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In the near future, I'd be interested in deploying a complete OpenStreetMap server installation on one of these guys, which probably means getting a bootable volume onto the SD card instead of the severely limited half-GB of flash storage that comes inside the unit. 26 Years, 85 Notebooks: Observatory: Design Observer [New Window]
I've seen other designer's sketchbooks and I'm always impressed by how much creativity is on display. Not in mine. Page after page contain nothing but records of phone conversations, notes from meetings, price estimates, specifications. I keep the random doodles to a minimum. Golf Au Maroc [New Window]
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Above (left): Collage by Jason & Aya (Overture), created live in the radio station during the broadcast of Arthur Radio Voyage #9. Double-click to view fullscreen.Stream: Download: Arthur Radio Voyage #9: Forest Dwelling with OvertureThis week we arrived at the Newtown Radio studio to find it transformed beyond recognition… emerald green vines blanketed the walls, [...]
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:54:07 -0400 Ornamental Forensics [New Window]
[Image: Photo by Andy Marshall of Foto Facade from his awesome Flickr set Beverley Minster Hoodmould Carvings].Continuing, briefly, with the ideas presented in the previous post, I wanted to add two more things: 1) Could ancient astronomical events also have been recorded in architectural ornament (not just in paintings or poetry)? In other words, somewhere beneath the overgrown vines of some Indiana Jones-like complex in the Cambodian rain forestor carved into the solid rock of a minor cathedral near Dijonis a bas-relief depicting a star gone nova six hundred years ago. This astral disaster left no other record than that. Previously unknown celestial events could thus be pieced together through stone carvings found as far apart as a village church in Russia and a temple on the Deccan Plateauor even stars in stained glass windows. So is there an architectural equivalent to the appearance of Halley's Comet's in the Bayeux Tapestry? A previously unknown meteor shower historically recorded in a chapel's stone vault?2) What about epidemiological history as recorded in architectural ornament? Of course, there are already dozens of examples of medical historians determining, through close readings and reinterpretations of literary document, that such and such a king or character must have been suffering from syphilis or a brain tumor or lead-induced dementia. But I'm specifically interested here in how medical symptoms might have taken on ornamental form. Perhaps, in the writhing Gothic forms of church facadesin those old carved faces depicting humans hybridized with angels and demons, plants and animals, minerals and godswe might yet discover the symptomological clues of some horrifying medieval plague or outbreak. You travel to a remote mountain village in Macedonia to study vernacular church-building traditions only to find a shunned building on the edge of town whose ornamentation borders on the grotesqueand you soon realize that you've discovered not just an architectural masterpiece but evidence of a forgotten disease, similar to Ebola, that had otherwise gone unrecorded. At the very least, this would make for an awesome potboiler or short novel, that I would absolutely love to write (attention, publishers!).My point, though, is to ask if there are any real-world examples of architectural ornament in which something like an unknown astronomical event, or a disease forgotten by the modern world (weird bodies on a stone frieze in northern India). If so, how might these strange carving be subject to the same type of analysis as explored in the previous post? I sense a new historical field herecalled ornamental forensicsjust waiting to happen. Geothermal Gardens and the Hot Zones of the City [New Window]
[Image: "Reykjavik Botanical Garden" by Andrew Corrigan and John Carr].In a fantastic issue of AD, edited by Sean Lally and themed around the idea of "Energies," a long list of projects appeared that are of direct relevance to the Glacier/Island/Storm studio thread developing this week. I want to mention just two of those projects here. [Image: "Reykjavik Botanical Garden" by Andrew Corrigan and John Carr].For their "Reykjavik Botanical Garden," Rice University architecture students Andrew Corrigan and John Carr proposed tapping that city's geothermal energy to create "microclimates for varied plant growth.""Heat is taken directly from the ground," they write, "and piped up across the landscape into a system of [pipes and] towers."Zones of heat radiate out from the pipes, creating a new climate layer with variable conditions based on their number and proximity to each other. These exterior plantings are mostly native to Iceland, but the amplified environment allows a wider range of growth than would normally be possible, informing the role and opportunity of this particular botanical garden. Visitors experience growth never before possible in Iceland, and travel through new climates throughout the site.Amidst "hydroponic growing trays and research laboratories," and sprouting in the climatic shadow of complicated "air-intake systems," a new landscape grows, absorbing its heat from below. [Image: "Reykjavik Botanical Garden" by Andrew Corrigan and John Carr].The climate of the city is altered, in other words, literally from the ground up; using the functional equivalent of terrestrially powered ovens, otherwise botanically impossible species can healthily take root.This domestication of geothermal energy, and the use of it for purposes other than electricity-generation, raises the fascinating possibility that heat itself, if carefully and specifically redirected, can utterly transform urban space. [Image: Produced for the "Vatnsmyri Urban Planning Competition" by Sean Lally, Andrew Corrigan, and Paul Kweton of WEATHERS].A variant on this forms the basic idea behind Sean Lally's own project, produced with Andrew Corrigan and Paul Kweton, for the Vatnsmyri Urban Planning Competition (a competition previously discussed on BLDGBLOG here). Their design also proposes using geothermal heat in Reykjavik "to affect the local climatic conditions on land, including air temperature and soil temperature for vegetative growth." But their goal is to generate a "climatic 'wash'"that is, an amorphous zone of heat that lies just slightly outside of direct regulation. This slow leaking of heat into the city could then effect a linked series of hot zonesor variable microclimates, as the architects writethat would punctuate the city with thermal oases. Like a winterized inversion of the air-conditioned cold fronts we feel rolling out from the open doors of buildings all summer long, this would be pure heatand its attendant humidityroiling upward from the Earth itself. The result would be to generate a new architecture not of walls and buildings but of temperature thresholds and bodily sensation. Indeed, as David Gissen suggests in his excellent book Subnature, this project could very well imply "a new form of urban planning," one in which sculpted zones of thermal energy take precedence over architecturally designated public spaces. Of course, whether this simply means that under-designed urban dead zoneslike the otherwise sorely needed pedestrian parks now scattered up and down Broadwaywill be left as is, provided they are heated from below by a subway grate, remains, for the time being, undetermined. This is all just part of a much larger question: how we "renegotiate the relationship between architecture and weather," as Jrgen Mayer H. and Neeraj Bhatia, editors of the recent book -arium: Weather + Architecture, describe it. The Glacier/Island/Storm studio will continue to explore these and other abstract questions of climate and architectural design throughout the spring. Vincent Van Gogh and the Storm Archive [New Window]
[Image: Vincent Van Gogh, "Wheatfields under Thunderclouds" (1890)].One of many books I've been referring to quite often these days, both in personal conversations and during desk-crits with my students, is Michael Welland's Sand, newly released in paperback. I'll be mentioning many things from his book throughout the coming days and later; for now, I simply want to call attention to a comment Welland makes about Vincent Van Gogh's habit of painting en plein airthat is, outside, with fresh paint, in the windswept meadows and fields near the Mediterranean, where dust storms were an expected part of an afternoon. This regional meteorology often resulted in sand grains being blown onto Van Gogh's still-wet canvasesand thus becoming a permanent part of art history. Indeed, in some cases, Welland writes, citing Van Gogh's own letters, the sand could get so dense and accumulate so thickly that he would have to scrape preliminary images from the unfinished canvas and start again. That intrusive terrestrial presencepieces of the very thing his paintings were meant to representwas thus removed. [Image: Vincent Van Gogh, "Wheatfield with Crows" (1890)].More interestingly, though, passing meteorological events of the 19th century left behind what we might call aerial fossils: traces of violent wind patterns and minor climatologies that have been frozen into place on the surface of plein air paintings. The result is a kind of storm archivean unintentional core sample of 19th-century weatherhoused in museums around the world. Squint long enough, perhaps, and beneath those swirling mists and pixelations you will see traces of the Sahara, of building dust, of pollen, of the wheat-sprouting soil of the region, all recorded for good measure through time. Like some unexpected variation on Jurassic Parkin which it is not the DNA of dinosaurs extracted from ancient amber that we use to reconstitute a missing beingperhaps an army of art historians and scientists, equipped with microscopes and tweezers, could pull from the surface of every painting by Vincent Van Gogh a catalog of lost weather systems, mapping the moving sands of his era. #GlacierIslandStorm MAP 002: Quarantine [New Window]
[Image: MAP 002: Quarantine by David Garcia].Architect David Garcia's MAP projectthe Manual of Architectural Possibilitieshas been mentioned here before, which makes me all the more excited to announce that the next issue of MAP will not only be themed around quarantine but it will be on display as an offical part of the Landscapes of Quarantine exhibition opening next month at Storefront for Art and Architecture. This installment, which features Garcia's speculative designs for projects like a "Zoo of Infectious Species," a "Domestic Isolation Unit," and an "Instantly Quarantinable Farm," will also once again include an introductory text by Sir Peter Cook.[Image: MAP 002: Quarantine by David Garcia].Garcia will in town for Storefront's Landscapes of Quarantine opening party, on Tuesday, March 9, so be sure to come by, buy a copy of MAP 002: Quarantine for yourself, and meet the man in person. A Minor Architectural History of Ice Islands [New Window]
[Image: "Drawing shows ice island, frozen by liquid air, proposed by German scientist as a floating harbor and landing field"; via InfraNet Lab].InfraNet Lab's new post on artificial ice islandsand the architectural use of ice as a building material for things like roads, drilling platforms, remote airstrips, and moreis absolutely fascinating and a must-read. Don't miss it. More on ice islands coming soon! Flash Quarantine [New Window]
[Image: Landscapes of Quarantine opens tonight, March 9, at 7pm in New York City].With the help of Csar Cotta and Joshua Hearn, and based on a design by Glen Cummings, we installed a massive, reflective vinyl wall graphic last night at 2am outside Storefront for Art and Architectureand it looks amazing. Flash photographs make the city disappear and giant vinyl letters float in space. [Image: Landscapes of Quarantine in New York City].Ready or not, then, and half-covered in paint, our jeans ruined, in need of new shoes, dehydrated, our exhibition participants recently returned from Uganda and the eastern Congo with photographs and a film, mounting illuminated comic book manuscripts on the wall, exploring nuclear-waste repositories as symbolic geological centers of a future world, diagramming parallel split cities with quarantine spaces merely an arm's length away, and opening the facade panels of the gallery to allow bubbles and bulges and Tyvek screens to confuse the outside line with the street, and more, we will be there tonight, unloading dozens of cases of beer donated by Brooklyn Brewery, to celebrate this long project coming together at last in an exhibition space for everyone to see. Stop by at 7pm tonight, March 9, if you're around and say helloor drop in on Storefront for Art and Architecture during its regular opening hours any time before April 17. Orange will after-image through your brain for days to come... Screens in Space [New Window]
A mind-bogglingly awesome new project from MIT called Flyfire hopes to use large, precision-controlled clouds of micro-helicopters, each carrying a color-coordinated LED, to create massive, three-dimensional information displays in space. [Image: Via Flyfire].Each helicopter is "a smart pixel," we read. "Through precisely controlled movements, the helicopters perform elaborate and synchronized motions and form an elastic display surface for any desired scenario." Emergency streetlights, future TV, avant-garde rural entertainment, and even acts of war. Watch the video:Instead of a drive-in cinema, in other words, you could simply be looking out from the windscreen of your car at a massive cloud of color-coordinated, precision-timed, drone micro-helicopters, each the size and function of a pixel. Imagine planetarium shows with this thing! The Flyfire canvas can transform itself from one shape to another or morph a two-dimensional photographic image into an articulated shape. The pixels are physically engaged in transitioning images from one state to another, which allows the Flyfire canvas to demonstrate a spatially animated viewing experience.Imagine web-browsing through literal clouds of small flying pixels, parting and weaving in the air in front of you like fireflies (or imagine training fireflies to act as a web browser). You're in a university auditorium one day when, instead of delivering her projected slideshow, your professor simply remote-controls a whirring vortex of ten thousand flying micro-dots. Digital 3D cinema is nothing compared to this murmuration of light.Channeling Tim Maly, we might even someday see a drone-swarm of LED-augmented, artificially intelligent nano-helicopters flying off into the desert skies of the American southwest, on cinematic migration routes blurring overhead. On a lonely car drive through northern Arizona when a film-cloud flies by...An insane emperor entertains himself watching precision-controlled image-clouds, some of which are distant satellites falling synchronized through space. Glacier / Island / Storm Online [New Window]
[Image: From Modern Mechanix, thanks to a tip from Nicole Seekely].For the next five days, if everything goes as planned, BLDGBLOG and eight other architecture, design, and technology blogs will be engaged in a series of linked posts and ongoing conversations about themes relevant to the "Glacier/Island/Storm" studio at Columbia University this Spring. In the broadest terms, we will be exploring the architecture of large-scale natural processes; more specifically, this means studying artificial glaciers; organically-grown archipelagos and other artificial reef technologies; and the unintended climatic side-effects of architecture, including the possibility of "owning the weather." [Image: From Modern Mechanix]. The participating blogs are a456 (Enrique Ramirez), Edible Geography (Nicola Twilley), HTC Experiments (David Gissen), InfraNet Lab (Mason White, Maya Przybylski, Neeraj Bhatia, and Lola Sheppard), mammoth (Rob Holmes and Stephen Becker), Serial Consign (Greg J. Smith), Soundscrapers/UC-Berkeley Archinect School Blog Project (Nick Sowers), and Quiet Babylon (Tim Maly). For my own part, I'll be posting on a wide range of themes directly related to the studio, including summaries of visiting expert lectures and class field trips to local scientific institutions; but I will also be offering my own speculative thoughts on the matter. Also, in addition to each blogger commenting on one another's posts when possible, or simply following up with their own response-posts, I will be maintaining a list of relevant links to keep the whole thing flowing.So my students and I are off on a field trip for the rest of the day, but I will begin putting up posts this evening. Feel free to join in, leave comments, suggest further readings, and more. Thanks! Drift Station Bravo [New Window]
