August 22, 2008
Links Without Buildings – 22 August
[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?”
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Smart Car Critical Mass! Way too awesome.
Eventually the streets of San Francisco are going to clogged with nothing but a series of dueling critical masses. smart cars vs bikes vs segways vs scooters vs razor scooters vs