...what's not to love?

plus queer bodies transforming themselves to be cooler and more comfy plus general solidarity and comradeship and coziness

allegory of a post-Trump society (🐻 California Republic!) plus radical emancipation of machine intelligence plus breaking free from big tech platforms (💥take that, Grando Sando!)

wowwww so fabulous! 😍

NOOOOO!!! I really hope MJT can come back from this. A seven-engine fire?!?!

and Rufino Tamayo's 1925 Fábrica

(the Tina Modotti photograph above is called Telephone Wires, and she made it between 1923 and 1929)

god these are so good!

here's Fermín Revueltas' 1921 painting Subestación (La Indianilla)

it feels appropriate that the cover would call out to me with a picture by Tina Modotti, since the first I remember thinking about the aesthetics of telephone poles was in a class on Mexican art. Almost ten yrs ago, I wrote a paper on the wires of her contemporaries Fermin Revueltas & Rufino Tamayo

take photos and videos of telephone wires for fun, so...obviously I'm gonna be excited about a book called "The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication". yes PLEASE!

this is Milanese design (and design for public services!) at its best: a synthesis of hard-wearing ancient materials (granite, concrete) with new (steel tread plate; steel tubing; paint) to produce a useful, lasting, and distinctive public space

it's not just the color scheme, though -- it's the way the metro line COMMITS to its bit: that tight grid (grey on the walls, yellow on the ceiling); those 45-degree angles tapering to sharp points used to finish the support posts

with bulb 🌽💡