{"id":1544,"date":"2008-06-14T12:47:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T19:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2009-03-16T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T18:35:28","slug":"more-images-less-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/more-images-less-words\/","title":{"rendered":"more images, less words"},"content":{"rendered":"

following on from the success of my recent some images, some words<\/a> post, I present you now with more images, but less words (we’re primarily a visual culture after all, are we not?):<\/p>\n

big trucks<\/strong><\/p>\n

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from 2008 Feb 24 in the NYTimes<\/a>, this graphic shows the vehicle power needed to move (and to protect, I assume) American troops in the world’s contemporary battlefields. My favorite is the Force Protection Buffalo Category III MRAP, a 20+ tonne vehicle that can carry 6 individuals the distance of St. Louis to Chicago for what would cost at consumer-rates<\/a> $400-a-tank (not to mention the money needed to get the diesel to the battlefield!)<\/p>\n

[via NYTimes – unknown article<\/a> (or I’m too lazy to search)]<\/p>\n

treehug the aristocracy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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HRH Prince Charles is the owner of an amazing 37-acre garden known as Highgrove Garden<\/a>. I’m not too keen on the British royal family, especially their acquisition of land and wealth – and they have a LOT of it<\/em> – but this place looks pretty spectacular. Too bad I can’t take my non-existing girlfriend there for a stroll.<\/p>\n

[via treehugger – A Visit to Highgrove Garden<\/a>]<\/p>\n

you gotta love him!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Martin Creed’s work #701<\/a>. Creed’s numbering sequence makes for archiving art a really simple task! No flamboyant or wordy titles, and everything simply falls in order, this one, then that one, and so forth.<\/p>\n

bike pr0n<\/strong><\/p>\n

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[via moyercycles Flickr<\/a>]<\/p>\n

something I’m terrible at<\/strong><\/p>\n

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is making business cards. there are some really good ones out there, and I just never follow through with producing them. Are they, the secret ticket to success?<\/em><\/p>\n

[via fubiz.net<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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following on from the success of my recent some images, some words post, I present you now with more images, but less words (we’re primarily a visual culture after all, are we not?): big trucks from 2008 Feb 24 in the NYTimes, this graphic shows the vehicle power needed to move (and to protect, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[130],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuffs","tag-randoms"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mrap-graphic.jpg?fit=960%2C516&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-oU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}