The other day I took my students up to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory for an afternoon of tours through the awe-inspiring Core Lab and for a visit with the Borehole Group; we stopped in at the Lamont-Doherty seismic research station along the way, where we watched our technician-guide create artificial earthquakes with a wooden mallet so that we could watch his digital equipment go to work. It was a great day. [Images: Inside the Core Lab at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory].While we were in the Core Lab, however (photographs of which you see above), our guide mentioned that many of the older core sampleswhere a coring device is dropped all the way to the seabed in order to take a large cylindrical sample of geological material back to the surface for archiving and analysiswere taken not from ships but from icebergs. These mobile islands of ice would be temporarily repurposed, turned into science labs at sea. Researchers would simply ride them till they melted, often quite far south into the waters of the North Atlantic. I had forgotten about this. Oddly, I have been meaning to post about an old ice island called Drift Station Bravo, used for exactly these sorts of purposes, since the earliest days of BLDGBLOG (in fact, I mentioned Drift Station Bravo in a very old interview with Ballardian). In light of the Glacier/Island/Storm studio, then, and after our inspiring tour of Lamont-Doherty, I thought I'd briefly recount this awesome story. [Image: Drift Station Bravo postage cancellation mark, via Polar Philately].As explained by the Polar Philately page, Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher, commander of an Air Force weather squadron stationed in the Arctic, discovered "a large tabular iceberg... that had broken off the Arctic ice shelf... [and] gone adrift." This island of solid ice was soon "codenamed T-1, taken from its original radar designation as a target." Future "ice islands" were codenamed T-2 and T-3.On March 19, 1952, the U.S. Air Force led by Colonel Fletcher and some scientists landed on this ice island [T-3] in a C-47 aircraft, setting up a weather observation station. Fletcher established a research station that was manned at this big ice sheet for roughly the next 25 years, despite a grim quote given by the head of the Alaska Air Command at the time, a General Old, who was quoted in a Life magazine article of the time as saying "I don't see how any man can live on this thing."These details seem worth repeating: Fletcher's weather station was operated on a repurposed but naturally occuring ice island for 25 years.Fletcher's Ice Island, and the research station that was located on it, rotated in circles in the Arctic Ocean, floating aimlessly along in the Arctic currents in a clockwise direction. The station was inhabited mainly by scientists along with a few military crewmen and was resupplied during its existence primarily by military planes operating from Barrow, Alaska.Even better, the islandlater renamed "Drift Station Bravo"was inhabited long enough that it actually got its own postal network.[Image: Letters postmarked from Drift Station Bravo, via Polar Philately].Again, from the Polar Philately website:During the period of active habitation, T-3 covers [basically postage stamps] were serviced, each stamped with a variety of hand-stamped cachets and markings, dated, and often marked with a manuscript notation of the geographic position of the drifting station on that particular day of ops. The T-3/Bravo covers were often cancelled at Barrow or at a USAF base in Alaska, and then placed in the mailstream.The envelope, in other words, was stamped with the latitude and longitude of the iceberg at the moment of that letter's departure. [Image: A postal marking from Drift Station Bravo, via Polar Philately].Over on InfraNet Lab, we read that ice "has been a strategic building material in the Arctic for the construction of roads, airstrips, housing, and, in the last few decades, as temporary drilling platforms to explore for oil."Ice islands are formed by spraying ice into cold air (below 20 degrees F), and layering the ice until it reaches a thickened state. These islands are either grounded at the bottom of the sea floor or are floating structures in deeper waters. Fabricated in just two months, these islands provide enough stability to support exploratory drilling tools including the rig and attendant equipment.One of many amazing things about Drift Station Bravo, however, is that it was an administratively claimed piece of naturally existing, mobile territory. It wasn't created in any genuine architectural sense, simply redirected, named, and given its own postal identity.Given this act of territorial appropriation, and bearing in mind the island's fundamental state of mobility, what are the implications for its maritime jurisdiction, as Enrique Ramirez explores over on a456?[Image: A letter from Drift Station Bravo, via Polar Philately].This becomes a question of immediate geopolitical concern when we consider the fact that Drift Station Bravo and its ilk were actually created in a Sputnik-like reaction to the Soviet's own very active ice island program. The Soviets "already operated six drifting ice camps of this kind," we read in a documentary transcript, downloadable as a 27kb PDF, but, "owing to the particular strategic importance and sensitivity of the Arctic Basin, little information from these early Soviet stations had reached the West."That same transcript goes on to explain exactly how the U.S managed to architecturally colonize these nomadic ice worlds. Like a vision straight out of Archigram, military civilization on the ice established itself as follows:...a ski-equipped C-47 landed on the ice and deployed the first team of workers. It included an Air Force Major as camp commander and several soldiers with technical skills who had volunteered for 6 months duty on the ice, plus four of the typical tough and versatile Alaskan construction workers. Modular buildings, called Jamesway huts, camp supplies, fuels, two small World War II Studebaker tractors, called Weasel, and a small bulldozer, were dropped by parachutes.I could quote the entire PDF, in fact, as it is easily one of the most fascinating things I've read, but a particularly eye-popping detail comes when we read that these researchers deliberately generated earthquakes in the iceberg they lived on: "we generated tiny earthquakes in the ice. The propagation of the compressional waves generated in this way are used to study the elastic properties of the ice." The story expands rapidly from here. In an article originally published in the September-October 1966 issue of Air University Review, we read that competitive Soviet drift stations apparently discovered a "second magnetic north pole... located near 80 N and 178 W, with magnetic medians extending across the Arctic Ocean," and that sulfuric gas fumes from a badly timed undersea volcanic eruption killed at least one unlucky crew member. The whole thing amazes me, in fact. I don't know why I've been sitting on this story for so long, but it's nice, finally, to put something up about Drift Station Bravo. How many other icebergs actually had their own postal codes? (I owe a huge thanks to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory staff for taking my students around their facilitieswe had a great time. Thanks!) Excised Islands / Gourmet Cocktail [New Window]
Tim Maly of Quiet Babylon and Nicola Twilley of Edible Geography have both jumped into the Glacier/Island/Storm blogathon unfolding this week with posts about, respectively, questions of island sovereignty, national borders, data havens, geo-preservation and more, and, at Edible Geography, specialty ices developed for the boutique cocktail trade.[Image: The Okinotori Islandsor are they reefs? Image via Tim Maly].Tim's postwhich you should read in fullbrings to mind recent moves by the Australian government to "excise" distant islands so as to prevent illegal immigrants from reaching what would otherwise legally recognized as Australian land. The whole legislative exercise falls somewhere between a managed retreat of territorial sovereignty and a particularly Kafka-esque interpretation of Zeno's paradox.In Kafka's short story "A Message from the Emperor," for instance, we read that an imperial messenger, instructed to deliver the dying emperor's final wish to a recipient far away, finds himself unable to travel anywhere at all. Indeed, as he struggles to make his way through endless crowds and palace antechambers, fighting his way toward a destination that was, at best, unclear, "how futile are all his efforts," we read.He is still forcing his way through the private rooms of the innermost palace. Never will he win his way through. And if he did manage that, nothing would have been achieved. He would have to fight his way down the steps, and, if he managed to do that, nothing would have been achieved. He would have to stride through the courtyards, and after the courtyards through the second palace encircling the first, and, then again, through stairs and courtyards, and then, once again, a palace, and so on for thousands of years.Now reverse this. Imagine someonea subject of the empiretrying to force his or her way back to the center, trying against overwhelming odds to reach the very epicenter of sovereign power, but utterly unable to succeed. There is always another courtyard to cross; always more rooms to run through. Now imagine this being played out on a South Pacific archipelago, where you are up against a sovereign state that insists on "excising" bits and bobs of its outer territory in order to sabotage your own best efforts to get somewhere. You step onto one island, secure in what you think is arrival, only to be told that, no, this is not yet Australia. You are both here and not here. This island is usbut it is also something we have legally abandoned. So you move on to the next islandand the next, and the next. The territorial complexities of sovereign governance thus rapidly spiral into clouds of uncertainty.[Image: Map of Christmas Island].According to The Age, an Australian newspaper, "the Howard government removed about 4,600 islands from the migration zone in 2005, preventing boat people who land there from accessing Australian law and claiming asylum in Australia." The "migration zone" referred to here includes Christmas Island, which nowin 2010falls into a strange grey zone of legality; from the perspective of an arriving immigrant, it both is and is not Australia. This is what architect Ed Keller might call the political science fiction of excised island terrain. I'm reminded of China Miville's recent novel The City & The City, in which differently controlled but spatially overlapping urban territories have been marbled into and through one another; you can physically stand in two cities at once, yet only legally be present in one at any given time. Now blow Miville's strange in-and-out status up to the scale of a South Pacific archipelago and you have something approximating the spatial logic of Australian territorial law as applied to commonly used immigration routes. Read the actual, island-excising Parliamentary documentation here.[Image: Photo by Melissa Hom for New York Magazine].Nicola Twilley, meanwhile, studies "detailed instructions for artificial glacier construction," suggesting that "vernacular Himalayan glacier grafting techniques" might actually "have the potential to revolutionize the cocktails of tomorrow."In other words, artificial glaciers grown and maintained by specialty cocktail bars could be produced to order, made to include "orchid flowers, raspberries, or espresso beans," Nicola writes, thus creating "flavor-accented glaciers." These could then be chopped down into "berry-studded chunks," rough cubes that supply "the perfect finishing touch for a Brownie Cognac or Irish coffee." "The theatrical potential of custom artificial glaciers," she jokes, "might be second only to the champagne fountain."[Images: Photos by Melissa Hom for New York Magazine].These are only the two most recent posts in a week full of linked conversations exploring the Glacier/Island/Storm studio at Columbia University. Here is a list of those relevant posts, if you're interested:Edible Geography: The Ice ProgramQuiet Babylon: Islands in the NetBLDGBLOG: Vincent Van Gogh and the Storm ArchiveBLDGBLOG: Geothermal Gardens and the Hot Zones of the Citymammoth, a glacier is a very long eventInfraNet Lab, LandFab, or Manufacturing TerrainNick Sowers, Design to Fail #glacier #island #storm [New Window]
By way of a quick update, several fantastic new posts have joined this week's ongoing series of linked conversations, part of the Glacier/Island/Storm studio at Columbia's GSAPP.[Image: Map showing a straight baseline separating internal waters from zones of maritime jurisdiction; via a456].Here is a complete list so far, featuring the most recent posts and going backward in temporal order from there [note: this list has been updated as of February 26]. By all means, feel free to jump in with comments on any of them:Nick Sowers of UC-Berkeley/Archinect School Blog Project on "Super/Typhoon/Wall"Stephen Becker and Rob Holmes of mammoth on "saharan miami," "translation, machines, and embassies," and "islands draw the clouds, and glaciers are wind-catchers" Mason White, Maya Przybylski, Neeraj Bhatia, and Lola Sheppard of InfraNet Lab on "Particulate Swarms"David Gissen of HTC Experiments on "A contribution, a mini-review, a plug"Enrique Ramirez of a456 on "Baselines Straight and Normal"InfraNet Lab on "Islands of Speculation/Speculation on Islands: Spray Ice" (nice comments on this one)[Video: #climatedata by by Michael Schieben; via Serial Consign].Greg J. Smith of Serial Consign on "Glacier/Island/Storm: Three Tangents" (interesting comments developing here)mammoth on "Thilafushi" and "The North American Storm Control Authority" (enthusiastic comments thread on the latter link)Tim Maly of Quiet Babylon on "Islands in the Net" (interesting comments also developing here)Nicola Twilley of Edible Geography on "The Ice Program" (great comments here, too!)mammoth on "A Glacier is a Very Long Event" (another interesting comment thread)InfraNet Lab on "LandFab, or Manufacturing Terrain"Nick Sowers on "Design to Fail"Finally, I was excited to see that Ethel Baraona Pohl and Csar Reyes Njera have jumped into the conversation, adding their own thoughts over at dpr-barcelona; and Alexander Trevi of Pruned has also supplied a Glacier/Island/Storm-themed guide to his own archives in this hashtag switchboard. And that's in addition to some ongoing posts here on BLDGBLOG. It's been a great week for new content, I think, and all of the above are worth reading in full. Open [New Window]
Now that Landscapes of Quarantine is up and open for viewand will be until April 17we're off for a quick vacation. The opening night was amazing; thanks to everyone who came out, to everyone who helped set up, and to everyone whose work appears in the show. Thanks, especially, to Glen Cummings of MTWTF for a fantastic exhibition design, and to Josh Hearn and Csar Cotta for sticking around all week for 3am vinyl installations, multiple coats of paint, and more. [Image: Outside-in: looking into Brian Slocum's panel installation (left) and Jeffrey Inaba's/C-LAB's temporary sidewalk pavilions, built from Tyvek and blown air, at Storefront for Art and Architecture; photo by Nicola Twilley].I'm obviously biased, as the show's co-curator, but the works on display are awesome. They are:Pages 179187 by Joe AlterioQ-CITY: An Investigation by Front Studio/Yen Ha, Michi Yanagishita, and Joshua CummingsMAP 002 QUARANTINE by David Garcia StudioDid We Build The Frontier To Keep It Closed? by Scott GeigerField Notes from Quarantine, Katie HoltenHotel III, Camp II, Lab IV, and Cell V by Mimi LienCordon Sanitaire by Kevin SlavinContext/Shift, Brian SlocumContaining Uncertainty, Smudge Studio/Jamie Kruse & Elizabeth EllsworthNYCQ by Amanda Spielman & Jordan SpielmanQuick by Richard MosseThermal Scanner and Body Temperature Alert System by Daniel PerlinPrecious Isolation: A Pair of Invasive Species by Thomas PollmanAnd, for the opening night party only, Suck/Blow, a pair of sidewalk pavilions constructed from Tyvek and pressurized air, by Jeffrey Inaba/C-LAB with former director of Storefront for Art and Architecture, Joseph Grima. [Image: Photo by Emiliano Granado].The show is already getting some great press, such as these articles and previews in Azure, Dwell, Artinfo.com, and Fast Company. Pruned, mammoth, dpr-barcelona, and Life Without Buildings have also all added interests of their own.I've included a few photos here, meanwhile, but will be posting more about the show once the next few days of travel are done.I should also briefly add that this is the first post I've ever written while flying in a Wifi-enabled airplanein this case, over the American midwestriding through invisible geographies of air, turbulence bobbling us side to side in an experiential, transparent plate tectonics of the sky. [Image: Photo by Emiliano Granado].So thanks again for coming out for the exhibition opening. Regular posts will resume soon.[Images: All photos, except the last five (two of which are by Nicola Twilley and Stacy Fisher), by Emiliano Granado (who appears, with tripod, in the final image)]. Quick Links 8 [New Window]
