Alex Bodkin @alexbodkin - Tumblr Blog

“1) Everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) Anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3) Anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.”

Douglas Adams

#douglas adams

Goro Fujita - Worlds in Worlds

#goro fujita #quill

László Moholy-Nagy - Dufay Color photography (Light Filtering)

1935

#Moholy-Nagy

Froebel Gifts

#Froebel

Marco Zanuso - Child’s Stacking Chairs

1964

#Marco Zanuso #chair

Phil De Guard, Maurice Noble - “Zipping Along” (Roadrunner cartoon)

1953

#Maurice Noble #Phil De Guard

#fold in #mad

Four Clip-Ons, 2017

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Room Balcony Dormer Elevator

Four Clip-Ons, 2017

#alex bodkin

Christ & Gantenbein - Athens Series “Maniera 12″

#Christ & Gantenbein

Roula Partheniou - Chalk to Cheese

#Roula Partheniou

Hans Poelzig

#Hans Poelzig

newdarkage

The future is a weatherfront, and attempting to predict single lightning strikes is stupid and wasteful. Understand the future as weather, and yourself as standing on the shore looking out to the horizon. Breathe the air and watch the water. There are dozens of different systems acting on the approach of the future. In order to get a handle on what’s coming, you need to be talking to and working with and keeping an eye on many different fields. Not just “technology.” The future is also always social, and economic, and political, and many other things besides, and those things act on the path of the storm. And, if you’re standing on the shore, you know that there are a lot of storms out there, and any one of them could hit like a hurricane. If this sounds good to you, then, please, get to it. Because we’re running out of reliable early-warning stations.

Warren Ellis on the future as weather (via newdarkage)