at around 5:30am yesterday (June 27th), an unoccupied 13-storey residental building still under construction at Lianhuanan Road in the Minxing district of Shanghai city toppled over, killing one worker. this is an amazing picture, considering how structurally intact the rest ...Read More
PCSC City Golden Arches (麦当劳) over Shanghai City by the powers of the internets i have found Alexander R. Galloway's "Warcraft and Utopia": "What is clear is that the possibility of life after capitalism is often articulated today through a utilization of the ...Read More
sash! - stay (1997) i can't stop watching this. this video has properly captured the feeling one gets in the business district of any modernised country by night (it is empty. like how the logical response to taking a picture of ...Read More
Retrofuturistic Opening logos General Motors Futurama videos (1939) Read More
People's Map is a new aerial photography firm which "provides independent mapping of Britain" through user created maps, user/commercially verified map data and a 1940 out of copyright map for reference. their blog includes digitising tips on how to draw ...Read More
glad i managed to make it down to see the last day of nipan oranniwesna's show at osage, which showed "city of ghosts" - a big talcum powder city, sifted through maps with holes where all the buildings had been ...Read More
now to look back to Naked City, also notably subtitled tournantes en psychogeographique, or turntables of psychogeography: naked city's fragments are linked by arrows, but fragments which are linked to each other are in different orientations and do not have any ...Read More
"Debord's map images a fragmented city that is both the result of multiple restructurings of a capitalist society and the very form of a radical critique of this society. Its figuration of a type of inhabiting is simultaneously related to ...Read More
the morning of 26 April 2007(that was the time you went out to get some milk) generally speaking, a large portion of singapore is made up of: Supermarkets Shopping Malls Train stations Observation decks Airports HDB corridors Stairwells Carparks Void decks Food courts Marc Auge writes: "If a place can be defined ...Read More
From the transcription of The Clientele's Losing Haringey: "When I look back at this there’s nothing to grasp, no starting point. I was inside an underexposed photo from 1982 but I was also sitting on a bench in Haringey. Strongest of ...Read More
"There seems to be a public image of any given city which is the overlap of many individual images.... Each individual picture is unique, with some content that is rarely or never communicated, yet it approximates the public image, which, ...Read More