[image via City of Sound]

• Tomason: the purposeless artifacts of architecture. An idea inspired by the work of Atelier Bow Wow and named after a Japanese baseball player. Pictured above is one such tomason found by Dan Hill in Sydney. [City of Sound]
  
  

• If Gordon Matta-Clark were alive today, he would be a subversive installation artist. It’s possible to imagine that unlike Polish graffiti artist Truth, who installs 3D interventions on buildings, Matta-Clark—the vandal that he is—would slice away. Subtractive architectural graffiti. [Into The Loop]
  
  

• Vacant lot near your house? Why not do some guerilla gardening with DIY seed bombs? [Dwell Blog]
  
  

• Over at Curbed SF this week, we took a look at Stanley Saitowitz’s inverse-half-pipe-syangogue, dicussed the relocation of an underwhelming Gluckman Mayner museum, and caught a glimpse of the new greener-than-thou trend, Smart Car Critical Mass. [Curbed SF]
  
  

• Together at last: NPR and New Brutalism. The uphill battle of convincing people to actually preserve ugly (admit it!) architecture. [NPR]
  
  

• Freelancers. Episode 1 – “Did you start a blog yet?”