Over the next several days, weeks, months we will be expanding the photo journalism and general image collection over on our flickr page. It will consist of images that are new, old, original and found. We have a new link in the third column on the right of the page. When there are major additions or guest contributors there will be some mention of it on the front page in the form or a post or announcement. Over time it will be trimmed and pruned but for now it is a bit of a free for all. enjoy>>> core.form-ula on flickr
Proposal for the house using Velux skylights. The house is intended for older individuals moving towards retirement. The house is designed to promote an idea of archiving and treasuring the familial goods collected through time, from generation to generation. read more
Pingmag have quickly won a place in our heart w/ a succession of 3-4 great articles. enjoy>>>
“Canadian Edward Burtynsky takes beautiful large-scale photographs of landscapes that have been industrially altered by mankind to the very extreme. The documentary Manufactured Landscapes by Toronto-based filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal now visits, along with the photographer, places in China and Bangladesh and shows how these amazing pictures are taken. It gives you with a weird as well as surreal experience of the grotesque and grim consequences of mass production. For example, fifty percent of all world‘s computers end up in China, amongst many other used materials… You don’t have to be too ecologically minded, but this documentary will leave you thinking, no doubt. PingMag talked to Jennifer Baichwal about her consciousness-raising film.”
An electron micrograph reveals sharkskin’s secret to speed: tooth-like scales called dermal denticles. Water “races through the microgrooves without tumbling,” says shark researcher George Burgess, reducing friction. “It’s like a fast-moving river current versus the gurgling turbulence of a shallow stream.” The scales also discourage barnacles and algae from glomming on—an inspiration for synthetic coatings that may soon be applied to Navy ship hulls to reduce such biofouling.
What has fins like a whale, skin like a lizard, and eyes like a moth? The future of engineering.
This is a wonderful collection of library images coming out of the work of Candida Höfer. The book titled “Libraries” is in the studio and I would suggest opening it up again.
The titillating title and brief description comes from thenonist.com, what appears to be a series of pores that open up to some fascinating subjects.
Now, coming upon this post as you are, unawares, I feel I ought to clarify the title (which was alternately going to be sex libris) straight away by telling you what this post is not, in fact, about. By “library smut” I am in no way referring to the photo books on native peoples, or the illustrated health manuals, or any of the other volumes which, in your childhood, you lurked about the library aisle to find with the sole purpose of sneaking guilty glances at naked bodies.read more
