November 07, 2007

Where the Angles Are All Wrong

Speaking, as we were, of the Futurists, I present today's evidence of their subliminal influence over the course of the twentieth century.

The Street Enters the House (Umberto Boccioni, 1911) The Stata Center at MIT (Frank Gehry, 2004)

Eventually, as post-humaniy mutates into a species of mind-bending Lovecraftian monstrosities, we'll not only be at home in such buildings, they'll keep the rain out, too.

(AP story via Science After Sunclipse; photo of Stata Center via flickr user highsmith.)

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