Author Archives: Aaron McAllorum

Irish Press, January 1, 1973

For the weekend that’s in it.

Forty years ago.

From Wikipedia:

The 1972 Five Nations Championship was not completed when Scotland and then Wales refused to play in Ireland following threatening letters to players, purportedly from the IRA. The championship remained unresolved with Wales and Ireland unbeaten. In 1973, despite similar threats, England fulfilled their fixture and were given a standing ovation that lasted for five minutes. Ireland won 18–9 and at the after-match dinner the England captain, John Pullin (top) famously remarked “We might not be very good but at least we turn up”.

 

Fair play though, in fairness.

*takes out flask*

Ireland V England 1973 – team stats

Previously: Amateurs!

Pic via The Rugby Paper


A graduation project by the talented Lena Steinkühler, who sez:

“My idea was to create a film, that fills up the metropolis New York with vegetation, that adapts to the straightness of the technology and the given situation. This happens through the assimilation of structures and forms. These biotopes are shaped by the existing living environment, but in turn also shape the newly developed living environment by their presence. In other words, a symbiotically coexistence begins”.

Right so.

sobadsogood

The dubious fruits of pre-Jobs Apple CEO Michael Scott’s labours in the early 1980s.

In 1982, Apple was in its sixth year of existence, and Steve Jobs, Apple’s cofounder and Chairman, was twenty-eight years old. Steve, intuitive and fanatical about great design, realized that the company was in crisis.

Above: the hideous Snow White Concept 2 MacBook (1982); the vomitous MacPhone (1984); the deeply stupid Jonathan Mac (1982) and the burn-it-with-fire Workbench and Music Mac (1982).

From Phones To Tablets: 26 Apple Designs That Never Came To Be (fastdesign)