“Please Be Seated was a landmark commission for London Design Festival and British Land, located in the busy thoroughfare of Finsbury Avenue Square. It was designed as a rippling wave of wood that rises up to form arches for people to walk through, and curves under to create spaces for people to sit, lie, and relax.”
We did it!! We made it out the other side of a terrible, terrible goddamn year!
Welcome to the First Friday of 2021! Happy New Year!
As there are every year there are big lists of lists of lists of the best “something something” of the year. Here are a few of my favorites that will keep you occupied and probably shopping for many hours.
An interesting little web… thing that sequentially plays top 5 singles from any year you select and shifts the artists / songs around to reflect their chart position through time.
“With the outside world lost, we collectively looked for a world inside. And there, as if purposefully constructed as an answer to this question we found ourselves asking, sat Animal Crossing.”
You might be surprised at where some of the more obvious “best” games ended up on this list.
And then, sure, gift guides. My Xmas group is passing on gifts altogether. We might (might!) still do a dinner, but it’ll be much more frugal than usual.
It is definitely recommended that you support your local retailers as much as possible. Yes, you can get virtually anything from Amazon but we really don’t want that to be the only remaining option.
Controls are a little iffy. You have to keep your mouse within the tiny gameplay area. Shoot at cars to blow them up, then collect the cash that flies up.
Challenging!
And there we go. There it is. Awayyyy we go. Yup yup yup…
Have an excellent Friday, I hope your Thanksgiving (such as it was) was lovely. And have an amazing weekend!
“24h Sunrise/Sunset” is an installation that displays a realtime sunset and sunrise somewhere happening in the world with the use of CCTV.
Created by Dries Depoorter whose manifesto states that he “creates artworks about surveillance, privacy, social media and machine learning. Dries is based in Ghent, Belgium.”
“This Presidential Library is an attempt to provide the American and International communities a place to reflect on what the rise of White Nationalism has meant to our country and try to eradicate it from our political discourse.”
Featuring a “Covid Memorial”, a “Wall of Criminalty”, and an Alt-Right Auditorium.
It appears to be a genuine thing. It has open hours, etc.
Sent in by quite a few subscribers.
We have reached the end for this week.
Thanks for following along. I hope your weekend is most excellent.
