anyone who lives within their means

suffers from a lack of imagination

i just love this!

imagin place

"Imaging Place," is a place-based, virtual reality art project. Since September of 2006 the"Imaging Place" is being implementing in Second Life

It takes the form of a user navigated, interactive computer program that combines panoramic photography, digital video, and three-dimensional technologies to investigate and document situations where the forces of globalization are impacting the lives of individuals in local communities. The goal of the project is to develop the technologies, the methodology and the content for truly immersive and navigable narrative, based in real places.

'"Imaging Place" is therefore experienced as a process of navigation and excavation, allowing the user to uncover many layers of history and meaning. "Imaging Place" documents sites of cultural significance that for political, social, economic, or environmental reasons are contested, undergoing substantial changes, or are at risk of destruction. This includes historic sites as well as sites of living culture that are being displaced by globalization. The project also seeks to expand the notion of documentary by exploring how place is internalized, mapping place as a state of mind. '

Biographical Landscape

Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-79

.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 21, 1973

California 177, Desert Center, California, December 8, 1976

Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California, August 13, 1979

via galleryhopper

Where Have You Been?

Jeff Stark, hosts at the Bluestockings bookstore a monthly series on travel stories. He invites three different people to talk about their experiences and show photos.

via fecalface

Shulamit Near

Shulamit Near is an Israli painter, seeing her oil paintings at a gallery last week, made me even more inlove with her imagery. Some of her paintings are tiny, and the smaller they are - the bigger the magic.

via yonatan amir

force

adam thompson

Untitled (force - VI). 2003. Velvet matt inkjet print

via iheartphotograph

The yellow green line

by David Reeb

green line with police 1985 acrylic on canvas 180x120 cm.

yellow green line 1986 acrylic on canvas 180x120 cm.

maps in illuminated manuscript

The British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts has some beautiful maps illustrations.

from Christophoro Buondelmonti- Liber insularum archipelagi 1482

Ptolemaic maps added to the Geographia on inserted leaves Eastern Mediterranean; between 1425 and 1499:

John Hardyng Chronicle of Britian to Henry VI

Aboriginal Aust. Map

The Aboriginal Australia wall map represents work carried out for the Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. Using the published resources available between 1988 and 1994, the map attempts to represent language, tribal or nation groups of Australia's Indigenous peoples.

via metafilter

Cellular Automata

A project by Jonathan McCabe.

The generative system involves four linked cellular automata - think of them as layers. "Linked" because at each time step, a cell's state depends both on its neighbours in that layer, and on the states of the corresponding cells in the other three layers. Read On

via teemingvoid

Sketch

'Once I've arrived in the area that I picked out to go to, the search begins. There are many different ways of getting around and finding places. It all depends on the people of that particular region. The simplest way is to drive around and start knocking on doors, and see what happens. In some countries this works, but also only up to a certain level; sometimes you arrive in an area where strange or bad things may have happened awhile ago. There, people will no longer let you in. And sometimes you just know that there are interesting places that you want to see, but you don't want to knock on the door. You're afraid it will be a great place to photograph but they won't let you in. In Germany (Das Bayerische Wald, where I traveled with my daughter), there were a couple of places like this; I had seen them and I was afraid to spoil the opportunity. In that case, there are several ways to get around. One of them is to ask around and see if you can find someone who knows the person living in the place in question. You try to get an introduction from this intermediary...' read on

ORPHICS

6/6 frame from "Orphics: Nocturne", Digital Video, 4'40", 1995

Edward Zajec point of departure is the use of the computer in real time, and a different algorithmic or rule-based approach. ORPHICS 1992-2000 This composition, based on Maurice Ravel's Sonatine, is the first work that translates a musical composition into its visual counterpart, not with arbitrarily set free-form or mathematical themes, but according to predefined rules for the reading of musical scores. By establishing a biunivocal correspondence of units in time to units in space, the action unfolds by maintaining a space rather than by following a trajectory.

3/6 frame from "Orphics: 5ieme Gnossienne", Digital Video, 4'00", 1996

via the great site:

The Digital Art Museum

float on water

Jason Lee: A girl floats inside a sphere on a river on the outskirts of Beijing on May 3, 2007. The ball-shaped device enables people to "walk" on water surfaces.

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Untitled Landscapes

mark wyse photography

via speak see remember

ROOM WITH A BED IN THE MIDDLE

by Curtis Bauer

While I sleep my wife writes words

xxxxxxxxxon my back.

She wants me to feel what she thinks,

xxxxxxxxxwhat's inside her chest.

When I wake the letter Q boils between

xxxxxxxxxmy shoulder blades

as if it were branded or etched.

xxxxxxxxxI think she traced C

but there's longing in her and she hates

xxxxxxxxxthe word covet.

Her delicate hands can’t hold desire.

xxxxxxxxxShe is sitting on top of me

naked, though her hair clothes her.

xxxxxxxxxThe bed isn't large

enough for this love tracing from her

xxxxxxxxxfingers. The room

diminishes when she opens her eyes.

via thediagram

What Makes Cities Most Liveable?