[Image: National Geographic: "A spelunker in a glacier cave in Greenland gazes upon colors and shapes that look more like a swirling galaxy than a cave formation." Photo by Carsten Peter].Having now spent every available moment of every day for more than a week stuck inside Storefront for Art and Architecture, painting the floors and walls, installing vinyl, coordinating deliveries, sweeping up loose tape and sawdust, and more, I've decided to upload a slightly longer than normal cache of links. It might be a few more days before I can post again. I hope to see some of you at the exhibition opening, though, which takes place Tuesday, March 9, at 7pm: Landscapes of Quarantine. [Image: The future is not what it used to be: MIT's thresholds seeks essays on critical futurism].thresholds 38 | Futures: Call for Submissions: "Whether it is a revolt against the futures of the past or a curiosity towards the unknown, thresholds 38 invites methods, projects, practices and alternative kinds of critique that imagine unorthodox futures that can emerge from within this institution." Submissions due March 12. Synthetic Aesthetics | Call for Participants: "We seek participants for a project on synthetic biology, design, and aesthetics. The project will provide funding to bring together scientists and engineers working in synthetic biology with artists, designers, and other creative practitioners."Synthetic biology is broadly defined as the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and the re-design of existing biological systems for useful purposes. Design is central to synthetic biology, as the living world becomes a product of design and manufacturing choices, rather than evolutionary pressures alone. Thus, it becomes important to ask what role design--and the related concept of aesthetics--play in this burgeoning field. Other forms of engineering and manufacturing work in close conjunction with creative practitioners: structural engineers work with architects; mechanical engineers with product designers. Can synthetic biology benefit similarly from such collaborations?Applications due March 31.Open Agenda | Call for Submissions: "Open Agenda is a new annual competition aimed at supporting a new generation of experimental Australian architecture. Open to recent architecture graduates, Open Agenda is focused on developing the possibilities of design research in architecture and the built environment... Open Agenda will award seed funding to three exceptional design research proposals that explore new positions in architecture for critical consideration." Register by May 1.[Image: The Niagara Falls without their water, photographed by Flickr user rbglasson, via mammoth].mammoth | Absent Rivers, Ephemeral Parks: "For six months in the winter and fall of 1969, Niagaras American Falls were 'de-watered' as the Army Corps of Engineers conducted a geological survey of the falls rock face, concerned that it was becoming destabilized by erosion. During the interim study period, the dried riverbed and shale was drip-irrigated, like some mineral garden in a tender establishment period, by long pipes stretched across the gap, to maintain a sufficient and stabilizing level of moisture. For a portion of that period, while workers cleaned the former river-bottom of unwanted mosses and drilled test-cores in search of instabilities, a temporary walkway was installed a mere twenty feet from the edge of the dry falls, and tourists were able to explore this otherwise inaccessible and hostile landscape."BBC | North Tyneside high street "revived" by fake shop front: "Fake businesses are to be used to lessen the impact of the recession on high streets in North Tyneside... The government-funded project involves colourful graphic designs featuring a range of different shop types, which are either taped inside the windows or screwed to the fascia so they can be removed and reused as required."InfraNet Lab | Terrestrial Discontinuities: "...these [energy corridors in the western United States] range from 3,500-feet wide to upwards of 5 miles wide. With these widths, we could almost begin to see these corridors as an ecology in and of themselvesrather than an ecology competing with National Parks, they could become the New National Parks, infrastructural vectors, protected as natural reserves by virtue of their very danger to us."Guardian | Greece should sell islands to keep bankruptcy at bay: "Greece must consider a fire sale of land, historic buildings and art works to cut its debts, two rightwing German politicians said today in a newspaper interview that is bound to exacerbate tensions between Athens and Berlin. Alongside austerity measures such as cuts to public sector pay and a freeze on state pensions, why not sell a few uninhabited islands..." It might be ethically wrong, as well as politically dubious, and I have no money, but BLDGBLOG would certainly buy one. The Sovereign Neo-Cyclades. [Image: Tactical drone seed-bombing, courtesy of Design Under Sky].Design Under Sky | Ludic Guerrilla Gardening Drone Warfare: "...with recent advancements in augmented reality and virtual gaming, I can't help but imagine that a new style of drone-based urban landscape replenishment isn't a far off possibility."Post-Traumatic Urbanism | Mediterranean Union: "A [high-speed rail] line running along the Mediterranean littoral is a seemingly impossible idea based in visionary assumptions. After all, it would need to pass through a region mired by instability and fractured by impenetrable borders. Functioning like a conveyor at the scale of continents, it would redistribute flows of people, warping the space-time fabric of an entire regionlinking long disputed territories and as yet unformed nations. It would string together a seemingly impossible series of names: Gaza, Barcelona, Beirut, Haifa, Tel Aviv, Cairo. In doing so it would open a conduit between the differential pressures of North Africa and Europeall this in the context of EU policy that increasingly conceives of Southern Europe as a bulwark against refugees. The political question we asked ourselves is the following one: what are the emancipatory potentials of infrastructure?"City of Sound | Notes on New Songdo City (Part 1): "...it occurs to me that the logical thing to do would be the greatest engineering project of the next centuries; quite possibly the greatest diplomatic and economic project of the next centuries too, linking Japan with China via Korea via a high-speed rail link across gigantic bridges."Spaceinvading | Sandwiched by INABA: "As part of the 2010 Whitney Biennial, Jeffrey Inaba's firm INABA was commissioned to design a popup caf located in the museum's interior courtyard. The project consists of three largescale lanterns that occupy the courtyard's doubleheight space; a 24foot long service counter; communal tables; hightop counters; and 'droopy' seat cushions."[Image: Project by CJ Lim Image by Squint/Opera for Grant Associates].SCI-Arc | London Eight Exhibition: "SCI-Arc presents London Eight, curated by renowned English architect Sir Peter Cook. A founding member of the 1960s futurist group Archigram and a visiting faculty member at SCI-Arc, Cook invited five architects who currently teach at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where Cook was professor from 1990 to 2005, to participate in an exhibition at the SCI-Arc Library Gallery. These architects were then asked to select a 'protege' whom they had mentored through their studies at the Bartlett to exhibit alongside their own work in the gallery." Includes work by Smout Allen, Johan Hybschmann, Marjan Colletti & Marcos Cruz, Yousef Al-Mehdari, CJ Lim, and Pascal Bronner.Hudson Valley Seed Library | "The Hudson Valley Seed Library strives to do two things: to create an accessible and affordable source of regionally-adapted seeds that is maintained by a community of caring gardeners; and, to create gift-quality seed packs featuring works designed by New York artists in order to celebrate the beauty of heirloom gardening."Urban Forest Map | "The Urban Forest Map is a collaborative project among city agencies, tree advocacy groups, and citizen foresters like you to map every tree in San Francisco, which will help protect and expand our urban forests."GOOD | Fallen Fruit's Tree-planting Dreams Are Uprooted In Madrid: "For the last 10 days Fallen Fruit had been scouring the area [around Madrid], leading urban foraging trips to find what other fruit-bearing trees existed in the neighborhood around the city-funded Matadero art space, plotting the best locations for future apples, peaches, plums, pears, and apricots... The plan was to have the trees planted before their final presentation that night, giving the people of Madrid a map to all the public fruit they could eventually eat."Cleveland Plain Dealer | Galleria mall is giant greenhouse, raising organic crops in Cleveland: "...by late spring or early summer, there will be fresh tomatoes for sale among the shops and galleries at the downtown Cleveland mall. Very freshas in vine-grown in bags and troughs hanging from steel stair banisters and ceiling beams in the shopping center that stretches between East Ninth and East 12th streets."[Image: King's Vineyard, London by Soonil Kim, via Pruned].Pruned | King's Vineyard, London: "One can certainly imagine such a network [of aerial vineyards and urban viticultural installations] built to grow others things, such as vegetables, herbs, fruits, cash crops, commercial flowers and plants, with the winery turned into a farmer's market."Independent | Syria's Stonehenge: Neolithic stone circles, alignments and possible tombs discovered: "Dr. Mason explains that he 'went for a walk' into the eastern perimeter of the sitean area that hasnt been explored by archaeologists. What he discovered is an ancient landscape of stone circles, stone alignments and what appear to be corbelled roof tombs. From stone tools found at the site, its likely that the features date to some point in the Middle Easts Neolithic Perioda broad stretch of time between roughly 8500 BC 4300 BC. It is thought that in Western Europe megalithic construction involving the use of stone only dates back as far as ca. 4500 BC. This means that the Syrian site could well be older than anything seen in Europe."New York Times | A Jewish Ritual Collides With Mother Nature: "From Washington to New York State, a series of 'snowmageddons' have wreaked a particular form of havoc for Orthodox Jews. The storms have knocked down portions of the ritual boundary known as an eruv in Jewish communities... Almost literally invisible even to observant Jews, the wire or string of an eruv, connected from pole to pole, allows the outdoors to be considered an extension of the home. Which means, under Judaic law, that one can carry things on the Sabbath, an act that is otherwise forbidden outside the house. Prayer shawls, prayer books, bottles of wine, platters of food and, perhaps most important, strollers with children in themOrthodox Jews can haul or tote such items within the eruv. When a section of an eruv is knocked down by, lets say, a big snowstorm, then the alerts go out by Internet and robocall, and human behavior changes dramatically."Spillway | Why Ambassador, With This Perimeter You Are Really Spoiling Us: "One progresses from queue to queue before entering the building, progressing to slightly higher echelons of security clearance each time depending on the paperwork one has brought with one. Unsmiling police officers with automatic weapons stare at you, and you realize that if you made a dash towards the building itself, you would have to enter an area of open space that designed as a killzone, surrounded by armed representatives of the Metropolitan constabulary. Behind crossfire plaza is the building itself, its generous Scandinavian spaces seemingly as distant as the country you are trying to visit. The contradictions of that space are horribly unsettling, with a strongly dystopian odour: we can see the structures of a democracy retrofitted with the apparatus of authoritarianism. It gives a sense of how far we've fallen in 10 years."[Image: The "High Houses" of Lebbeus Woods].Lebbeus Woods | High Houses: "The High Houses are proposed as part of the reconstruction of Sarajevo after the siege of the city that lasted from 1992 though late 1995. Their site is the badly damaged 'old tobacco factory' in the Marijn dvor section near the city center."Serial Consign | Toronto Sound Ecology: "Toronto Sound Ecology is a web mapping project dedicated to archiving field recordings collected in and around Toronto."Some landscapes | Alpine Symphony: "Birdsong, thunderstorms and flowing water are pretty standard, but... would it be possible to move away from the sublime and the picturesque, to convey more unusual settings or simply nondescript landscapes through purely orchestral sound?"Google Earth Blog | Solving a Murder With Google Earth: "On January 24, 2006, Jennifer Kesse vanished. The police quickly determined that she was abducted, but nothing solid has turned up in the past four years... During this time, users on her site discussed the new events and came to a stunning revelation: using Google Earth's historical imagery, they found an image from approximately one month after she disappeared. The image seems to show some promising information." Related from last summer: Sydney Morning Herald | Mugging suspects snapped by Google Street View: "Dutch police have arrested twin brothers on suspicion of robbery after their alleged victim spotted a picture of them following him on Google Map's Street View feature."National Geographic | Quintana Roo Underwater Cave Project: "Beneath the jungles of the Yucatan peninsula, [Sam] Meacham and his team are exploring and mapping the longest underwater cave system in the world." See also: Blue Holes Project: "Blue holes can run extremely deep underground, with one Bahamian blue hole exceeding 600 feet (180 meters) below sea level, and contain a series of mazelike passageways going miles in many directions. These cave systems can transition from giant rooms to tiny holes that divers must remove all of their gear in order to squeeze through. To add to the challenge, currents reverse in the ocean caves, making timing of dives critical."[Image: Architizer comes to Los Angeles].Architizer | Los Angeles Launch Announcement: "We are happy to announce that on March 18th, we will be hosting a party in Los Angeles at the new A+D Museum space [at 6032 Wilshire Boulevard]. In partnership with Haworth, Dwell Magazine, LA Forum, SCI-Arc, and BLDGBLOG, the event will be an evening to meet fellow Los Angeleno architects as well as a celebration of Los Angeles architecture culture." Here is a map. If you're in LA, stop by and say hello! [Image: Rendering of the new A+D Museum].(Some links via @doingitwrong, @javierest, @geoparadigm, @stevesilberman, and possibly elsewhere. Don't miss Quick Links 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7). Landscapes of Quarantine [New Window]
In only six days, with a reception on Tuesday, March 9, "Landscapes of Quarantine" opens at New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture. I'm absolutely thrilled to have curated this show, with Nicola Twilley of Edible Geography, and I can't wait to see it finally open for view. On the other hand, this week is an absolute mania of painting, material deliveries, installation, cleaning, and more, which means I'll probably be a bit thin on posts for the next few days. The last four or five months, of course, have seen a wide variety of quarantine-themed interviews and posts here on BLDGBLOG, but it's worth reminding both myself and others why quarantine is worthy of architectural attention in the first placeas a spatial experience of waiting, isolation, and, often, emotional claustrophobia. At its most basic, quarantine is the creation of a hygienic boundary between two or more things, for the purpose of protecting one from exposure to the other. It is a strategy of separation and containmenta spatial response to suspicion, threat, and uncertainty. From Chernobyls Zone of Exclusion to the artificial quarantine islands of the New York archipelago, and from camps set up to house HIV+ Haitian refugees at Guantnamo Bay to the modified Airstream trailer within which returning Apollo astronauts once waved at President Nixon, the landscapes of quarantine are as varied as they are unexpected.Each of the works on display in the exhibition responds to some aspect of quarantine, from the "dark math" of triage and the ethical challenge of enforced isolation to the geological timescale of nuclear-waste sequestration. The works range from a wall-sized infographic comparing the infrastructural bubbles inside of which illegally imported orchids and the President of the United States, respectively, live, to a tear-off & take-home short story inspired by the idea of a Quarantine Administration bureaucracy. There are designs for a new, multi-player iPhone game called "Cordon Sanitaire"; field notes and sketches from North Brother Island, the final home of Typhoid Mary; a special issue of David Garcia's Manual of Architectural Possibilities (M.A.P.); and much more.The exhibition will be up until Saturday, April 17; there will be a series of ticketed, quarantine-themed dinners in early April (more details and ticket sales for these will be announced in a few weeks); and there will be an evening of related programming on Thursday, April 9, hosted by Columbia University's Studio-X.The reception kicks off at 7pm on Tuesday, March 9; it is free and open to the public (and there will be free beer, generously donated by Brooklyn Brewery). I hope to see some of you there!("Landscapes of Quarantine" poster, flyer, logo, and exhibition was designed by Glen Cummings of MTWTF). Educational Agriculture [New Window]
