Art Trap
2009-12-30 00:00:00
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[Image: From Art Trap by Minsuk Cho].
In an amazing response to the Guggenheim Museum's Contemplating the Void call-for-ideas (mentioned in the previous post), architect Minsuk Cho has proposed Art Trap. ...
Spiral Icon
2009-12-30 00:00:00
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[Image: Flow Show by WORKac (2009)].
For a forthcoming exhibition called Contemplating the Void, New York's Guggenheim Museum "invited more than two hundred artists, architects, and designers to imagine th...
Manhattan Paleolimnology
2009-12-28 00:00:00
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Temporary lakes have sprung up all over Manhattan again this week, sometimes more than twenty feet wide and a foot deep, spanning curbs and pooling in gutters, the aquatic remains of last week's rain and snowme...
Rousseau and Echolocation
2009-12-27 00:00:00
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[Image: Perspective by Jan Vredeman de Vries; no explicit relation to this post].
Writing about the human experience of night before electricity, A. Roger Ekirch points out that almost all internal archite...
Music for Landscapes
2009-12-24 00:00:00
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[Images: Two diagrams stitched together showing acoustics of bat echolocation at Carlsbad Caverns].
For those of you with audio-spatial interests, Word of Mouth on New Hampshire Public Radio ran a twenty-m...
Leviathan: An Interview with Richard Mosse
2009-12-29 00:00:00
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[Image: "C-47 Alberta" by Richard Mosse].
Photographer Richard Mosse, originally from Ireland, is a graduate of the Yale MFA program in photography, as well as a recipient of a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship...
Geospatial Holograms
2009-12-21 00:00:00
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A firm called Zebra Imaging tells us about "geospatial holograms"—including the awesome handheld flashlight-sized projector seen below.
[Images: All images courtesy of Zebra Imaging].
Heavily pitchi...
Muscatatuck
2009-12-20 00:00:00
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[Images: Inside Muscatatuck; photos by Mashid Mohadjerin for The New York Times].
Before shipping out to Afghanistan, the U.S. Army and members of the Indiana National Guard have been training inside a sim...
The Burj Dubai as Storm Machine
2009-12-21 00:00:00
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In a recent article about Dubai—the world's easiest architectural target, and a city whose only true believers were money launderers and U.S.-based green architecture blogs—Der Spiegel describes the soon-to-o...
Crash State
2009-12-30 00:00:00
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The L.A. Times reports that, "Over the next six months, a budget-induced employee retirement program will shrink [L.A.'s] civilian workforce—a group that excludes the Department of Water and Power—by at least...