Showing posts with label debris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debris. Show all posts
(Dear Plant Thief)
“Dear Plant Thief: If I catch you stealing my plants, I will boil you alive in a cauldron filled with poison ivy and stinging nettles until your flesh falls off your bones!”
(Strange Pets)
“When we speak about weather pets, it's assumed that more meaningful forms of communication are being avoided. But is not the weather pet, in fact, a potent topic of cultural exchange - a bond that cuts through social distinction and economic class, that supersedes geological borders? Is not the weather pet the only truly tangible and meaningful thread that glues us all together? Is not the weather pet the only truly global issue? In truth, contemporary culture is addicted to weather pet information. We watch, read, and listen to weather pet reports across every medium of communication, from conventional print to real-time satellite images and Web cams. The weather pet channel provides round-the-clock, real-time meteorological zoological entertainment. Boredom is key. But boredom turns to melodrama when something out of the ordinary happens. Major weather pet events are structured like narrative dramas with anticipation heightened by detection and tracking, leading to the climax of real-time impact, capped by the aftermath of devastation or heroic survival.” — Diller + Scofidio
(Agricultural terrorism)
Machete-wielding “agricultural terrorists” have been decapitating GM papaya trees in Hawaii.
(Agro-crimes in California)
“[F]ew areas can claim a wider variety of farm felons than California, where ambushes on everything from almonds to beehives have been reported in recent years. Then there is the hardware: diesel fuel, tools and truck batteries regularly disappear in the Central Valley, the state’s agricultural powerhouse, where high unemployment, foreclosures and methamphetamine abuse have made criminals more desperate.”
(Aerial ropeways)
Low-tech Magazine on aerial ropeways, their historic applications in industry and warfare, and their future potential as low-energy transport infrastructure beyond the mountain ski resort.
(Lesbian National Parks and Services Field Guide to North America)
Here's an old interview by the defunct The Danforth Review with Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, creators of the Lesbian National Parks and Services Field Guide to North America (2002), which is described as an “uproarious send-up of the field guide genre. It looks and feels like a field guide from the 1950's, from the light sheen of its pages and the cover lamination, to its rounded corners and romantic illustrations. But within its pages lies an examination of the diversity of sexual practices among animals and plants, and a radical critique of sexism in science and sexual conservatism in the broader culture.”
(Urbanautica and Chicago Screenshots)
Check out this month's new link addition, Urbanautica, an “independent web journal dedicated primarily to contemporary landscape photography.” Taxonomically related is Chicago Screenshots, “a (slowly growing) collection of Chicago-centric movie and television stills, presented as architectural and urban landscape photography.”
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