Turnstone loves to celebrate old as well as new media on these pages. We can start with the new – the incredibly beautiful visualizations that BERG London have made (our friends at Schulze and Webb and now Jones, and while we’re at it, sometimes Arnall – who’ve renamed themselves). By methods best left to their [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Material culture’
October 18, 2009
October Roundup: Measuring progress by foot
Over the last week, Turnstone tiptoed to the green roof above the Open Planning Project’s new office, just up Lafayette St, reminiscent of the lovely SCI-Arc-designed one in Downtown LA on top of the ex-Holiday Inn (now called ‘The Flats’); on the latest carless trip to LA this month, walked to the Petersen Automobile Museum [...]
September 24, 2009
The real architects of New York City: Rivers and tides
This week’s opening of a new exhibit at the New York Public Library, “Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009″ coincides not only with the Hudson 400 anniversary, but also with the online launch of the Library’s map division (up from tomorrow, Friday).
Tracing four hundred years around the edge of Manhattan and upstream, the show, at the [...]
September 16, 2009
Shake it like a jpg of a Polaroid picture
Having swiped the last batch of unexpired Polaroid stock from a local branch of CVS at lavish expense last summer, we are somewhat conflicted to discover that, after all that, Urban Outfitters is on a one-retailer campaign to get Polaroid film in circulation again. Of course, not news to some, but we’ve not been mooching round [...]
August 14, 2009
Stuffed
Friday: An appropriate interlude for Turnstone’s homage to material culture, collecting things and all manner of stuff: Stoop sales vs flea markets, bling from six 1st century tombs, including shoe soles made of gold and (see left) a folding crown (everyone needs a folding crown).
Next on our list of alternative ways to gaze on gross quantities of things [...]
