MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU on Vimeo Click on the title (above) to see a stop-motion animation of some fantastic graffiti carried out by BLU in Buenos Aires. Amazing. Found via Cool Hunting (click through for their description/ commentary).
Nomads at last | Economist.com – Annotated Published on the same date as The new oases (which I bookmarked at the time), I missed this story the first time around (April 10). Saw it now via Wendy Waters’s blog, All About Cities. Like “The new oases,” this article is also about mobile computing, and its […]
It’s one of those long-buried texts in the back of my mind: Adorno’s dissection of techne and “art” (both of which he of course spelled in Greek letters, so tough luck for you if the Greek alphabet wasn’t something that tripped off your eyeballs easily…). I won’t embarrass myself by trying to recapitulate what he […]
An article in today’s local media reports that British Columbia’s Premier Gordon Campbell is proposing changes to the province’s building code to allow wood-frame construction for buildings taller than 4 floors. Going higher … using wood Canwest News Service Published: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 A plan by the province to raise the minimum height for […]
Do tourists miss ‘Toronto the Good’? – Posted Toronto – Annotated While some people say that “gritty” = “edgy” (and therefore “cool”), there’s an undeniable line that gets crossed at some point, and then gritty isn’t edgy anymore, it’s just shabby & run-down & dirty. It seems that too many North American cities are on […]
MIT students show power of open cell phone systems (MIT Technology Review) Fascinating report on MIT class project to design software programs for Android (Google) mobile operating system. Upshot? Location, location, location. All but one of the projects involved location-based applications. tags: mit_techreview, mit, android, cell_phones, mobile_technology, locative_media
Victoria Earthquake Maps Earthquake hazards mapping for Greater Victoria, including amplification, liquifaction, and other risks, relative to one another for the region. Basically, if I can just make sure I’m at home (in Rockland — *rock* land, see?) when the big one strikes, I could be alright. Small comfort, though… tags: earthquake, seismic_data, victoria
The painful cost of booming growth | Seattle Times Newspaper (Local News) – Annotated “Puget Sound is a funnel. Anything that we do at the top end of the funnel comes out at the bottom end.” Sometimes painful reading, this article looks at the effect of bad wastewater runoff management and its deleterious effect on […]
Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit – New York Times Something to think about “out west,” where existing public transit might be spotty, or where the only public transit is buses. Rail definitely makes sense for many people here. “Some cities with long-established public transit systems, like New York and Boston, have […]
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