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The largest clear-span wooden building in the world – Tillamook Air Museum

LB — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:31:17 +0000

The largest clear-span wooden building in the world was built as a U.S. military air station hangar in 1942 to house six blimps. It is now the Tillamook Air Museum in Oregon.

PS re: Miltary Guild of Rural Tailors & Liam Maher

LB — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:32:13 +0000

The Militant Guild of Rural Tailors, a mysterious outfit we recently stumbled across online, seemed to be a cross between an elaborate imaginary historical narrative and a men’s fashion line.

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Militant Guild of Rural Tailors – Young Meagher

LB — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:17:38 +0000

Young Meagher’s “Militant Guild of Rural Tailors” is apparently a fashion line that doubles as a faux-museological collection of objects and textiles purportedly belonging to a revolutionary worldwide underground cult of rural tailors reaching back into early 19th C history.

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Ha, finally! The 90s are the new 80s.

LB — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:10:52 +0000

That’s according to the New York Times, and since nostalgia seems to work in 20-year cycles, I guess anyone could have seen it coming. If, as the article says, the 90s were the sci fi thing and the Breeders, then excellent, but … what is that orange outfit!

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Dazzle painting

LB — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:59:57 +0000

“Dazzle painting,” devised in Britain during WWI, was based on the theory that complex optical patterns would confuse enemy naval rangefinders by disguising a ship’s speed and direction. It employed a number of visual tricks including the painting of false bow waves on rear portions of the ship rather than the prow.

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Billykirk shoulder bag

LB — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:01:00 +0000

Why can’t more civilian bags be like this – free of bling, glitz, chacha, weird anatomical looking folds, pointless, slouchy, ruched wrinkledness, and dopey hardware? I don’t understand the bags being churned out by the big couture houses at the moment.

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Army blanket pillows, swords into ploughshares.

LB — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:52:22 +0000

This post is a personal addendum to our earlier post about a discussion amongst readers of another design blog about whether one designer had copied or “borrowed” another designer’s idea.

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