[Image: Edible Schoolyard by WORKac].Nicola Twilley and Sarah Rich will be hosting Foodprint NYC later today at Studio-X in Manhattan (the event is free and located at 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610; here is a map). Things kick off at 1pm, as you can see on the Foodprint Project website. [Images: Edible Schoolyard by WORKac].The above images, meanwhile, come from the Edible Schoolyard by WORKac. Amale Andraos, co-principal with Dan Wood in WORKac, will be speaking on a panel at 4:30pm today about her firm's work with nutritional landscapes, educational agriculture, and the future of urban food production. Edible Schoolyard, specifically, presents "a series of interlinked sustainable systems that produce energy and heat, collect rainwater, process compost and sort waste with an off-grid infrastructure."At the heart of the project is the Kitchen Classroom, where up to thirty students can prepare and enjoy meals together. The kitchens butterfly-shaped roof channels rain water for reclamation. Connected to one side is the Mobile Greenhouse, extending the growing season by covering 1600sf of soil in the colder months and sliding away in the spring, over the Kitchen Classroom. On the other side is the Systems Wall: a series of spaces that include a cistern, space for composting and waste-sorting, solar batteries, dishwashing facilities, a tool shed and a chicken coop.The project, created in collaboration with Alice Water's Chez Panisse Foundation and P.S. 216, continues the suite of ideas WORKac first explored in their design for Public Farm 1, less a functioning farm, or even a prototype for one, than an intensely spatial art installation ornamented by edible plants. [Image: Public Farm 1 by WORKac; photos by Raymond Adams].Joining Amale Andraos on the panel today will be Marcelo Coelho (of "Cornucopia" fame, a 3D food-printer designed with Amit Zoran), Natalie Jeremijenko (of, among many, many other things, the Cross Species Cookbook), and Beverly Tepper (Professor of Food Science at Rutgers and director of the Sensory Evaluation Laboratory). As Edible Geography describes it, "the result will be a speculative and wide-ranging conversation about food security, sensory design, and [the panelists'] hopes and fears for the future of food in New York City."That is only the final of four panels; read more about today's event over on the Foodprint Project website. The Star Archive [New Window]
[Image: Perseids Meteor Shower, August 11, 1999; photo by Wally Pacholka, courtesy of NASA].In an earlier post, I looked at the possibility that the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh might include a very physical archive of 19th-century meteorological events, with sand, dust, pollen, and other airborne particulates from the days Van Gogh painted en plein air now trapped for all art history inside the vibrant swirls of his canvases. Adam, from Design Under Sky, then left a comment saying that this unintentional archive of sand already exists, with or without such speculation: "Sand was used as an ink blotting material and remnants are often still found in manuscripts today." Every library is thus also a museum of sand. But I completely failed to mention an article that has fascinated me for more than a year now; I believe I originally found it via Andrew Ray of Some landscapes. In a feature for COSMOS Magazine called "Sky detectives," we read that "forensic astronomers... are seeking clues to historical events embedded in artworks and literature." [Image: Halley's Cometupper rightpasses through the Bayeux Tapestry].In other words, similar to the idea of geomythologyin which ancient tales of floods or vengeful fire gods can be re-interpreted in light of newly found evidence for catastrophic tsunamis or volcanic eruptions"forensic astronomers" look for more celestial clues. Things like Halley's Comet burning through the night sky of the Bayeux Tapestry will catch their eye, or supernovas as depicted in Native American rock art. These details, hidden in plain sight, can be used to indirectly piece together long-gone astronomical events. The following very long quotation gives at least some idea of how extraordinary the results can be; it's like something out of Minority Report:Donald Olson, a physics professor at Texas State University in San Marcos, U.S., has used similar techniques to help art historians pin down details of famous paintings. In 2000, for example, he found the location at which Vincent van Gogh created one of his last paintings, The White House at Night.Knowing that van Gogh painted it in mid-June, and the direction in which the house faced, Olson was able to determine that a bright star in the painting was mostly likely the planet Venus, which would have been prominent at the time.Two years later, Olson used a similar process with another van Gogh painting, Moonrise. That painting depicts the full moon rising behind an overhanging cliff in southern France. Historians knew the work was made sometime in 1889, and haystacks in the foreground indicate that the time of year is somewhere around harvest season.Olson's team hunted down the location and, with a bit of astronomical detective work, determined that there was only one date on which the Moon rose in the right place: 13 July 1889. Since van Gogh once said he never worked from memory and always painted what he saw, this was probably the date on which he started painting Moonrise.Here, I'll reveal a secret fantasy of mine: at one point during the film Jaws, there is a night scene during which a meteor suddenly lights up the sky overhead. The characters are out at sea when zoooooom: a flash goes by, from one end of the screen to the other. Every time I see that scene I wonder what the flash was, and, more importantly, where it went: if something later crashed down into the sands of North Africa, or hit a cliff in Arizona, or splashed into the ocean waters much further out at sea. Or simply burnt up into dust and fiery particles. [Image: Rock art possibly depicting a supernova. Photo by John Barentine, Apache Point Observatory, courtesy of SPACE.com].But what if someday you find a meteorite and you somehow piece together evidence for when it fell to earthand you find that it was during the summer that Steven Spielberg filmed Jaws. You find out exactly where they filmed Jaws, and you keep digging deeper, and then, finally, there it is: some fantastic piece of irrefutable evidence that proves you have just discovered the very object that once flew through the sky in a film seen by countless millions of people around the world. Jaws, after all, is the seventh-highest grossing film of all time. It's archaeo-astronomy via Hollywood film history. In any case, as you will see in the "Sky detectives" article, our forensic astronomers begin reading nothing less than The Odyssey, looking for astronomical clues ("...the poem describes Odysseus steering his boat by the positions of the constellations Botes and the Pleiades [which] establishes the date as early spring..."). But as they start putting Homer's descriptions of the constellations, and the precise order and time of year in which Odysseus saw those constellations, into their weird software that maps the movement of the earth and our nearby planets through 49,000 years of history... my hair began standing on end. All these astronomical cluesin ancient poetry, famous paintings, and the overlooked skies of film historysimply waiting to be deciphered. Food Shape City [New Window]
[Image: Courtesy of Flickr-user humain, via Urban Omnibus].Varick Shute of Urban Omnibus has posted a great interview with Nicola Twilley of Edible Geography and Sarah Rich about their collaboration on the Foodprint Projectand, specifically, the Foodprint NYC event coming up this weekend at Studio-X. The interview discusses urban food-distribution networks, the cultural and nutritional effects of food-vendor carts, the geographic distance from "farm to table," food-contamination scares, what Sarah describes as "the ways in which food and eating behaviors influence the physical shape of the city," Nicola's interest in "cupcake shops as indicators of gentrification," and much more. Be sure to check it out in fulland consider coming to the event on Saturday. Nonfiction [New Window]
Just a quick note, on a break from painting the interior of Storefront, that I will be live on the air in NYC in about ten minutes, speaking with Harry Allen on his show Nonfiction. We'll be discussing architecture, The BLDGBLOG Book, and more. Tune into WBAI for audio... Mercedes-Benz Tornado [New Window]
While we're still on the subject of artificial weather, the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, designed by UNStudio, can repurpose its internal ventilation system to form an artificial tornado. [Image: The Mercedes-Benz Tornado; photographer unknown]. "The twister takes around seven minutes to materialize," Autoblog explains, "and is generated by 144 jets and 28 tons of air. The low pressure area at the center of the tornado works to create a jet stream that draws smoke out of the building's corridors and funnels it upwards and out an exhaust vent on the roof." It is also more than 100 feet tallmaking it the official world-record holder for the World's Largest Artificial Tornado.Watch the video of how it forms:A reader, Daan Koch, pointed this internal atmospheric feature out to methe tornado as ornamentadding that this "dramatic way of ventilating an atrium... could be nice for the Guggenheim in New York, as well." I couldn't agree more. Or perhaps horizontal tornadoes could roll through the New York subway system every night from 2-5am, cleaning out the underworld of its dust and potato chip bags. Perhaps even inside this New Haven parking garage, shown below, with its "fabulous concrete circulation drum" as recently photographed by Charles Holland. Complicatedly angled fans and vacuums suck new wind systems into existence near Yale. [Image: New Haven parking garage as Tornadodrome; photographed by Fantastic Journal].Or your new house in the Chicago suburbs seems absolutely perfect for you and your familytill the first hot day of the year sets in and you turn on the A/C. Some sinister combination of ill-conceived vents and over-tall foyer begins to rope together windspulling in air from the living room, from the basement, from the kids' bedroomsand within a mere twenty minutes a tornado-strength twister takes visible form. It then spins for days, suffocating the residents in their sleep by robbing them of oxygen, and lifting their limp bodies into the air, where they turn in lazy circles like pirates drowned at sea. Their bodies dance aloft, as if caught in an aero-spirograph, eerily lit by dim suburban lamplight and visible through the front door windowsa vision of the vortexaccidentally killed by HVAC.[Images: Two views inside UNStudio's Mercedes-Benz Museum; photographer unknown].(Thanks, Daan, for the tip!) Empty Paris [New Window]
Pruned posted an image the other day by artist Nicolas Moulin (more of whose work can be seen over at Vulgare). Looking into Moulin's work further, however, I came across another series he produced a little more than a decade ago called Vider Paris. Here, we see Paris transformed into an abandoned maze of lifeless streets. Every building is sealed shut behind a seamless, Berlin Wall-like concrete monolith. [Images: From Vider Paris (1998-2001) by Nicolas Moulin, courtesy of Galerie Chez Valentin].Vider Paris "is a series of computer-altered images of the streets of Paris," we read in a PDF portfolio of Moulin's work. "All traces of life are removed from the images: vegetal, urban furnishings, pedestrians, cars, etc." Further, "all the buildings are sealed with sheets of concrete up to the second oor."[Images: From Vider Paris (1998-2001) by Nicolas Moulin, courtesy of Galerie Chez Valentin].The effect is oddly exhilarating; whether because these images have the appearance of being stills pulled from a much longer video, or simply because of their haunting, Ballardian overtones, Moulin's vision of an empty Paris seems tailor-made for Hollywood art directors or even for someone sketching out ideas at Thunder Game Works. A dream of apocalypse, twelve centuries from now, when you wander into the concretized canyons of a Paris with almost no signs of life, its skies grey, the barest trace of weeds growing up through cracks in rain-filled gutters. There are sounds of distant animals rustling, the city's rhomboid geometries now animated by unpredictable acoustic effects. You see smoke somewhere, but it could be miles away. Looking for clean water, and a place to sleep before the sun goes down, you walk onward into the city core.(This is now the second post I've written from an airplane... flying somewhere over SW Nebraska). An amplification of processes that already occur [New Window]
[Image: Glacier-protection services in the Swiss Alps; photo by Olivier Maire/Epa/Corbis, via the Guardian].Several posts in our Glacier/Island/Storm blog week are already up and working it: Nick Sowers, Design to Fail: In which we read about tree-bombing Guam, the unintended reuse of abandoned military artifacts, global climate change as national security threat, and how all architects should plan for the failure of their most grandiose ideas.InfraNet Lab, LandFab, or Manufacturing Terrain: In which we read about "volcanic heroism," desert islands, "politically anomalous artificial land fabrication," and a brief history of dredging in the Florida Everglades (perhaps vaguely related: Prosthetic Delta).mammoth, a glacier is a very long event: In which we read about the self-altering internal torque of metamorphic glaciers, salt farms, shell middens, the ecological redesign of an abandoned landfill, accretionary geographies, and much more. The title of this post, meanwhile, comes from mammoth, as cited above. It was also chosen as way of pointing out that, while this week pretends toward the status of symposiumthat is, multiple blogs with different backgrounds all pursuing a shared suite of themes and references at the same time for a limited periodit is, in reality, no more than what already happens in the deep chains of internet conversation everyday. I write a post referring to something on Pruned; Pruned perhaps saw something tweeted by Ballardian or Alexis Madrigal; the link in question might have come from an Archinect board or even Metafilter; and the endlessly marbled laminations of successive re-linking never cease to accumulate. That's how things are; that's simply what happens. This is not distortion, we might say, and it is certainly nothing new; it is just an amplification of processes that already occur.(There may or may not be Twitter updates throughout the week using the #glacierislandstorm hashtag). The Architecture of Polar Ice Floes [New Window]
[Image: Trapped in ice].Back in January 2008, a ship called Tara unlocked from the polar ice near Greenland; it had been frozen in the Arctic floes for a year and four months, repeating the journey of the Fram, a Norwegian ship that once drifted across the polar seas, frozen solid in the ice fields, back in 1896. In both cases, the ships temporarily became buildings, works of architecture wed flush with the landscape surrounding them.[Images: Photos via Jules Verne Adventures].As reported two winters ago in the Times:Visitors to the North Pole in the past 15 months might have happened upon a peculiar sight: a ship, high and dry on the ice pack, her masts upright against the flaming aurora borealis, her bow pointing over the ice sheet, as if sailing on a sea of snow. They might have thought it a polar mirage.It was, however, the Tara, a mobile building of the Arctic. In a description so strange I have trouble visualizing it, we read about a "pressure ridge" that moved toward the boat at "super-slow" speeds, threatening everyone on board with destruction:There was another scare that winter with a pressure ridge caused by colliding plates of ice advancing towards the boat. It was like a frozen wave, moving in super-slow motionabout a centimeter a second, said [a crew member]. At one stage we attacked it with picks and chainsaws, but there was no way we could stop it. It leant over the boat, then suddenly it stopped by itself and we were released from the pinch, said [the crew member].When landscapes attack.[Image: Map of the Arctic ice routes that brought ships across the sea, courtesy of New Scientist].But what interests me here is the idea that you could build one thinga shipthat only becomes what it's really meant to bea buildingwhen the circumstances it's surrounded by undergo a phase change (here, water turning into ice). The ship's hull was specifically designed for this, we read in New Scientist; it was "broad, smooth and round so that, rather than being crushed like an egg, the boat would pop up like an olive stone squeezed between finger and thumb, and sit on top of the pack ice. It also featured a lifting centerboard instead of a fixed keel, and removable propellers and rudders. These precautions worked: Tara suffered just a small dent at the stern, and another stretching a metre or so along the hull." What might the atmospheric equivalent of this be? Perhaps a planetary probe dropped into the skies of Titan or Enceladus, awaiting some strange aerial phase change to occur on all sides? And, speaking of other planets, could you ever encounter such extraordinary air pressureon a gas giant, saysuch that solid objects simply become trapped in place, unable to fall any further? The atmosphere beneath them is denser than the metal they are made from. Like machine-fossils buried transparently in airor like Arctic ships locked in iceNASA probes would gradually decay, compressed by nothing but air, under deformational pressures lasting tens of millions of years. Aerial tectonics. Slow weather. Sky glacier.(Enceladus link via @pruned). Artificial Glaciers 101 [New Window]
