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Observer Drift – Corridors (13,944 plays)
Observer Drift, “Corridors.”
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"…the car would abolish the human street, and possibly the human foot. Everyone would have a car. Some people would have airplanes too. The one thing no one would have is a place to bump into each other, walk the dog, strut, one of the hundred random things that people do … Being random was loathed by Le Corbusier … its inhabitants surrender their freedom of movement to the omnipresent architect."
Robert Hughes in The Shock of the New on Le Corbusier’s Ville Contemporaine
Russian Romantics playlist
(via theeconomist)
Presidential caricatures at the NBMAA. Can you guess who?
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Look at my home state spending $27 million on a new tourism campaign! Hey you guys, don’t forget that Connecticut has two huge casinos and a few rocky beaches. Oh wow, and a bridge, too?
~still revolutionary yall~
"There were panoramas, dioramas, cosmoramas,
diaphanoramas, navaloramas, pleoramas
(pleo, ‘I sail,’ ‘I go by water’), fantoscopes,
fantasma-parastases, phantasmagorical and
fantasmaparastatic expériences, picturesque
journeys in a room, georamas; optical
picturesques, cinéoramas, phanoramas,
stereoramas, cycloramas, panorama dramatique."
Walter Benjamin on mechanical reproduction
"A gaffe as trial balloon shall henceforth be known as a gaffoon."
From Twitter, on Joe Biden
