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I. EDIBLE ESTATES
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IV. FRITZ HAEG STUDIO
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- 2009: Dome Colony X in the San Gabriels, New York City
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VII. books
- Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn
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- The New American Dream: Something For Everyone (PDF)
- The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive
VIII. writings
- '04: Green Museum
- '04: index interview
- '05: 1111 interview
- '05: Textfield
- '06: Humans Were Here
- '06: I Like Chinatown
- '06: Very Gay House
- '07: Control essay
- '07: Creative Time
- '07: Olympic Farming
- '07: Pin-up interview
- '08: Animal Estates
- '08: arcCA essay
- '08: Artforum
- '08: Bear Deluxe
- '08: CCA essay
- '08: Eco Art Blog
- '08: Edible Estates book
- '08: Journal of A & P
- '08: Manifesto Marathon
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- '09: Frieze essay
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- '09: Guardian op-ed
- '09: IMA parade essay
- '09: Salon essay
- '10: ASLA interview
- '10: Bracket essay
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- '10: Landscape China
- '10: Little Joe essay
- '10: Perform. Art World
- '10: PF1 essay
- '10: Work Journal
- '10: X Initiative text
- '11: AAR Interview
- '11: My Gardening Story
VIIII. more info
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X. friendly links
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- AA Bronson
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- Cooking Issues
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- Dan Haeg – Casual Profanity
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XI. recent reading
- 2009.01: NUREYEV: THE LIFE by Julie Kavanagh, 2008
- 2009.08: THE POWER BROKER by Robert A. Caro, 1974
- 2009.08: WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING by Haruki Murakami, 2007
- 2010.02: HUNGRY CITY: HOW FOOD SHAPES OUR LIVES by Carolyn Steel, 2008
- 2010.08: ANNA HALPRIN: EXPERIENCE AS DANCE by Janice Ross, 2007
- 2010.08: BLACK MOUNTAIN: AN EXPLORATION IN COMMUNITY by Martin Duberman, 1972
- 2010.08: E.M. FORESTER: A BIOGRAPHY by Nicola Beauman, 1994
- 2010.08: RSVP CYCLES: CREATIVE PROCESSES IN THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT by Lawrence Halprin, 1969
- 2010.08: THE GIFT by Lewis Hyde, 1983
- 2010.10: ITALIAN JOURNEY by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1816
- 2010.12: THE FOOD OF ROME AND LAZIO by Oretta Zanini de Vita
- 2011.02: GORDON MATTA-CLARK: YOU ARE THE MEASURE edited by Elisabeth Sussman, 2007
- 2011.02: MALAPARTE: A HOUSE LIKE ME by Michael McDonough, 1999
- 2011.02: MUSICAGE: CAGE MUSES ON WORDS * ART * MUSIC by Joan Retallack, 1996
- 2011.02: THE GLOBAL ARTWORLD INC: ON THE GLOBALIZATION OF CONTEMPORARY ART by Charlotte Bydler, 2004
- 2011.02: THE WORLD OF FOOD IN THE ROMAN COUNTRYSIDE by Oretta Zanini de Vita, 2001
- 2011.03: HOW TO IMAGINE: A NARRATIVE ON ART, AGRICULTURE AND CREATIVITY by Gianfranco Baruchello, 1984
- 2011.03: JUST KIDS by Patti Smith, 2010
- 2011.03: THE SEVEN HILLS OF ROME: A GEOLOGICAL TOUR OF THE ETERNAL CITY, by Grant Heiken, Renato Funiciello & Donatella de Rita, 2007
- 2011.05: LIVING THE GOOD LIFE by Helen Nearing, 1954
- 2011.05: URBAN UTOPIAS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Robert Fishman, 1977
- 2011.06: A PATTERN LANGUAGE by Christopher Alexander, 1977
- 2011.06: THE CONSCIENCE OF THE EYE by Richard Sennett, 1990
- 2011.07: ROME, PROFILE OF A CITY, 312-1308 by Richard Krautheimer
- 2011.08: ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE by Barbara Kingslover, 2007
- 2011.08: DEREK JARMAN: A BIOGRAPHY by Tony Peake, 2000
- 2011.08: FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen, 2010
- 2011.09: NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR by George Orwell, 1949
- 2011.10: AT HOME: A SHORT HISTORY OF PRIVATE LIFE by Bill Bryson, 2011
- 2011.10: THE JOYFUL COMMUNITY by Benjamin Zablocki, 1971
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  This house which is almost gone. Which still has the lines and weight of a house, yet could very well be called landscape. This house which is a set of floors engraved with memories that no one you know could ever read. Things, as people, come and go, yet we believe them to be different, we invest what is left of our faith in this space or that. It's wh […]
  vvoi
- The Political Sight - Konrad Pustoła's 'Views of Power'
  What do you see?This, here, is an image of power.Pure and simple, it is what a specific person with power sees. Out of the window. Every day.Some of the Views of Power, a project by Konrad Pustoła, could be postcards. They are annoyingly nice. Others - most of them, actually - seem violent in their chaotic setting.And so, the game begins - can you match the […]
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- How It Works
  You do things.You try it, this way, that way. You stray, you flop and then you flip again, and something, some things come out of it.You do them and please, please, you think, do not ask me what I'm doing, what my political take on this, for the moment now I just have a political in-take, the out is not political to my best knowledge. Fortunately, your […]
  vvoi
- Sharing the Sensible (In a Rich Man's World)
  The thing is: I'm very excited about performance moving forward. And I love how it invades all sorts of territories. I do it, watch it, write about it. It's my cup of tea. That is precisely why I don't want to leave it with an "interesting experiment" tag. Experiments have their consequences, results, and it seems crucial not to stop […]
