of 98. He is best known for his photographs of the Case Study Houses including the view of the living room of Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House No. 22 floating precariously above Los Angeles. NYT article. Slideshow.
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Urban Islands 2009
The Urban Islands studio is on again out at Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour; this year with Geoff Manuagh, Mark Smout and Mette Ramsgard Thomsen taking studios. Cockatoo Island is becoming Sydney’s pre-eminent playground for cultural exploration, and if you are able to make it out to the island on the review day on the…
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Attaching Things to Your Vehicle With Velcro and Appropriate Parking Angles on the Surface of the Moon.
I love the legibly mechanical character of early space exploration. When the future still involved rivets. The Lunar Rover Operations Handbook exemplifies this period, detailing the workings and running of the vehicles that were used to roam the surface of the moon. When the absolutely incredible act of driving a motor vehicle on the surface…
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Mothenstein
Welcome to your world: “The head of a silkmoth, including brain and antennae, sits mounted on a wheeled machine, electrodes linking the brain and vehicle, during an experiment at a laboratory in Tokyo”