Via anti-mega we learn that there’s been a competition to design the next Halley Antarctic research station - and one of the finalists brings Archigram’s Walking City a few steps closer to reality.
According to Chris, “One of the big problems with the base, it seems, is that it moves 1km a year due to ice […]
“The white tenant farmer has not always been the lazy, slipshod, good-for-nothing person he is frequently described as being. His shiftlessness, when apparent, is an occupational disease of which he is generally well aware…
This same white tenant farmer grew from child to boy to man with many of the same ambitions and incentives that motivate […]
Grafedia
“Grafedia is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content - images, video, sound files, and so forth. It can be written anywhere - on walls, in the streets, or on sidewalks. Grafedia can also be written in letters or postcards, on the body as tattoos, or anywhere you […]
“It’s not surprising to find a piece in the Guardian entitled 4×4s are killing my planet. But rather than write a statistics-driven polemic like Keith Bradsher’s High & Mighty, Robert Macfarlane (the author of Mountains of the Mind), is more concerned with the co-option of rural imagery as a means of selling cars, a process […]
The Mall That Would Save America
“Destiny U.S.A., the retail-and-entertainment complex [being built] in upstate New York, aspires to be not only the biggest man-made structure on the planet but also the most environmentally friendly. Equal parts Disney World, Las Vegas, Bell Laboratories and Mall of America — with a splash of Walden Pond — the […]