Feb 04
Art, maybe just a translation of raw nature. Brilliant Noise by Semiconductor: Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt Avaliable on DVD! with 12 alternate soundtracks semiconductorfilms.com/WorldsInFluxDVD.html Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some …
Nov 13
Via the always interesting Global Guerrillas, here’s a new way of looking at the planet: A cartography of the Anthropocene. If you, like my spell check, have no idea what the Anthropocene is, this might help: Here is the definition more or less impressionistic we propose for the Anthropocene: “A period marked by a regime change in the activity …
Sep 09
pic nicked from here A twenty square mile model of a US City will be built in New Mexico to test renewable energy innovations, intelligent traffic systems, next-generation wireless networks and smart-grid cyber security systems. Built by Pegasus Global Holdings at a cost of 200 million, The Center, will be empty but will replicate a city that houses 35,000 …
Jul 10
Catalytic Clothing is a fashion innovation that’s meant to clean the air using nanotechnology. Professor and designer Helen Storey and scientist Tony Ryan have collaborated to add a photocatalytic process to fabric. This process requires Titanium Oxide and UV Light. When these two interact, the combination aggressively breaks down volatile organic compounds like formaldehyde and ammonia, turning them into carbon dioxide …
Jun 26
As part of their social media marketing campaign, pharmaceutical company, Lion, has invented a cockroach forecast. CScout says: The company created a website outlining a map of Japan and its prefectures. When a cockroach is spotted users enter it into the site inputting details such as where, when, how many and how it made you feel. The …
Oct 16
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Jul 11
pic nicked from here Gregory Ryskin, professor of Chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University, believes that BP’s oil spill might have started a world killing extinction event. His notion seems simple: huge methane bubbles released from the Gulf of Mexico started two mass extinctions: One 251 years ago and the other 55 million years ago. He …
Jun 09
“A German biologist says that efforts to clean oil-drenched birds in the Gulf of Mexico are in vain. For the birds’ sake, it would be faster and less painful if animal-rescue workers put them under, she says. Studies and other experts back her up.” From here “Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,—why, then …
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
