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I love Jan von Holleben’s ‘Dreams of Flying’ photographs and I am the proud owner of edition #280 of his lovely book. However, skulking around the web this morning I stumbled across a Finnish photographer who seems to have ‘adapted’ the concept and publishing a book early next year. Personally, I think Jan von Holleben’s work is streets ahead – see this and other work here. It’s worth a look.

I love this bike. More wonderful bicis in this brilliant new book, Cyclepedia

A friend recently showed me his late Grandfather’s collection of John Player Cigarette cards.
There’s something strangely compelling about them. Ship’s Figureheads, Regimental Uniforms, Wild Animals, British Birds, Army Badges, Curious Beaks, Regimental Standards and Cap Badges and Hidden Beauties (one of which highlights the beauty of the Airing Apparatus of Pondweed!) How could this idea be applied to collecting digital things?

I’m neither a massive Beatles fan nor an Apple fan boy but Apple’s announcement yesterday was beautifully done. This stunning (and rare?) photograph was majestically displayed on iTunes and Apple.com home page. Less than 24 hours later, there are no less than 47 Beatles songs in the iTunes chart (thanks to Mark Headley for this stat) and they’re even running Google Ads with the graceful copy ‘John, Paul, George and Ringo. All together now’.

The Beatles, Twickenham, Middlesex, 9th April 1969
Credit: Photo by Bruce McBroom / ©Apple Corps Ltd

Went to a great talk this week by Nicolas Henninger of The EXYZT collective (thanks to Bethany @Wolf Ollins ‘Because’).EXYZT were formed in Paris in 2002 on the idea of  building and living together. Starting out as 6 architects it now seems to be more inter disciplinary. The group have been responsible for some awesome projects including; Mushroom House in Latvia, The Dalston Mill and Southwark Lido. A number of interesting aspects in the way EXYZT work. Firstly, their process really brings the local community into the project – probably helped by the fact they tend to live on site during the life of the project.  Secondly, it’s really smart the way they keep an open programme for part of the event to allow the community and the whole event to organise organically over time, as opposed to pre-defining every aspect from the outset.
Check out their YouTube and Flickr channels (including some great photos by EXYZT’s Emmanuel Gabily)