"All things have an ultimate nature. A real existence that ordinary people's...

One station is basically one continuous space, differentiated into zones by the ceiling. I...

Conceptual: Nature is a place where one can release their inner energy It is an escape from the...

Cymatics, originally named 'Kymatik' in the title of Hans Jenny's books, is the study of wave...

I think i will have to think about the space program again. it seems too loose

Here's a more down-to-earth investigation of an already existing model for a space colony... An episode of This American Life from 2002, investigating life on an aircraft carrier. Vernor Vinge, references from Rene:

It makes a difference to conduct experiments on yourself and to experience it yourself, as opposed to reading about someone else's experiences. Here's my plan for this month: 1. Visual Deprivation Single non-vision In-Progress Double non-vision Under two conditions: Rested Sleep deprived With two variables: ...

Why are we going to space? To save ourselves, to save our humanity and in turn to save our...

A confusing reading... A Thousand Plateaus but I really liked getting carried away by chapter six, "How do you become a Body without Organs?" Deleuze and Guattari were way too abstract so I broke it down to what I'd like to get from it. I came up with two ways to look at it: 1. The body is the Mind 2. The body is our Posthuman...

knowledge/resources/energy/happiness/pain(emotions)/evolution/purebred/muts/integration...

"The Primitive Hut for the 21st Century aims to combine the essential elements of...

Water Bringing the essence of water into space Water is… wet, liquid, sensual, powerful,...

DESIGN COLONY SKETCH Incorporating organic architecture from coral reef colonies and...

Miccorhizae within Plants Myccorhizae (bacteria) forming root nodules maintains a...

Gregor Mendel's work provided the first firm basis for the idea that heredity occurred in...

Variation Evolution consists of two basic types of processes: those that introduce new genetic...

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is the name of a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as global presenter. It is executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom...

wow look at this exosceleton requiem_robot_antunez

beehive- each spore contains one of five elements of nature, come and go as you please. upon...

http://www.soundsofsilence.de/ a more recent example of layered distances in...

HUBERT DUPRAT AQUATIC CADDIS-FLY LARVAE WITH CASE 1980-2002 Animal as artist? The Aquatic...

imagine possessing the freedom to let go of all inhibitions, all forces tying you down to your feet...

What do I want individuals to feel? What aspects of nature do I want them to experience so that I can convey my personal ties and attractions to the natural world? Do I want [them] to play with sand and let it trickle through my fingers? Do i want to play with a clump of dirt - roll it a ball in my hand and then break up it again - how can I...

What types of technology already exist that could provide alternatives to heating and cooling that require a closed, 'controllable' environment to function? Any ideas? These are a few I have brainstormed Ideally the technology used adopts a relatively seamless or invisible connectivity to the user - hopefully easily forgotten as it does not...

L.A. Times review on Open House at Art Center: Vitra Design Museum: Architecture...

by redrawing the section diagramms, I regonized different spacial qualities qualities:...

I think this CD becomes immersive for the person experiencing these sounds outside of the place...

on earth i can use the landscape as outside elements but in space there has to be an atmospheric...

trying with textured elements trying to make the pattern 3d always the question of how...

make something which experiences, reacts to its environment, changes, is non-stable... ... make something indeterminate, which always looks different, the shape of which cannot be predicted precisely... ... make something which cannot 'perform' without the assistance of its environment... ... make something which reacts to light and temperature...

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"Sachs has played a key role in transforming the contemporary mood of pessimism into a...

A documentary from Channel 4. Commentaries on the film: "Scientific consensus: the starting point of debate" "Keep politics out of science – and vice versa" "Apocalypse My Arse" "Don't let truth stand in the way of a red-hot debunking of climate change"

"Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. "He that will lose his life, the same shall save it," is not a piece of mysticism for...

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

further soft/hard core relation samples

Kurt Vonnegut, a favorite author of mine, passed away yesterday at the age of 84. His favorite book of mine being Slaughterhouse-Five. This is a excerpt of his last published words from his poem "Requiem." When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating...

in the name of energy conservation, i would like to propose that all businesses requiring the...