Friday 3 April 2015
salonniรจre or narrative structure
catagories: ๐ฌ๐ง, ๐, architecture, myth and monsters
columbian exchange
A pairing of thoughtful articles from Vox and รon magazines present some really interesting insights and unresolved questions about ushering in the Anthropocene epoch.
There are many contenders for when the handiwork of man might have outstripped, outpaced geological change, from the nebulous reaches of time when early humans first hunted giant mammals to extinction—although the Holocene Age (Greek for wholly new) seems to me to include the rise of man, the landing of the Niรฑa, the Pinta and the Santa Maria that introduced global trade and New World transplants to the Old, a point in 1610 when green-house gases began an uptick due to land-management practice, the Industrial Revolution, the atomic bomb, to the nuclear winter of 1964. While it is an arbitrary distinction to some extent and many researchers will continue to champion their favourites in terms of delineation once—if a consensus is reached, what’s nearly as significant as the change that man is imparting on the environment is that we’re adverse, maybe unable to recognise or reconcile is when and how man became estranged from Nature—fancied as no longer of Nature but rather Nature was made man’s ward, with us as not very fit caretakers. What do you think? For all the eons that have gone before, is this debate a reasonable one? It can nonetheless become a helpful one, I believe.
catagories: ⚛️, ๐ช️, ๐ก, environment, philosophy, transportation
Thursday 2 April 2015
five-by-five
chizukigou: check out these lovely Japanese map legend symbols
systรจme vidรฉo domestique: French artist repackages contemporary series and films in VHS wrapping
SMPTE bars: a look behind the scenes at the calibration tools of our seemingly seamless electronic world
maki-maki: sushi roll bath-towel concept
mirror, mirror: a look at Star Trek’s departures into an alternate reality
catagories: ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ฌ, ๐บ, ๐, food and drink
cartogram or far, far away
catagories: ๐จ, ๐, ๐บ️, networking and blogging