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2/5/2010
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Wagon Christ – Shadows

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2/4/2010
# WTF is My Gear Score

If you play the World of Warcraft and take it too seriously, I made a website for you.

2/1/2010
# Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?
1/28/2010
# Minimal Mac - “Free”
1/27/2010

Vanishing Point

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1/20/2010
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Charlotte Gainsbourg – Set Yourself on Fire

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1/18/2010
The Biggest Holes on Earth (via nevver)

The Biggest Holes on Earth (via nevver)

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Proem – When frailty fails

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# Conversations About the Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee

Every time I watch this video, I feel the part at 0:31 in my stomach. My rock climbing nightmare realized.

Dean Potter

Last August rock climber Dean Potter leapt off the Eiger in Switzerland wearing only a wingsuit. He flew nearly four miles in two minutes and 50 seconds, a record.

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Hopefully I’ll be able to visit this the next time I’m in Arizona. It looks like an impressive site.

Remnants of the Biosphere

Photographer Noah Sheldon got in touch the other week with a beautiful series of photos documenting the decrepit state of Biosphere 2, a semi-derelict bio-architectural experiment in the Arizona desert.

The largest sealed environment ever created, constructed at a cost of $200 million, and now falling somewhere between David Gissen’s idea of subnature—wherein the slow power of vegetative life is unleashed “as a transgressive animated force against buildings”—and a bioclimatically inspired Dubai, Biosphere 2 even included its own one million-gallon artificial sea.

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Big Dig House by SsD Architects As a prototype building that demonstrates how infrastructural refuse can be salvaged and reused, the structural system for this house is comprised of steel and concrete discarded from Boston’s Big Dig utilizing over 600,000 lbs of salvaged materials from elevated portions of the dismantled I-93 highway. Planning the reassembly of the materials in as if it were a pre-fab system, subtle spatial arrangements are created. These materials however are capable of carrying much higher loads than standard structure, easily allowing the integration of large scale roof gardens. Most importantly, the project demonstrates an untapped potential for the public realm: with strategic front-end planning, much needed community programs including schools, libraries, and housing could be constructed whenever infrastructure is deconstructed, saving valuable resources, embodied energy, and taxpayer dollars.
Big Dig House by SsD Architects

As a prototype building that demonstrates how infrastructural refuse can be salvaged and reused, the structural system for this house is comprised of steel and concrete discarded from Boston’s Big Dig utilizing over 600,000 lbs of salvaged materials from elevated portions of the dismantled I-93 highway. Planning the reassembly of the materials in as if it were a pre-fab system, subtle spatial arrangements are created. These materials however are capable of carrying much higher loads than standard structure, easily allowing the integration of large scale roof gardens. Most importantly, the project demonstrates an untapped potential for the public realm: with strategic front-end planning, much needed community programs including schools, libraries, and housing could be constructed whenever infrastructure is deconstructed, saving valuable resources, embodied energy, and taxpayer dollars.