Friday, April 30, 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Boros Collection



See also David Sokol, 'Bunker Chic,' Metropolis Magazine, Oct 17, 2007.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

World War I Pillbox with Office

















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Pillbox IoE 466394. World War I Pillbox, Haddiscoe, Norfolk. Built of concrete with steel doors c.1916. A mid C20 weather-boarded office building was built on top. This pillbox guarded St Olave's bridge.

ROC Post Winterton, Norfolk


SubBrit ROC Database Brief history and a database of all ROC posts in the UK
23 Post Skelmorlie Restored ROC post in Ayrshire, Scotland








Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The Infinitesmal and the Infinite



'What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world?'

Peter Kennard
















Peter Kennard, Haywain with Cruise Missiles (1980).

Kennard's photomontages are blunt instruments but this one has a humour and absurdity about it that sets it apart from the skulls and mushroom clouds that characterise his more Heartfield-like compositions.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Thom Andersen, Fred Halsted, Floyd Mutrux



The title of Andersen's film-essay Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) is borrowed from Fred Halsted's gay porn classic L.A. Plays Itself (1972).



Andersen is also, unsurprisingly, a fan of Floyd Mutrux's Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971), which, like Demy's Model Shop (see below), has some remarkable street photography. Mutrux did some great work in the 70s, both as director -- Aloha Bobby and Rose (1975), American Hot Wax (1978) -- and as writer on Two Lane Blacktop (1971) and The Christian Licorice Store (1971).





Kent Mackenzie, The Exiles (1961)



Amazingly, now on DVD.

D.J. Waldie



Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Monday, April 19, 2010

Matthew Coolidge discussing the CLUI


You Are Here- Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) from bree edwards on Vimeo.

From the 'You Are Here'  conference held in Houston,Texas, November 30 and December 1, 2007.

Cynthia Hooper


MEXIMPERIALI from Cynthia Hooper on Vimeo.

Sunday, April 18, 2010