It's been a while, friends...

Vast tacks of that time are indescribable but lately, I've just been doin stuff.

First Footprints - ABC TV

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Narrator: Movement and communication over vast distances; deep understanding of landscape; methods of preparing food, can all be summed up in the western desert word, chukulpa, the Law. Crucial to the law, was respect for the knowledge built up over thousands of years. It informed the relationships and power within society, and it was the social glue that enabled our ancestors to survive the ice age, even in the harshest of places.

Narrator: (Ernie Dingo): Like their ancestors, they are following the warra-nyi-nyi songline to cross the treeless plain of the nullabor. It’s forbidding country – there’s no plant food and only two tiny water holes over thousands of square kilometres.

Scott Cane: …Dreaming is a much more complex,  fundamentally important apparatus within society than just the turkey went here and the bush man made the mountain…it’s much more about the fundamentals of their society, in which once you know and are initiated and participating in those rituals, you also come to know the country and where you can go and where you can’t go and what’s safe, what’ll allow you to survive, and what will be dangerous for you…once you know that - this is for me the central importance of the law: you then become an important person in society.

So, because of their knowledge of that law, the religion of the land actually configures the social politics of the community. And it’s the system by which people gain status; society is ordered.

Narrator: People were using the knowledge of the law to cross the Nullarbor plain 20,000 years ago. They made the epic journey to Kanulda cave, about once a generation. They never forgot the songline that guided them here. 

Here's a holiday project for ya...

http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/emergency-modular-flatpack-shelter-nic-gonsalves-and-nic-martoo.html

Allan Wexlar

Allan Wexler has been awarded the Henry J. Leir Prize for his work, Gardening Sukkah. The Henry J. Leir Prize recognizes work that embodies the finest of contemporary art and design, and best expresses the dynamic, ever-evolving practice of religion today.
 http://sce.parsons.edu/blog/2010/01/12/allan-wexler-awarded-the-henry-j-leir-prize/


And proposal for Utopian cafe, 2001, Allan Wexlar. 

http://cup2013.wordpress.com/tag/allan-wexler/

Black Lodge

Sometimes, you see something that makes you go WOW! louder than normal.
The beautiful little building in this image is so clean-of-line, and yet so romantic, it touches some aesthetic nerve.  The image itself has the same aesthetic, and it all comes together in a little row boat.
Clap hands!

let's

full moon

Trailer Trash

more skip pools

Check out the slideshow on this link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/arts/design/20pool.html

Terunobu Fujimori

Architecture to make you smile, Dandelion House, and a hairy roof.

Article in Dwell and Beetle House.

http://www.altuseguide.com/home/trash-dumpster-skip-swimming-pool.html

all images john clang

These images really appeal to me as a way of recording the passing of time in a space. I love coming across something that does in an interesting way something you've been struggling with yourself.

Which leads me to acknowledge how this blog has become of a reblog site over the last months. Which is really indicitive of my rather unhappy relationship with practice at the moment. I think I'm finally getting a handle on why I cannot feel any joy for landscape, and this is not just because of lack of work.

For now, that's all I've got to say. I hope I've discovered a way through this. And sometimes its best to get on with it.

Great wallpaper for all the beautiful places you love.

reblogged from magnicent ruin

georg-oddner

twitter new york

Ever wonder what happens to all the data you supply online? Maybe someone makes a pretty map of it.

Eric Fischer did with twitter location data in New York.

animalnewyork.com via this isn't happiness

Looks Del.icio.us is a collection of different Delicious bookmark visualizations. They’re created with a python-based graphics library and layout engine:

webdesignerdepot.com

Lego repairs

Ha Ha, isn't this brilliant!!!

from tel-aviv

Miles said.

from black-culture

Do Not Covet Your Ideas

from piccsy via this isn't happiness

Green wall, green house.

Some more found images:

The Highline as greenroof

The Highline "before"

and after.

All found images.

...goats optional

from Winter Street Architects

I'm inspired by the colours of these wildflowers carpeting a city roof, a delightful hibridity of soft clothing for the urban hardscape; a colourful coat for a building. Gentle, beautiful.

These images from the USA, from Green Grid Roofs

All images found images.