02007-10-25 | Environment
NY Times Magazine: “The Future is Drying Up”
The people who move to the West today need to realize they’re moving into a desert, Mulroy said. If they want to live in a desert, they have to adapt to a desert lifestyle. That means a shift from the mindset of the 1930s, when the federal government encouraged people to settle in the West, plant water-intensive crops and make it look like the East Coast. It means landscapes of parched dirt. It means mesquite bushes and palo verde trees for vegetation. It means recycled water. It means gravel lawns. It is the Wests new deal, she seemed to be saying, and I got the feeling that for Mulroy it means that every blade of grass in her state would soon be gone.”
(Via Long Views)
02007-10-25 | Reading, Technology
Cool Hunting: Lifebag
For extreme sports types or those who just like to take every precaution, Swiss company Snowpulse developed Lifebag. Like an airbag, it’s designed to protect the head and thorax while keeping you afloat during an avalanche.
Anybody remember the book “Snowcrash”?
02007-10-25 | Uncategorized
Somewhere Deep Down, We Still Care. Don’t We?
I think people are becoming desensitized to violence and suffering at a much earlier age these days. And I’m pretty sure it has a lot do with the way we’ve accepted violence, and even glorified it, in popular culture. In simple terms, Quentin Tarantino has a lot to answer for.
Read the whole piece.
02007-10-25 | Music
Graphite Sequencer (2006)
Graphite conducts electricity
(Via Ektopia)
02007-10-25 | Uncategorized
PingMag – The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” » Archive » Paramodel: Graffiti-style Rail Track Art
What a strange sight: Blue lines covering everything from the floor to the walls and all over the ceiling. If you look close enough at these gigantic blue roots, you realise that it’s all made of plastic rails, more precisely, of blue plastic toy rails we used to play with as kids! And if you look at the patterns longer, you recognise model stations and mountains alongside the rail tracks – one big diorama.
