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Vietnamese architects and historians consider the years from 1940 to 1975 the golden age of Vietnamese modernism. In that period, major modernist public buildings such as hospitals and hotels were designed and constructed.

- Mel Schenck via Saigoneer, "How Vietnam Created Its Own Brand of Modernist Architecture"

fucking goldfish tiktok made me cry bro

Cubicus Building of Twente University (1969-73) in Enschede, the Netherlands, by Leo Heijdenrijk & Jos Mol. Photo from August 2024.

April 28, 2024 - An unintentionally funny video by a zionist propagandist shows off some good organisation and discipline at the UCLA encampment for Palestine.

A woman strolls the beach at Nazaré, Portugal, 1985.

Photo by Bruno Barbey

Worst experience of my life

This is one of those videos you can’t watch without feeling as though the very fabric of reality is coming unraveled

In '55, the Ford Motor Company, failing to divine a name for their new car, requested the help of prize-winning poet Marianne Moore. The resulting flurry of names, while all rejected, make for amazing motor-carriage titles.

The car, eventually, was christened 'Edsel' - it then flopped, and became a symbol of economic failure. Perhaps, while unsuccessful with Ford, Moore's names might have felt more at home with Coupris. A selection:

What’s up late night folks? Here’s an eerie shot I took down a pitch black road in the middle of the night