[Image: From Wired Science's photo gallery, "Stunning Views of Glaciers Seen From Space"].In light of this week's ongoing conversation, I thought I'd take a quick look at how to build a glacier. The "art of glacier growing," as New Scientist calls it, is "also known as glacial grafting." It has been "practiced for centuries in the mountains of the Hindu Kush and Karakorum ranges," and it was never about science fiction: "It was developed as a way to improve water supplies to villages in valleys where glacial meltwater tended to run out before the end of the growing season."The artificial glacier, then, is simply a traditional landscape-architectural technique that manipulates and amplifies pre-existing natural processes. It is vernacular hydrology writ large.[Image: From Wired Science's photo gallery, "Stunning Views of Glaciers Seen From Space"].So how do you build an artificial glacier? First, you need a site, and that site should be mountainous; altitudes higher than 4,500 meters are thermally preferable. From New Scientist:Once the site is selected, ice is brought to rocky areas where there are small boulders about 25 centimeters across. The rocks protect the ice from sunlight, and often have ice trapped in the gaps between them. This seems to be critical to a successful "planting."Also critical is the glacier's "gender." Yes, glaciers "have a gender": "A 'male' glacier is one that is covered in stones and soil and moves slowly or not at all. A 'female' one is whiter, and grows more quickly, yielding more water."After [glacier-growing mountain villagers] have added female to the male ice (traditionally by importing 12 man-loads or about 300 kilograms of the stuff), they cover the area with charcoal, sawdust, wheat husk, nutshells or pieces of cloth to insulate it. Gourds of water placed among the ice and rocks are also critical to a glaciers chances of forming, according to [artificial-glacier expert, Ingvar Tveiten]. As the glacier grows and squeezes the gourds, they burst, spreading water on the surrounding ice, which then freezes.Awesomely, the glacier then exhibits complex internal ventilation: Any snowmelt trapped in the budding glacier also freezes, adding more ice. Pockets of cold air moving between the rocks and ice keep the glacier cool. When the mass of rock and ice is heavy enough, it begins to creep downhill, forming a self-sustaining glacier within four years or so.Of course, "whats produced is hardly a glacier in the proper sense," we're reminded, "but growing and flowing areas of ice many tens of meters long have been reported at the sites of earlier grafts." Let me repeat that: to call these artificial glaciers is a poetic over-statement, as they are much more realistically described as artificially maintained deposits of snowwhat I have elsewhere called non-electrical ice reserves. But the thermally self-sustaining nature of these deposits nonetheless makes them susceptible to glaciological analysis. [Image: From Wired Science's photo gallery, "Stunning Views of Glaciers Seen From Space"].But there are also other, equally lo-fi techniques of glacier-growing. Elsewhere, we read that "a good artificial glacier costs $50,000," even though "the materials are simple: dirt, pipes, rocksand runoff from real glaciers high above." Importantly, then, but quite obviously, a controlled act of artificial glaciation can only be achieved in regions where there is already water available; you can't simply snap your fingers and "build a glacier" in a Tucson parking lot. In any case, this second technique "is remarkably simple": Water from an existing stream is diverted using iron pipes to a comparably shady part of the valley and here the water is allowed to flow out onto an inclined mountainside. At regular intervals along the slope of the mountain, small embankments of stone are made which impede the flow of water making shallow pools. At the start of winter, water is allowed to flow into this `masonry contraption' and as the winter temperatures are constantly falling the water freezes forming a thick sheet of ice looking almost like a thin, long glacier. All this is done before the onset of winter. During the winter, as temperatures fall steadily, the water collected in the small pools freezes. Once this cycle has been repeated over many weeks, a thick sheet of ice forms, resembling a long, thin glacier. Again: resembling a long, thin glacier. We're not talking about monumental, mountain-crushing tectonic formations (yet)even if I do feel compelled to wax speculative here and suggest that, if these structures do indeed begin "to creep downhill, forming a self-sustaining glacier within four years or so," then it is not at all unrealistic to assume that, given the right thermal circumstances and the necessary amount of snowfall, you could kick-start glaciation on a macro-scale. This might only mean on the scale of one valleyand not, say, the entire northern hemispherebut it is an amazing idea that architects could set massive, self-sustaining, tectonically complex structures of ice into motion. After all, glaciers are very long events, as mammoth memorably put it. [Image: From Wired Science's photo gallery, "Stunning Views of Glaciers Seen From Space"].To reiterate the simplicity of this latter design process, I want to quote artificial-glacier expert Chawang Norphel, from an interview he did with the IPS:Glacier melt at different altitudes is diverted to the shaded side of the hill, facing the north, where the winter sun is blocked by a ridge or a mountain slope. At the start of winter (November), the diverted water is made to flow onto the sloping hill face through appropriately designed distribution channels or outlets. At regular intervals stone embankments are built, which impede the flow of water, making shallow pools. In the distributing chambers, 1.5-inch diameter G pipes are installed after every five feet for proper distribution of water. Water flows in small quantities and at low velocity through the G pipes, and freezes instantly. The process of ice formation continues for three to four winter months and a huge reserve of ice accumulates on the mountain slope, aptly termed artificial glacier.I emphasize this for two reasons: 1) It's extraordinarily easy to dismiss the idea of building "artificial glaciers" simply on the basis of the phrase alone. That is, the very phrase "artificial glaciers" sounds pseudo-scientific, impossibly complex, and disastrously fossil-fuel dependent. However, it's actually a remarkably straight-forward design process, involving thermal site-specificity and vernacular building materials. 2) The idea of "artificial glaciers" also reeks of space-operatic self-indulgence, but the fundamental purpose of these structures is to create a reliable freshwater reservoir (or ice reserve) for rural communities. We're not talking about nuclear-powered snow-blowers built and operated by Darth Vader, in other words; we're talking about rural Himalayan villagers who have learned to reorganize their region's existing snowpack so as to make it thermally self-sustaining. Or, as Norphel himself phrases it, "Apart from solving the irrigation problem, the artificial glaciers help in the recharging of ground water and rejuvenation of springs. They enable farmers to harvest two crops in a year, help in developing pastures for cattle rearing and reducing water sharing disputes among the farmers."[Image: From Wired Science's photo gallery, "Stunning Views of Glaciers Seen From Space"].Having said that, the design possibilities become truly amazing when you scale this up, from a vernacular aid project to the level of carefully-maintained industrial infrastructure, and when you consider a wide range of alternative reasons for stockpiling ice (and, of course, things go bonkers if you let yourself consider genuinely and deliberately sci-fi-inflected ideas, such as maintaining artificial glaciers at the lunar south pole or using artificial glaciation as a Martian terraforming technique). In any and all cases here, this makes artificial glaciers a fascinating topic for an architectural design studioat least in my opinionand the resulting conversations (and even open disagreements) about this topic have been very much worth the time already. #glacierislandstorm Urban Research [New Window]
[Image: San Francisco, as seen from the cockpit of a 747; photo by Olivier Roux]. The last few days have been pretty awesome. We've been road-tripping up from Los Angeles to Reno for a dinner with author William Fox, Matthew Coolidge of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, landscape activist Lucy Lippard, Land Arts of the American West co-founder Bill Gilbert, cultural programmer Dorothy Dunn, Steve Wells of the Desert Research Institute (DRI), and the staff of the Nevada Museum of Art's Center for Art + Environment; we spent the day yesterday on a tour of the DRI's ice core research facilities, its micro-atmospheric testing rooms (like characters in a Borges story, they once used their equipment to test the metal content in the ink letters of a Gutenberg Bible in order to identify those letters' near-millennium-old liquid chemistry), and the DRI's full-scale virtual reality room. I have some hilarious and amazing photos of Matthew Coolidge wearing black VR goggles, holding remote controls in each hand, while Bill Gilbert and Lucy Lippard look on, equally engoggled and optically stunned, flying helter-skelter over virtual terrains to chase simulated forest fires up canyon walls, the replicant ground dropping out from beneath them as we ran straight off a cliff, and I hope to post those here soon.We had amazing conversations, as well: we're all gearing up for a big conference next year in Reno, hosted by the Center for Art + Environment at the end of September 2011. That will definitely be something to keep your eye on if you're at all interested in landscapes, the hydrosciences, water rights, mythology and the American West, archaeoastronomy, the contested history (and future) of weather modification, offworld exploration, the anthropology of mining, nature writing in its broadest possible sense, and much more. We're putting together something really fantastic, to be honest, and you have 18 months to make plans to be there. Even better, Nicola Twilley from Edible Geography and Mark Smout of Smout Allen were also on hand, winning stuffed animals together in the Circus Circus casino (Mark quipped that the casinos were simply "giant, ugly buildings with jewelry stuck on them, like earrings"), and so the three of us are now down in San Francisco, where we'll be picking up Sarah Rich tomorrow to drive down to LAand I can hardly imagine a better group of people to hit the Californian road with. The roads outside Reno were eight-foot canyons of plowed snow till we hit the Bay Bridge and drove past Alcatraz blinking in the darkness. [Image: Photo by George Steinmetz/CORBIS for National Geographic; via @stevesilberman].In any case, if you're near San Francisco tonight, Tuesday, March 16, I'll be giving a talk at the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) starting at 6pm. It costs $5, unfortunately, but it should be fun, and I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of old friends and colleagues again; as all of those friends and colleagues know, I wasn't a huge fan of San Francisco when I lived here, but it's good to be back in this rolling city of fog lines, abandoned bunkers that look like hills, tectonic trembling, lost ships, ghost streets, buried dunes, vinicultural microclimates, chemical weapons, a suicide bridge, and its artificially shrunken bay. I'll be talking about quarantine, The BLDGBLOG Book (which I'm thrilled to say has just gone into a second printing), the "Glacier/Island/Storm" studio and its accompanying blog-week experiment, blackouts, and more. The Dark Cities [New Window]
26 years ago, the Guggenheim hosted an exhibition of work by Will Insley, focusing particularly on Insley's project ONECITY. [Image: ONECITY by Will Insley; image via The Nonist].The New York Times described it at the time as depicting an "imaginary labyrinth 650 miles square." It is "'situated' between the Mississippi and the Rockies and consists of many 2 1/2-mile-square structures, each divided into an 'Over-building' and an 'Under-building' and each containing nine arenas."[Images: ONECITY by Will Insley, via The Nonist].The artist described his own interests as having "very little to do with advanced planning theories of the present" and no relation really at all to the ''utopias of the future, but rather with the dark cities of mythology, which exist outside of normal times in some strange location of extremity.'' [Images: ONECITY by Will Insley].Courtesy of a comment left a while back on the sorely-missed site The Nonist, we learn that Insley once quipped: "what was absent from the ruin is often less marvelous than we imagine it to have been. The abstract power of suggestion (the fragment) is greater than the literal power of the initial fact. Myth elevates." These mythic fragments of a city that never was thus take their artistic power more from suggestionof possible archaeologies and future extensions, impossible events this civilization of the plains might yet undergorather than any sense of intended realizability. [Images: ONECITY by Will Insley].Continuing from the New York Times, meanwhile:It's clear, however, that the city's inhabitants are segregated into day people, wholesome types who study at home with their children by means of electronic devices, and night people. "Tattered ghosts in phosphorescent clothing," the night people sound a lot like the more Felliniesque denizens of the Lower East Side, being given to masks and elaborate makeup; they "mutter a lot" and "often carry around personal abstract structures" that they exchange "according to mysterious rituals." And while they have homes in the Over-building, they frequently sleep in the cubby holes of the Under-building, ignored by day people going about their business.ONECITY is a "masonite labyrinth," the article concludes, complete with "Wall Fragments" that have been "gridded with white or yellow lines and shaped like garment sections waiting to be sewn together." It's the city as dystopian clothing that we tailor to fit our future selves. Imagine a dusty third-floor walk-up in the Garment District of Manhattan, where precise plans for megastructures are produced on massive looms, needles and yawn moving to a hypnotic drone in semi-darkness. Architectural invention by way of sewing diagrams.In any case, you can see a few more images of Insley's Michael Heizer-like creation of excavations and voids over at The Nonist. flame | peter blaskovic | escape motions [New Window]
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OutilsRechercheWebDiversVous trouverez dans La lettre Recherche et Rfrencement qui vient de paratre un article de 5 pages concernant l'excellent moteur hybride Trends, de la socit Ellerdale. Egalement au sommaire de ce numro : Boostez votre rfrencement avec les vidos ! (20 pages). David Botella (Orange) : "Un moteur de recherche est une somme de challenges techniques relever..." Les expansions de requtes l'aide de synonymes dans Google (7 pages). Considrations juridiques sur le dpart de Google de Chine (4 pages).
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:40:08 -0400 Mon livre en cadeau avec un abonnement Veille Magazine [New Window]
InfosOutilsFroidsJe remercie Jacqueline Sala qui me fait l'honneur d'offrir mon livre chaque personne qui s'abonne Veille Magazine. C'est par ici.J'en profite aussi pour voquer l'opration Le printemps de la Veille. Il s'agit de sessions de formation qui seront regroupes fin mai dbut avril et dont vous pourrez trouver la description sur cette page. Je devais initialement y animer une formation sur le PKM mais des problmes de calendrier nous ont oblig la reporter.
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:30:45 -0400 Links for 2010-03-16 [del.icio.us] [New Window]
Fashion designer turns roadkill into hats - TelegraphJames Faulkner, an aspiring fashion designer, has used the wings, feathers and furs of animals killed on roads to create an entire range of headgear.Artists and academics regularly refused UK entry, say campaigners | UK news | guardian.co.ukWriters have been prevented from attending their book launches, painters deported for carrying their own works and a Pakistani band banned from attending the World Pipe Band championship in Glasgow, according to the civil rights group, Manifesto Club. Guantanamo [New Window]
Music: Massive Attack with Damon Albarn“Filmed inside Cambridge University’s anechoic chamber (designed to create total silence) and featuring former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Ruhal Ahmed, this short by Adam and Olly is a reflection on Ahmed’s experiences whilst in detention (particularly how he was interrogated using high-volume music) and about the use of human sound on [...]
