Had I been twenty-four years old forty years ago, my life might have been in real danger of moving in some worthwhile direction. Not towards medicine and chemistry mind you, but the law? Maybe. Diplomatic corps? Very possible. Even Architecture has a nice ring to it. (Until you're asked to hold up a building using only concrete and math that is. Forty years can only cure so much.) The point is, forty years ago, there was no internet, something which has done more to derail any serious career path of mine (not to mention any serious day) than Nutella, James Jean or the White Stripes combined (which is saying a lot.) Members of my generation have an attention span roughly akin to that of three year olds around bubbles, and those bubbles are sparkly, distracting, delightful websites. Billions of them. Looking at it this way, I would say that I am doing you all a favor by bringing the shiniest bubbles up to the surface for inspection. However, I know you. All four of you. You're doing exactly the same thing. Not everything on the internet is click-worthy though, and the real problem lies in how ideas are strung together so that a simple desire to know more aboutbreakfast c a n e a s i l y b e c o m e something else entirely Anyways. This happens to me pretty frequently. On to the rehash. Typography is a strange cult, no doubt, but when you mix it' up with some quirky motion design I think you'll agree the result is pretty awesome (Althought even more awesome than that would be making your own font from scratch) I spent a good portion of the morning moping around after I realized that all of my favorite songs had been fixed (at least rock-n-roll still has awesome posters,) but to be perfectly honest, compared to some it could be worse. Much worse. Amen

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Nate
Marianna, That's so cool! Smacks of China's new ultra-structure for national TV (the olympics can drive you do some pretty crazy stuff.) Up to this point, sleeping camps ( http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/sleep-dorms-of-soviet-empire.html ) was about the craziest I'd seen Soviet architecture get... Thanks!

marianna
..right. Something more to distract you, then. Did you see that the project that won the competition for The Crystal Island, the biggest skyscraper in the world? It will be in Moscow, and it looks nice! http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/12/26/tallest-skyscraper-in-the-world-coming-to-moscow/ I hope that it won't end like a soap baloon, as it happened to the last "biggest-of-the-world-skyscraper-project" in Moscow, the Soviet Palace. It was during the Thirties. Tourist agencies sent brochures of it abroad and received thousand of bookings for visit it from all across the world, before that a single brick was put in the basement. Result: it has never been built. Was too high. It would had interferred with airplanes' routes.