Friday Ephemera
Classy lady of note. || In coffee-related news. || Thriller, deconstructed. || This is not drawing. || A robot that draws on walls. || Because you’ve always wanted one. || The cost of lowered standards. || The British at play. Yes, we all do it. || Footpath of note. || A famous fibreglass foetus. || Monolith action figure. “Zero points of articulation.” || It’s a suitcase and a mini-kitchen. || It’s a pocket knife, a bottle opener, and a pivoted USB stick. || New York, seen from above, in very high definition. || Snake attack. (h/t, Julia) || Ten hours of ocean creatures. || Camel versus cactus. || Excuse of note. || This. (h/t, Dicentra) || The Einstein Theory of Relativity, 1923. || Please stop noticing reality. || Meet the robots of Ocado. (h/t, drb) || And finally, a size-conscious twister overcompensates.
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Meanwhile, in London. “Make politicians live on the feral sink estates they created.”
That should also apply to the architects of them too, for that matter.
That should also apply to the architects of them too, for that matter.
The last item here came to mind.
“[*Contemplates 10,000 word rant on the superfluity of most of modern legal education, which rant is based on practicing for thirty years. Thinks better of it, elects to have a final brandy and goes to bed.*]”
Heh. Through my teens I was pretty much dead-set on following in my father’s footsteps. But the closer I got to actually doing it, the less I liked both what I saw and what I could see it all becoming.
“Maxine Waters lives in tony Hancock Park”
Why did they name it after a Briti… oh. Right. As you were.
By the way, David, the EU wants to ban Friday Ephemera. Enjoy it while you still can, folks.
I remember that. I commented underneath it at the time:
“It’s interesting to note that the most ardent advocates of modern architecture are frequently those who don’t have to live with it themselves.”
Now, I’m not a huge fan of most modernist/contemporary architecture, but I do find some of it quite attractive. And interestingly I often find that of the (living) modern/contemporary architects whose work I like and find the most pleasant, many tend to live in houses of their own design – Michael Hopkins comes to mind as an example. Not an absolute rule of course, but it’s close enough.
A situation like that, though, you really need a level-10 force field.
That dog was not to be denied, even jumping on the table to get his prize…
“Maxine Waters lives in tony Hancock Park”
Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you people? Did she die in vain?
Modern architecture gets a lot of stick, but I doubt inner London’s estates would be any better if they consisted of 3-bed semis with a nice garden. Management of the estate is crucial; for example London’s Barbican estate is a mass of brutalist concrete but is well-managed. It is also full of wealthy professionals. Take the same estate, have it managed on the cheap and fill it with the same demographic* as other London estates and it would soon be one of those feral inner city estates.
*The vast majority of whom are decent people of course, but the minorities of recidivist scum, benefit junkies and non-integrating,non-contributing immigrants soon ruin it for everyone.
This.
Cue, “It wasn’t real marxism” in 3, 2, 1…..
https://twitter.com/HansReturns/status/1002443574955446272
via Orwell & Goode
Cue, “It wasn’t real Marxism” in 3, 2, 1…..
At least the waiting customers had plenty of time to admire the murals of noted sociopath and child-murderer Che Guevara.
“If they don’t close the doors with customers inside so they cannot escape and starve to death was it really a Marxist restaurant?”
It isn’t real Marxism until everyone who would speak our is dead.
“The problem with DC action scenes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p-lyt78cyA&feature=youtu.be
My apologies to everyone for using an obscure Americanism. I see and hear the term “tony” quite often to describe something luxuriously trendy (it’s popular with the news media) but did not realize how provincial it actually is.
(o_O)
Toxic masculinity. And thank God for it.
Vox.
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1003120339579297792
sH2,
Vox has become The Onion and we didn’t even notice the transition.
A notable new Twitter hashtag: #RippingTheFunOutOfEverythingAlways
Sounds reasonable . . .