Jim ‘Motorhead’ Sherwood, has died aged 69. A member of Frank Zappa’s original Mothers of Invention, he appeared on all the group’s early albums, up to and including Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970).
It was the band’s vocalist and percussionist Ray Collins who gave Sherwood the nickname ‘Motorhead’, through his love of working on cars, trucks and motorcycles: “He said ‘it sounds like you’ve got a little motor in your head’, so they just called me Motorhead and that seemed to stick.”
Lebegve siklik a holnap acéltestű vonata az óriási mágnesgyűrűkben. Népszerű Technika, 1962. december.
Through immense magnetic rings levitately gliding the steel bodied train of the future. Cover of “Popular Technics” a hungarian monthly scientific magazine, Dec 1962.
Collaboration between type foundry House Industries and mid-century American pottery Heath Ceramics on a collection of house numbers that celebrate architects Richard Neutra and Ray & Charles Eames. Lovely.
‘Baker House’, Robin Boyd (1964-66), Bacchus Marsh, Victoria.
I think it is fair to say that our architecture and our urban planning are on the same level as our engineering, our art, our cooking, our newspapers — in short, they are us. We won’t improve the situation by turning back to a free-for-all, or turning to experts from overseas to help — both increasingly popular non-solutions to our problem.
Wicker was in a press bus at the back of the motorcade, as initially utter confusion reigned. “No one knew what happened, or how, or where, much less why,” he wrote in a subsequent memoir, but “gradually, bits and pieces began to fall together.” He scribbled notes on the back of White House hand-outs of the president’s itinerary, sending his account in bursts, as and when he could, back to head office…
Forrest Townhouses, 3 Tasmania Circle, Forrest. Designed by Sir Roy Grounds in 1959 as a speculative venture, this one is currently for sale.
These townhouses are the earliest Canberra example of the design philosophy of Le Corbusier’s Maison Citrohan that includes a double height living space.
The speedometer in this post belongs to the 1966 Chevrolet Nova hardtop.
Canberra’s Northbourne Housing Group, designed by Sydney Ancher in 1959 and completed in 1962, is set to be redeveloped, or ‘reborn’ to a design by Melbourne architect John Wardle.
Pictured above is one of the courtyard houses in the precinct.
Speedometer design: 1966 Chevy Nova.
From the marvellous Chevrolet Speedometer Design, 1941-2011.
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