east london
Maxime (my good old mate, master at typography as well as at tatooing, amongst other things) filmed our flat a while back when he visited for the tatoo convention 2008 in Bricklane; he posted the video on the website for his Sang Bleu Magazine - here
* it feels a bit strange to see your own flat on the website of someone else :)
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* This morning I created a flickr group dedicated to picture we republished on R-Echos either directly or through other website/blogs.
This morning i stumbled upon a picture (thanks Gmc) i’m reproducing below at a smaller scale:
It’s quite a beautiful picture, with such a wide angle it makes you feel the city is at your feet. Upon closer examination, one can notice the city is in ruin. It has been hit by the great Earthquake an earthquake (* see comments) the text on the bottom left hand corner states:
PHOTOGRAPH OF
SAN FRANCISCO IN RUINS
FROM LAWRENCE CAPTIVE AIRSHIP
2000 FEET ABOVE SAN FRANCISCO BAY
OVERLOOKING WATER FRONT.
SUNSET OVER GOLDEN GATE
more on the right:
COPYRIGHT
GEO. R. LAWRENCE Co.
Chicago May 28, 1906.
I didn’t know about the earthquake of 1906 - so i went on wikipedia to read about it. The page states from the beginning:
The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco, California and the coast of Northern California at 5:12 A.M. on Wednesday, April 17, 1906. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.8; however, other values have been proposed from 7.7 to as high as 8.25.
Upon closer examination (look up the sky) I found this strange flying vehicle directly taken from the univers of Hayao Miyazaki.
Funily enough I then discovered the photographer who took the original picture: George R. Lawrence. Originally a commercial photographer with an abiding interest in kites and balloon, he turned to aviation. He started to build an aircraft at a factory in Chicago and (apparently) would be granted nearly a hundred patents for aviation-related devices.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Lawrence
It is interesting to discover the same fascination for flying in 2 different people, reconnected trough an edited photoshop picture. (see Miyazaki recurring theme of human flight).
It reminded me of the helicoptere expedition Amandine had in Reunion Island. With all the amazing pictures she took.
It still have my own helicoptere to fix up and plug to my computer - I would like to have this one carrying a wireless camera to do some nice vjing with a view form top
* AMI 6 was for some times the best sold car in France; it’s a kind of advanced model of the emblematic 2CV.
** Amandine send me this image as a reply to the earlier post: You are driving a Volvo; last sunday we were speaking about archetypal shapes and designs for cars.
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the blue screen of death as an icon
bsod.jpg JPEG Image, 450×360 pixel
Details in typography
I just received my copy of the last book by Jost Hochuli - with a very kind message; Romuald: it’s lovely to know the people you’re buying books from.
Ginger & Fred, 1986,
directed by Frederico Fellini
with Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina.
