I’ve started my new course at the university again learning Finnish, trying to do some basic following of the Finnish Media so below is a kind of part Linkdump part commentary on whats out there.
A couple of daily free papers you get on your commute are uutislehti100 and metro (which you can download in pdf [...]
My Friend Nick O’Neill just won the 2007 BD/Zumtobal photography competition with the entry above. You have to take the photos with a disposable camera and then send it in o the organisers before its developed, the results can be great. There were some other good photos there too so its worth checking out all [...]
The Aalto Database is now open in Engish and Finnish, based on Dr Göran Schildt’s book Alvar Aalto. A life’s Work. Architecture, Design and Art (1994). It covers built and unbuilt work, competitions and masterplans and gives a summary of each building with a photo. Locations, dates and type are easily searchable. But I would [...]
I’m changing the theme of lewism because I wanted a change and to freshen up the look of the site a bit having been using the fauna theme since I moved to wordpress. Also I want to be able to change the look of the site a little bit easier and that means using the [...]
Beautiful graph of Construction Activity in the U.S.A. by Bill Rankin of Radical Cartography (via). Note the dips during winter.
Junichiró Tanizaki - In Praise of Shadows
In the West we chase light, air and openness, as naturally as a flower turns towards the sun. However Junichiró Tanizaki writes about a Japanese sensibility for shadows, or the interior in its widest sense. He writes with the touch of the great writer he was and with [...]
