These are my links for August 21st from 05:15 to 09:34:

• Dissent Magazine – "Introducing his design for Atlantic Yards, Gehry spoke about trying to understand “the body language of Brooklyn.” But the only language Gehry has ever been interested in is the language of Frank Gehry. To say he is defiantly noncontextual is to imply that context enters into his thought at all.

  Gehry might have taken The Life and Death of Great American Cities as an anti-text. With its interior “public space,” its super-blocks, its potential for creating what Jacobs called “border vacuums” and the attendant crime that always accompanies such areas, in the way it cuts itself off from the neighborhoods around it and cuts them off from each other, Atlantic Yards represents the sort of thinking Jacobs discredited nearly fifty years ago.

  Atlantic Yards is the largest project Frank Gehry, now seventy-eight, has ever undertaken. And if it proves to be his last large project, it will be a fitting capstone to a career utterly blind to the public function of architecture."

• mycrocosm – Brian linked to this and I keep wanting to look at it, but can't right now. I'll look later, how about you?
• Microsoft launches 3D wonder Photosynth for consumers | Latest Microsoft News – CNET News – CNET News – Make your own 3D environments – but you have to learn how to take the right photos to make it work.