a propósito's notebook.

(Source: twinpeakscaptioned, via pitzoinneverland)

explore-blog:

Stunning archival photos of vintage NASA (and NASA predecessor NACA) facilities.

The new A propósito chapter is about the amazing Zander Olsen project called Tree, line. You can check it at www.aproposito.info/projects/tree-line

Oh… Rio.

explore-blog:

Gorgeous 1660 map depicting New York’s humble start. Next, the story of how Manhattan got its famous grid.

Also see Mapping Manhattan, hand-drawn personal memory maps by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Yoko Ono, Malcolm Gladwell, and 72 other New Yorkers.

(↬ this isn’t happiness)

People like me!

Girls eat large swirls of cotton candy in Copenhagen, Denmark, January 1963. Photograph by Gilbert M. Grosvenor, National Geographic

(Source: natgeofound, via kleidersachen)

Instant City. ICSID IBIZA, 1971. Jose Manuel de Prada Poole.

http://www.aproposito.info/projects/instant-city/

rudosvstecnicos:

10 Rules for Students and Teachers (via Design Werkstatt)

ilovecharts:

The World As We Know It

[Gall–Peters : Winkel : Goode : Mercator]

Related a proposito’s chapter: http://www.aproposito.info/projects/dymaxion-map/

One of A Propósito chapters is related to this subject. West Wing - Why are we changing maps?

http://www.aproposito.info/projects/dymaxion-map/

spatula:

(via TECTÓNICAblog » La escultura de Jorge Oteiza: una interpretación)

Oteiza. Link to aproposito’s chapter: http://www.aproposito.info/projects/metaphysical-box/

The euthanasia coaster, an honourable thought, if rather macabre.

ci13:

Yasuhide Kobashi Installation at the 1961 Carnegie International

In 1961, Carnegie Museum of Art director Gordon Bailey Washburn (who organized the exhibition from 1952 to 1961) placed a special focus on Japanese art. Kobashi’s sculpture Plumbob XXVII was hung over the museum’s Grand Staircase and measured nearly 40 feet tall.

- Archive of the Carnegie Museum of Art

(via thepittsburghhistoryjournal)

Dear Rio: I secretly love you.