"For months now, I’ve had a bunch of images saved in a Google Doc dedicated to potential Pictorial odds and ends. It’s a pile of stock photos of women doing aerobics, circa the early 1990s. Every couple of weeks, I look at these photos, hoping inspiration will strike and I’ll figure out what to say about them. But I’m not sure there’s anything to say other than, uh, get a load of these fucking photos.
There are so many of these photos on Getty Images. You see the first one and you think, oh, check out those outfits! That hair! Those scrunchies!
Most of them appear to take place in this one specific room with bright red padding and feature an overlapping cast of models. As you can see our friend in the pink pants appears in all three shots, and the woman in the metallic teal sports appears in two. In fact the images are so similar that, as you can see, you can pair up three of them and if you don’t stare closely, it looks like one large mural.
Somewhere, in a loft space in Manhattan without a door, these women are still doing aerobics, sweating to the very same music, without having aged a day."
" The Olympic Games plant seeds of innovation all around the world.
Some of the most architecturally stunning stadiums and sports venues in existence came to be because the Olympics were coming to town. In Beijing, China, the Bird's Nest dazzled spectators with its intricate latticework and lights. The London Shooting Venue looks straight out of a Dr. Seuss book.
Here are 13 venues built for the Olympic Games that have made a lasting impact on athletic architecture."
