Saturday 22 March 2014

Pollution

Now-



What is it like to live in a city? Violence.





What is it like to live in a city? - Eating.

Would you eat on the tube?






And what people think of sneaking photos of women eating- 

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/07/women-who-eat-on-tubes-photos-women-eating-social-media

and 

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/nathalie-gordon/women-who-dont-get-women-who-eat-on-tubes_b_4929066.html


Arguments about eating-




"Things start to get physical around the two minute mark."



Eating with style~





Away from the whole eating thing, -
Here are some sneaky pictures that people (women) have taken of handsome MEN! Lordy.


http://tubecrush.net



Pavement relaxation opportunity.

The Street Couches of L.A.

http://www.vice.com/read/the-abandoned-street-couches-of-los-angeles?utm_source=vicetwitterus



The Brits Who Built the Modern World

Go from this link to the BBC Programme about- How an exceptional generation of British architects, led by Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, conquered the globe with their high-tech vision.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vrz4f





Open-doors-and-smooth-floors


Film: The latest instalment of the superb 32LDN series is a poetic tribute to skaters

Read the article about it here--
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/film-open-doors-and-smooth-floors

Parallel Systems: Lawrence Alloway and Eduardo Paolozzi




http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/parallel-systems-lawrence-alloway-and-eduardo-paolozzi

Municipal Dreams


Municipal Dreams- a great blog about efforts to use architecture to improve the lives of regular folk.

 <http://municipaldreams.wordpress.com> 



Interesting blog about London.

http://londonparticulars.wordpress.com


The great tower for London

Catalogue of the 68 competitive designs for the great tower for London =

<http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/catalogue-of-the-68-competitive-designs-for-the-great-tower-for-london-1890/


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Victorian occultism and the art of synesthesia

 Explore this esoteric way of perceiving the world about us.

http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/03/19/victorian-occultism-and-the-art-of-synesthesia/


Ruin Lust

Ruin Lust at Tate Britain <http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/ruin-lust



Ruin Lust, an exhibition at Tate Britain from 4 March 2014, offers a guide to the mournful, thrilling, comic and perverse uses of ruins in art from the seventeenth century to the present day.