notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

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Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook by Adam Frampton, Jonathan D Solomon and Clara Wong.

Axonometric maps revealing Hong Kong’s multi-layered elevated walkways, ramps, elevators and infrastructure interchanges. Definitely enbiggen.

(read more on the guardian and randomwire)

I love highwalks and axonometric diagrams, so of course I like this.

(Source: danzigergallery.com)

(Source: danzigergallery.com)

(Source: danzigergallery.com)

(Source: danzigergallery.com)

hchamp:

Impossible Project, 2010 - Color Shade, First Flush. It may seem heretical to some, but I miss the beautiful painterly aspects of those first few packs of Impossible Project film. They were so beautiful, like a photograph trapped between a dream and a painting. Hard to believe it’s been three years already

Heather’s right; it is hard to believe. I first saw this post in its Twitter version, and my reaction was a sort of stunned disbelief.

Coming across the full photset on Tumblr, though, and I see exactly what she means. Personally I never had quite so much luck with the early Impossible Project films, but I can entirely see the desire to go back to that.

(I’ve recently dug my 680 back out after a year of it sitting unused. Time to get back in the instant habit.)

c86:

How to use a Dial Telephone, 1951

This is a whitened version of a scan of Bell Telephone’s booklet for schooldchildren, The Telephone And How We Use It.

Four photos from Ryan Lewis, who posts to Instagram under the account name urbanglitch. From his submission to Year of the Glitch:

I have been using the panoramic feature on my iPhone as a tool to create stretched images for a few months.

I wanted my process to be something that I physically had to work at and not just pressing buttons.

Each time I do a panoramic, I have to decide the optimal distance for the shot and path that the subject (in this case, a muni bus) is turning the corner but not coming towards you.  The iPhone panoramic feature draws sliver by sliver as you move the camera across the area.  As I experimented with the pictures, I was able to find the sweet spot of how to make the buses look stretched.

Kraft patents for astronaut, brontosaurus, and teddy-bear shaped pasta, from the article How Kraft Uses Patents to Dominate the Mac and Cheese Wars at the Smithsonian’s Design Decoded blog.

In addition to the six stamps commemorating the London Underground itself, there’s a series of four reproducing three classic posters each. As Creative Review quotes:

“There’s a wealth of beautiful posters to choose from [in the TFL archive] so it was difficult to choose just four in total,” says NB’s Nick Finney. “So, we played with multiple posters in a row across a longer format horizontal stamp. We wanted to evoke posters being displayed in the tunnel of the underground station (the modern train speeding past) and the windows of a carriage.”