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:31:24 -0400 Downhill skating in Puerto Rico [New Window]
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:27:33 -0400 Quality conversation starter [New Window]
$18 postpaid from wannastartacommune.com
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:59:25 -0400 Synthetic Aesthetics, exploring the territory between art, design and synthetic biology [New Window]
Among Daisy Ginsberg's latest activities are a residency at SymbioticA, a collaboration with James King and Cambridge University's iGEM 2009 grand-prizewinning team and then there's Synthetic Aesthetics. The project investigates shared territory between design and synthetic biology, invites exchange of existing skills and approaches, and enables the development of new forms of craft and collaboration continue Book review - Digital Folklore [New Window]
Users' endeavors, like glittering star backgrounds, photos of cute kittens and rainbow gradients, are mostly derided as kitsch or in the most extreme cases, postulated as the end of culture itself. In fact this evolving vernacular, created by users for users, is the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media continue Art and Medicine at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (Part 1) [New Window]
Prosthetics, anatomical drawings by Michelangelo, ornate amputation saw from ca. 1650, disturbing videos by Patricia Piccinici, Tibetan anatomical figures, a painting by Damien Hirst. Some 150 medical artifacts from the Wellcome Collection in London and works of old Japanese and contemporary art are exhibited side by side. Without any hierarchy nor anxiety continue Book Review - Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design [New Window]
Data Flow 2 expands the definition of contemporary information graphics. The book features new possibilities for diagrams, maps, and charts. It investigates the visual and intuitive presentation of processes, data, and information. Concrete examples of research and art projects as well as commercial work illuminate how techniques such as simplification, abstraction, metaphor, and dramatization function continue Links for 2010-03-12 [del.icio.us] [New Window]
FutureEverything | About the awardsresults of FutureEverything Award 2010 are in! Links for 2010-03-05 [del.icio.us] [New Window]
Not everyone can be an artist | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | guardian.co.ukInteractive art is gaining ground but whether it's Spencer Tunick's nudes or Antony Gormley's plinth, no masterpiece was ever created by committee Links for 2010-03-14 [del.icio.us] [New Window]
SXSW 2010: Big or small? The future of news online – Telegraph BlogsThree key themes came out of these talks: first, as the media is unbundled, how do we ensure that important stories dont get missed?; second, are big mainstream media sites now doomed to be replaced by smaller, more agile web competitors?; and third, we need to question and perhaps abandon our old models for news. Links for 2010-03-11 [del.icio.us] [New Window]
ART AND TECHNOSCIENCE ConferenceThe front-lines between art and knowledge-production seem to be in transformation. The conference seeks to contextualize the practices of art&science both in the contemporary political atmosphere and the history of contemporary art.Welcome to Afghanistan? No, Norfolk - This Britain, UK - The IndependentTo prepare troops for action, the Army has turned a training camp into a simulacrum of an Afghan village complete with amputees, fake blood and suicide bombers. Terri Judd reportsSchool cancels prom over fear of lesbians | Richard Adams | World news | guardian.co.uk Golden Orb Spider Farm [New Window]
In the years to come, might the best employers encourage women to work longer by offering them the means to unlimited fertility in the form of a golden orb spider farm from which to harvest silk for their luxury spare womb? continue Japan Media Arts festival - The Art Division [New Window]
Onion scanners, tv screens used as percussion instruments, storm inside a transparent cylinder, genetically modified blue carnations brought back to their original white, techy Japanese-style glockenspiel, etc. continue Book Review - World of Giving [New Window]
Acknowledging that each of us is inclined to give, this illuminating publication reveals how a beneficent deed contributes to an environment of increasing generosity in addition to enhancing the capabilities of its recipient. As a shared value, giving can grow to be a meaningful collective force that affects the world in surprising ways continue Art and Medicine at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (Part 2) [New Window]
In light of the latest developments in biotechnology, cybernetics and neuroscience, the mixture of medical exhibits and works of art introduces visitors to developments in bioscience and issues they entail. Can our definition of life remain unchallenged? Is the human commitment to reproduce going to remain the same? How much can medical and scientific developments impact the way we love and live? continue Links for 2010-03-13 [del.icio.us] [New Window]
Jail ordeal of hundreds of Palestinian children arrested for throwing stones | World news | The ObserverRights groups express concern at the rising number of juveniles as young as 12 who are held behind bars and 'treated like terrorists' Sensity V & A, an interview with Stanza [New Window]
Or how an exhibition i disliked gave me the opportunity to interview an artist whose work i've been admiring ever since i started the blog continue Exhibition tip - GaMe! at the [DAM] gallery in Berlin [New Window]
The exhibition presents six international positions on the subject of computer games and electronic toys. The spectrum includes interactive computer games, developed by artists, a film collage of modified content of commercial games as well as small toy robots; furthermore four photos from a series showing male adolescents during a LAN-party continue Exhibition tip - The Making of Images in Paris [New Window]
I'll never recommend enough a visit to the Muse du Quai Branly in Paris. No matter what they are showing i will go and discover something exciting. Such as the statue of a Man-Shark or the Kachina/katsina dolls which are part of The Making of Images, an anthropology exhibition that deciphers large artistic and material productions of humanity to reveal what is not seen directly in an image continue ...and Counting [New Window]
Wafaa Bilal's latest project addresses the issue of the invisibility of Iraqi civilian deaths during the war. The artist will submit his body to a 24-hour live performance. His back will be tattooed with a borderless map of Iraq covered with one dot for each Iraqi and American casualty near the cities where they fell continue BIP2010 - The Acrobatic Squad [New Window]
The 7th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts in Liege is one of the most exciting art events i've seen in a while. This year's theme is (Out of) Control. It oscillates between the cheerful and the somber, between the mundane and the extraordinary. I'll get back to you with a proper report but i couldn't help singling out a quirky series of photos i discovered at the biennial continue Future Archaeologies [New Window]
The illegal Israeli settlement Har Homa in the West Bank, the interior of the MIR space-station simulator in Moscow, the modernist monument in honour of WW II victims in Kosturnica, the bedsheet serving as an improvised cinema screen in a Chinese village - these are real Science Fiction scenarios, constructed man-made utopias, hurling their absurdities at the viewer continue Links for 2010-03-02 [del.icio.us] [New Window]
Call for works! | Random Magazine - New Media Art / E-Culturecuratorial project for the next edition of FotoGrafia Festival in Rome.My focus is on the relationship between Photography and New Media (especially Web Culture). If you have submissions / suggestions send an e-mail to: valentina.tanni AT gmail.com. SUMMER DREAMS [New Window]
A Midsummer Night’s Dreampictures from the film by Jir Trnka1959
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:57:48 -0400 All hail the Shaking Ray Levis [New Window]
The Shaking Ray Levis remain one of America’s unheralded SOUTHERN free-improv treasures. They have been active in performance, teaching, and organizing in the region since 1986. The 1993 Shaking Ray Levis Festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee was one of the most important festivals of the period, featuring sets by Anthony Braxton, “the last working Southern black [...]
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:18:51 -0400 Mold May Help Design Future Transportation Routes [New Window]
The tendril network of a slime mold is a near match to Japan’s railway sytem. Photo via Science/AAASMiraculous Mold! Invade LA’s public transport please…
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:53:02 -0400 DOWNTOWN RURAL DETROIT [New Window]
from : http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/downtown-rural-detroitPre-Industrial Land-Usehttp://www.detroitagriculture.org/GRP_Website/Grown_In_Detroit.htmlhttp://www.greeningofdetroit.com/3_0_cool_projects.phphttp://detroitblackfoodsecurity.org/policy.htmlhttp://urbanfarming.org/homefarming.htmlDownsizinghttp://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/09/detroit-looks-at-downsizing-to-save-city/Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking“Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile. Operating on a [...]
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:39:28 -0500 Tonight Maria Chavez @ Roulette in NYC [New Window]
Born in Peru, avant-turntablist Maria Chavez currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. With a collection of new and broken needles that she calls pencils of sound and a selection of records, she creates electro-acoustic sound pieces. Chavez made her New York City debut in a duet with Thurston Moore, collaborated with Otomo Yoshihide as part [...]
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:52:52 -0500 Kickstarter DIAMOND COMICS #5 Free comics newspaper of experimental & psychedelic art [New Window]
I heard about Kickstarter just a few weeks ago by word of mouth. It’s a fundraising website that works like an online pledge drive for creative projects. Artists are using the site to fund album recordings, independent film and video game production, book publication, liscensing costs, travel expenses and other art projects. [...]
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:43:41 -0500 SATIN BLACK SCI-FI RAY GUN vinyl auto decals [New Window]
sold out, but more on their way!!
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:34:12 -0500 Dylan Williams interview on PROFANITY HILL [New Window]
Jason Miles interviews owner/operator of Sparkplug Comic Books, Dylan Williams.From Profanity Hill:The truth is the Punk DIY thing is SO SO SO amazing to me. I hate mainstream society in so many ways. Everything I love is usually done by nuts. Sometimes they get accepted like Herge or Carl Barks but most of the time [...]
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:48:18 -0500 Own a copy of Arthur No. 1 [New Window]
$6 POSTPAID DIRECT TO YOU FROM THE ARTHUR STORECLICK HERE TO PURCHASEArthur No. 1 (cover date Oct 2002). Quarterfold, newsprint, 56 pages, 11X17. Color, one-color, black and white. We printed 70,000 of these suckers somewhere in New Jersey in September 2002 and got ‘em outfreeto the people across North America thanks to every volunteer my [...]
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:38:41 -0500 ANACONDA! [New Window]
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:03:31 -0500 Defense Industry Report VIII: WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD CRIMES GONE? [New Window]
So. 9/11. Boom Boom. Civil rights canceled. Special Delivery. Airmail. And woe is us, for the forked phallus of Wall Street was the lodestone of the Bush Gang, without which maps and words lost meaning, until Operation Enduring Freedom kicked down the doors of the wrong war. Most of the real terrorists were killed at [...]
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:48:22 -0500 Tristan Pernet Jean Josef Jesus Supreme! [New Window]
Our next installment in the Arthur Comics series drops…so click here to check it out!About Jean Josef Jesus:Jean Josef Jesus is a comic zine, 30 pages long going on 100. The work will premiere in conjunction with a narrative installation in an exhibition in May 2010 at the ESAD, a school of decorative arts in [...]
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:25:07 -0500 GLASS ROCK Lion Dance (music to drink wine and sway to) [New Window]
Stream: Download: “Lion Dance” Glass Rock (mp3)One of ten beauties on Glass Rock’s debut, Tall Firs Meet Soft Location, out now via Ecstatic Peace (more info…).
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:55:02 -0500 Arthur Radio Voyage #8 with Bobby Bouzouki [New Window]
Last Sunday Arthur Radio embarked on its eighth voyage, this time to the wind-swept deserts of Greece, Morocco, Arizona and beyond… Special guest Robert Damore (aka Bobby Bouzouki) graced the Newtown Radio studio with the warm, nostalgia-inducing sounds of his bouzouki, and even took the time to tell us some of the narratives behind the [...]
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:34 -0500 Diana Leafe Christian on ecovillaging [New Window]
Long interview with the author of Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community and Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities.
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:07:02 -0500 DID YOU FEEL THAT? [New Window]
from : http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/did-you-feel-that/Days Now Slightly Shorterhttp://jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-071http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=aLAUn4Gy92ss“The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earths axis and shortened the day, a NASA scientist has said. Earthquakes can involve shifting hundreds of kilometers of rock by several meters, changing the distribution of mass on the planet. This affects the [...]
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:34:08 -0500 TONGUE TOP TEN by Byron Coley and Thurston Moore [New Window]
1. Whatever generation it is now of the St. Marks Poetry Project New York School is beyond us, we stopped counting as soon as we saw Anselm Berrigan running the joint, remembering him as a kid banging around the folding chairs at the Project really not that long ago. Time flies in real time and [...]
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:20:10 -0500 New Archies! [New Window]
New strength from longtime Arthur faves (and ArthurNights 2006 alumni) the Archie Bronson Outfit…
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:53:40 -0500 Can you take me on a little journey through your face? [New Window]
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:01:15 -0500 Strike March 4th California and Pre-Game Communiqu [New Window]
That’s Not the Sky, That’s the Ceiling.With the slogan We Are The Crisis, California’s public and private universities, college and community college campuses are experiencing a mass wave of radicalism and revolutionary heat unseen in like forever. With whole academic departments and unions acting in solidarity with occupiers and strikers, the planned actions for [...]
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:08:01 -0500 ARTHUR RADIO VOYAGE #7: Alien Receptor [New Window]
Another freeform blast set off from a location hidden deep inside the Newtown Radio labyrinth…sit back and allow the soundwaves to reverberate over you as the Arthur Radio team busies itself with scooping musical gems out of the debris.Stream: Download: Arthur Radio 2-28-2010This week’s playlist…Doug Mesner – Good and Bad UFOsThe Electric Prunes – Holy [...]
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:17:45 -0500 Lets help em get it done [New Window]
You may remember BOB FASS, the charismatic New York City counter-culture radioman, from 2005’s Arthur No. 13 (available from Arthur Store), wherein he spoke about his role in the 1967 exorcism of the Pentagon. Or perhaps you saw him profiled by Marc Fisher in the New Yorker in December, 2006. Now, thanks to the good [...]
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:58:09 -0500 Tuesday afternoon blazed n glazed daydream: ENUMCLAW [New Window]
Film for the title track off the gorgeous new Enumclaw record, Opening of the Dawn. Streaming album preview, limited edition vinyl and mp3 downloads: Honeymoon Music
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:37:47 -0500 Friday, Mar 5, W-burg 7-9pm: all-star artshow TIME TUNNEL curated by Pali Kashi opening at Charlie Horse [New Window]
….PRESS RELEASE FOLLOWS… PRESS RELEASE FOLLOWS… PRESS RELEASE FOLLOWS…film still from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Pali KashiCharlie Horse Gallery presents:Time TunnelCurated by Pali KashiMira BillotteJohn BrattinEric CopelandJeff DavisSpencer HerbstPali KashiJames KendiAdam MarnieKeith McCullochRich PorterLeif RitcheyArik RoperFrancine SpiegelRuby Sky StilerThe Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and highest energy particle accelerator, and [...]
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:28:43 -0500 Higher trailer documentary about Sly [New Window]
A preview for the forthcoming film documentary about psychedelic funk legend Sly Stone. Anticipated to be released in 2010.
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:49:39 -0500 CARTUNE XPREZ 2010 FUTURE TELEVISION TOUR [New Window]
Hello cartoon friends,This marks the beginning of CARTUNE XPREZ’s 2010 future television tour. After a wildly spiraling tour through Europe this past autumn we have returned to North America for more strange loops:02.26 -Reno, NV – Joe Crowley Theater02.27 -Oakland, CA – Lobot02.28 -Los Angeles, CA – The Silent Movie Theater03.04 -Santa Barbara, CA – [...]
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:44:16 -0500 GWC, part 5+6 by Jesse Moynihan, now available in High Third-Eye Definition [New Window]
Get ready for more transpersonal vision and non-localityas Jesse Moynihan’s GWC continues!Click to read the new GWCWe are proud to announce the launch of Arthur Comics brought to you by Floating World. Stop by our new oasis, http://www.arthurmag.com/comics, for a leisurely bath in our new interactive format, an exclusive collaboration with GreenerMags / . [...]
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:37:30 -0500 FAKING THE MARS LANDING [New Window]
from : http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/faking-the-mars-landing-pt-3/Personnel Issue : Not All Pretend Astronauts Equally Serioushttp://geekosystem.com/mars-desert-research-station-mdrs/http://gizmodo.com/5476462/fake-mars-mission-befallen-by-real-drama“The two-week simulations, including various experiments and equipment tests, take place at the Mars Desert Research Station, located outside Hanksville, Utah. The volunteers who participate are expected to take the matter very seriouslyafter all, our future Mars colony depends on it. But of course, some [...]
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:11:46 -0500 TIPS ON HOW TO ENJOY THE NEW DEPRESSION by Gabe Soria and Joseph Remnant [New Window]
Reposted from December, 2008…cuz these tips still apply!(Click here to VIEW LARGE.)
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:23:44 -0500 THE RECESSION AND HOW TO LIVE THROUGH IT by Charles Potts [New Window]
Reposted from January 2009because it still applies… Ed.January 28, 2009THE RECESSION AND HOW TO LIVE THROUGH ITby Charles Potts[Arthur editor] Jay Babcock has tempted me with the phrase, It would be great if you wrote something on this subject, referring to the subject line of his email, The recession and how to live through it.Ill [...]
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:09:00 -0500 New psych: Tell Me Thing by Dios [New Window]
Stream: Download: “Tell Me Thing” Dios (mp3)From the fellas’ new album We Are Dios, available in a large variety of formats from the band via topspin at http://www.wearedios.com/…
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:04:06 -0500 TONIGHT, March 4, L.A. 8pm: Arthur co-presents A Night With TVTV at Cinefamily [New Window]
(3.03.10) JUST ADDED: Dosa Truck will be at Cinefamily from 6pm-on!The original guerrilla TV pioneers return! See Lily Tomlin, Bill Murray, Steven Spielberg, Abbie Hoffman and a host of other personalities as the TVTV guys invade the 1975 Academy Awards, the Superbowl, presidential conventions and anywhere else they can bring their radical comedy. Join us [...]
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:46:49 -0500 March 13: Simultaneous Conjugation of Four Spirits in a RoomAlan Moore & Stephen OMalley at Laing Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne [New Window]
Above: The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, John MartinFrom the Laing Gallery:Alan Moore & Stephen O’MalleySimultaneous Conjugation of Four Spirits in a Room: 201013 Mar 4 – 4.30pmFor the opening of ‘The Great British Art Debate: Turner Versus Martin,’ AV Festival 10 brings together two great forces in contemporary culture, the graphic novelist Alan Moore [...]
