Friday Snippets 7.03.09
Twittering has been taken to a new level. Artist Morgan Ritchie uses the Tweets of actor
Stephen Fry as the inspiration for his artwork at 100 days of fry. [Bad at Sports]
Another week, another city: Berlin's Fashion Week opened. [Telegraph]
The tallest building in the Western Hemisphere (Sears Tower) unveiled it's glass ledge. If
you got weak in the knees just walking up to the windows and looking down, wait till you see this view. [Chicago Tribune]
127 years and counting. Antonio Gaudi's Sagrada Familia. [Preservation Nation]
Jacques Guillon's classic 1953 Cord chair is coming back on to the retail furniture market.
As a re-issue. [NY Times]
Daniel Libeskind shares 17 words that underlie his vision for architecture. [TED]
Last Thursday we posted about Walter Gropius and his connection to the Michael Reese
Hospital Campus and the effort to save his buildings from demolition by the city of Chicago. The state's historic preservation officials are withdrawing from the battle to save them. [Cityscapes]
Kodachrome, the film stock that brought color photography to the masses, is no more. [Wired]
Tomorrow is the 4th of July. Big celebratory day in the U.S. Chicago has their big fireworks
display tonight. Haven't been in years. Too old now to deal with crowd of 1,000,000 participants for 20 minutes of sky-high firecrackers? We'll see. [designslinger]
Posted by designslinger at 7/3/2009 2:48 AM 
Categories: Slinger SLinks
Tags: BerlinFashion Week Sears Tower glass ledge Twitter art Kodachrome Daniel Libeskind Antonio Gaudi
Categories: Slinger SLinks
Tags: BerlinFashion Week Sears Tower glass ledge Twitter art Kodachrome Daniel Libeskind Antonio Gaudi
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