Hello, 

I think I'm running out of cheery ways of introducing this thing. Here's ten links, now drink your coffee, and leave me alone. 

Curvy brutalism
Everyone's gone brutalism crazy in the last ten years but here's a few that aren't all square. Yes that's the level of architectural discourse I aspire to. One of my favourites here is Les Choux de Crétil in Paris which I was fortunate enough to lead a brutalism tour to a few years ago on bikes. 

Safety by design
Soviet era housing security grilles. Via the ever enjoyable Present & Correct. 

Infinite loop supply chains
Our interconnected world and how we're part of this network. 

The ornate abandoned cinemas of India
Annoyingly the images aren't in one gallery on the original site but worth scrolling through to see in higher res. The colours really are a joy. 

2020 guide to synthetic media
Gets a bit tech after a while but a good a good primer on the topic.

Synthetic Media includes artificially-generated video, voice, images or text, where AI takes on part (or all) of the creative process. This falls under the broader landscape of synthetic, artificial or virtual reality (photo-realistic AR/VR). It's a pretty new and exciting space.

Structural audio
Noise and the built environment.

Trump's speeches
They work far better with a laugh track added. I mean, it's funny, but not funny. 

Erasure
No, not that one. Images documenting the exclusion zone surrounding the stricken power plant of Fukushima Daiichi. Click the first image to see the full gallery. 

Shifting baselines
A series of links to various articles about how we are able to adjust to the 'new normal'. Not a fan of that term but the article is great. 

It turns out that, over the course of their lives, individuals do just what generations do — periodically reset and readjust to new baselines.

The man who travelled back in time to save the internet
The story of John Titor, as told by the people who fell into it. 

Out of office
We needed a nudge to go all in on home working although not without issues. These two quotes really stuck out and resonated for me.  

In this world of seemingly limitless connectivity, life feels both too sociable and too solitary. Online, we are constantly available to others but they remain tantalisingly unreachable to us.

Sociologists have long stressed the importance of weak social ties. Ad hoc, undemanding forms of community make life liveable just as much as friendship and intimacy.

A thread on Japanese Architecture
Some weird and wonderful stuff. You should really be following Adam too. 

Leeds by Peter Mitchell
Incredible images of Leeds in the 1970s. 

Love as always and hopefully see you next week, 

Andy x