Craig Hodgetts: 'Joining the throngs of the faithful as they jostled for a better view of his paintings, and searching in vain for even one fellow architect, one could not help wondering why the place was not swarmed by young designers. And one was reminded once again of just how insular the architects of the “Me Generation” had become. On display were images depicting cityscapes and buildings that might have been snatched from the most recent international competitions. Lustrous metallic surfaces, twisting towers, parametric volumes, all hauntingly beautiful, and all bearing dates—wait for it—from the early 1970s and ’80s!'

Matchbox labels celebrating the Olympics: "Matchbox labels from around the world but the majority are Eastern European from the 1950s and 60s."

"The iconic NASA spacesuit didn't show up in astronauts' closets fully formed. Here, a small sampling of the many precursors held with reverence at the Smithsonian Museum." Images from 'Spacesuits: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection' by Amanda Young and Mark Avino.

"From a technical standpoint, the success of the lowly GIF is a mystery. Both as an image format and as a video/animation format, it’s vastly inferior to the alternatives." And yet, it succeeds. This is a good look at why (through the lens of a hex editor, no less).

This reminds me of the mid-nineties computer/interet art experiments, except it's hosted at Tumblr. Very clever.

"2008 celebrates the 130th anniversary of Muybridge's panorama and in that year Tom Pope and James Doyle re-photographed the panorama on the original site. Employing the largest Polaroid camera in the world; the Polaroid 20x24." For some reason I have a (really nicely produced) leaflet about this, but I have no idea any more where I picked it up.

Eadweard Muybridge's 1878 panoramic photograph(s) of San Francisco (as currently on display in Tate Britain's presentation of the Corcoran Gallery's touring exhibition).

"The light at Eastbourne's Beachy Head lighthouse - and five others around England - may soon be turned off." "Most vessels, even smaller ones, now use satellite navigation systems like GPS and no longer rely on the beam from lighthouses." It's a shame, but it's also understandable. I do love lighthouses though.

Khoi Vinh, slightly edited: "We’ve spent the better part of a decade and a half debating digital privacy, but compare the number of people who have been exposed to the sheer amount of manipulated, unreal and just plain fake imagery that assaults each of us every day, and the case for a more robust discussion about digital imaging looks like a pretty good one."

Uses CSS3 and jQuery. Might be nice to hook it up to Flickr sets somehow.

candace does a far better job of documenting my life visually than I do these days; these are from our boxing day head-clearing morning walk. The one of the vintage car going over the bridge is a particular highlight.

I'm intrigued by the different responses across and within communities to images ending up on ffffound.

I'm intrigued by the different responses across and within communities to images ending up on ffffound.

I've just realised that this needs to be a slippy map. Scraping all the images and putting it together might be a bit too much work for me, though...

"This document describes how best to use existing standards such as Exif, IPTC, and XMP to address the key organizational metadata questions that most consumers have." Does distinguish location-shown and location-taken, but shies away from trying to fix the timezone problem. Ah well. Spec is a PDF, sigh.

Like the page says: "Provides a GUI front end for enabling color management in Firefox". Should help with those "but my images look shit on Flickr" complaints, but not the "should be on by default" ones.

"TODAY processes the communication activity on Symbian based mobile phones. It runs on the background monitoring incoming and outgoing calls and messages" "Based on your phone usage, the program generates a graphic of your communication"

Lookin at these, I can see how the 45m clearance of the bridge might be a problem with really big container ships.

OK, next time he's in London I am really going to have to make an effort to say hello, even if freeway intersections are a post-Microserfs cliché. I love the triangle artefacts too.

The obligatory Perl module for TarPipe.

Web-based image pipeline API, so you can upload a photo to Flickr and automatically twitter the URL and title, for example. Looks like it has a Yahoo Pipes style UI. Could be useful.

Previously at www.collectiveperception.com, this is only sort of ffffound-esque; it's even more selective about posters and has an interesting custom layout/design. It's also good ffffound fodder.

How come I'm suddenly seeing ffffound competitors everywhere?

How come I'm suddenly seeing ffffound competitors everywhere?

Nice pictures from NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility, in orbit for five years from 1984.

While I'm on the subject of attribution, how about this: a site which republishes ffffound in its entirety on Tumblr, which itself feeds ffffound a lot of images.

Does what it says in the title. Maybe I should go out and look for this sort of thing.

"I've been thinking a lot about visual language recently, and why interacting with it has more appeal to me than words."

A lovely three-page comic, via Pete Ashton. Great visuals on the second page.

Meg Pickard on the (unhappy?) interface between art and advertising. I wish I'd thought a bit harder about my comment, because it's not just looking at one example of the genre, it's all about

Picnik integration into Flickr. Short review: more capable than Preloadr (which I'd been using) but some things I'd use a lot are well hidden. Lots of annoying dialogs about leaving the page when I'm not though.

See, I said New York got wireframe skyscrapers. Aren't they pretty? In fact, there's a bit of me that thinks this belongs on ffffound instead.

"The vast majority of weblogs act like sluice gates, simply helping the flow of culture along without adding to the volume of water in any way" More context/synthesis, please.

A page describing a linked PDF about Euston station, on the occasion of its 1960s redevelopment. One to file under "failed futures", but they certainly make the food court look a lot nicer than it is now.

Evening Standard: "A major exhibition is launched today to help decide the future of the historic Smithfield Market buildings prior to the opening of a planning inquiry next month." Includes a nice photo of the Poultry Market roof, amongst others.

Does what it says on the tin. Pretty pictures, but too many to choose from, so it's ended up here.

Nice aerial photography of London (City, Canary Wharf, Thames) at night, from a helicopter.

Does some of the things I wittered about in my Vox post about favourites. It's a bit disconcerting to find me in the screenshot.

Lovely book cover.

Some lovely photos of supercomputers, along with looks at neglected corners of the British Empire.

How to construct a URL for a Flickr buddy icon. (Could do with a better page title, mind.)

once upon a time I did posts like this.

Sticking random images together nicely. Hmm.

Great, another way for a bunch of tag and group whores to end up with loads of idiot comments. Interesting to see the variant URLs on delicious for this one.

Great, another way for a bunch of tag and group whores to end up with loads of idiot comments. Interesting to see the variant URLs on delicious for this one.

Great, another way for a bunch of tag and group whores to end up with loads of idiot comments. Interesting to see the variant URLs on delicious for this one.

To go with their article on the CTRL

As referred to below

Gorgeous Japanese anti-smoking posters, deconstructed

Cute infographics (I love the factory)

The blue glowing mushroom is, er, odd.

Libeskind's design sees symbolic building start on 4th July

Looks like it could be interesting

The "at risk" list includes one of my pet London skyscrapers- this quirky 60s number

20th Century Society lists buildings at risk

Libeskind's Holloway Road building gets the BBC News Magazine treatment

I never knew it was there. Well, not that it was that new, anyway.

About the only thing NY has over London

On the Metropolitan University building

500 people? In the Foundry? That'll be, er, fun

Saw this in the magazine, but didn't look for it online, because I thought they'd lose the pictures. They haven't.

500 people? In the Foundry? That'll be, er, fun

Went walking around here yesterday evening. Amazing how much stuff I'd never noticed.

Saw this in the magazine, but didn't look for it online, because I thought they'd lose the pictures. They haven't.

Nice index of the BBC's online London stuff. The show's good too.

Nice article revisiting 30SMA as it opens

Nice pictures of skateboarders

via things magazine's blog. Includes an Islington cafe.

because I like Matt too

via things magazine's blog: "hero of London Underground and creator of a design legacy that is gradually degraded with each passing year"

The fluffy backflipping 2 was so cute