In 1993 or so, I was working as an intern in the library of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I was doing all the things you’d expect of an intern — re-shelving books, entering new acquisitions into a library database. Being an unsophisticated troglodyte, most of what passed through my hands essentially escaped me aesthetically. One day though, a pamphlet about the works of radical architect Lebbeus Woods stopped me in my tracks. I was transfixed by sketches of weirdly alien environments and artwork superimposing bizarre structural outgrowths and outcroppings upon photographs of existing real-world cityscapes. The more I read the more I was fascinated, and happily it turned out there was more to Woods’ vision than just fancy — a lot of his work was a direct sociologically-informed response to areas disrupted by war or natural disaster, hypothesizing (for instance) pole-vaulted homes like these “high houses” that would be essentially structurally immune to the whims of planetary tectonics, and so forth. Sad to learn that he died last year. I have a few of his books and they remain as wonderfully jarring and transfixing as ever.
it’s called call of duty ghosts because the franchise is fucking dead
WHAT THEY NEGLECTED TO MENTION AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE WAS THAT THE XBOX ONE ISN’T BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE AND THAT THERE’S A FEE FOR PLAYING USED GAMES
The Shadow Gentleman’s Top 25 Animated Series
#17: Megas XLR
“Look, red, I’m no hero. I’m just a guy from Jersey, alright?”
i cant old sport understand old sport your accent
do she got the booty?
she dooooooooooo
Charlotte Perriand - une maison a Montmartre - 1959
Oklahoma City tornado disaster; before and after aerial photos.
Really gives you an idea of the magnitude of the destruction.
