YouTube’s new geolocation/videolocation mash-up is a bit scary in that it allows you to find out what your neighbours have posted on YouTube. Wait until the Daily Mail hears about this one.
Nevertheless, I checked it out and was delighted to find this video of Space Pirates in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel. It was opened in 1902 to connect Greenwich on the south bank of the Thames with the Isle of Dogs on the north. Reclaim the, er, tunnels, people!
Filed under: architecture | No Comments »
Readers of BLDGBLOG will have noticed that Geoff Manaugh, along with ‘chaoplexic warfare’ guru Antoine Bousquet, are appearing together on 26th November in central London. I’m pleased to say I’ve played a small part in getting the evening together, through my co-stewardship of the Complex Terrain Laboratory, who are hosting this first in a series of Battlespace/s events.
The blurb:
Contemporary political discourse on armed violence and insecurity has been largely shaped by references to spatial knowledge, simulation, and control: “human terrain,” “urban clutter,” “terrorist sanctuaries,” “failed states,” “core-periphery.” The historical counterpoint to this is to be found in the key role the successive technologies of clock, engine, computer, and network have all played in spatializing the practice of warfare. In this context, what implications do “feral” Third World cities, “rogue” cities organized along non-Western ideas of urban space and infrastructure, and “wild” cities reclaimed by nature, have for the battlespaces of today and tomorrow?
The event is free, and open to all, so please come along if you can, and let others know about it too. There are more details on the event at BLDGBLOG, Ubiwar, and CTlab.
Filed under: architecture, future, war | No Comments »
Unknown “Structures” Tugging at Universe, Study Says (National Geographic):
On the outskirts of creation, unknown, unseen “structures” are tugging on our universe like cosmic magnets, a controversial new study says.
Everything in the known universe is said to be racing toward the massive clumps of matter at more than 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) an hour—a movement the researchers have dubbed dark flow.
The presence of the extra-universal matter suggests that our universe is part of something bigger—a multiverse—and that whatever is out there is very different from the universe we know, according to study leader Alexander Kashlinsky, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
The theory could rewrite the laws of physics. Current models say the known, or visible, universe—which extends as far as light could have traveled since the big bang—is essentially the same as the rest of space-time (the three dimensions of space plus time).
Filed under: space | No Comments »
This is a couple of years overdue in the posting. Don’t why I didn’t think of it before but the most progressive thinktank in the world, the Long Now Foundation, gels with one of the best bands in the world, High On Fire. I want to see Stewart Brand shaking his baldness to this one. Intention was to post HOF’s ‘10,000 Years’, as in the LNF’s 10,000 year clock, but the quality of the video is awful, so instead you get the absolutely brilliant ‘Blessed Black Wings’ instead. Nothing to watch, plenty to hear. Turn it up, grandma:
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
This is great. Atlas Sound, Activation:
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