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:52:35 -0500 ON HECKLING [New Window]
Filmmaker Adam Curtis writes on his BBC blog:In 1966 one of the most brilliant American New Wave movie directorsJoseph Strick made a documentary for the BBC. It was about heckling in the British general election of that year. It is great piece of verite film-making…In the film you can see both an old Britain and [...]
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:46:22 -0500 THE MAN [New Window]
Edward Abbey: wiki, fansite
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:37:09 -0500 Dunja Jankovic interviewed by Emily Nilsson [New Window]
Emily Nilsson interviews Croatian born comics artist/musician Dunja Jankovic on the Sparkplug Comics blog. Click here for the full interview.What are your main influences as an artist?In a random order: 60s and 70s hairstyles, outsider art in every form, Constructivism, ceramics (even though Im not making it, but Id love to), street art and art [...]
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:52:29 -0500 Joanna Newsoms two-hour Have One On Me streams in its entirety via NPR [New Window]
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:55:59 -0500 Excepter on Arthur Radio, Transmission #6 [New Window]
Sunday was a very special day for Arthur Radio. We never thought that co-host Hairy Painter would return to Brooklyn after spending a month building Mardi Gras floats and dancing to sissy bounce music in Nola, but he surprised us at the station door — out of breath, suitcase in hand — right when we [...]
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:26:38 -0500 TEN OUT OF 5: A comprehensive guide to the MC5s recordings, for the curious, the enthusiast and the hopeless completist [New Window]
photo: Leni SinclairThis guide was originally published in Arthur No. 9 (March 2004) as one of a set of articles on the MC5 in that issue that ran over several pages (see two of the section’s two-page, 22×17-inch spreads above.) Copies of Arthur No. 9 are available for $25 each (our stock is almost out, [...]
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:31:35 -0500 TYNER TESTIFIES [New Window]
Beautiful, sincere: MC5 leader Robin Tyner remembers the great ol’ days at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit… We’ll be posting some articles on the MC5 from Arthur No. 9 shortly. here: TEN OUT OF FIVE.
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:55:46 -0500 Lou Curtiss Folk Arts Rare Records Children of America, Buy Some Records! [New Window]
If I was the mayor of San Diego, Id give Lou the key to the city – Michael Taft, head of the archives of the American Folk Life Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.This past weekend the San Diego Union Tribune ran a great feature story about Lou Curtiss, patriarch of the [...]
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:11:40 -0500 SERIOUS GONGBATH [New Window]
Via Crystal Vibrations
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:27:16 -0500 CUT IT OUT [New Window]
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian PhotocollageFebruary 2 – May 9thThe Howard Gilman Gallery at The Metropolitan Museum of Arthttp://www.metmuseum.org
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:38:30 -0500 A love letter to the insurgent students and workers on California campuses [New Window]
From afterthefallcommuniques.info:Collecting the major statements from the recent wave of occupations, After the Fall is a love letter to the insurgent students and workers on California campuses. It is intended to spark excitement and discussion and we encourage students and others to use After the Fall to mobilize forces ahead of the March 4th offensive. [...]
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:24:37 -0500 It may be the very first thing human beings ever built. [New Window]
From March 1, 2010 Newsweek……Standing on the hill at dawn, overseeing a team of 40 Kurdish diggers, the German-born archeologist waves a hand over his discovery here, a revolution in the story of human origins. Schmidt has uncovered a vast and beautiful temple complex, a structure so ancient that it may be the very first [...]
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:16:23 -0500 Iceberg intelligence conomique n 13 : du 12/01/2009 au 19/02/2010 (34 lments) [New Window]
Capability of the People's Republic of China to Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation Rapport de Northtrop Grumman Corporation - 2009 2 Chinese Schools Said to Be Linked to Online Attacks Article du New York Times U.S. Fails Test In Simulated Cyberattack Un bel exemple de wargame "During the exercise, a server hosting the attack appeared to be based in Russia," said one report. "However, the developer of the malware program was actually in the Sudan. Ultimately, the source of the attack remained unclear during the event."
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:29:16 -0500 Wandering around Henry Millers bathroom [New Window]
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:15:17 -0500 STILL AVAILABLE: Arthurs Paradise Now dvd [New Window]
Judith Malina and Julian Beck, directors of the Living Theatre“WE WANT THE WORLD, AND WE WANT IT NOW”In 1968, after years of self-imposed exile in Europe, the Living Theatre triumphantly returned to America with their theatrical breakthrough “Paradise Now.” The sensational production, involving group nudity, marijuana smoking, advocacy of a non-violent anarchist revolution, continuous interaction [...]
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:47:26 -0500 WHAT WEVE LOST [New Window]
Deforestation in the US from 1620 to 1992From the English WikipediaSource of 1620, 1850, and 1920 maps: William B. Greeley, The Relation of Geography to Timber Supply, Economic Geography, 1925, vol. 1, p. 1-11. Source of TODAY map: compiled by George Draffan from roadless area map in The Big Outside: A Descriptive Inventory of the [...]
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:24:03 -0500 The greatest local band in the world [New Window]
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:43:26 -0500 Scenes from the Jack Rose wake last Saturday in Philly [New Window]
Via NPR story “Remembering Dr. Ragtime: Guitarist Jack Rose” by Joel Rose (no relation)…
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:09:11 -0500 Sur mon autre blog cette semaine (2 billets) [New Window]
Voici les liens vers les 3 articles publis cette semaine sur le blog qui accompagne mon livre, Le nouveau management de l'information : 19/02/10 - Entreprise 2.0 - lu pour vous n 3 : 08/01/2010 au 19/02/2010 18/02/10 - Recyclage : Tout est parti d'une carte heuristique (octobre 2008) 17/02/10 - Fiche PKM 2.1 : Grer son identit numrique - Se crer un identifiant unique avec myOpenID
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:30:33 -0500 Sunday, February 21st live set by Excepter on Arthur Radio [New Window]
John Fell Ryan (otherwise known as “JFR” of Excepter) on his ink drawings (shown above – click on view fullscreen to enlarge):These are all from the Spring of 1998. I was living alone on the corner of Metropolitan and Driggs in Williamsburg, trying to merge cartooning and abstract design with concepts of American Folk mythology [...]
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:05:44 -0500 The problem is not desire. Its that your desires are too small. (Sri Nisargadatta) [New Window]
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:16:04 -0500 COSMIC FARCE, FEB. 18, 2010: DICK CHENEY WADDLES ONSTAGE AT CPAC TO THE TUNE OFHOWLIN RAINS DANCERS AT THE END OF TIME?!? [New Window]
1971-76…“Bishop Beesley, endlessly corrupt gluttonous villain series. Thirsts for power, money, pleasure.” (wikipedia entry on the villain from the Moorcock books)2008…February 18, 2010…2006…Michael Moorcock (with Arthur editor) at Arthur event at Church of Casper the Friendly GhostSXSW, 2005…
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:11:30 -0500 New Kathleen Hanna interview [New Window]
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:47:27 -0500 THERE IS NO THEY [New Window]
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:05:23 -0500 Another California Velvets singalong: SONNY & THE SUNSETS Lovin On an Older Gal [New Window]
Above: Sonny (right) and a SunsetStream: Download: “Lovin’ On An Older Gal” Sonny & the Sunsets (mp3)Buy: There’s something about this song… From an album full of Velvets-on-the-beach singalongs called Tomorrow Is Alright, released late last year by San Francisco-based Sonny & the Sunsets. A run of 500 on vinyl is gone already but [...]
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:25:00 -0500 Iceberg n40 : du 09/01/2010 au 19/02/2010 ( 130 services, articles et outils, si,si :-) [New Window]
IcebergVoil ce qui se passe quand on attend trop longtemps, un Iceberg de plus de130 items. Bon courage :-)TuneGluehttp://audiomap.tuneglue.net/Beau moteur de recommandations musicales graphiqueOpenThesishttp://www.openthesis.orgRpertoire gratuit pour dposer et rechercher des thsesFacebook fan pages are effective marketing toolhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100218110938.htmUne tude qui confirme que les pages d'entreprise sur Facebook ont un rel impact sur les achatsStudy shows why...
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:03:01 -0500 Comparatif de trois moteurs pour rechercher en plein texte dans la presse papier [New Window]
OutilsMoteurRechercheNewsIl semblerait que depuis septembre 2009 les solutions permettant de rechercher en plein-texte et gratuitement dans la presse papier se multiplient. Attention, seule la recherche est gratuite, l'accs au document reste videmment payant mais cela peut modifier nos pratiques de veille habituelles. En effet, plutt que de s'abonner quelques magazines et journaux dans le but de les "piger" quotidiennement et la main, il suffit d'entrer les mots-cls qui vous intressent et d'acheter que ceux qui nous semblent utiles. Cela peut aussi permettre d'accder directement aux pages intressantes sur les journaux auxquels on est dj abonns et donc de pas perdre de temps les plucher.Attention toutefois. Ce gain de temps pourrait tre compense ngativement par une perte de richesse globale. En effet, lorsqu'on feuillette un magazine c'est tout un contexte que l'on intgre...
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:11:27 -0500 MORE THAN YOU KNOW [New Window]
from : http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/more-than-you-know/Dunbar’s Numberhttp://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6999879.ece“We may be able to amass 5,000 ‘friends’ on Facebook but humans brains are capable of managing a maximum of only 150 actual friendships, a study has found. Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, has conducted research revealing that while social networking sites allow us to maintain more relationships, [...]
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:17:41 -0500 Earth versus the 10 [New Window]
The LA Times reports the slide is still moving. Way to go geology, rock and roll.
Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:04:59 -0500 PHOTOGRAPH A RECRUITER [New Window]
http://www.photographarecruiter.com/
Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:27:14 -0500 PEYOTE QUEEN (Storm De Hirsch, 1965) [New Window]
Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:18:40 -0500 Factery Labs associe recherche temps rel et mdias traditionnels [New Window]
OutilsRechercheWebDiversJ'ai publi ce mois-ci dans La lettre Recherche et Rfrencement (payante) un article sur Factery Labs, un moteur qui associe la dtection des tendances de l'actualit via les rseaux sociaux et la recherche d'lments factuels tirs de sources reconnues. Une tentative intressante donc. Au sommaire du numro de fvrier vous trouverez galement les articles suivants : Les commentaires des internautes, nouveau carburant des moteurs de recherche ? (9 pages). Le SEO l'aune du Web localis (22 pages). L'exception de "courte citation" dans la loi franaise (3 pages). Russir la cration d'une quipe SEO en interne (9 pages).
Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:08:03 -0500 Tableau Software Public, pour passer au niveau suprieur de la visualisation de donnes [New Window]
OutilsCartographieD_InformationIl est des outils dont on entend beaucoup parler mais dont les cots sont rdhibitoires. C'est le cas de Tableau Software, un logiciel d'analyse de donnes et de gnration de schmas et de cartographies dynamiques qui semble beaucoup plaire aux pros de la business intelligence et de la visualisation outre-atlantique. Malheureusement il atteint tout de mme la bagatelle de 1000 $ en version desktop perso et le double en version pro (possibilit de le connecter de trs nombreuses bases de donnes et solutions BI).Heureusement voil qu'arrive Tableau Software Public. Il s'agit d'une version gratuite de l'outil dont les rsultats ne seront publiables qu'en ligne et de manire publique. Il vient alors concurrencer les excellents Swivel et Manyeyes d'IBM.L'un des avantages de Tableau Software Public est que vous disposez d'un logiciel client...
Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:50:42 -0500 Theres a limited supply: Arthur No. 3 (pubd Feb 2003) aka THE JOE STRUMMER WAKE ISSUE [New Window]
We’ve got 50 copies left of Arthur No. 3 (cover date March 2003, pub’d February, 2003). This one’s from the original incarnation (read: best) of Arthurthe pages are gigantic (11×17) and the paper is reasonably high-quality newsprint. Some color, some b/w. We’re selling our remaining stock for $10 each over at the Arthur Store. Notes [...]
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:43:27 -0500 DOGS IN COLLEGE #12 by Michael Deforge [New Window]
It’s Dogs In College by Michael Deforge. Michael is an awesome illustrator/comics artist/midi composer living in Toronto. He did the cover for the latest issue of Diamond Comics, and have you read his comic LOSE yet? Get it, one of the best books of the year.
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:38:21 -0500 Arthur Radio #5: Amor Apocalptico, with live set by Wish [New Window]
(Above: Collage featuring in-studio photo by Anna Gonick and artwork by Wish)This past Sunday, Emilie Friedlander (Visitation Rites) joined Ivy Meadows in the depths of the Newtown Radio caverns to celebrate the first day of the Year of the Tiger. Zeljko McMullen of the music/visual/art collective Shinkoyo played us a live set via his solo [...]
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:00:07 -0500 AND NEVER DIE [New Window]
from : http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/and-never-die/Living to 1,000http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Greyhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4003063.stm“This means that all parts of the project should be fully working in mice within just 10 years and we might take only another 10 years to get them all working in humans. When we get these therapies, we will no longer all get frail and decrepit and dependent as we [...]
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:10:58 -0500 LOOK of LOVE [New Window]
photos from Les Folies du Music-Hall by Jacques DamaseA History of the Paris Music-Hall from 1914 to the Present Day
Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:06:12 -0500 IAIN SINCLAIR on J.G. BALLARDs favorite artwork [New Window]
Another piece by Iain Sinclair, this one regarding his friend, the late visionary author J.G. Ballard (wiki). From today’s The Guardian, on the occasion of the new Ballard exhibition at the London Gagosian…PAUL DELVAUX: Le canap bleu, 1967 (Oil on canvas/55 1/8 x 70 7/8 inches) Crash: JG Ballard’s artistic legacyShortly before JG Ballard’s death [...]
Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:16:49 -0500 Feb. 17, L.A.: WIZARD WEDNESDAYS debuts at Footsies in Highland Park [New Window]
WIZARD WEDNESDAYS takes place first and third Wednesdays of every month at Footsies at 261 N. Figueroa in Highland Park. February 17 special guest is DJ Nobody!Poster by Alia Penner
Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:54:07 -0500 YOUR HEART IS A PRISM by Peter Glantz, Becky Stark and Jacob Ciocci [New Window]
Poster:http://www.justseeds.org/09prism.htmlMore info:imaginarycompany.org“This print is the first in a series that Becky Stark and I are making together. We write slogans and turn them into prints and videos. This is the first print and is designed in collaboration with Jacob Ciocci.Jacob is a founding member of the art collective Paper Rad and plays in the band [...]
Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:42:56 -0500 Exclusive preview of Blaise Larmees YOUNG LIONS [New Window]
Young Lions revolves around a cast of listless, urban youth who look for meaning in art, religion, and each other. Recently awarded the highly coveted Xeric grant, it is the debut graphic novella from blogger/zinester Blaise Larmee.Scheduled for publication on April 1, 2010, Blaise thought of a unique promotion for fans interested in reading his [...]
Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:10:09 -0500 FOUR LIONS trailer (Chris Morris feature film!) [New Window]
Wikipedia: Chris MorrisFrom the archives…
Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:09:50 -0500 Iain Sinclair: Unconsciously, I had been operating, all along, as a disenfranchised psychogeographer. [New Window]
Here’s a nice follow-on from the Raoul Vaneigem interview, posted earlier this week: British author/poet/journalist Iain Sinclair on what he’s discovered through the years from “motiveless walking” in London. From the Telegraph:In London, from the first, I walked. As a film student, newly arrived in the early Sixties, I copied the poet John Clare on [...]
Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:50:46 -0500 THIS SAT., Feb. 13, Philly: A Record Release Party and Memorial Concert for JACK ROSE [New Window]
Jack Rose passed away suddenly at home in Philadelphia on December 5, 2009. He was widely regarded as the most profound exponent of acoustic guitar playing of his generation. Jack grew to be loved and admired by a great many people through his live performances, electric personality, [serious] cooking skills and a general mastery in [...]
Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:16:28 -0500 SHOPPING FOR NEW TOYS WITH ROKY ERICKSON [New Window]
Promo short for forthcoming Roky Erickson & Okkervil River album, shot at Toy Joy in Austin, Texas…Wikipedia:Roky Erickson13th Floor ElevatorsDefinitive 13th Floor Elevators biography, published 2008 by Process:Definitive 13th Floor Elevators ten-CD boxset, released 2009 by International Artists:And, just for kicks, here’s Jason Pierce of Spiritualized and Spacemen 3, wearing his Roky shirt on the [...]
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:51:48 -0500 New Black Hole Simulator [New Window]
from: http://www.newscientist.com/Mller told New Scientist. “It’s as if the black hole is like a mirror.”
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:28:21 -0500 TONGUE TOP TEN by Byron Coley and Thurston Moore [New Window]
The last year has been rough, but well try to face the new dawn more regularly. See how it goes, and well deal with some older stuff amidst the newer stuff. Cant be helped. Thanks.1. I guess its beyond the point of convincing anyone that some of the best music/sounds is happening on small cassette [...]
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:42:17 -0500 Allen Ginsberg & Paul McCartney The Ballad Of The Skeletons (live, 1995) [New Window]
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:10:29 -0500 Legacy time with BIKINI KILL [New Window]
Directly from the band publicist of the band who got it directly from the band: SHARE YOUR BIKINI KILL STORIESBikini Kill has set up an official archive online:http://bikinikillarchive.wordpress.com/We are collecting stories of how people got into the band/shows they saw/memories/testimonials etc.It would be awesome if you wanted to contribute. It doesn’t have to be fancy [...]
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:48:37 -0500 RAOUL VANEIGEM: still the most inspirational man alive [2009 interview] [New Window]
First, some biographical notes courtesy of Vaneigem’s American publisher, PM Press:Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934) is a native of Lessines (Hainaut), Belgium, a small town whose traditional claim to fame was the production of paving stones but which in the twentieth century also produced the Surrealist painter Ren Magritte and the Surrealist poet Louis Scutenaire. Vaneigem [...]
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:48:30 -0500 THE ENCAKER [New Window]
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:16:08 -0500 Nightmare in crystal still-motion: Massive Attack Splitting the Atom (dir. Edouard Salier) [New Window]
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:07:33 -0500 Bonobos sharing food with strangersthis is the first time non-humans have been observed doing this [New Window]
Via New Scientist…
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:24:23 -0500 Feb 16, L.A.: Bring an 8 oz jar with a lid filed with two fingers of vodka, french brandy or raw vinegar. [New Window]
tues. feb 16th 7-10pmherbal house salonwith ‘weedeater’ nance klehmand delectable edibles by eden batkifor this evening, we will have an urbanforage by flashlight, sip herbal infusions and eat delicious homemade snacks, discuss herbal energetics, learn basic tincturing techniques and make a tincture to take home. please bring an 8 oz jar with a lid filed [...]
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:06:01 -0500 BRAVO TO JACK & MEG [New Window]
The White Stripes have come out swinging very hard and very righteously against the United States Air Force Reserve’s unauthorized (and yes, illegal) use of their music in a major Super Bowl commercial this past Sunday.Here’s their statement, as posted at Jack White’s Third Man Records‘ website yesterday: “We believe our song [...]
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:35:46 -0500 Advertising on Arthur [New Window]
Hiya,If you are interested in advertising on Arthur, fer crissakes don’t hesitate to drop us a line or give us a ring.We offer ad packages that range from $100 to $250 to $500 to, oh, $1.75 million: basically there’s something that should be affordable to anyone with some cash who wants to get the word [...]
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:16:44 -0500 ZOINKS III: new music from JOANNA NEWSOM [New Window]
“Kingfisher”: another new song from Joanna Newsom’s forthcoming tripler Have One On Me, via the good folk at Drag City of Chicago.Stream: Download: “Kingfisher” Joanna Newsom (mp3, 10.3mb)Previously:Stream: Download: “Good Intentions Paving Company” Joanna Newsom (mp3)Stream: Download: “‘81″ Joanna Newsom (mp3)Previously in Arthur Magazine:Forty-Six Strings and Some Truths: JOANNA NEWSOM’s first ever [...]
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:59:01 -0500 DOGS IN COLLEGE #11 by Michael Deforge [New Window]
It’s Dogs In College by Michael Deforge. Michael is an awesome illustrator/comics artist/midi composer living in Toronto. He did the cover for the latest issue of Diamond Comics, and have you read his comic LOSE yet? Get it, one of the best books of the year.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:37:21 -0500 Beach party bonfire singalong: SONNY & THE SUNSETS Too Young to Burn [New Window]
Above: Sonny and a sunsetStream: Download: “Too Young To Burn” Sonny and the Sunsets (mp3)Buy: Haven’t heard a California beach party bonfire singalong this ramshacklin’ good since Little Wings drifted out… On second thought: this song is plenty sturdy, isn’t it? From an album full of Velvets-on-the-beach singalongs called Tomorrow Is Alright, released late [...]
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:02:13 -0500 ARTHUR RADIO VOYAGE No. 4 [New Window]
Arthur Radio Voyage No. 4: SOUNDSCAPES. Ivy Meadows and Gustav Ernst meditate in the zen-like interior of the new Newtown Radio studio. Hairy Painter joins telepathically whilst building a float in New Orleans. We invite you to climb aboard the sonic airship…Stream: Download: Arthur Radio Voyage No. 4 SOUNDSCAPES 2-07-2010
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:23:30 -0500 New Pete Toms comic PAWS [New Window]
(Hint: Double-click the comic to go FULL SCREEN)Pete Toms is back with PAWS, another comic that blurs the line between fiction and reality.The comic is essentially a horror comic about a guy that only experiences the outside world through television trying to sell an autobiographical screenplay. It has all the same themes as my other [...]
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:09:34 -0500 TRADITIONAL COMICS internets video commercial [New Window]
Hey all, check out the first ever TRADITIONAL COMICS internets video commercial right here:
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:21:54 -0500 NO NEED TO WONDER. ITS TRUE. NOW WHAT? [New Window]
As we’ve been saying, as others have been saying (see: Glenn Branca in NYTimes blog last November, ) here’s the latest perceptive person Douglas Coupland to just go ahead and say it: culture is almost over. From today’s NYTimes Sunday Mag:Q: How would you define the current cultural moment?Douglas Coupland: Im starting [...]
Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:28:37 -0500 Sur mon autre blog cette semaine (1 billet + 1 modification) [New Window]
Publi cette semaine sur "Le nouveau management de l'information" 04/02/10 - Pourquoi l'entreprise 2.0 ? Pourquoi maintenant ? Pourquoi il faut y aller ? Explication en imageJ'ai ajout galement les avis de quelques experts reconnus de l'entreprise 2.0 comme Anthony Poncier, Bertrand Duperrin ou Marc de Fouchcour. Pour les faire apparatre il suffit de cliquer sur "Ce qu'ils pensent du livre".
Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:23:28 -0500 Al Columbia original artwork PIM & FRANCIE SALMON FALLS SWEET SHOPPE [New Window]
Floating World Comics is proud to offer original artwork by Al Columbia. Every month or so we plan on making a new piece available for sale. This original painting from 2003 features Pim and Francie at the Salmon Falls Sweet Shoppe. Click on the image below to see all the beautiful details – check out [...]
Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:03:08 -0500 C and D from Arthur No. 13 (cover date Nov 2004) [New Window]
This C & D session was originally published in Arthur No. 13 (Nov. 2004)…C & DTwo confirmed schmucks grapple with the big issuesand an unexpected female visitor.PICK A WINNER dvd(Load)C: Youre not going to believe this.D: Try me.C: [delicately loading DVD] Like an hours worth of charmingly bonkers/whimsical low-tech animation to go with homemade psych-crunge [...]
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:05:07 -0500 Theres a limited supply: Arthur No. 13 (pubd October 2004) aka THE EXORCISM OF THE PENTAGON AND THE BIRTH OF YIPPIE cover feature issue [New Window]
We’ve got 50 25 copies left of Arthur No. 13 (cover date Nov 2004, pub’d October 2004). This one’s from the original incarnation of Arthurthe pages are gigantic (11×17) and the paper is reasonably high-quality newsprint. We published 50,000 of these suckers and got ‘em out to the people for free during the final run-up [...]
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:54:12 -0500 Sat Feb 6 NYC 5pm: Something to That EffectDave Tompkins lectures on the VocoderFREE [New Window]
This just in from occasional Arthur contributor Dave Tompkins:I’ll be doing a talk for my Vocoder book How To Wreck A Nice Beach at the Goethe Institute as part of the Unsound Festival. Goethe is located at 5 E. 3rd at Broadway in the Wyoming Building. It takes place at 5pm, this Saturday, February 6, [...]
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:00:17 -0500 Microsoft Academic Search, une intressante alternative Google Scholar [New Window]
OutilsMoteurRechercheWeb - OutilsRechercheWebDiversEn rdigeant le mois dernier un article sur Entitycube (excellent moteur de recherche base sur la dtection d'entits nommes propos en bta par Microsoft), pour La Lettre Recherche & Rfrencement d'Abondance, je suis tomb sur Microsoft Academic Search, un moteur dvelopp par la mme quipe chinoise.Egalement en bta, ce moteur indexe tout de mme 5 millions d'articles. Il peut videmment tre interrog en plein texte mais permet aussi une recherche par auteur, confrence, revue et date. On peut alors croiser l'ensemble de ces critres. L'innovation principale de ce moteur repose sur la dtection d'entits nommes qui lui permet de dtecter automatiquement ces mmes lments. A noter qu'il existe un langage d'interrogation structur que nous n'avons pas test en dtail et qui semble permettre d'effectuer...
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:47:51 -0500 Recyclage : Individualisation de la recherche sur internet : le scnario du pire [New Window]
Pour poursuivre ma srie de recyclage d'articles (qui je le rappelle a aussi comme objectif de "prenniser" ceux que je considre comme les plus intressants dans Scribd) je profite de la publication de l'excellent article d'Internet Actu consacr Danah Boyd intitul "Ce qu'implique de vivre dans un monde de flux" pour ressortir un billet crit en mars 2006 pour ZDnet.J'y posai une question que Danah Boyd soulve dans la partie de l'article intitule "4 fausses ides sur la rvolution numrique", celle de ce qu'elle nomme l'homophilie. Comme souvent je partais d'un outil, ici QTsaver dsormais HS, pour tenter de dvelopper ma rflexion. Le premier tiers de l'article, descriptif, n'a donc plus d'intrt mais il me semble en revanche que la suite en a encore. L'annonce faite en dcembre dernier par Google sur la personnalisation de tous ses rsultats en atteste.
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:27:42 -0500 Comment mettre en place une veille d'actualit audio et vido? [New Window]
OutilsVeille - RessourcesVeilleDepuis quelques annes la veille sur l'actualit de la presse crite est largement facilite par les flux RSS proposs par des portails comme Google Actus ou Yahoo! News. Il reste toutefois un norme champ investir qui est celui des actualits diffuses sous forme audio et vido. Comment tre inform qu'un reportage sur votre concurrent a t diffus sur une radio? Comment savoir si on a parl de votre produit au journal tlvis?Je ne parle pas ici de surveiller des mots-cls dans les titres ou rsums des actualits, ce qui est relativement ais avec un bon moteur de recherche de vidos. Non, je parle ide surveiller ce qui se dit durant les journaux tlviss ou radiodiffuss, du contenu plein-texte donc. Pour cela nous allons avoir besoin de moteurs de recherche qui font ce travail d'indexation de fichiers audios, c'est dire qui disposent de logiciels leur permettant de retranscrire...
Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:22:38 -0500 Iceberg intelligence conomique n 12 : du 21/12/2009 au 11/01/2010 (18 lments) [New Window]
Un Iceberg intelligence conomique de circonstance en ce froid janvier : Innovative Collaborative Community Helps Warfighters Connect the Dots Communaut de pratique dans la dfense US (MITRE think tank) To help initiate a discussion, in 2006 MITRE invited a wide range of stakeholders to participate in a collaborative, knowledge-sharing group known as a "community of practice" (CoP). The goal of the initial meeting was to address ongoing issues faced by a broad array of GMTI providers and consumers and to improve the GMTI enterprise as it has become a key intelligence source. The involvement of senior military members in the CoP reflects a growing consensus...
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:30:46 -0500 Iceberg n39: du 05/12/2009 au 08/01/2010 (50 services, articles, outils) [New Window]
Un iceberg de circonstance en ce froid mois de janvier : Replace Text Freeware permettant de remplacer du texte dans plusieurs fichiers la fois via @infogere Panorama d'usages d'outils numriques & de services du web social pour la mdiation patrimoniale et culturelle Excellente prsentation de Loc Hay, comme d'hab. Chat on Google Translator Toolkit Google ajoute le chat son Translator toolkitre Sept outils pour grer ses rseaux sociaux via @amalbel
Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:11:02 -0500 Sur mon autre blog cette semaine (3 billets) [New Window]
Publi cette semaine sur mon blog "Le nouveau management de l'information" : 08/01/10 - Entreprise 2.0 - lu pour vous n 2 : 06/12/09 au 08/01/10 07/01/10 - Fiche PKM n 4 : Comment fixer et grer ses objectifs long terme ? 06/01/10 - Google fabrique les employs 2.0
Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:39:16 -0500 Springer lance le moteur de recherche d'articles scientifiques Exemplar [New Window]
OutilsRechercheWebDiversL'diteur scientifique Springer, un acteur majeur de ce domaine, semble ne pas vouloir se laisser dpasser par les volutions technologiques. Aprs avoir lanc Authormapper, un excellent moteur de recherche permettant notamment de positionner les quipes de recherche sur une carte du monde et de tirer de nombreuses statistiques de ces bases (histogramme de publication par mots-cls, pays, institutions, auteurs, journaux, mots-cls,...) il lance maintenant Exemplar.Ce second moteur propose peu de choses prs les fonctionnalits statistiques et graphique que le prcdent (hormis la localisation gographique) mais se focalise sur la mise en contexte des mots-cls recherchs, prsentant chaque fois la phrase dont ils sont extraits et affichant une image de la revue au passage de la souris. A noter qu'Exemplar propose un filtre qui permet de n'obtenir que...
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