HIGH TECH VINTAGE F1 (1974)

The 1974 March 741, what a car. As someone that has informal educational affiliations to the automotive industry it is to be expected that one should fall in love with a fast old car every now and again. However, I have never aimed to simulate the use of them before now. After watching a couple of uTube videos I’m well and truly hooked; yearning to simulate the adrenaline pumped experience of a speedy drive around the Long Beach or Anderstorp circuit in an old racecar, to be happy & rejoice in the goodness that is Racecar-dom. While google searching the internets to satisfy these yearning desires I found a place where others endlessly obsess about vintage race cars as well as go out of their way to simulate the past with historic races online. The F1-S-R rFactor group is that place. Here hi-tech vintage race car enthusiasts organise seasons of online simulator racing. Catch them here on Facebook or here on the F1-S-R website forum. See a highlight video from their 2nd race of the winter session here:

Below is an onboard 01:23.55 lap completed in my March 741 Jagermeister sponsored vehicle on the Long Beach circuit. Apparently 01:23.55 is slow though, so hey lot’s of improvement to go and many more pleasurable sessions racing the old motor around a track. Gawd bless the idea that practice make perfect.

CCCP: COSMIC COMMUNIST CONSTRUCTIONS PHOTOGRAPHED

Photographer Frederic Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express what could be considered as the fourth age of Soviet architecture. They reveal an unexpected rebirth of imagination, an unknown burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990. Contrary to the twenties and thirties, no “school” or main trend emerges here. These buildings represent a chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system. Their diversity announces the end of Soviet Union. Taking advantage of the collapsing monolithic structure, the holes of the widening net, architects revisited all the chronological periods and styles, going back to the roots or freely innovating. Some of the daring ones completed projects that the Constructivists would have dreamt of (Druzhba sanatorium), others expressed their imagination in an expressionist way (Tbilisi wedding palace). A summer camp, inspired by sketches of a prototype lunar base, lays claim to its suprematist influence (Promethee). Then comes the speaking architecture widespread in the last years of the USSR: a crematorium adorned with concrete flames (Kiev crematorium), a technological institute with a flying saucer crashed on the roof (Kiev institute), a political center watching you like a Big Brother (Kaliningrad House of Soviet). This puzzle of styles testifies to all the ideological dreams of the period, from the obsession with the cosmos to the rebirth of privacy and it also outlines the geography of the USSR, showing how local influences made their exotic twists before bringing the country to its end.

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JAZZ FLUTES (1960-70s)

The retro jazz flute sound was iconic of the late 60s & 70’s. Just lovin it!

FLIPCLOCK PRINT

Recently I have been obsessing about flip-clocks and bumped into this large print of a flip clock fascia. ‘Each print is designed just for you in our little Devon studio, printed onto 192gsm enhanced matte paper, and framed to order by our Guild of Master Craftsmen qualified framers in a handmade flat black frame, using sustainable sourced FSC wood.’ Could make an excellent xmas pressie.

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www.notonthehighstreet.com