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I posted stills from that scene on my tumblr centuries ago beer

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Arkitekturupproret is a difficult beast. On the one hand I agree with some of their core tenets, on the other hand it (predictably) attracts the sort of people one doesn’t want to be associated with (the far right, but also just every contrarian ever).

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Most of Adam Something’s video is about that.

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“What you need to get into the projection booth?”

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Follow up:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/centuries-old-artworks-saved-from-copenhagen-s-stock-exchange-blaze/ar-AA1nfqnt

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/flames-still-flare-denmarks-historic-stock-exchange-2024-04-18/

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If I had the money, I’d take it and turn it into a historical research centre and archive.

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Doesn’t seem too expensive to me and would be really quick.

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Surely the Amadeu Antonio Foundation can take it? Nothing would upset Nazis more

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That would be excellent and very fitting. The problem is the upkeep.

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U.S. Customs House, New Orleans

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I don’t know. L’Oeuf de Pompidou is a bit of an remix of Étienne-Louis Boullée’s Cenotaph for Newton if you ask me.

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When the blues kick you in the head
And you roll out of bed in the morning
Just sit on the porch and swing
Sit on the porch and swing

– The B-52s, Dry County

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It is quite porch-y.

I like 'em porch-y.


Th’ above two are in Galveston, Texas


Alpena, Michigan - 1902


Our neighborhood in Detroit is pretty porch-y.

Here’s a massive rabbit hole:

49 pages, mostly old places.

…and how on Earth did you know we have a porch swing?

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