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A Cemetery for Floating Cities

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(Top image: Mathilde Roussel, Lives of Grass, 2010; photo by Matthieu Raffard. Bottom image: Sasha Cisar, An Urban Canopy, 2008.) A marvelous splicing courtesy of Tumblr, pairing together Mathilde Roussel's Lives of Grass and Sasha Cisar's An Urban Canopy from which a parallel world city could be concocted. It's a floating city whose inhabitants, after centuries in their stratospheric exile, have developed a …

Gut Farm

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I was very intrigued by a crowdfunded, citizen-scientist project to ?characterize the microbial diversity of the Global Gut.? Those that have donated will receive a sampling kit and instructions on how to collect stool samples. Once sent back to the lab, the samples are then genetically sequence to create a portrait not only of your own gut flora but also, if …

Urban Moonlight

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(?11th St. & Lydia St.,? from Andy Mattern, Moonlight Towers, 2008. Used with permission. Source.) A meme self-organized itself in my bookmarks recently, clustering together internet detritus around the subject of urban night light. It includes a satellite image, published on NASA's Earth Observatory, of the continental United States and its constellations of urban brightnesses at night. It's a classic image that most …

The (Soviet) Supersurface of Architectural Diaspora

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(Administrative building in Rapla, Estonia, completed 1977. Roomas Rein, architect. Photographer unknown.) A quick note to say that Pruned has a Tumblr twin, which has recently been ticking up in activity to complement a reanimated blog, though, to my surprise, it seems to be complementing it with priapic, mammary, death and feral imagery. Hope this isn't some ongoing psychosexual portrait starring Michael …

Gardens as Crypto-Water-Computers Redux

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Pruned 2012-06-05 20:47:17
(A ?fluid circuit.? Photo by William Vandivert.) The above image appeared in an article published by Scientific American in 1964. It's actually a photograph, believe or not, of a block of plastic ?chemically etched? with ?fluid control devices,? which are basically an arrangement of channels. Streams of fluids are pumped through these micro-canals, and applying the principles of fluid dynamics, one could …

Defense Aerosol Research Projects Agency

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(The global aerosol trade. Animation courtesy of NASA.) Last year, NASA and university scientists released a study revealing that half of the airborne particles, or aerosols, in the skies above Canada and the United States come from foreign sources. (?That's a huge number — half.?) Indeed, analysis of satellite data showed that ?64 million tons of dust, pollutants, and other particles cross …

The Super-Shelterbelt City

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(Tarim Desert Highway. Photo courtesy of China Petroleum Engineering Co. Source.) Yesterday's post about the global importation of aerosol reminded me of the Tarim Desert Highway, which crosses the great expanse of the Taklimakan (or Taklamakan) Desert in western China, the region I referred to as a Hell Mouth. I've blogged about it several times over the years, first briefly appearing as …

Forests as Paleoastronomical Observatories

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(An artist rendering of a gamma-ray burst. Image by NASA/Dana Berry/Skyworks Digital. Source.) Scientists have theorized that a gamma-ray burst may be responsible for ?an unusual level of a radioactive type of carbon known as carbon-14? found in ancient cedar trees in Japan. ?These enormous emissions of energy,? explains BBC News, ?occur when black holes, neutron stars or white dwarfs collide - the …

Welcome to the Coldscape

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(Kraft's cheese cave in Springfield, Missouri. Photo by Christoph Morlinghaus.) Previewing an upcoming exhibition co-organized with The Center for Land-Use Interpretation (CLUI), Nicola Twilley, of Edible Geography, takes us on an abbreviated tour of North America's coldscape, the ?vast and immeasurable volume of thermally controlled space? that ?is as ubiquitous as it is varied.? Exactly how varied? According to her undoubtedly incomplete …

Download the Geologic Now

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(?What might become thinkable and possible if humans were to take up the geologic as our instructive co-designer?as a partner in designing thoughts, things, systems, and experiences??) A quick reminder, if you're in New York tomorrow December 4th or can make a quick jaunt, that Studio-X NYC will host a launch event for Making the Geologic Now, the new book edited by …

Soft Pavilions 2

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(A prototype McMansion for future coastlines. Image courtesy of DARPA.) Watching this soft, flexible robot from the folks at DARPA momentarily morphs into something suggesting a domed canopy during its slow and jerky pneumatic migration, surely one can't help but suggest that it should be scaled up, perhaps into something that can accommodate a lecture series event. Flip it over, and you …

New South China Sea

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(New Kiribati 2.) Over the years, I've been slinging drive-by proposals for island nations in the Pacific to cope with sea level rise. These have included landfill-turned-megaparks, skyscraper enclaves and climate change reservations. In a throwaway line in a post about the floating artificial islands of Vincent Callebaut, I suggested that China should slice off a piece of the Tibetan plateau and …

Very Large Structure

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Very Large Structure is a proposal by Manuel Dom�nguez for a mobile land management mega-machine for Castile and Le�n in Spain. It's a walking city, for want of a better term, though rather than conceived as a global wanderer perpetually moving on to greener pastures, the VLS remains in basically the same place to tend to and improve the pastures that …

Sunset on Chryse Planitia

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(Per tradition, here's a photograph of a Martian sunset to cap off another year. It was taken by the Viking 1 Lander on August 20, 1976, from its Chryse Planitia landing site. Image courtesy of NASA. Source.)

Dawn on Chryse Planitia

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(The sun cocooned in its gauzy spaceship rising over Chryse Planitia, as photographed by the Viking 1 Lander on August 13, 1977, or sol 379 after touchdown. Image created using the original 12e188.blu, 12e188.grn and 12e188.red files from NASA's Viking Lander EDR Image Archive.)

Glacier National Park

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(A prototype Glacier National Park. Image courtesy of !melk.) In what seems like a natural reaction to the extreme weather events in Australia, from wildfires to off-the-color temperatures to ?agonized dryness,? the northern latitudes produced their own antipodean freak shows. One of the more hyperborean images is arguably that of a Chicago building encased in ice. Firefighters were called to put out …

Monstrous Geographies

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(?Female figure with pendulous breasts, short arms, standing on hind legs with a similar smaller figure on her back,? from Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri's Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world, 1585.) Apologies for posting this Call for Papers months after the deadline has passed. I myself found out about this conference a bit too late as well. Nevertheless, …

Applied Topiary

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(Machines for ecological standardization. Photo courtesy of Gebroeders Ezendam B.V. Source.) The other night, while inescapably mired in a seemingly endless video stream of manhole explosions (something which I recently learned are ?[e]ventualities in subterranean chambers? to which ?few large cities are immune?) and in an even more extended playlist of landslides and debris flows (in the hope of siting Fred Astaire …

Robot-Readable Gardens

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If you enjoyed yesterday's mini film series on topiary robotics, you might also be interested in another line-up on garden machinery presented by Tuinbouw Technisch Atelier BV, a Dutch company (obviously) that advertises itself as ?a leading supplier of equipment for handling and selection of young plants and other equipment for growers and industries.? At least for their most recent uploads, …

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