Hedgehog and DeLorean.

Blog by blog I'm getting drawn into the phenomenon. There is B******s to Architecture at http://b2architecture.blogspot.com/ which, unlike Death by Architecture (www.deathbyarch.com) is not a commercial site but a lone, anonymous, probably London architect running a rather nice gossip and links blog. The latest of such blogs is Norman Blogster's http://partiv.blogspot.com, which you might more readily recognise if you read 'iv' as the number four--as in architecture school. Norman Blogster is, of course, a nom de plume which, given the hair-trigger touchiness of some big-beast architects, seems like a sensible though not totally admirable idea. A colleague pooh-poohed the site, but I pointed out that you have to take blogs as they come, not look at them when you are preparing for a meeting, you should try out some of the links, take it easy, be prepared for the occasional infantilism, and expect nothing particularly. From PARTIV I personally got links to an architectural blogvideo about model making, an animated diagram of bike couriers through London, an 11 minute time-lapse video of boats in the Miraflores locks in the Panama Canal, a link to the US Midwest daily blog, Archidose at http://archidose.blogspot.com and of course the often hilarious Dr Garry's Australian site at www.archsoc.com. But most of all I have to be grateful to this site for that internationally renowned practice, the sublime Hedgehog and DeLorean.