Wednesday Links

First, a visual koan

Next, beautiful pictures of Mars. No computer can replicate the unspeakable beauty of millions of years of wind.

Click for the full gallery, at the Boston Globe

Finally, the ever incredible website Polar Inertia. Just because it’s incredible. Check out the book here. It’s incredible, do everyone including yourself a favor and buy a copy!

Speaking of ecologies though, both Polar Inertia and The Infrastructural City are great considerations of the ecologies of modern urbanity.

Productive Dystopias

From our colleagues over at the Bartlett MArch Urban Design, tomorrow’s thoughts today, comes the concept of the Productive Dystopia.

Rather compelling.

How Ballardian

They’ve found the limit of statist capitalism… New Ordos.

Voice

This is incredible. Found it here.

It’s the inverse of this.

Which I found here - back in the day.

The Camera Obscura of Abelardo Morrell

In tutorial yesterday, we were talking about the camera obscura, and I was reminded of an artist I had seen years ago, but whose name I had not been able to recall. Found him. Abelardo Morrell.

How Very Madelon Vriesendorp

This is not particularly pertinent to my work, but the work is incredible, and I wanted to share – and give “press” to an awesome artist. Click through – this isn’t even the best picture.

[Funny enough - the content of his photos is very Borgesian, and he shares a name with the title character of a Borges story.]

Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics

http://www.technologyreview.com - hover for their description

This is important. Electronics that do not have to be segregated (or “canned”) from the interior of the body.

I can’t wait to wear my watch under the skin of my wrist, and get an animated tattoo.

You think I’m kidding?

[via Technology Review.]

The Secret Lives of Magnetic Fields

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

The sound also reminds me of the magnetic interference on the short wave radio that I listened to so much as a kid. Thanks to Shaun Murray for the excellent link.

Big Shakes on the Box Car Moving

My work from this semester is now going up over at duanemclemore.wordpress.com . Check it out.

In a week that saw a great lecture by Vaughan Oliver, known for his classic record sleeve designs for 4AD Records, I thought I’d misquote 4AD artist the Pixies to let everyone know the big news here in my world. I have clarified the intent of my blogging pursuits, and I will further be using my blog, Living Architecture merely for quotes, notes, and points of inspiration as pertains to or derived from this year’s AVATAR brief of “living architecture.”

For continuity’s sake, I’m leaving the work I had previously posted on Living Architecture, but all of my class work can now be found at the eponymous blog duanemclemore.wordpress.com …

Enjoy. And please tell me your thoughts!

Emergence

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan

Deadvertising

A play on “Dead Advertising,” or “De-Advertising,” the documentation of blank and broken signage and billboards is not commentary per se, but exploration. Deadvertising is an observation of the economics and phenomenology of billboards which have “gone to seed,” not a mere celebration of their obviation or detournment. These non / objects are reflective of our human and late-capitalist world views and its contradictions. They exist in the liminal space between being and non-being, meaning and non-meaning, between defacement and reclamation. They are pornographic, they are pastoral. They are advertising and its inverse, they are spaces of indeterminacy, incongruity, and possibility.

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Please do me a huge favor and check out this photo gallery. I would like input on which of these lovely images I should submit for LOG Magazine’s postcard contest. The deadline is the 15th, and I’ll be taking suggestions until the 14th – so vote by leaving a comment on the ones you like. Vote early, vote often, and while you’re at it read the description above which will be sent along with my entry(ies).

Thanks in advance for your help!

Click here to view.