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(Ryan Thompson, Glacial Erratic Monuments: Geneva, 2010. Source.) I would love to see someone map out, just like what Thompson had done with Geneva's, all the glacial erratics in Chicago, its immediate environs and not-too-further afield, at least the more monumental ones, and if there are any to be found, as a sort of field guide to the city's ancestral—and future—landscape and …
Pruned 2012-01-26 08:33:40
On a whim, I went to see if new tour dates have opened up for the Nevada National Security Site Tours. Every year, whenever I remember to check, the schedule has already filled up, or least those days when I can make the trip. Not this year, as it seems all dates next year are still available. For those unfamiliar with the …
Pruned 2012-01-26 08:33:40
Instigated by Japan restarting several of its nuclear power plants over the weekend since all of its reactors were shut down after last year's Fukushima disaster, I went on a scopic drive in search of the country's (and possibly the world's) lone gamma garden, just to have a look, and here it is: (+36° 31' 29.70", +140° 23' 56.90") While I can't …
Pruned 2012-01-26 08:33:40
With no travels plans this holiday week, I've been mostly doing some scopic driving on Google Maps. Yesterday, I had a look at the gamma field of the Institute of Radiation Breeding. Today, simply out of curiosity, I went to look at the former site of South Central Farm to check out what, if any, replaced the 14-acre community garden. Most of …
Pruned 2012-01-26 08:33:40
(Agnus scythicus, or the sheep-bearing plant.) For reasons I haven't investigated yet, goats seem to be popular pharm animals. At the University of California at Davis, researchers have genetically modified a herd of goats to produce milk that could greatly enhance one's ability to fight off diarrhea-causing bacteria. At Texas A&M University, meanwhile, researchers are planning to turn goats into malaria vaccine …
Pruned 2012-01-26 08:33:40
(Venue doing some surveying at the Coso Volcanic Field near Inyo, California. Photo by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley. Source.)
Pruned 2012-01-26 08:33:40
(Jitka Hanzlová, ?Untitled (Haniel),? from the series Here, 2010.) 1) Is Europe at risk from a Chernobyl forest fire? ?Much of the 30km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant is pine forest,? and ?[i]f ignited, one expert likens the potential effect to setting off a nuclear bomb in Eastern Europe. Wind could carry radioactive smoke particles large distances, not just in …
Pruned 2012-01-26 08:33:40
For many, it's been an unrelenting period of record drought, suffocating high temperatures and epic wildfires. Even storm events, specifically last month's derecho, that might have brought at least a cold front to ease the devastating aftermath only worsen the situation. As a sort of salve for the end of another superheated week, below is a video of scuba divers at Austria's …
Pruned 2012-01-26 08:33:40
Despite a lull in China's never-ending parade of coming out megaspectaculars, this summer's pavilion season still seems to be as rabid as any year. Spend even a little of time in any of the spatialist hot spots, and you'll be conked in the retina with Instagrams of the newly installed and/or the unapologetically Rococo renderings for the Tumblr-Pinterest-Twitter circuit. Should you …
Pruned 2012-01-26 08:33:40
(The proposed Giant's Causeway Visitors' Center. Image courtesy of Heneghan Peng Architects.) To extend our pavilion festival briefly for another day, here some images of the new visitor center for the Giant's Causeway, the famous rock formation and popular tourist destination on the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland. Designed by Heneghan Peng Architects and built to replace the original center which burned …
Pruned 2012-01-26 08:33:40
How will you concern yourself with issues of materials, technology, politics and economics, waxing and waning through countless eons? How do you imagine your users, your many million-times great-grandchildren, will come to experience it, being ultra-post-human as they are? Will you be that optimistic and not include a built-in fail safe monument to our extinct species? How will it endure such …
Pruned 2012-01-26 08:33:40
(A view of the Flood Observatory. Image courtesy of Taller Veinticuatro.) A couple of years ago, Arquine magazine sponsored an ideas competition challenging entrants to design a flood observatory located on a flood plain of the Usumacinta River, near the town of Tenosique in south-eastern Mexico. The program also called for a museum and community center, a shelter and refuge, and a …
Pruned 2012-01-26 08:33:40
(A view of Florence, Italy. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. Source.) Last month, I tweeted four psychological syndromes named after cities, and I think it's worth briefly mentioning them here, with the links for further investigation. 1) Paris Syndrome: wherein mainly Japanese tourists experience severe culture shock. 2) Jerusalem Syndrome: wherein tourists become religious zealots to the point of acting like ancient …
Pruned 2012-01-26 08:33:40
(M.I.A., Bad Girls, 2012. And that is all for this edition, although for a hazy window into the drifting scene in Saudi Arabia, see this New York Times article. Be back in a couple of weeks!)
Pruned 2011-11-15 06:43:04
(An engraving from Giovanni Battista Ferrari, De florum cultura libri IV, 1633.) With apologies for a quiet past year, Pruned begins Year 8 in earnest, hoping, as the number suggests, it to be an auspicious one. On this day, I thought I'd list the top 10 most popular posts ever, at least according to Blogger. The stats only go as far back as …
Pruned 2011-11-03 18:43:00
Dear Readers: An unplanned hiatus is going to last a bit longer. So in lieu of new posts, I'll be reposting old ones. Be back soon. —Alexander
Pruned 2011-09-29 01:39:42
(Stuttgart is calling!) You have just about a week to put a team together and vie for one of the spots in the next edition of the 72 Hour Urban Action, which the organizers bill as ?the world's first real-time architecture competition.? If you can find only a couple of interested colleagues or no one at all, you can still apply as …
Pruned 2011-09-29 01:39:42
(Björn Schulke, Observer #2, 2003.)
Pruned 2011-09-29 01:39:42
(Photo by Jason Delport, courtesy of Graffiti Archaeology.) A Utah-based startup company called ChamTech Operations is claiming that its Spray On Antenna Kit can turn any surface into a high-powered antenna. As explained by Anthony Sutera in the video below of his presentation at Google's Solve for X event, ?Our material uses thousands of nano-capacitors that we can spray paint on in the …
Pruned 2011-09-29 01:39:42
(Illustration by Jonas De Ro.) This, which is Jonas De Ro's contribution to an exhibition on modern ghost towns at the Architecture Museum at Berlin's Technical University, isn't the most original in the history of post-apocalyptic eye candies, but it is definitely a refreshing contrast to the dime-a-dozen Ozymandian visions of a future Dubai in ruins. Instead of the desert, a rain …
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