"the future is useless without the insight that distinguishes fact from wish and exposes, beneath variable disguises, an unchanging sel...

"Northern light is like light after it rains. I don't like fat, lazy, Mediterranean light." richard serra (in calvin tomkins...

marc abrahams, chief instigator of the ignobel awards  (for research that makes people laugh and then think), is the subject of a feature ma...

Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to d...

michael heizer at dia beacon.

kevin and mimi are diabolical geniuses. above you see a poached egg with chimichurri and fried garlic sand on frisee on a slab of heirlo...

We err when we stray too far from the life of the mind and the potato. "contact," in the raw and the cooked , jim harrison, 1992....

"every hour is banh mi hour, if the sandwich is eaten within five minutes of it being made. There is something close to alchemy when th...

"the new botany aligns the development of plants with their economic, not evolutionary, success." amory and hunter lovins, a tale...

is neat, but doing dia beacon and storm king in the same day is like drinking two 750s of beer where just one is a sufficiency. maya lin...

last weekend, we drove westward into upstate new york to visit dia beacon . the drive, google maps tells us, takes 3h 22m. on I-84, we saw a...

a long week, and one especially jarring from the contrast with maine last weekend (a weekend of nothing much but paddling around the bush co...

when i was growing up, one of our tv stations was dedicated to public access and education. it often ran informational videos including one ...

brilliant stuff from troika—2-axis rotational sculpture with a minor modification of the original V&A logo by alan fletcher . Posted...

via youtube.com posted everywhere on the interwebs, but still worth watching anyway. Posted via email from flavourcountry

another great drink from hi rise, where the espressos are perfect and the sandwiches well-constructed.

via ctbto.org isao hashimoto's narrative map of nuclear explosions worldwide, 1945-1998. watch the whole thing. Posted via emai...

i've been spending quite a lot of time looking for shade.

89F here in the shade. this is new work from los carpinteros .

gdocs spreadsheets let you link directly to individual sheets . would be even better if every cell, row, and column were also directly addre...

2008 was the international year of the potato . in praise of the potato Potato, sojourner north, first sprung from the flanks of volcano...

mac invited me to help host tonight's diybio meeting, which was an informal chat about making yogurt , why we might prefer mixed cultu...

another light installation by rAndom , showing light moving in swarms through three LED matrices. it's pretty neat. they also did radi...

Confusion as an indicator of validity is a crucial nuance [if organizations are conceived of] as superimposed structures. This imagery impli...