October 2010
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Oct 28th
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i love tracking numbers
  i wish i could map the movements and locations of every object i ever owned though out the course of its life, both before and after my ownership
Oct 28th
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galileo on cantilevers
Galileo’s cantilever model and detail of a study for the construction of a large galley with two oars per bench. Galilei G., Discorsi, e dimostrazioni matematiche, Intorno à due nuoue scienze, Attenenti alla Mecanica, & i Mouimenti Locali, Bologna, Per gli HH. del Dozza, 1655; Picheroni A. et al, Mss. it. VII, 379 (7588), Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, XVI century
Oct 28th
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NYC- the biggest small city
I have seen hundreds of images of NYC over the course of my life but this one that i recently found really struck a chord with me.  I don’t know if I had ever seen the Island of manhattan from this perspective before. From this view, looking directly up the avenues you can really see just how small the island is, how close seemingly distant neighborhoods actually are to one another. The...
Oct 28th
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so sew
I have always tried to figure out how this actually worked, brilliant!
Oct 28th
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bunker 599
 bunker 599 by Atelier de Lyon and Rietveld Landscape This project lays bare two secrets of the New Dutch Waterline (NDW), a military line of defence in use from 1815 until 1940 protecting the cities of Muiden, Utrecht, Vreeswijk and Gorinchem by means of intentional flooding.  A seemingly indestructible bunker with monumental status is sliced open. The design thereby opens up the minuscule...
Oct 28th
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sheeler penn farm
just a nice image i ffffffound from eric marth
Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 22nd
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Oct 12th
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“A twenty-first-century museum will utilize calculated uncertainty and conscious...”
–  Cedric Price via Hans Ulrich Obrist & Cedric Price The Conversation Series (via foryourart) (via archidose)
Oct 3rd
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