Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/“As early as 1937 the architect John Leslie Martin could be found arguing in Circle, the avant-garde casebook he edited with Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, that the ‘new aesthetic’ which would provide the subjects to match new developments of modern form and technique in the visual and plastic arts was to be sought ‘in the motor-car and the aeroplane, in the steel bridge and the line of electric pylons.’”<br/><br/> - <em><span>James Purdon in </span><a href="http://www.apollo-magazine.com/features/7920953/landscapes-of-power-.thtml">Landscapes of Power</a><span>, an article on pylons, poetry, and painting, from </span><a href="http://www.apollo-magazine.com/">Apollo Magazine</a><span>.</span></em>http://notes.husk.org/post/38737789897http://notes.husk.org/post/38737789897Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:19:25 +0000quotepylonselectricityinfrastructure1930snew aestheticjohn leslie martin<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lojq1lFDnK1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hoboken railroads and New York’s skyline, by Berenice Abbot. From <a href="http://www.thinkingform.com/2011/07/17/4673/">Thinking Berenice Abbott, July 17 1898</a> (<a href="http://toffeemilkshake.tumblr.com/post/7761445506/via-thinking-berenice-abbott-july-17-1898">via</a>)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/7775790834http://notes.husk.org/post/7775790834Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:47:06 +0100imagenew yorktrainskylinemanhattanberenice abbott1930snew york city<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgqrv2eSDd1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/36844288@N00/4490232486/in/pool-65885542@N00/">London Transport - Arsenal station design sketches, August 1930</a> (by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/36844288@N00">Mikey</a>):</p> <blockquote><span>A sketch from the offices London Transport Architects illustrating the proposed reconstruction of the facade of Arsenal station in 1933. This swept away the 1906 Leslie Green facade and delivered this uncompromising ‘moderne’ elevation that largely survives to this day. Given the huge LT roundel on the facade and the two cantilevered versions there’s no doubting it is a tube station!</span></blockquote> <p>See also: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/36844288@N00/4490232964/in/pool-65885542@N00/">Holborn station reconstruction sketches, 1933</a> (by the same uploader).</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/3338395505http://notes.husk.org/post/3338395505Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:18:37 +0000imagelondonarchitectureundergroundtubestationdesignplanarsenal1930s<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFkn42z9ipkgNWXFXco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USSMaconNYC.jpg">USS Macon over New York City</a></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/103711618http://notes.husk.org/post/103711618Tue, 05 May 2009 12:47:00 +0100airshipimagemanhattanus navyuss maconwikipedia1930s<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFkcy6yshrdgniSV0H_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Uss-akron-manhattan.jpg">Wikipedia - Image: USS Akron above lower Manhattan</a></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/46950023http://notes.husk.org/post/46950023Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:15:00 +0100airshipimagemanhattanuss akronwikipedia1930s<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFkcy6x1xpsFVpoAhk_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Zr2aloft.jpg">Wikipedia - Image: ZR2 aloft</a></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/46949890http://notes.husk.org/post/46949890Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:14:00 +0100imageairshipr38zr21930s<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFkcy6dl3ynAR6myzK_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R100">Wikipedia - R100</a> </p> <p>Nobody remembers the airship that competed with the R101, but it successfully made a trip to Canada and back. Nevil Shute - who worked on it, as an engineer - wrote a book about it, and Barnes Wallis worked on it.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/46948650http://notes.husk.org/post/46948650Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:59:00 +0100imageairshipr100torontowikipedia1930s