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"The subtlest and most pervasive of all influences are those which create and maintain the repertory of stereotypes."
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Soccer is enjoyed everywhere, which makes me think that a website would bring this material to the widest possible audience, including readers the Global South. Doing it that way wouldn't make any money, though.
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There's some information here on the 1903 photo that made these steps iconic: www.gallery.ca/magazine/you...
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You might enjoy this documentary, if you haven't seen it already itsquieterfilm.com
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arsenal(n.)
c. 1500, "dockyard, dock with naval stores," from Italian arzenale, from Arabic دار الصناعة (dar as-sina'ah "workshop," literally "house of manufacture," from dar "house" + sina'ah "art, craft, skill," from sana'a "he made.")
Militarism aside, there is something compelling about this.
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(Mark Wallinger
Time and Relative Dimensions in Space, 2001)
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The PDF is an extract from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archite...
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"The struggle for modern architecture then is a struggle against pretentiousness, against every excess and for a human scale." (Mart Stam)
Heynen documents here the way a pragmatic Existenzminimum (based on a tradeoff between size and quantity of homes) took the place of a moral and aesthetic one.
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Previously, Existenzminimum had meant this:
"Correct measures are those that conform to our requirements, that fulfill these needs without any pretensions, that do not claim to be more than they are. Correct measures are those that result in a minimum of
ostentation. Everything else is ballast."
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Page on the site of Barth, the Italian fabricators who made all of the units: www.barth.it/en/reference...
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Review of the exhibition design (2011): www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/826...
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Among other things, the installations included an AR "laser cannon" (I didn't see this, and believe it has been superseded by the "HistoPad" AR iPad app) and a rotatable "periscope" offering views into the roof truss.
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A habitat (or wilderness) is degraded by the edge effects of having non-wilderness close by, and by being divided into multiple patches. It seems to me that this understanding is a lot more complex than the ideological wildness/wilderness distinction: degraded habitat/wilderness is just less wild.
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A societal collapse would only make it more important to know the answers to MSDS-type questions about substitute chemicals and materials. Until then, though, we seem satisfied to marinate online in "media", something for which the acceptance criteria are vague and permissive, and flexible.
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A through-line that ties these three phases together would be something like a table of the chemical compatibility of different types of rubber and plastic gloves. You can download PDFs of this information, documents which reflect laborious research to produce and which are crucial for safety.
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The third phase started with generative AI. It's characterized by a realisation of our extreme technological dependency. The Internet is now trustworthy, vital infrastructure in every area of life, but the information it holds is at risk of corruption/contamination. We can't do without it.
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The second phase started gradually and culminated around 2020. It's characterized by what I think of as the "born on third base" effect: so much information is available online that research can feel effortless, and, comparing themselves to their predecessors, everyone thinks they're a genius.
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The map by Waldseemüller that inspired Nancă en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_(s...
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Interesting to hear that Martin Waldseemüller is known in Latin as Martin Hylacomylus, just like Geert De Kremer is known as Gerardus Mercator.
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Or you can just ignore the fact that a projection is involved. 🤪
This guy used square tiles for the grid squares, which left him no other options.
Vlad Nancă, Map of the World (after Martin Hylacomylus 1507), 2019
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I found the multiple metal straps holding the bells to their yokes interesting. Sort of impressive and medieval. Just today found this spread by the designer Bradbury Thomson which seems to indicate that he liked them too.
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We were temporarily deafened by a ringing bell in the tower of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden. I have a video, but what's the point when the output sound level is controlled!
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A bad view of the big bell, further up the tower.
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At one point it was really a name to conjure with; something to do with the Garden City idea.
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It's a round number, though, 12 weeks.
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I've actually posted about it! It's a good example of intertwined helixes that aren't just for show.
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Maybe double stairs can sometimes solve this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairs#...
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de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wohnhau...