Observatory

Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud City installation at The Met.

Thu, 17 May 2012 06:28:31 -0700

Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud City installation at The Met.

Future fashion: styles to befuddle the robots that watch us...

Wed, 16 May 2012 13:37:02 -0700

Future fashion: styles to befuddle the robots that watch us (by Adam Harvey)

Take the stairs (via Wooster Collective)

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 06:31:44 -0700

Take the stairs (via Wooster Collective)

"Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms,..."

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:31:16 -0700

“Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.”

- E. B. White, “The Thud of Ideas”, The New Yorker September 23rd, 1950

Robert Therrien’s chair.

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:00:56 -0700

Robert Therrien’s chair.

Gold Medal Flour (Taken with Instagram at Mill City Museum)

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:29:24 -0700

Gold Medal Flour (Taken with Instagram at Mill City Museum)

Felis Blimpus

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:15:47 -0700

Felis Blimpus

Cracks I, sand art by Andres Amador

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:45:53 -0700

Cracks I, sand art by Andres Amador

"…the production and distribution of commodities is entirely unorganised so that everybody must live..."

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:25:29 -0700

“…the production and distribution of commodities is entirely unorganised so that everybody must live in fear of being eliminated from the economic cycle, in this way suffering for the want of everything. Furthermore, people living in different countries kill each other at irregular time intervals, so that also for this reason any one who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror. This is due to the fact that the intelligence & character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.”

- Albert Einstein, message for the 1939 Westinghouse Time Capsule of Cupaloy

Construction of the Perisphere, by Hugh Ferriss

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:24:20 -0700

Construction of the Perisphere, by Hugh Ferriss

"If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely..."

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:30:05 -0700

“If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, letter to Drake High School, 1973

Albert Einstein’s office, April 1955.

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:20:19 -0700

Albert Einstein’s office, April 1955.

"When I muse about memes, I often find myself picturing an ephemeral flickering pattern of sparks..."

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:27:14 -0700

“When I muse about memes, I often find myself picturing an ephemeral flickering pattern of sparks leaping from brain to brain, screaming “Me, me!”.”

- Douglas Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern

"…there was a guy killed in here because he had spit soda pop onto someone else’s cat."

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:18:40 -0700

““…there was a guy killed in here because he had spit soda pop onto someone else’s cat.””

- Indiana State Prison, Michigan City, Indiana: A Better Place for Everyone

Forces of Nature, for the 2012 Hello Poster Show,...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:00:54 -0700

Forces of Nature, for the 2012 Hello Poster Show, by shannon e thomas

Holi (via The Atlantic Cities)

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:46:06 -0800

Holi (via The Atlantic Cities)

"…a complex society like ours requires many tasks to be performed by experts and élites, and tackling..."

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:57:11 -0800

“

…a complex society like ours requires many tasks to be performed by experts and élites, and tackling some of the most difficult and urgent problems we face requires repositories of authority that can successfully marshal public consensus.

…This is the danger of living in a society in which the landscape of authority has been leveled: it’s not there when you actually need it.

”

- Christopher Hayes, The Twilight of the Elites

The Buzludzha Monument (by Timothy Allen)

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:49:41 -0800

The Buzludzha Monument (by Timothy Allen)

Untitled, from Ostseebad Binz by Matthias Heiderich

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:34:47 -0800

Untitled, from Ostseebad Binz by Matthias Heiderich

"The young lieutenant of a small Hungarian detachment in the Alps sent a reconnaissance unit out onto..."

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:12:27 -0800

“

The young lieutenant of a small Hungarian detachment in the Alps sent a reconnaissance unit out onto the icy wasteland. It began to snow immediately, snowed for two days and the unit did not return. The lieutenant suffered: he had dispatched his own people to death.

But the third day the unit came back. Where had they been? How had they made their way? Yes, they said, we considered ourselves lost and waited for the end. And then one of us found a map in his pocket. That calmed us down. We pitched camp, lasted out the snowstorm and then with the map we discovered our bearings. And here we are.

The lieutenant borrowed this remarkable map and had a good look at it. It was not a map of the Alps but of the Pyrenees

”

- Miroslav Holub, Brief Thoughts on Maps,Times Literary Supplement, Feb 4, 1977

(via idiolect)