My Dots for Sunday, August 26, 2007

Interview with Rem Koolhaas.

10 things to write in your journal. If you don’t keep one you should (at least, that’s what I try to remind myself all the time when I’m not writing in mine).

I’m heading to Paris in November. It may be worth dropping by this fascinating looking house, The Maison de Verre, at 31 Rue Saint-Guillaume. It is apparently open for limited touring.

Quoted: With the help of an American collector, a glass house’s enchanting secrets are revealed.

Hyy you code breakers out there, check out next May 1st’s Arizona Daily Wildcat for a new cryptic advertisement.

Quoted: Every year since 1981, more than once a year, and almost always on May 1, the [Arizona Daily] Wildcat has published a cryptic ‘advertisement’ from an unnamed source. These messages typically contain images, mathematical diagrams and formulae, quotations (literary, philosophical, religious, and commonly in the original language) and other fragments of text…

The Nestlé chocolate museum in Mexico City looks sweet! Pun intended.

A nice post at Make showing sculptures made out of old books. I especially like the Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter Table.