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Archive for September, 2008

tara donovan’s provoking sculpture: mundane objects build wordly resonance

In Visual Series on 30 September 2008 at 9:08 pm
Tara Donovan, 2008 Macarthur Fellow:


plastic straws


fishing line

paper plates


adding-machine paper

tarpaper

companion post to insect cities: brutalism, tower in the park, tokyo underground

In Visual Series on 29 September 2008 at 11:35 pm

Brasilia National Library: (equisite?) Brutalism
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/506159280_fe57073c7b.jpg

le Corbusier proposes Paris
http://blog.roughtheory.org/wp-content/uploads/le_corbusier_vision_paris_smaller.jpg

New York’s Stuyvesant Town: Tower in the Park
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/03Fxda0cEFdRL/610x.jpg

Tokyo sewer system, drained
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NpINLHeo8rM/Rpto2VQalfI/AAAAAAAADUw/wux-e2efyB4/s1600/Japanese%2Bsewers%2B(4).jpg

Tokyo subway construction
http://www.pingmag.jp/images/title/deepinside.jpg

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eusocial insect cities

In Design Studies, Visual Series on 28 September 2008 at 11:26 am

Last Views of San Francisco: Mt. Tamalpais to the Crissy Field Center for Environmental Education

In Site Reports, Visual Series on 28 September 2008 at 10:31 am

  

 mosiac of water, fog, scrub forest, and cityscape
mosiac of water, fog, scrub forest, and cityscape

 

knee-level view

knee-level view

 

dry field with striking colors

dry field with striking colors

clear day on beach public space, pedestrian corridor

clear day on beach public space, pedestrian corridor

 

motor, cycle, and pedestrian traffic streams

motor, cycle, and pedestrian traffic streams

 

gestural concrete benches

gestural concrete benches

 

restored salt marsh

restored salt marsh

back again!

In Uncategorized on 27 September 2008 at 9:48 am

After a long silence due to a move across the Pacific, this is the last public text post I will make in the next foreseeable period due to restrictions on publishing by my grant.  Photo posts will be made consistent with previous themes, but analysis/commentary will be password protected.  Please contact me at land.relief@gmail.com with your wordpress username for no-worries access to this text.