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Something Old, Something New on Hollywood Boulevard

Posted on April 18th by Shae Davidson.
As a move to counter the miasma of gentrification and celebrate the street's blended heritage--incorporating waves of migration and development, pop culture pilgrimage with lived urban experience--the Los Angeles Forum for ...
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Qualitative Light

Posted on March 24th by Shae Davidson.
Amsterdam-based artist Joost van Santen created the online Museum of Light and Daylight to explore the relationship between light and landscape, and the ways in which the interaction of the two ...
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Playa Viva

Posted on March 6th by Shae Davidson.
Playa Viva, a resort on the Pacific coast of Mexico, provides models of green business development and ecotourism.  The resort's founders realized that their connection to the area would benefit ...
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Seamless Technology Fashion Show

Posted on February 5th by Matthew Hockenberry.
I had the pleasure of attending the third seamless technology fashion show wednesday at the Boston Museum of Science. Highlights included: Ok2Touch, which uses a human powered circuit to play ...
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Sonic Attack

Posted on November 28th by Shae Davidson.
  Artist Iain Mott coordinates installation pieces that use mixed media--especially sound--to explore the connection between participant-audience members and the environment.  Past projects, recorded on the Reverberant site, have included Summoned Voices, a work that used ...
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Portland’s Little Ponies

Posted on November 23rd by Shae Davidson.
  Despite generations of construction and development, hitching posts and horse rings remain scattered around Portland, Oregon.  To call attention to these odd relics, artist Scott Wayne Indiana began tying plastic ...
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Post Industrial Art

Posted on October 29th by Shae Davidson.
  The bleak beauty of the industrial landscape held a strange appeal for William Carlos Williams, who praised the gritty diversity of buildings overshadowed by factories and found aesthetic value in smokestacks.  The detritus of ...
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Whole Tree Architecture

Posted on October 24th by Shae Davidson.
Roald Gundersen's Whole Tree Architecture incorporates unmilled trees into design and construction, creating buildings that balance an organic sense of style with a unique approach to preservation and sustainable development.  Gundersen uses local ...
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carpenter shelter

Posted on October 18th by Leonardo Bonanni.
at the cooper hewitt’s lackluster ‘design for the other 90%‘ exhibit i was puzzled by the ‘day labor station:’ a well-intentioned shelter for immigrant day laborers who - at ...