"Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964 opens tomorrow at the de Young. Although the primary subject of the exhibition is the city we call home, many of the locations represented in the pictures were difficult to pin point. During his preparations for the exhibition, curator James Ganz tried to track down some of the more mysterious sites portrayed, which resulted in a San Francisco adventure of his own." Closes 3 June 2012.

"New York-based HWKN has been selected for this year’s MoMA/PS 1 Young Architects Program. Their proposal, called “Wendy,” uses standard scaffolding to create a visually arresting object that straddles the three outdoor rooms of the PS 1 courtyard. Tensioned fabric coated in smog-eating paint provides shelter and programming areas including a stage, shower, and misters."

'"Walker Evans," the exhibition at Stanford's Cantor Center showcasing the photographer-artist who plumbed the poetics of documentary, makes this point only inadvertently. Consisting of vintage prints and related Walker ephemera from the collection of Elizabeth and Robert Fisher, it succeeds at least in making us wish for a refreshed view of Evans' work, even if that continues to elude us.' Stanford, closes 8 April, 2012.

"From 1970 to 1987 Andy Warhol took scores of Polaroid and black-and-white photographs, the vast majority of which were never seen by the public. These images often served as the basis for his commissioned portraits, silk-screen paintings, drawings, and prints." Berkeley. Closes 20 May, 2012.

"The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, the foundational document that established Manhattan’s famous street grid." Closes 15 April, 2012.

"Always on your smart phone, or still asking a policeman? Sense and the City: smart, connected and on the move, which runs until 18 March 2012, explores how emerging technologies are changing the way we access and experience London and compares this with past visions of the future." Closes 18th March 2012. Also: "The travel posters of artist and illustrator John Burningham"

"Tacita Dean will be the next artist to create a commission for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall as part of the Unilever Series." Opens 11 October 2012, Closes 11 March 2012.

David Zwirner / Art in General / New Museum of Contemporary Art  / Christopher Henry Gallery / Sperone Westwater / Storefront for Art and Architecture / The Drawing Center / The New York Earth Room / Greene Naftali / L&M Arts

"The primary activity of WHC is the sponsorship of tours of New York and New Jersey's working waterfront – places that are normally hidden from the eyes of most area residents and visitors."

Subtitled "a Travel bag by Britta Gustafson", this is a pretty good list of things for me to do. (I've visited the transit museum before, but I had a rubbish camera, and it was years ago, so I'm happy to go back.)

"Originally designed to haul lumber and freight, and then later passengers, it was sealed shut in 1978 after a series of fires and structural collapses. Today it carries bicyclists and pedestrians between Larkspur and San Rafael. It is a key component in the North-South Greenway and is also part of the future SMART corridor with a planned station"

"Port View Park, reopened and greatly expanded in 1995 after extensive redesign and reconstruction because of damage suffered during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, offers spectacular views of San Francisco Bay, the San Francisco skyline and Port of Oakland maritime operations" Forget the skyline: maritime operations! And there's even a snack bar!

Subtitled "Auto-Free Outdoor Adventures in the San Francisco Bay Area". One to refer to. The most recent post (announcing a hiatus, boo) has a good overview of available walks (yay).

"The success of Andy Goldsworthy’s Spire means we get more outdoor art in the Presidio. Yes! Nevada City–based art group For Site ('art about place'), emboldened by the crush of people who come to see Goldsworthy’s poignant pile of sticks, now gives us 'Presidio Habitats.'" Closes (if at all?) 15th May.

"Exhibits consisting of such 'commonplace' photographs, however, add a layer of meaning into the mix: the curator's. He sees something in his collection of found photographs." Closes 27th November.

"Donwood, who has done artwork for Radiohead, has also produced a 12-page newspaper to accompany the exhibit. He says he wanted to create an overwhelming atmosphere that is at once attractive and troubling, much like advertising." Closes 27th October.

"Critical Mass, one of Gormley's best known works, is an installation made up of 60 life-size cast iron body forms which will be displayed on the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion." Ends "August 2010", and I'd like to see the building anyway.

"the artist has produced an ambitious body of work, this time with the Thames Gateway as his focus of attention." Requires a trek to Southend, but might be worth it. Closes 3 July, 2010.

"Whose Map Is It? is a map art exhibition taking place at Rivington Place in London from June 2 to July 24, 2010. It features work from nine contemporary artists who 'question the underlying structures and hierarchies that inform traditional mapmaking. They provide individual insights that inscribe new, often omitted perspectives onto the map.'"

Looks like I'm going to have to break out Xcode to get GreaseKit (and hence a bunch of little Flickr userscripts) back. Ho hum.

"Long streams of clear plastic cards hang from the ceiling, engulfing the gallery visitors in a typographic mist. Each card features one single glyph from one of thirteen different Dalton Maag typefaces, with the font name above it and the Unicode number below." Looks interesting.

"Sunday project! Export a Vox blog to MTIF (Movable Type Import Format), along with some CSS to style it."

