With “hyper-proximity” to amenities, jobs, government services, public parks, shopping, and a variety of entertainment only by bike or foot, the concept reconsiders how cities can be better designed to support the basic needs of residents.
BIG CATCH
At sunrise, glorious sunrise
it’s a big catch!
A big catch of sardines!
On the beach, it’s like a festival
but in the sea, they will hold
funerals
for the tens of thousands dead.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/03/03/are-you-an-echo-misuzu-kaneko/
When photographer Reuben Wu visited the Svalbard Satellite Station in Norway, the sun never strayed far from the horizon….
The Letterform Archive Launches a New Online Archive of Graphic Design, Featuring 9,000 Hi-Fi Images
Abandoned shell,
Earth dreams left burrowed deep behind.
Coupling song midst brood-world trees,
Mortal sirens the far beckoning stars…
Here in the Smoky Mountains cicada Brood X is prepped to shatter our evening quiet once again.
“Pink sadness… is the sadness of shame when you have done nothing wrong, pink sadness is not your fault, and though even the littlest twinge may cause it, it is the vast bushy top on the family tree of sadness, whose faraway roots resemble a colossal squid with eyes the size of soccer balls.”
https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/04/30/mary-ruefle-sadness-colors/
KnitX is a set of functional textiles computationally-integrated with digital knitting. The use of active and electronic fibers in the design enables garment and interior fabrics that dynamically respond to gesture and sunlight, change their appearance, and provide thermoregulation…
What if your clothes were smart enough to understand the weather or your emotions?
from “THE NINTH ELEGY”
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Why, if it could begin as laurel, and be spent so,
this space of Being, a little darker than all
the surrounding green, with little waves at the edge
of every leaf (like a breeze’s smile)—: why then
have to be human — and shunning destiny
long for destiny?…
https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/12/25/brian-greene-rilke/
Nicely summarized via MIT Technology Review…
The interstellar comet’s pristine nature is a sign that perhaps our solar system is not so different from others in the galaxy…
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