For his thesis project at the University of Toronto, Clint Langevin, in collaboration with Amy Norris, proposed "repurposing abandoned mines as renewable energy infrastructure in the U.S." [Image: Inside the Picher, Oklahoma, supergrid, by Clint Langevin and Amy Norris]. The specific site for their...
Sea Caverns of Singapore
[Image: Singapore expands beneath the Pacific Ocean; via the BBC]. Singapore has embarked upon the excavation of an underground oil reserve, expanding the city's industrial port beneath the floor of the Pacific Ocean. It is "no ordinary construction site," the BBC tells us, but an elaborate project...
A Spatial History of Trapdoors
[Image: Poster for "The Queen of Chinatown" by Joseph Jarrow, courtesy of the Library of Congress]. Someone should write a short history of the trapdoor as spatial plot device in Broadway plays, literary fiction, Hollywood thrillers, and even dreams, CIA plots, Dungeons & Dragons modules, and more....
Altered Landscape
[Image: The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment edited by Ann M. Wolfe]. I just received a copy of The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, edited by Ann M. Wolfe, and it's well worth highlighting here. The book primarily documents the "Altered Landscape"...
Tunnel / Countertunnel
For a variety of reasons, I was recently looking at a May 2011 report from the Air Force Research Laboratory on "Robotics: Research and Development." [Image: From an Air Force Research Laboratory presentation on "Robotics: Research and Development"]. There—amidst plans for unmanned robotic ground convoys...
On the Beach
I'm quite late hearing this for the first time, but I was thrilled to discover composer Pierre Sauvageot's Harmonic Fields project, a participatory landscape of wind-activated musical instruments temporarily installed on the beach near Birkrigg Common, Cumbria, England. The haphazard plinks, drum rolls,...
Landform Building
[Image: From Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain, designed by Thumb Projects]. This evening, Saturday, September 17, down at the BMW Guggenheim Lab, Marc McQuade and Stan Allen will be celebrating the release of their recent book Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain, designed by Thumb...
The last few weeks have been a logistical nightmare, having found that the new apartment we'd been told we could move into by August 22 was, in fact, only ready a few days ago, which means—among other things—that instead of settling in here in New York, getting Studio-X NYC up and running again, and...
The Shape of War
I'm excited to invite everyone to another evening at Studio-X NYC, with photographer Simon Norfolk and journalist Noah Shachtman, who will participate in two back-to-back live interviews discussing new spaces and technologies of conflict in the 21st century. [Image: Photo by Simon Norfolk, from Burke...
