Archive for August, 2008

Charcoal, paper, and talent

August 1, 2008

That was all that Hugh Ferriss needed to craft breathtaking skylines and cityscapes depicting what was and what could be, that have influenced every generation of architect since. He put it best:

Buildings like crystal.
Walls of translucent glass.
Sheer glass blocks sheeting a steel grill.
No Gothic branch.
No Acanthus leaf.
No recollections of the plant world.
A mineral kingdom.
Gleaming stalagmites.
Forms as cold as ice.
Mathematics.
Night in the Science zone.

Jumpin jellybeans, my wall is aglow

August 1, 2008

There’s not much information here as to the how or where, but the idea of light-emitting wallpaper is just plain fantasterrific.

Astronomers like pictures, and visual puns

August 1, 2008

Here’s a site that posts an astronomy picture of the day, usaully capturing some lovely astronomical moment. But sometimes they like the funny. And sometimes you can see the space station float across the moon. ohhhhh.