links for 2006-04-01

• Coupland: jPod
  (tags: books douglascoupland jpod)
• Brett Steele, Architectural Association: resarch
  (tags: AA architecture blog)
• Special Edition marque stickers on cars
  (tags: design marketing cars)
• ChrisH on smart goods - the story so far
  (tags: nabaztag spime technology)
• artnet Magazine: A Critical History of Twentieth Century Art
  Excerpts from Kuspit's A Critical History of Twentieth Century Art.
  (tags: art donaldkuspit)
• artnet Magazine - Idol Thoughts
  Duchamp may be the first modern artist to take God's prohibition against "hewn" objects to heart. [...] Duchamp's work relies on a leap of faith: that new thought structures can be formed based on things already in the world.
  (tags: art jerrysaltz duchamp)
• spiked-culture | Article | 'One aesthetic banality is added to another'
  Matthew Collings gets a bit spiky about Grayson Perry's pots in a 2003 interview
  (tags: art matthewcollings)
• Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | JG Ballard on modernists and death
  (tags: jgballard art culture architecture toread)
• Guardian Unlimited Books | Michel Faber: Under the skin
  "the real triumph is Faber's restrained, almost opaque prose. This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence."
  (tags: books michelfaber josephconrad)