One year strong!

Happy Birthday BLOG. Thanks for all the emails, and it's time more comments posted on the site!!
To celebrate, here is ultimately the most photogenic architecture in the world, for me. (Frank Gehry's Disney and Bilbao).

The origin of a name

Lionel Martin started a car manufacturing company in 1913. He used to race the Aston Hill climb, and after the war, David Brown bought the company. He used his initials DB for the series. Hence the name: Aston Martin DB 5.

Architecture from Spam

Romanian artist Alex Dragulescu makes computer generated architectural forms using variables from junk e-mail.

An interview with Cartier Bresson

A rare chance to listen to the man himself. His attitude was to avoid willing a photo, but to sense it, smell it in the air, and snap. He was the master of sponteneity.


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4074157481455007235&q=charlie+rose&hl=en

The Shiv

Knives made in prisons are usually put together with only one intent: to hurt. They are imaginatively created from spoons or unlikely scraps. This one is spent razor blades wrapped in red cellophane. Viscious and honest. Not an aesthetic decision about it, yet beautiful and brutal.