I biked by this on my way home and it was so tacky. A slop slideshow with no narrative or tension, just a bunch of gimmicks. The Saturn V projection was great because it was shown fueling up: you got a sense for how big the thing was and felt the tension of waiting for it be ready.

In addition to degrading art, emphasizing reach, when reach is entirely dependent on an algorithm only entrenches the power of tech companies and their addiction to addicting you.

In the 19th century, George Santos would have led a filibustering expedition to Venezuela and gotten shot by a firing squad in Caracas.

Virgin BIM manager with 3 screens and a 5000dpi mouse vs chad senior PM using his daughter's 2-in-1 on vacation (they're both wrecking your project).

In DC the story is of course about a self-important apparatchik throwing a young designer to the wolves in Section 106.

When I saw how tacky the Grand Egyptian Museum was, I was shocked to find out Heneghan Peng had designed it. Turns out, it's a perfect encapsulation of the fact that architects are cogs within political-cultural industrial complexes. www.archpaper.com/2025/12/gran...

50 Cent and a group of Eastern Orthodox churches are producing a modern retelling of 4th century monastic Moses the Black.

Josh Safdie’s stunt casting of Catsimatidis, O’Leary, and Mamet together with his view that the end scene of Marty Supreme was genuine makes me think he’s gonna show himself sooner or later.

We have to push back on these illegal actions or he will do more: Cuba, Mexico, Brazil.

Logged in to x for the first time in months and immediately:

So: for years Republicans have starved NPS and then DOGE fired most of the NCR groundskeeping staff, but now they'll get credit for fixing the fountains because Landscaping Grandpa wants it.

Very easy to see why the UK has a housing crisis by looking at the QTs to this post.

I don’t know whether it bears on the Swiss nightclub fire but the risk of rapid flashover has grown as our buildings fill with petrochemical products: finishes, furniture, insulation, and things.

I am sorry, Lyman Stone was always incredibly suspect. Some of you need to get a better sense of what it looks like when people are hiding unpopular views. X, the leading website for sharing nonconsensual porn, may have rotted him but the rot was already there.

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

New You Mondovi, WI

This is a great point from Joshua Freeman's Garden Apartments The History of a Low-Rent Utopia. Garden apartments, despite being a widespread national housing type primarily for lower middle classes, have not drawn the scrutiny of other types of homes. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Be mindful, lads.

Dec 31st - Wolves attack, killing the last of the trappers dogs and the trapper himself, but not before he hands Jean Kayak his trapping guide 📽️📅 Hundreds of Beavers (2024)

St. Elizabeths was always a terrible fit for a huge, security-obsessed agency like DHS, and everyone involved knew it. They've been aching to demolish these buildings for years and the only thing stopping them was GSA/NCPC's internal culture. All it took was one guy who didn't care about norms.

During architecture school, I walked Kathy Bates to her destination but was too sleep deprived to realize who it was until the last minute.

I’m not a Reddit Atheist, I am a Revit Atheist, in that I can’t understand why a loving God would allow this program to exist.

This is so clearly a zoomerized version of gulf expat groupchat memes. Incredible way to celebrate a religion founded in the middle east.

Shots from the rest of “Monuments,” a show at LA MOCA that juxtaposes lost cause statues from Richmond and Baltimore with contemporary artworks. A must see if you can. www.moca.org/exhibition/m...

Kara Walker’s “Unmanned Drone,” composed of the fragments of Charlottesville’s Stonewall Jackson statue.

Nia Trent-Wilson owes $182,889.63 in medical bills for a baby that wasn’t hers. Trent-Wilson had been a surrogate twice. But this time, the pregnancy went badly sideways, and she underwent a hysterectomy. She went home with a bill. The parents went home with the baby. www.wsj.com/us-news/surr...

“Avatar has had no cultural impact” this “Avatar is empty spectacle” that. Why don’t you learn about the avatar who had a global impact by teaching us that the whole world is empty spectacle. That’s right: Krishna, Lord of the Yogas.

This could have been an enormous cube of undergraduates but y’all weren’t ready

Up here in Montecito getting enlightened with Oprah.

This could have been an enormous cube of undergraduates but y’all weren’t ready

UCSB… I wasn’t Pereired for your game.

Bro just wanted to pick finishes but he has to control the nuclear triad 😭😭

I would like to place a bet that micromanaging Bowser’s stadium will be Trump’s next hobby.

Our president is finding totally novel ways to make the Kennedy Center’s acoustics worse.

Filming Death by Lightning in Budapest unfortunately gives the impression that DC in 1881 was something other than podunk.

Moore Good Times Virginia, IL

This kind of black and white thinking really shows how we have failed to teach the humanities. Judging an apartment without examining how its contents and configuration were shaped by both longue duree forces and mere contingency is a tragedy. Every dish tells a story.

OK team, there is a debate in the girls chat, and I have absolutely no idea which side to join in with, if any If you, a girl, go home with a guy, and he has more than a couple unanswered RFIs or overdue submittals on Procore, does that give you the ick?

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

one thing i post every christmas is my piece about charles dickens’s washout brother www.chicagomag.com/city-life/de...

Not a lot of people know this but Bari Weiss’s full name is Barold.

Couldn’t write this stuff.

Man, this logo. Is that his signature at the bottom?

Choose your fighter (Beaver Bishop. Edition)

Can’t get into Wake Up Dead Man because it is so obviously shot in a Gothic Revival Anglican church in England.

But really the best archive story belongs to @heurichhouse.bsky.social

I arrived at the University of Washington for research at 11AM on March 13th, 2020. At 11:30 am archives told me they were closing at 2PM for an undetermined amount of time due to the novel coronavirus and that they’d pull everything I wanted. I somehow took 400 photos in those 2.5 hrs.

Genuine or not, Clinton falling on his sword here shows he understands his role in politics much better than Biden did after Harris was nominated.

Los Angeles——————2024 Amazon is master of shopping. Only experience retail survives. Restoration Hardwares are now restaurants.

He puts the creep in “scope creep.”