Early days of Video Games and its Urban Legends

As with all urban legends, depending on how long they have been circulating, once the groundwork is laid by the initial event, decade by decade more layers are added. Just like the amusing act of whispering something in one person’s ear, then passing the message down to another and so forth…

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Militaria – A source of inspiration for Novels and Fic…

Little Green Army Men Long before their 1995 spy mission in Pixar’s animated hit movie Toy Story, little green army men inspired hours of make-believe war-play for children.

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Design and Architecture – Modern Architecture and Post…

Design and Architecture of the 20th Century: Late Modernism Late Modernism was the ideological dam of modernism bursting, and the metaphorical river diverged into many tributaries of coexistent styles. The technological advances of the 60s, and particularly the 70s led to much speculation …

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Design and Architecture – The Post-war Era

Design and Architecture of the 20th Century: Mid-Century Madness The Second World War had a major impact on the field of architecture. For one, it destroyed previous socioeconomic orders, and the horrific use of technology to commit so many heinous atrocities undermined its central positio…

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Design and Architecture – Modernism

Design and Architecture of the 20th Century: Birth of Modernism What is commonly referred to as Modernity in the fields of philosophy and sociology can basically be summed up as lots of new science coupled with angst. The science included ideas such as evolution and new fields such as psyc…

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The concept of Brutalist architecture

SOS Brutalism, save the Concrete Monsters! …what characterises the New Brutalism…is precisely its brutality, its je-m’en-foutisme, its bloody-mindedness Reyner Banham, 1955 Its oversized thickness makes holding the newly released Concept Concrete feel like you’ve got an actual brick i…

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