Plying from Nought to NoughtTumblr (3.0; @unsubstantialtrade)http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1ozrHcm2B9c?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Joyeux anniversaire, Wagner — here’s a bassoon quartet doing a Tristan tango.</p>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/51130322954http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/51130322954Wed, 22 May 2013 22:19:33 -0700lolwagner<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgfkcrD8ad1qzev3jo1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>Maxfield, 8825 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood</p> <p>(I’m sure I’m not the first to point it out, but it never ceases to amuse that the ZIP code for WeHo is 90069.)</p>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/50881179518http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/50881179518Sun, 19 May 2013 20:40:00 -0700maxfieldarchitecture<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/168063c3ef1a3485afa4e2c621b1e32f/tumblr_mmzrafYaA91qzd1nwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://cjwho.com/post/50720897228/102-year-old-abandoned-ship-is-a-floating-forest" target="_blank">cjwho</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>102-Year-Old Abandoned Ship is a Floating Forest / Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/angeljim46/6199789236/" target="_blank">Andy Brill</a></p> </blockquote>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/50737400976http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/50737400976Sat, 18 May 2013 09:26:00 -0700paysagelandscapehomebush bayss ayrfield“Paris is savage. Wonderfully beautiful but savage in an unexpected quarter ; in its calculating heart. The secret of the whole affair — it’s revealed in Balzac, but no one seems to read him seriously — is a certain grotesque arithmetic. The wit of the city is a branch of addition and subtraction. Every American boy brought up in a good bourgeois atmosphere breathes the air of home in Paris. And in addition, it is Paris.”<br/><br/> - <em>Saul Bellow, to David Bazelon</em>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/50715060172http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/50715060172Sat, 18 May 2013 01:03:00 -0700saul bellowparisletters<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8249b0ee15d45f741d010fd72fe0a5b7/tumblr_mmqwaxXbfc1qz8uvvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://wap.nytimes.com/blogs/tmagazine/2013/05/09/seeing-the-light-3/" target="_blank">“Raising Kayne”, Santa Monica</a> by James Turrell with <a href="http://standard-la.com/index.php/architecture/view/68/date" target="_blank">Standard</a></p>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/50400975392http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/50400975392Mon, 13 May 2013 21:47:00 -0700james turrellstandardric kayneskyspace<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3e97ab8d7f05917f43e07f4875e8e5cd/tumblr_mmlagikOqS1qccmmeo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/50093560219http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/50093560219Fri, 10 May 2013 08:45:54 -0700whole foodssilver lakethe internet<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b8f10f5a2a7b2e72d415f5d51bf994f8/tumblr_mmebtfKCWZ1qjq5r9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://good.tumblr.com/post/49800733617/in-1897-a-bicycle-superhighway-was-the-future-of" target="_blank">good</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p class="p1">In 1897, a wealthy American businessman named Horace Dobbins began construction on a private, for-profit bicycle superhighway that would stretch from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles. It may seem like a preposterous notion now—everyone knows Angelenos don’t get out of their cars—but at the time, amidst the height of a pre-automobile worldwide cycling boom, the idea attracted the attention of some hugely powerful players. And it almost got built.</p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/in-1897-a-bicycle-superhighway-was-the-future-of-california-transit" target="_blank">Continue to vice.com</a></span></p> </blockquote> <p>Bike-loving white people have been trying to ruin Highland Park for more than a century I guess.</p>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49875942345http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49875942345Tue, 07 May 2013 13:30:27 -0700infrastructurebicyleslos angeles<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8cc7aa549e83006ca7ccc5b6592c29c6/tumblr_mma93vQSjO1qccmmeo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49795925535http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49795925535Mon, 06 May 2013 13:30:17 -0700parismétroanagrammesgilles esposito-farèse<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sUEf6goy0G8?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49756220904http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49756220904Sun, 05 May 2013 22:43:00 -0700teresa strataskurt weillyoukalitango<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Pm9eAe9x6O8?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49714371267http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49714371267Sun, 05 May 2013 13:30:23 -0700francepolitiquechristiane taubiragay<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/109b7928de783e9ccc7e5ad33e37f38a/tumblr_mma96qiVTV1qccmmeo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I love the idea of a symposium on urban context being held at the fucking Getty.</p>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49619729838http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49619729838Sat, 04 May 2013 13:30:10 -0700the ironyit's too much<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1bd603447e892dbfec73d804f901639e/tumblr_mkqpom8LfF1sn310vo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://screamsinblackandwhite.tumblr.com/post/47116220671/lavventura-1960-michelangelo-antonioni" target="_blank">screamsinblackandwhite</a></p>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49293815336http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49293815336Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:30:33 -0700michelangelo antonionil'avventurafilm<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2910037722fb3383494e08659347bef9/tumblr_mlykrpaZ0L1qccmmeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Fred Herzog, Two Men in Fog</p>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49199981948http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49199981948Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:30:11 -0700photographieparis photofred herzog<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4f23c88226304b96284078b5f5ad9ce5/tumblr_mlrmbhVXGi1rpx8ryo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49119820837http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49119820837Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:30:30 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/52c0d4b4fe68b8cf82a660077b8e78e5/tumblr_mlyke16oyW1qccmmeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere (at Paris Photo LA)</p>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49078668641http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49078668641Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:15:00 -0700photographieparis photojd 'okhai ojeikere<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a298352b21146888a4ba880b5964f3a5/tumblr_mlxdieKIcC1qccmmeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>La Parisienne</p>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49021256926http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/49021256926Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:49:26 -0700édouard manetpeintureImpressionisme<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/261ff031abbaf549030ee147b62559e3/tumblr_mlv7baqHYr1qgpvyjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://archimaps.tumblr.com/post/48927827005/inside-the-monumental-gate-of-the-worlds-fair-in" target="_blank">archimaps</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Inside the monumental gate of the World’s Fair in 1900, Paris</p> </blockquote>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/48949958194http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/48949958194Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:30:29 -0700parisexposition universelle<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-elon-musk-405-freeway-20130425,0,7423915.story">« Musk quips that it's easier getting rockets into orbit than navigating his commute between home in Bel-Air and his Space Exploration Technologies factory in Hawthorne. »</a>: <p>In the twenty-first century, billionaires donate money toward basic public infrastructure rather than charity or culture. </p>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/48865667238http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/48865667238Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:21:31 -0700infrastructurelos angeleselon muskthe fucking westside<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/who-says-new-york-is-not-affordable.html">« I began to realize why, in part, New York seems so wealthy. It’s not so much that the city has been colonized by hedge-fund millionaires (though it often feels that way) as it is losing its lower classes. »</a>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/48807425647http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/48807425647Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:11:00 -0700nychourglass economyinégalité<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/832f99e1cd85bacdbb541edf8f91fe0f/tumblr_mlryoeKtv71qat99uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://subtilitas.tumblr.com/post/48791927267/amazing-railing-detail-in-cesare-cattaneos-casa" target="_blank">subtilitas</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Amazing railing detail in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Cattaneo" target="_blank">Cesare Cattaneo</a>’s <a href="http://subtilitas.tumblr.com/post/48791783916/cesare-cattaneo-casa-daffitto-cernobbio-1939" target="_blank">Casa d’Affitto</a>, Cernobbio 1939. <a href="http://subtilitas.tumblr.com/post/48791783916/cesare-cattaneo-casa-daffitto-cernobbio-1939" target="_blank">Via</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p>That thing when you see photos you took four years ago appear in your feed.</p>http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/48793363581http://unsubstantialtrade.tumblr.com/post/48793363581Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:01:00 -0700Cesare Cattaneophotos que j'ai prisesarchitecture