2012-09-27
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photo 20:30:31
A worker walks past a pile of iron ore from Australia at a port in Tianjin on March 29, 2010. (Vincent Du/Reuters) (via Scenes from China - The Big Picture)
Mmm, cranes.
2012-05-18
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photo 10:36:00
30 St Mary Axe and construction, London. (via)
I prefer the composition to the treatment, but I thought I’d post it anyway.
2012-04-09
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photo 20:35:19
VKhUTEMAS poster celebrating the Five-Year Plan, 1920s (via, via, via)
(via neo-constructivist)
2012-03-29
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photo 22:42:05
The Dockwise Tern carrying dock cranes for what looks like Rotterdam’s Europoort.
2012-03-11
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photo 07:05:06
1987 Broadgate site plan by Nicobobinus on Flickr:
Seen in the lift lobby of No. 3 Broadgate, currently Mace’s office for the redevelopment taking place at 4 & 6.
2009-04-10
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photo 19:31:00
![“The spectral cranes of Felixstowe port, as seen from Trimley Marshes” at k-punk: Anticapital after containerisation.
Watching the container lorries and the ships do their work, or surveying the containers themselves, the metal boxes racked up like a materialised version of the bar charts in Gibson’s cyberspace, their names ringing with a certain transnational, blank, Ballardian poetry - Maersk Sealand, Hanjin, K-line - one never has any sense of human presence.
The contrast between the container port, in which humans are invisible connectors between automated systems, and the spectacular clamour of [the] old London docks which the port of Felixstowe effectively replaced tells us a great deal about the shifts of capital and labour in the last forty years.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFkm4red4iXWKg2Jamo1_500.jpg)
“The spectral cranes of Felixstowe port, as seen from Trimley Marshes” at k-punk: Anticapital after containerisation.
Watching the container lorries and the ships do their work, or surveying the containers themselves, the metal boxes racked up like a materialised version of the bar charts in Gibson’s cyberspace, their names ringing with a certain transnational, blank, Ballardian poetry - Maersk Sealand, Hanjin, K-line - one never has any sense of human presence.
The contrast between the container port, in which humans are invisible connectors between automated systems, and the spectacular clamour of [the] old London docks which the port of Felixstowe effectively replaced tells us a great deal about the shifts of capital and labour in the last forty years.
