Category: Blog Post
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A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
Title: J.G. Ballard. Image: Tokyo by Ryu Itadani Toky SC buddy, Anthony Gill has a new website up and running for his office, Gill Architects are producing some really great work including a number of residential projects and restaurant fitouts. I particularly like the front elevation of their Surry Hills project: Image: Gill Architects, Photography:…
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The human beauty we’re talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings’ reconciliation with the fact of having a body.
[Image: Batman: Year 100, Paul Pope Title: David Foster Wallace on Roger Federer.] Pecha Kucha Sydney is on again this Thursday night at Carriageworks. It is the first for 2011, and we have a great lineup including ex-supercolossaler Erin Field, and Hannah Tribe. See the Pecha Kucha website for more info and the Carriageworks site…
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The Sun Was a Hammer
[Image: Storyboards Moebius for the aborted Jadorowsky Dune project. Title: David Foster Wallace, ‘Infinite Jest’] Funny how things come around. A couple of years ago I put a post up on here tracking each of the ocean pools along Sydney’s coastline. It was a series of screenshots from google earth assembled north to south. A…
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The Bumps Levelled Off. The Plane Descended. There’s That Big Wide Light. Jesus, L.A. Looked Good.
[Image: If We Don’t Remember Me Title: James, Ellroy, ‘Bloods a Rover’] Okay. Let’s see if I can get this thing started up again. A couple of things by way of housekeeping. This blog has been quite for the last six months or so while I have restructured the office and made some changes to…
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Pay to Click Get Rich Quick Urbanism and the Ideal SimCity
I came across the video below a while ago and just rediscovered it in my drafts folder. It charts the construction of Magnasanti, an example of a kind of extreme urbanism and what it perhaps the perfect SimCity, or at the very least the most densely populated SimCity to date. Magnasanti, built in SimCity3 has…
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Christopher Nolan Generic
[Spoilers. Probably] Inception has been receiving its deserved attention. Primarily because it is a very good, smart action movie, but also, at least in this neck of the woods, because it is about urbanism, game design, and has characters described as architects. Of particular interest to me though is the portrayal of the generic downtown…