2012-09-21 (Friday)

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1. 8 reasons you should give talks | Final Bullet

   On the negative side… while it’s great for the speaker, for all the reasons you cite, the idea that…

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1. Health & Safety Eames

   
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Links

1. Jonathan Meades: Architects are the last people who should shape our cities | Art and design | The Guardian

   In fine form. “It is the business of attempting to create places that defeats architects. Architects cannot devise analogues for what has developed over centuries, for generation upon generation of amendments. They cannot understand the appeal of untidiness and randomness, and even if they could they wouldn’t know how to replicate it.”

2. The portable-infinite: David Markson interview

   From 1996. “The new book is not even a monologue. It’s a semi-non-fiction, semi-fiction.” “People still do [write fiction books], and good ones, but I don’t know why. It’s been done.” (via Rodcorp)

3. Ray Booty obituary | Sport | guardian.co.uk

   Sounds like a good chap. First cyclist to do 100 miles in under four hours (in 1956). Stayed an amateur. Had cold porridge in his drinks bottle

4. Benjamin Hubert Studio

   Some interesting furniture and lights made with many different materials and processes, what Matt J told me about. Some nice prototypes, manufacturing and sketches if you click through to later images.

5. Salary survey 2012

   A survey of “creative and marketing professionals” - basically all the roles in agencies, as far as I can tell. Both permanent and freelance.

6. Teaching about the Future: Amazon.co.uk: Dr Peter C Bishop, Andy Hines: Books

   New, expensive, book from my old futures professor and an alumni who now also teaches at Houston.

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