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Posted on March 13, 2010 with 1 note
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Two artists have been playing pretty games with the UK Royal Mail’s automated sorting offices. It seems the machines simply read the colour of stamps to check whether the correct postage has been used, so it doesn’t matter what shape they are. Kim Rugg and John Spurgeon each use proper stamps, only they are cut into tiny pieces to create the art on the envelopes. As long as it’s cancelled, it counts! Rugg creates tentacled monsters (pictured), fireworks and beach scenes, while Spurgeon has a collection of vintage postcards sent with confetti postage called ShakesMyMail.
Link to Kim Rugg’s work. Link to John Spurgeon’s Flickr set. (via Neatorama, beachjustice)
Posted on March 13, 2010 via beach justice with 20 notes
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It’s quite likely that we don’t know and we’ll never know what are good foods to eat.
Posted on March 12, 2010
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Walkable urbanism is illegal in most of the county.
Posted on March 11, 2010
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If you have a pony tail let it go out the back of your helmet so people can see you’re a woman.
Posted on March 11, 2010
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One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real.
William Gibson (via teradome)Posted on March 11, 2010 via Teradome. with 30 notes
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“In the walls-off state, the presence of the building is only intimated by the internal arrangement of of its contents.” (via Drawing in Good Faith « Diffusive Architectures)
Posted on March 9, 2010 with 5 notes
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Posted on March 9, 2010
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It’s a personal privacy setting for the physical world. (via AH Projects » Anti-Paparazzi Clutch)
Posted on March 8, 2010 with 1 note
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Where do all these cars park? How many pairs of pants does everybody own? The numbers add up meaninglessly high.
Posted on March 8, 2010
Being a collection of quotations, images, and the occasional moving picture relating to the obsessions and themes that drive
Quiet Babylon.
GENESIS 11:1-9
1 Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.
2 It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
4 They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
5 The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
6 The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.
7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
1 Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.
2 It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
4 They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
5 The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
6 The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.
7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
