Meaning
The quality without a name
The meaning of objects
The meaning of music
A creature of bones, not words
The shape of the sentence
To build a folly
- ââDesigned to be ruinsââ
- ââFolliesââ
- ââThermal aediculaeââ
Let the meaning choose the word
Taboo your words
The arbitrariness of the sign
- ââGods of the Wordââ
The eye does not see
The utter nothingness of being
Whereof one cannot speak
Not knowing quite what they mean
Things cannot be other than as they are
50 reds
No words to describe
That is not it at all
A soft and fitful luster
Reference and Is-ness
The demand of a new word
Apparency
Fish and water
The word invents itself
AI-art isnât art
The Future Is Not Only Useless, Itâs Expensive
The Gifted Listener: Composer Aaron Copland on Honing Your Talent for Listening to Music
On 'The Master and His Emissary'
A brief foray into vectorial semantics
The way an oyster does
The primacy of interpretation over sensation
The body image
Meaningness
99% Invisible
The Worst Video Game Ever
- ââDisorientationââ
Some Other Sign that People Do Not Totally Regret Life
The Help-Yourself City
Astoria Scum River Bridge. Photo by Jason Eppink.
There are lots of actions that skirt the boundary between âformalâ and âinformalâ urbanism. In the last decade, thereâs been a rise in tactical urbanism and guerrilla urbanism, where regular people make interventions in their communities. This ranges from hastily painted bike lanes, to do-it-yourself park benches in under-served communities.
Lawn Order
In communities across America, lawns that are brown or overgrown are considered especially heinous. Elite squads of dedicated individuals have been deputized by their local governments or homeownersâ associations to take action against those whose lawns fail to meet community standards.
Call themâlawn enforcement agents.
- ââThe American lawnââ
Names vs. The Nothing
This is the first site along the tour. In here we have a void. I remember the building that used to stand here, it was painted blue. Passing through it, you can imagine how us, as ghosts â should the building be standing here â would have to actually be invisible to pass through these walls and now itâs the reverse. The building is the ghost and weâre passing through these walls.
Rain Chains & Musical Drains
A rain chain in winter; Dresden Kunsthof Passage; Drainage planters near Pike Place Market in Seattle.
If there is a larger takeaway here perhaps it is about paths of least resistance, with regards to both the actual flow of water and design decisions. On the one hand, it is easy to blindly follow regional precedents and traditions with long histories (or grab whatever is handy at the hardware store). On the other hand, sometimes it makes sense to take a step back and decide consciously how to reveal (or conceal) a natural process.
- ââRain chainsââ
Thermal Delight
DIY Space Suits
Cameron Smith is building a space suit in his apartment.
Tracing Power Lines with the Pylon Appreciation Society
According to Emma Ailes of BBC News, the first pylons in the UK were designed by architect Sir Reginald Blomfield in 1928, with a âlatticeâ approach that âsought to be more delicate than the brutalist structures used in Europe and the United States.â Reportedly, he was âinspired by the root of the word pylon â meaning an Egyptian gateway to the sun.â
Take a Walk
Now that many of us are working from home, weâre walking in order to fill up space ⊠to clear our minds ⊠to cry ⊠to talk on the phone ⊠to entertain our kids ⊠to do nothing ⊠but walk.
Here Be Dragons
Dragon hole in Hong Kong by Tim Hill.
Such âdragon gatesâ are designed to let these mythical flying beasts pass from their hilltop homes down to the water each day and then return again each night. Considering the flow of dragons, air and energy is just one part of a much larger phenomenon: feng shui.
The Right to Roam
This walk across private land was not unusual. Thousands of distance walkers in Britain, regularly do the same thing , which is different from what people typically do in the United States. If you wanted to walk across America, youâd have to do it on a combination of public trails and roads and you certainly couldnât cut across Madonnaâs property.
In the United Kingdom, the freedom to walk through private land is known as âthe right to roam.â The movement to win this right was started in the 1930s by a rebellious group of young people who called themselves âramblersâ and spent their days working in the factories of Manchester, England.