Random reading
It’s been a slow news fortnight, Olympics aside. Fancy something else to look at? Let me offer you a random rag-bag of online diversions…
A Real Reveal by my friend Decorator’s Notebook of the wall display she’s put up in her bathroom. Thinking of doing the same? She’s included a brilliant step-by-step how-to.
SoBinique’s post on photos from the Sydney Police museum, of people in the cells. There’s a great one on which is written “This man refused to open his eyes.”
This picture is from a book I really want – Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed by Frederic Chaubin features extreme, inventive and extraordinary buildings from the last years of the Soviet Union. Brutalist and beautiful.
Image: Bill Ray, LIFE Magazine
No one is too badass for some nice wallpaper choices. These shots from the LIFE Magazine archive show the Angels’ Clubhouse in San Bernardino. The caption reads “Little Jim drinks beer from a wastebasket.”
that amazing cantilevered building from Frederic Chaubin’s book is in Tbilisi, Georgia, which has some v impressive modern architecture. I thought you might be amused to know that it’s known locally as “Whose c*ck is in whose arse”. Sorry for introducing profanities into your lovely blog!