A cylindrical room.  A chair in the center.  A hurricane surounds you.  This is my office. (please excuse flash)

eroded:

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Kate, something like this?

Like something out of a J.G. Ballard novel!  NPR reporting on a traffic Jam in China.

In this photo taken on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, truck drivers play cards in the shade of a truck jammed on an entrance ramp to the Beijing-Tibet Highway in Guoleizhuang township, in north China’s Hebei province. The massive traffic jam that stretches for dozens of miles and hit its 10-day mark on Tuesday stems from road construction in Beijing that won’t be finished until the middle of next month, an official said.

landscapearchitecture:

That’s It. As of Now, We’re Out of Resources for 2010 - GOOD Blog - GOOD

August 21 was 2010 ”Earth Overshoot Day”  This is the point where we have consumed the equivalent of what the earth can produce annually. 

 It’s the day on which we “exhaust our ecological budget for the year.” 

2008- Sept 23

 2009- Sept 25

2010- Aug 21

turquoisebird:

Fourteen years of Emma. Happy birthday to the best (and most talkative) cat I have ever loved.

It’s true. One of the days I visited, I stayed inside and spoke with this cat for several hours.

(via youmightfindyourself)

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n1s:

Phil Ashcroft, painter via Josh Spear

kiyo:

poopball (by jasmyn nicole)

via biotic:tensionslikeafire

hydeordie:

Sanford Biggers Blossom, 2007

Outside-inside

kateoplis:

From David Benqué’s Acoustic Botany via/ BLDBLOG:

Acoustic Botany uses genetically modified plants to produce a “fantastical acoustic garden,” where sounds literally grow on trees. “Desired traits such as volume, timbre and harmony are acquired through selective breeding techniques,” Benqué explains:

The debate around Genetic Engineering is currently centered around vital issues such as food, healthcare and the environment. However, we have been shaping nature for thousands of years, not only to suit our needs, but our most irrational desires. Beautiful flowers, mind altering weeds and crabs shaped like human faces all thrive on these desires, giving them an evolutionary advantage. By presenting a fantastical acoustic garden, a controlled ecosystem of entertainment, I aim to explore our cultural and aesthetic relationship to nature, and to question its future in the age of Synthetic Biology.

There are thus “singing flowers,” “modified agrobacteria” that ingeniously take “sugars and nutrients from the host plant to encourage the growth of parasitic galls and fill them with gas to produce sound,” and “string-nut bugs” that have been “engineered to chew in rhythm” inside hollow gourds.