July 2009
2 posts
June 2009
43 posts
The Cryptozoological Scientific Art of Alex CF →
He takes horrors you know - HP Lovecraft, Day of the Triffids, vampires, werewolves, dragons and hideous faeries - and makes Victorian era scientific displays of fossils, artifacts and ephemera as they might have been collected by naturalists studying these creatures. Click his artwork page - you won’t be sorry.
Atlas Obscura →
A good site for interesting travel ideas, particularly if you are inclined to the weird.
BIL Conference →
The last video I posted was a TED lecture. You might have heard of TED. But have you heard of the self organizing, ad-hoc, unaffiliated but with close affinity BIL Conference?
I want to go to the next one.
WatchCameron Sinclair on Open Source Architecture - though focused on humanitarian architecture, I think the principals that fire him up are applicable to any thinking about building a home.
The key point - any building either enhances or degrades the community it is in. It isn’t just for its residents, it shapes the life of everyone around it.
Open Architecture Network →
One of the things I want to do in the next couple of years is make a unique, 21st Century house. If I do, I will probably both use this site as a resource and share my experience on it.
Rodrigo y Gabriela →
This is great, but reall goes above and beyond at the 2:00 minute mark.
