The NFB online

I am a fan of the NFB, or the National Film Board for those outside of Canada. The NFB is a wholly government-funded agency that produces films about Canada and has done since before the second world war. Some of the early stuff, particularly during the WW2 was certainly propaganda but in amongst the 13,000 …

Radiant City

I watched this documentary on a plane the other day, it was "oddly disturbing" as the promo says. What particularly struck me was the comment that 80% of structures that we inhabit were built in the last 50 years, ie that most of what we experience with buildings really has no history before the second …