December 2009
More on the cover below.....
It totally makes me think of the best parts of an all boys prep school (elitism, cutey Trad fashions, a hotbed of buggery) which in turn makes me think of Lindsay Anderson’s film If… where Malcolm McDowell and his mates rebel against their oppressive prep school. I have to give the film credit for being the first to show a school shooting (before they became a thing!). We could take...
Mark Weaver Designs, or, "Holy shit that's cool!"
More here….
To Future Workers
Given that many people are currently looking for work they will frequently find themselves being asked by HR personnel, “Why do you want to work here?” and “What are your goals?” Here are some appropriate responses:
“Well, I have pretty much floated through life thus far and would like to keep it that way.”
“I love the architecture of this building...
Xerox Tuesday
Unsigned, Untitled and Forgotten Works by Famous...
Hans Hoffman
Clifford Still
Kenneth Noland
Don't feed the bears...
Or, Russians ignore safety advice with no negative consequences.
Groove to the Tiger Beat...
Hi Rise
These are from the former Soviet Union and the letters say, “Glory to the Working Class!” Isn’t it great when your dwelling promotes your emancipation?
This is from Apartamento magazine. This magazine is cool.
Babes* of the Month
First up, Lera Loeb who came over to America through a ‘marriage brokerage service’ (i.e mail order bride) and is now married to a successful art collector. Aside from landing a guy who isn’t an abusive sleazy loser, she now has her own career going as a PR agent for a firm whose clients include a lesbian porn site. She also has a nifty little fashion blog which you can find...
Ability: Society's True Capital
…in the words of Joseph Beuys — the single most powerful idea of Marxism: that ability, not money, is the true human capital. But there’s also a Nietzschean element in the thought, an emphasis on contention, striving and ambition. The underclass wants to become, if you will, the overman. Problems and distractions cannot bend it from a historic act of will: the fulfillment of...
Shout Out
Just wanted to promote a new tumblr from my mate Potcroft: L’intransigeant Périodique. There are planes, trains and automobiles… and bikes and boys and buildings and Franz Ferdinand.
Glitch Porn
A Brutal(ist) Drama
The photographs above were taken during the 1972 Munich olympics hostage crisis. Isn’t it cool how the drama is mediated through the architecture?
Interiors & Exteriors
Alpine Groove(y) [cuz it's winter, yo]
Cool Cats Who Did Cool Things...
Derek Raymond… wrote cool books and hung out with gangsters.
Robert Fraser…. collected Pop Art and was supremely It.
The Trad… is rad.
New American Flags
So if America goes in the direction that The Helvetica Party wants the flag pictured above (which is actually a quilt but you get the idea…) will become the new flag. If things keep going in the direction they are currently going and the USA becomes some massively centralized ‘market Stalinist’ trading bloc the flag below should be our new flag.
Let's Get Rustic
The graphic pictured is originally from a cookbook advertised from Phaidon publishers but I think it is an excellent way to promote this blog:
A Continuous Lean
I first found this blog from this discussion on mefi about the name for this particular aesthetic (right up my alley). If you have time to kill just peruse all the blogs listed and the let the aroma of wood smoke, slightly damp...