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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 write 5 pieces [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]