Flowers in a field which blossom yellow in august, red in september and blue in october – mount tsunan, echigo-tsumari triennale, japan 2003
( Source : http://www.banz.tv )
Mercredi, juillet 1, 2009
The Danube Panorama Project is an experimental approach to photographic mapping and cartography. It’s goal is to produce a full panorama of the Danube’s river sides by digitally slit-scanning its coastlines, resulting in a unique ‘cross section’ of contemporary Europe.
The Danube – « Europe’s River of Destiny » – connecting Western, Central and Eastern Europe uniquely reflects the shifting relationships of its peoples, cultures and religions in its accumulated history and contemporary dimensions. It is as much a cultural as a geographic landscape. It will guide as a symbolic red line of this intense survey
http://www.danubepanorama.net
Salt mounds harvested, after a night of rain. photo by flickr/kuzquiano
The massive salt playa in Bolivia covers about 9,000 km2.
The optimism surrounding the potential of electric vehicles to mitigate resource extraction does overlook a few key factors that extend beyond the obvious economic and cultural hurdles. One interesting factor is resources needed; Yes, resources for electric and hybrid vehicles. Such as the need for massive amounts of lithium carbonate. Lithium is the mineral of choice for batteries, and is found in most laptops and mobile phones. It is central to the next generation of hybrid and electric cars and this success will depend upon 5 times the current estimates of lithium worldwide to support the emerging industry.
Many are turning to Bolivia for clues. With over half of the world’s (untapped) lithium reserves found in Bolivia, in the the Uyuni salt plain, the attention is obvious. Uyuni is the largest salt playa in the world, covering nearly 9,000 square kilometers. The salar playas are believed to have been a closed basin for the last 10000 years. Receiving about 300mm/year of rainfall has created a repeated wet/dry cycle and a thick but smooth evaporite of mostly halite. Besides its fascinating geomorphological history, the Uyuni is also simply a stunning endless mirror landscape of surficial saline waters.
found via: http://infranetlab.org and http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov
« The Möbius garden is a continuation of the virtuoso line-play found in the architecture of the Möbius house (designed by UN Studio), which stands on a plot of woodland. The garden was not treated as an independent space but as a means of connecting the house to the woods. Several subtle designed elements were introduced: a greenhouse, grassy paths and a dark, reflecting pool. »
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Mercredi, février 18, 2009
Léo Fabrizio has been taking documentary photographs of Swiss fortified buildings and bunkers for over four years now. At first he shows a number of easy-to-spot buildings, situated next to streets or only partially camouflaged. His work then focuses on the relation between basically shaped buildings and their spectacular natural surrounding. He also searches for more impressive bunkers, concentrating on the way they were camouflaged and shaped so that they almost look like theatres built with typical Helvetian precision. Fabrizio’s aesthetism makes us take a fresh new look at bunkers and see it from a different angle, along with the symbolism of Swiss landscape and this country’s defences.
(Images : Bunkers. Source : Léo Fabrizio)
Vendredi, janvier 30, 2009
Ghillie suits are an intersection of landscape and clothing that allow soldiers to become their background – a cloaking of the body by environment. The derivation of ghillie, is the Scots Gaelic for « boy » – and its English usage specifically referred to servants assisting in deer stalking, hunting or fly fishing expeditions in the Scottish Highlands. Perhaps here servants become part of landscape design – a suit to disguise aspects of ownership, control and management. One might think of it as a picturesque device in the manner of a Ha-Ha – a stepped wall in the landscape which visually allowed the boundary of property to be erased suggesting ownership all the way to the horizon. Both allow the aristocrat to exist in an image of naturalness by hiding the means by which that natural-ness is constructed.
found at: strangeharvest.com
