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I’m looking forward to the long weekend, going to spend a bit of time at the Channa Horwitz exhibition at Raven Row. It’s on until Sunday 1 May 2016.
Channa Horwitz, Logic for Variation and Inversion on a Rhythm, 1976. Image via VVORK, who in turn seem to have found it via Berlin gallery Aanant & Zoo.
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Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco is an article by Rebecca Solnit published yesterday in the Guardian. It is a thorough report on a very sad event situated in an increasingly complicated city.
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Lows western France 1011 and 100 miles east of Iceland 991 losing their identities
Couldn’t find the shipping forecast on the Met Office DataPoint’s product list, but I did find the relevant XML feed.
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Off the back of some recent thoughts regarding the archiving of websites, SB sent me a link to “Digital Preservation in the Artist’s Studio” by Ben Fino-Radin. The article provides an extremely thorough overview of what steps might be involved in digitally archiving studio output, along with a few real-world examples. Love this stuff.
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Looks like Let’s Encrypt will be offering free, trusted HTTPS certificates in November next this year, see Ars Technica article on the subject. Pretty cool.
Edit 22/10/15: I read the date completely wrong in that article! Hadn’t had my coffee yet.
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Bengler on the OMA site design/build in tandem with Node Berlin Oslo
Bonkers, and awesome.
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Walker blog interview with Maximage
I asked SB about people/studios that push the offset printing process when we were discussing a potential litho print last week, and he mentioned Berlin-based collective Maximage. The 2013 interview in the Walker design/art blog (linked above) sheds light on their interest in intervention.
The cover of Acid Test, 2010. Image from Swiss Design Awards (image source)
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Rosemary Pecan Pie recipe by Ruby Tandoh
Have to start gathering recipes for Thanksgiving again. Made this last year and it was excellent.
Edit 6/12/15: This past Thanksgiving, my cousin made this with the gluten free press-in pie crust, worked really well.
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With the recent move from Leeds back down to London, we’ve really had to take stock of our work storage situation. It’s been a bit sub-par, consisting of an assortment of A-sized folders, cardboard poster-tubes, and some sturdy but very light-penetrable boxes.
Saw some very nice grey storage boxes by Conservation By Design at a degree show last year, might have been Premier Duo PM Metal-Edge boxes. A few of these would be a step in the right direction. Next up: sort out comprehensive digital storage once and for all…
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Demo and explanatory blogpost for black-hole.js by Cliff Crosland.