I was excited to read that Robert Macfarlane, a writer whose work I always look forward to and whose book The Wild Places remains one of my favorite books of the last five years, is apparently writing a book "about subterranea and the worlds beneath our feet." No release date yet, but certainly something...

Alternative Inputs

Alternative Inputs
UK artist Ryan Jordan led a workshop earlier this summer in Montréal, building musical instruments out of geological circuit boards, an experiment in terrestrial instrumentation he calls "Derelict Electronics." [Image: From "Derelict Electronics" by Ryan Jordan; photo by Lauren Franklin]. The sputtering...

The Peterborough Tunnels

The Peterborough Tunnels
A weird old story I came across in my bookmarks this morning tells a tale of tunnels under the town of Peterborough, England. [Image: Gates in Holywell, Peterborough; photo by Rowland Hobson, courtesy of Peterborough Today]. The local newspaper, Peterborough Today, refers to a woman described simply...