Quote of the day
Thursday, May 20th, 2004“You should be suspicious when you see a straight line on a map.”
- Peter Barber, in Empire
Archive for May, 2004
Of maps and spaces
Monday, May 17th, 2004Hanging out in London has put me in touch with some of the biggest map geeks I have ever met. It’s brilliant!
So here are some links from them - and for them:
Rodcorp: A diagram rather than a true map, you distort what you represent
Antimega: 12 routes from Foyles to Tate Modern
Atlas of Hinterworlds
by P.J. […]
Spatial hauntings and decay
Sunday, May 9th, 2004space and culture reader Shaun O’Boyle creates beautiful photo essays that explore abandoned industrial, institutional and related architectural ruins:
Perhaps the most powerful aspect of ruins is the subject that is missing in the photographs; the people who once worked, lived, walked, talked, slept and dreamed in these spaces. Ruins are the remnants of events played […]
Parkour space
Thursday, May 6th, 2004Excerpts from: Use the commonplace to Escape the Commonplace - Yosa Buson by West Sovereign Fury - Glass Bead Clan
Traceurs are what the protagonists call themselves. Their creed is get from point A to point B as gracefully and efficiently as possible - in a straight line. If that means vaulting a railing or […]