Archiculture

source: Core77

We covered this project a while back, before Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller set out on their 36-stop tour.  Their plan was to fill and airstream camper with various design inventions that exemplify the role that design can play in changing our communities.  The thought was that they could deliver their message directly to the doorsteps of average citizens.

They have since completed their tour and shared their experience with Core 77 which can be found here.

source: zastavki

Cornell Scientist have analyzed over 35 million photographs on flickr to determine which city is the world’s most photographed.  The purpose of the research was to create new methods for analyzing and organizing large-scale collections of digital information.  Click here for a list of the most photographed cities and landmarks.

via: capewind.org

Protect beauty vs protect the planet? This has apparently been a long standing debate and battle over this proposed wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod. See a recent article by the Washington Post here to get the current political, cultural and environmental turmoil.I’ve seen the wind turbines shown in the photo above personally in Denmark and after a while came to think of them as poetically beautiful. Why do people fear change so much. Yes it will be different, but so would a tsunami tearing through the Cape Cod region in a decade from a trajectory of further status quo. Get over your land values and sacrifice the horizon for survival.

via: American Planning Association (APA)

Announced today in Tampa by Obama and Biden.

Thanks for the tip David.

Check out Forbe’s List of the healthiest to the unhealthiest states in America.  The ranking is set up where 1 is the healthiest and 50 is the most unhealthy.  The criteria is based on smoking, obesity, death rates and hospital visits.

1:30AM Get home from server training, asleep by 2AM.

5:30AM Awake to phone alarm ringing from the dorm floor. It is dark outside.

6:00AM Leave with pre-packed equipment from office, no 6:15Am once we eat a toasted bagel each and check all equipment groggily.

6:45AM Walk in rain to subway in Brooklyn and arrive at Penn Station.

6:55AM Wait in the now heavy pouring rain for Bolt Bus.

10:00AM Sit/Sleep on Bus for 3 hours, stop once for pee, buy least fatty snack option of crackers and a pack of gum for stale sleep breadth.

11:30AM Awake at South Station in Downtown Boston to our first feeling of hot/humid weather this year, it is 84 degrees.

12:00PM Have a half hour to kill, so we grab food in Chinatown.

12:15PM Pick up our Zipcar from nearby garage.

1:00PM Arrive at Autodesk’s offices 17 miles outside of Boston. Pay $2.50 in tolls at $1.25 increments. Shoot a few minutes of the next archicast.

2:00PM Set up interview and discuss project with head PR guy.

3:00PM Interview Phil Bernstein who is the Vice Present of ACE at Autodesk and a professor at Yale. Key person to discuss the past/current/future use of technology within the studio and profession.

3:45PM Drive back 17miles to return Zipcar to parking lot a few blocks from South Station.

4:00PM Get stuck in torrential down pour in doorway to protect equipment.

4:15PM Arrive at South Station with an hour to kill before bus takes off. Finally find cheap non-fried food at Cajun, Cajun Restaurant in a side of Red Beans and Rice for $2.19. Sit next to doorway to train platforms watching Suited professionals run awkwardly to their commute. Discuss fundraising and lack of support.

5:30PM Back on the Bolt Bus at Gate 21.

10:00PM Arrive at Penn Station to a dry NYC after sleeping for 2 hours, writing, trying to sleep for another hour, studying new job’s menu and sketching concepts for a potential website/video gig.

11:00PM Arrive back at office from 17 hour day all for 30 minutes of interview which may end up being 30 seconds of the film and spending $140.

1:00AM post blog about it….

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Writing from the road in New Hampshire. For our spring break we headed north into New England, where the remnants of winter are still packed high on the sides of the road. We are interviewing students in their hometowns and questioning their parents about their offspring. Yesterday was Central Valley, NY, today is Amherst, NH, and tomorrow is Connecticut with a brief pit stop in Boston tonight for St. Patty’s Day. Stories and photos will be up shortly.