Sze Tsung Leong: I wrote about two types of beauty, one that is singular, planned, and imposed, the other that is manifold, unplanned, and accumulated slowly over time through historical layering. It’s this second type that is being destroyed in Chinese cities through the narrowing of history in order to build the present. Now, since China is in transition, there are still places where you can see a layering of history, but as these get destroyed, and others “preserved”—that is, rebuilt so that they become a very specific idea from the present of what the past should be—they become rarer and rarer.

Weld Angel
Tasmania

Alannah Beltran, the Weld Angel

3 Kings:

King George V Dock 1957
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5 King St 1916
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King's Cinema and cafe c.1930

The site is Virtual Mitchell, linked through the Glasgow Digital Library

118 High St, 1868
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Craigmuir Rd, 1942

ibid. Glasgow

The St. Mungo Fire

Photographing a kingfisher's nesting hole in a river's bank

With nature and a camera
Being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer
Richard Kearton, Author of "British Birds' Nests," "Birds' Nests, Eggs, and Egg-Collecting," etc. etc. 1898
Glasgow Digital Library

coloured marks on the rock following the passage of many thousands of booted feet

We set sail with a gentle breeze of wind, bearing to the westward, and were not well got out of the harbour, when Mr Campbel observing the whiteness of the waves attended with an extraordinary noise beating upon the rocks, express’d his dislike of it, as in those parts a never-failing prognostick of an ensuing storm

A Late Voyage to St Kilda, by Martin Martin. First published in 1698

The feather store (restored), where feathers were kept to be paid as rent
Abandoned Communities ..... St Kilda

Wind rattled the TV antenna on the roof.
Boys with green teeth showed themselves
At our picture window.

The bird remained silent.

the chronophaged links in the Sottsass post below:

house
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second link here
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and the room divider, also featured at Click Opera

Momus informs us, elegiacally, that Ettore Sottsass has died.
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Sottsass in the archives here (scroll down to the end, though you'll miss the affectedly uncapitalized but still readable essay on Boilly's A Game of Billiards)

Secretly Canadian

good, healthy, vegetarian food on very little cash
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via Overcompensating > Bellen

Death, online, at Yale
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via Madame Martin

The people who lived on St Kilda had their own culture. They lived off seabirds and were excellent climbers. An overhanging ledge above a jawdroppingly exposed cliff is known as the 'Lover's Stone.' Any man who wanted to take a wife had to prove his bravery and surefootedness by standing, on one leg, at the very end of this stone, with a 400m drop to the sea, until the elders were satisfied that he had what it would take to provide for a family in such a harsh environment. The ruler of St Kilda was always the oldest woman on the island, and people could be cut off from the outside world for months at a time by fierce winter storms.

From Where I Stand: California's river mouths

markham johnson photography

James Ravilious
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John Berger and Jean Mohr

A lahar
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Small lahars could suddenly descend the Toutle River