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Gerry Canavan: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair
collection of broken-statue-of-liberty-as-end-of-the-world-signifier images (via ballardian)
(tags: culture images iconography ballard)

Popped into my local bookshop on Saturday and was intrigued to see the slim volume above. It’s a treasure. ‘What is Sport?‘ (google books preview here) was written by Roland Barthes as the commentary to a Canadian Broadcasting Company documentary, made by the little known Hubert Aquin. Essentially, Barthes was invited to [...]

Exploiting Sound, Exploring Silence – New York Times
Great piece on the (non-)use of sound in the Coens’ ‘No Country For Old Men’ (via super colossal)
(tags: sound film music nyt)

collision detection: Paper explains how the “engineering mentality” produces terrorists
curious. sounds a little forced, but read the paper
(tags: terrorism sociology TWOT religion psychology readthis)

Messiaen: From The Canyons To The Stars
(tags: music southbank Messiaen)

Guardian Unlimited: Sport blog: The truth the soccerphobes refuse to face
Entertaining rant at US opinions of soccerball. “prepare for fisting, soccer participant!” heh
(tags: football guardian)

will ashford (Monoscope)
beautiful book art
(tags: illustration art)

Recycled Words
more Will Ashford
(tags: drawing art books illustration)

www.danielblaufuks.com
gallery site (via monocle)
(tags: art photography)

Warren Ellis » Manned Cloud
Straight out of Pynchon’s Against The Day (via blackbeltjones)
(tags: design future travel fiction)

With friends like these … Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian
Very interesting
(tags: FaceBook surveillance technology future)

Visualizing: tracing an aesthetics of data – we make money not art
Terrific history of visualisation
(tags: visualization art blog maps)

Movies on iPhone not okay with David Lynch
I love David Lynch
(tags: iphone film interface)

Strictly No Photography – home
great site full of illicitly taken pics – if a little heavy on ‘no photography here’ signs. (via blackbeltjones)
(tags: photography art gallery social)

Digital Urban: 2008 The Year of Virtual Worlds (?)
various forthcoming virtual worlds – you have to wonder how virtual a google virtual world might be
(tags: secondlife visualization social_software virtualworlds)

jumpers/hp [...]

Above is a non-artist’s impression of my cycle journey home yesterday, after an area of south London between Vauxhall and Camberwell lost power at about 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon.  Am I alone in feeling a small charge of excitement at the vaguely post-apocalyptic scenes of backed-up traffic crawling through interchanges with no street lamps or [...]