March 2009
8 posts
Open Sailing →
Launching a cross-Atlantic voyage in May, Open Sailing aims to create a self-sustainable, floating architecture that evolves like a living organism, a laboratory for techno-social experiments. The basic approach is to convert apocalyptic threats into design constraints.
WatchX ♥ Y. Math, science, surrealism from Israeli artist Amit Zakai. Via The Chicagoist.
WatchThe ’80s continue to provide.
Prison Spending Outpaces All but Medicaid →
Three Pieces, Joined by a Tenuous Gasp: III
Man-Revolutionary! - Rogue Wave
Three Pieces,...
Buying and Selling, by Philip Levine
All the way across the Bay Bridge I sang
to the cool winds buffeting my Ford,
for I was on my way to a life of buying
untouched drive shafts, universal joints,
perfect bearings so steeped in Cosmoline
they could endure a century and still retain
their purity of functional design, they
could outlast everything until like us
their usefulness became legend and they
were transformed into...