I’m loving it
Sometimes you just need to settle with the surrogate. Peculiar image of the week.
See also (in the baby series): Infant pillow, We are all born in a world. Thanks Hendrik-Jan.
What is Next Nature?
With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.
Posts Tagged ‘Suburban Utopia’
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Energy consumption shown on power plant
Information decoration on a city scale. Every night from the 22 to the 29 of February 2008, the vapor emissions of he Salmisaari power plant in Helsinki will be illuminated to show the current levels of electricity consumption by local residents. A laser ray will trace the cloud during the night time and turn it into a neon-style graph.
Nuage Vert is an artwork by Helen Evans & Heiko Hansen. Via Sustain. Thanks Berry.
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Mikel Uribetxeberria
Beautiful images by Mikel Uribetxeberria, I think that he also made videos out of this work. Or I saw something exactly like it in a gallery in Chelsea. Gimme more
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Children’s dictionary dumps ‘nature’ words
To make way for modern tech terms such as BlackBerry, blog, voicemail and broadband, the latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has opted to drop terms pertaining to old nature. No longer can a child check this dictionary and learn more about the blackberry, dandelion, acorn, heron, otter, magpie, sycamore, or willow.
According to Vineeta Gupta, who heads children’s dictionaries at Oxford University Press, changes in the world are responsible for changes in the book. “When you look back at older versions of dictionaries, there were lots of examples of flowers for instance,” she said. “That was because many children lived in semi-rural environments and saw the seasons. Nowadays, the environment has changed.”
The 10,000 words and phrases in the junior dictionary were selected using several criteria, including how often words would be used by young children.
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Objects of Desire
Created by Alex Sandwell Kliszynsk. Via Posthuman blues.
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McTsunami
Peculiar image of the week by Tokyo Genso.
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Behavioral Urbanism
Its title might be self-explanatory and it sure looks intriguing… however kokkugia fails to give a thorough description for this architectual piece. Classified as ‘peculiar image’ until further notice.
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Brain needs ‘nature’
Article by Jonah Lehrer, published at boston.com
Scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control. While it’s long been recognized that city life is exhausting — that’s why Picasso left Paris — this new research suggests that cities actually dull our thinking, sometimes dramatically so. [...]
One of the main forces at work is a stark lack of nature, which is surprisingly beneficial for the brain. Studies have demonstrated, for instance, that hospital patients recover more quickly when they can see trees from their windows, and that women living in public housing are better able to focus when their apartment overlooks a grassy courtyard. [...]
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Post-apocalypse religious artifact
Image by: V. V. Kalininski.
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Organic Coca-Cola
Whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you may be. You can’t beat the real thing. It really refreshes and brings real satisfaction in every glass. It was not until America’s choice had been thirst best friend for decades and consumed by millions every day, when a serious drawback arose: the real thing makes you really fat.
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Dashboard Tree
What is that growing on my car dashboard? Is that a tree? Indeed, Ford and Honda’s next-generation dashboard instrument clusters feature trees (a vine in Ford’s case) that grow more lush as drivers maximize their fuel economy. Leaves grow like crabgrass in springtime if you use a light touch on the accelerator and go easy on the brakes. Drive like a speed car racer and they’ll wither faster than general motors stocks.
Via Autopia. See also: On the Road, Little car trees, Information Decoration.
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Evolution always finds a way
Two middle class cars molded into one luxurious limousine. Created by Ahmet Ögüt.
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Self control freak organizes his garden
Our friend the Self Control Freak is organizing his garden. Hover over the image above to help him get his wilderness under control.
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Back to Nature?
Now this is how you do it. First you take the meat of a hundred animals; chickens (19%), turkeys (17%). Secondly, you blend them in a large tank with water, mais, wheat, oil, fat, chickencollagen, salt, soya, aroma, modified cornstarches, milk-parts, lemonjuice, maltodextrine, dispersant (E450, E451, E452), rising means: E500, taste amplifier: E621, anti-oxidant: E341.
Next you sculpt your mix into a shape which remotely resembles a chickens leg– like the ones folks know from the comics! Finally, you place your meat-water–corn–mix on a bone shaped peace of wood. Cover it with pan flourpan flour for the crispy bite. Tasty!
The Chicken-knots are Dutch design. See also: Some kids don’t like Chicken, Fishbowl – Ready made meal, Banksy pet store.
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The Sun is Always Setting Somewhere Else
Image created by Lisa Oppenheim using images downloaded from the internet of sunsets taken by soldiers in Iraq, then positioned in front of the setting sun in New York.
Via VVork.
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Cityscape made out of cookware
So what are you doing this weekend? Grab your cookware and create the cityscape of of San Fransisco…
Via This Foot Thing.
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Space station
If you would have shown this picture to people 50 years ago, they might have imagined it to be one of those promised 21th century space stations encircling some alien planet in deep space. And then you wake up and find out it is an indoor beach in eastern Germany, where tourist are seeking to overcome their autumn melancholia.
See also: Tropical Dome.
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Shopping for deer
Gary Barwin – unsurprisingly from Canada – created this image in response to this weeks peculiar image. The good man even went on and wrote a little poem with it. Yes dear readers, consider this open season to send us your visual responses to our posts.