Alan Powers: "Robin Hood Gardens, still council-owned, could become a demonstration of less wasteful funding – if, instead of falling victim to a profit-led development with some affordable housing alongside, it could be refurbished without the high environmental costs associated with demolition."

"See recent photographs by Ioana Marinescu of the twin slab blocks, along with archival images and a documentary film by Martin Ginestie, giving a fresh interpretation of the formal quality of the architecture, the integration of the estate in the transformed landscape around London's docklands, and the intimate lives of its residents"

Well, that's handy. I tried doing this for iPhoto (with limited success), but Aperture is probably a better platform for it. If only Photoshop 5.5 hadn't stripped EXIF out of everything I uploaded from 2001 to 2004...

More convenient for me than Calumet. "Special weekend rates from Friday pm to Monday am = 1 day."

"Roger's documentary The London Perambulator, a thoughtful and at times deeply moving piece about Nick Papadimitriou, a former arsonist who spent time in Wormwood Scrubs (where notorious serial killer Dennis Nielsen wrote a poem about him) before becoming an auto-didactic wanderer of London's lesser known thoroughfares and postcodes." One too keep an eye out for.

I've never written a badge before, so I have no idea how to go about this. But it's bound to be possible somehow. See also: threads asking for badges of favourites.

Things to research (especially Scotland's west coast).

I've always wanted to tag my images with their aspect ratio. Maybe the fact someone else also wants it means I'll bother.

"Images of Otsuka as an adult are craftily combined with snaps of the artist as a child, pinched from the family photo album. The resultant composite snapshots are both glaringly literal and astoundingly subtle" The show's near Baker Street.

"Enjoy a fun day out for all the family as you explore over 300 years of railway history." In York, and near to (and signposted from) the railway station (itself two hours from King's Cross).

One company (are there others?) offering tours of the Maunsell Forts, WW2 platforms off the Kent coast. £22pp, based in "Herne Bay and Whitstable", the latter of which is an hour from Victoria by train.

Three opportunities this summer to visit the sound mirrors at Denge, on the Dungeness peninsula. Getting there might be a bit tricky but I'm pretty sure it's worth it.

"Brooklands was the birthplace of British motorsport and aviation, home of Concorde and the site of many engineering and technological achievements throughout eight decades of the 20th century." Inside the M25 and relatively easy to reach from Waterloo.

"we’ve just launched two new API methods; flickr.panda.getPhotos, flickr.panda.getList"

I need to steal, well, pretty much all of these for snaptrip, except per-country trips, which it already does (hurrah). Per-mode distances should be a quick hack on the current infrastructure [edit:done]. Personalised Flickr images and CSV export had come up before, but are no less good as ideas for that. Trip categorisation by stashing tags sounds like a nice idea. And I never did finish my 2008 stats graphs. So many ideas.

The old hosted Ruby on Rails site, Heroku, is now setting upa a commercial arm; old free accounts (like mine) ar moving to Heroku Garden. This is what I need to do at some point to keep it working. Edit: the gem is broken, I can't find my repository; it all seems to have gone to seed. Sigh.

A list of forthcoming maintenance closures of the Thames Barrier. Like you'd expect.

"Astrotags are a new way to label your photos of space – they describe what your photo is of, and where in space that is. With your help, we hope that astrotags will let us build a beautiful montage of your astronomy photos." Push a new one on the todo stack.

Damnit, I need to think about this and respond properly (just like deusx did to the piece I was originally referring to). Some unrefined thoughts: Flickr's search is as good for non-tags as tags; tags are for personal use, and as such can be terribly handy; tag clouds can be more useful than heirarchies [todo: tag cloud UI for machine tag browser?]; Flickr are starting to do useful aggregation (eg placesForTag, tagsForPlace, as used by wherewhatwhen).

Apparently the state of the art in Django-on-App Engine packages (as opposed to, say, google-app-engine-django or - horrors - following the article on the App Engine site itself).

Unfortunately I couldn't get the Erlang to work - maybe I was trying with too new a compiler? - but this writeup makes it look like I should perhaps give it another go.

Jonathan Glancey reviews the Kielder Observatory, which looks like it might be worth visiting if it were closer. Of course, if it was, then you'd never be able to see anything; pesky light pollution.

"Last weekend, I decided to expand Coverflow to work with my entire photo album. This involved exploring the MusicLibrary and PhotoLibrary frameworks" Oddly, I want my album art in the photos app, but this should be worth a look.

Another API idea to go on the TODO stack.

Walk around Seven Sisters Country Park

Runs at weekends throughout the winter

Gentoo, but hopefully it'll translate OK to debian

Erno Goldfinger's house in Hampstead

In Hampstead. Been past it loads of times, should actually stop there at some point.

The bells! The bells!

"on the first Tuesday evening of each month, 6-9pm when parts of the Museum are lit with candles"

Opened earlier this year.

"Suffragettes, Soldiers and Servants: Behind the Scenes of the Hampton Court Palace Community 1750-1950"

For the scientist tombs, amongst other things