PerfectCity readers participated in the poll: What Makes Cities Most Liveable? The poll particularly aimed at getting an impression of your subjective perception of a perfect city: what makes cities most liveable and how important is which factor for you?.

Top on the ranking of criteria came the Social Structure, but what were they thinking of when they emphasized the importance of “social structure.” ?

"Love is in the air"

Ram Samocha . "Love is in the air" Wedding Hearts 2001 Pastel on canvas

Narrative Map of Tokyo

Hitotoki.org traces a narrative map of Tokyo through personal stories from curious outsiders. short narratives describing pivotal moments of elation, confusion, absurdity, love or grief - or anything in between - inseparably tied to a specific place in this sprawling city of Tokyo.

via coudal, or was it thingsmagazine?

The Long Now

The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and the rosetta project library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today's "faster/cheaper" mind set and promote "slower/better" thinking. The term was coined by one of our founding board members, Brian Eno.

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To be alive

To be alive: not just the carcass

But the spark.

That's crudely put, but…

If we're not supposed to dance,

Why all this music?

by Gregory Orr

via moteldemoka

Psychogeographic Zones of New Orleans

This material was first published in the spring of 2005, four months before hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and made it the center of national attention. "A major hurricane in an urban area like New Orleans brings with it a lot of attention, especially to our understanding of how cities work. As New Orleans is rebuilt, the slow forces that normally guide the evolution of an urban environment will be dramatically amplified and focused into a short period of time. But I expect that the rebuilding will follow some basic trends which were already in place prior to hurricane Katrina. " "The two most common nicknames for New Orleans are “The Crescent City” and “The Big Easy”. The Crescent City refers to the shape of the old part of the city, built along a curve in the Mississippi river. This shape has reached iconographic status in the form of a crescent moon and stars, shown on the sides of police cars and taxicabs. A more poetic version of this symbolism, showing a crescent moon emitting linear rays onto a field of stars, can be seen on the water-meter covers which dot the sidewalks all over town.

"But what about “The Big Easy”? I asked a former professor of mine, a graduate of Tulane Medical School, about the origin of this nickname. He replied: “Well, I can’t really explain it, but it just makes sense. You’ll see when you get there, things just sort of have an easy way about them.” Another old professor also lived in New Orleans in the early 1960s, and he remembers two other nicknames for the city in addition to “Crescent City” and “The Big Easy”: “The City that Care Forgot” “The City that Sin Forgot” He claims that these names could be seen on public signs around town. When he told me about these names, I was on a cell phone and I misheard the names as: “The City that Care For God” “The City that Sinned For God” "

sad map

by Greg Stekelman

definition of pornography:

definition of pornography, by A White Bear:

'I’d like for [my students] to see pornography as a rhetorical mode. Porn, according to the definition I use in class, is a text whose protagonist is relatively empty of defining personality traits, and whose sensory experiences are described or represented in great detail. The point of this definition of porn is that it has nothing to do with the relative effects on various vasodilating organs, but instead has qualities intrinsic to the text itself.'

via and kugelmass

come thou beauty

works by David Adika

Untitled (Dry), Tel Aviv 2006 Color print 90x75 cm 2006

Untitled2004, Colour print

Francesca Berrini

The art of Francesca Berrini. "She obsessively tears up original vintage maps into tiny pieces, and then reconstitutes them, using a painterly process, into new maps and directional devices that reflect a longing for places unseen” via themaproom and strangemaps

SlahzastaTorn Map Collage on Canvas 7in x 5in

Horizon

Horizon project by Oskar Karlin.

via iheartphotograph

San Francisco Emotion Map

Christian Nold's San Francisco Emotion Map. 98 participants walking the local area and mapping their emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographic location. via magnetbox

Hear You Are

[murmur] is an archival audio project that collects and curates stories set in specific cities of Canada (Toronto locations, Montréal etc...) told by city residents themselves. (Secret NY - is a very similar project that was held in NY: large sculptural yellow arrows were placed around Manhattan. New Yorkers were invited to send audio messages from their mobile phones about the specific places where they encountered one.) I love the idea and I just adore this amusing naive maps drawings.

Toronto's spadina map.

At each of these locations, a [murmur] sign with a telephone number and location code marks where stories are available. By using a mobile phone, users are able to listen to the story of that place while engaging in the physical experience of being there. Some stories suggest that the listener walk around, following a certain path through a place, while others allow a person to wander with both their feet and their gaze.

Montréal map

edinburgh map

Plan B for Outer Space

'the time has come let go of last century's space dreams and start working toward a more contemporary future' sais Russell Saunders, Jr.

via centauri-dreams

Io, a moon of Jupiter. photo via kinetikonpictures

Trace

A year record of walking and biking in New York City. {these maps were not made with GPS } made by fakeisthenewreal (check his other infographic projects)

permutations of a monument

permutations of a monument: prints and vidoe works by mark napier. via coudal

Still images from KK2, by napier 2004

Cairo

I've just discovered the breath taking photography of Zbigniew Kosc via idolatrica

From the Islamic Cairo gallery