January 2011
Ruin value - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
superamit:
kenyatta:
Ruin value (German: Ruinenwert) is the concept that a building be designed such that if it eventually collapsed, it would leave behind aesthetically pleasing ruins that would last far longer without any maintenance at all. The idea was pioneered by German architect Albert Speer while planning for the 1936 Summer Olympics and published as “The Theory of Ruin Value” (Die...
“12:15 a.m. 3300 20th St. Faux Amour
Officers Lovrin &...”
– Rafer sez: Selected bits from the weekly local police email blotter. The author must be a gem. I particularly love how all (hetero) domestic abusers are referred to as ‘alleged’ men. And then, there’s always that fourth entry. (via rafer)
an interesting interactive story: Starborn.z8 →
A manifesto for the simple scribe – my 25... →
soupsoup:
via Tim Radford at Guardian
I gave it the not-very-serious subtitle of “manifesto for the simple scribe” and at around the same time, I realised that when stories that I had tried to write turned out wrong, it was because I’d broken one of my own rules. So I decided I might have written something quite useful, after all.
1. When you sit down to write, there is only one important...
