My Dots for Monday, September 10, 2007

“Architecture of Authority” author Richard Ross interviewed. An interesting project to photograph physical spaces that force us to negotiate institutions.

Quoted: An online magazine, published weekdays.

These are great. Fictitious company t-shirts from movies, etc. I love the Amity Island shirt (Jaws) and Might Mick’s Boxing (Rocky).

Quoted: t-shirt designs which are inspired and pay homage to some of the most memorable places, corporations and companies in 20th century fiction.

The Guardian takes a look at blogs through the lens of Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language.”

Quoted: From the Orwellian point of view, it is the violence the internet does to the English language as much as its challenge to the journalistic infrastructure that is the biggest anxiety.

Michiko Kakutani reviews the newest book on the Bush administration. This one looks a bit frightening and worth reading.

Quoted: A chilling new book provides an inside account of the Bush administration, revealing its obsession with expanding presidential power and its arrogant unilateralism.

I searched for this program on TV and haven’t been able to find it running anytime soon. There’s a nice introductory video on this page though.

“Saved by the Wrecking Ball” is the controversial story of Mies Van Der Rohe’s Farnsworth House.