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- Allan Kaprow on installation and performance
  Now, I think those two words, installation and performance, mark accurately the shift in attitude toward a rejection or sense of abandonment of an experimental, modernist, position which had prevailed up to about, lets be generous, up to about 1968-1969, and began gradually becoming less and less energized. So, I think what you’re getting there is the flavor […]
  vvoi
- Black Square: Malevich and The World That Wouldn't Die
  Here it is: the end of the world.I am standing in front of it, and it looks like shit.It is Kasimir Malevich's "Black Square", it hangs at the New Tretyakov national gallery in Moscow, and it is dirty, tired, bleak, so unimpressive it is embarrassing to see.And yet, that is the end.This can well be seen as the point where art enters the other […]
  vvoi
- Four Propositions Concerning Art Blogging
  My first proposition is: Blogging is about being stupid.It is accepting that I do not know what I should know before starting to write. But wait! "Should know"? Let me rephrase that: blogging is accepting that there is no required knowledge to write. In part, it is accepting Beuys' affirmation that everyone is an artist. Everyone is an art-wri […]
  vvoi
- Melting ears (on Cory Arcangel's two works)
  The one I liked was this:while the one that goes further is this:Both are fragments of works by Cory Arcangel.The difference between them is significant. The first one is a joke - it is a repetition, a trick played on the idea of reproduction or universality.The other one too. But the other one moves towards something else. It provides us with the doubt as t […]
  vvoi
- What you like is to look
  What you like is to look.You like to suck it up in your gaze, you like to smear your innocent mind with the flesh of sight.What you like is to become dependent. To let go of the constructions and make them make you.This is the universe of the aesthetic. It is where you can always find a haven. Where you can let go of your constrained negotiations with what s […]
  vvoi
- Five sentences concerning ghosts
  Both pictures by Ujin Lee, from the Dust series.There is never enough time or effort or vision to make sure things are fixed.We must suppose they are (or were) somewhere here, in the vicinity of the place we are (or were) standing, in the present continuous, within the limits of what we are ready to appreciate.I can hardly imagine a memory that has no stills […]
  vvoi
- Alevtina Kakhidze - Revolutionary Obedience
  "Art must concern itself with the real, but it throws any notion of the real into question. It always turns the real into a facade, a representation, and a construction. But it also raises questions about the motives of that construction." - Mike KelleyHere is how it went:Ukrainian artist Alevtina Kakhidze has been working on value and power for a […]
  vvoi
- Take a break
  Remember Zimoun?Zimoun : 186 prepared dc-motors, cardboard boxes 60x60x60cm, 2010. from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo. […]
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Creative TIme
- Tom Sachs' SPACE PROGRAM: MARS Website Launches
  The new website for artist Tom Sachs’ SPACE PROGRAM: MARS is live: http://tomsachsmars.com Don’t miss the Zine, Blog, and Videos page for rich media content from Tom Sachs and his studio. SPACE PROGRAM: MARS (opening May 16) is co-organized by Creative Time and the Park Avenue Armory. […]
- Tom Sachs' SPACE PROGRAM: MARS Website Launches
  The new website for artist Tom Sachs’ SPACE PROGRAM: MARS is live: http://tomsachsmars.com Don’t miss the “Zine, Blog, and Videos” page for rich media content from Tom Sachs and his studio. SPACE PROGRAM: MARS (opening May 16) is co-organized by Creative Time and the Park Avenue Armory. […]
- IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL: YEAR ONE
  On Wednesday, March 14, join artist Tania Bruguera in conversation with Creative Time’s Chief Curator Nato Thompson and Queens Museum of Art Director Tom Finkelpearl and Curator Larissa Harris as they review the first year of Bruguera’s ongoing Immigrant Movement International project in Corona, Queens. After the discussion, there will be a short question-an […]
- A MESSAGE FROM JIM HODGES
  Dear fellow Creative Time supporters, It’s that time of year when I stop to reflect on things for which I’m grateful: health; beauty (never enough of it!); a broadening spectrum of what we call art; the unexpected revolutionary spirit expanding in the world… And of course, Creative Time. Now more than ever, we need organizations like Creative Time, a groundb […]
- Donate and Steve Powers will write your "wrongs." And your "rights."
  This holiday season, give acclaimed artist Steve Powers your 2cents. When you make a tax-deductible contribution of $25 or more to our 2011 Annual Appeal, you get to tell us in two words what you think is “right” and “wrong” with the world today. In January, Steve will turn your woods into traffic-stopping signage in downtown Brooklyn. And, if you donate $50 […]
- EXPLORE THE LINK BETWEEN FOOD AND HISTORY WITH MICHAEL RAKOWITZ'S SPOILS PROJECT AT PARK AVENUE AUTUMN
  Now available at Park Avenue Autumn, Spoils—a culinary/art experience by artist Michael Rakowitz—marks the fourth and final artist-chef collaboration for 2011. Following the fall of Saddam Hussein’s government in 2003, Iraqis have taken ownership of the symbols of his regime. Many of the opulent artifacts found in his fallen palaces are now sold openly in th […]
- JEANNE VAN HEESWIJK SELECTED AS RECIPIENT OF THE 2011 LEONORE ANNENBERG PRIZE FOR ART AND SOCIAL CHANGE
  “At a time when the pressures of the art market continue to increase, it is so important to recognize artists whose commitment and practice extends beyond the art world by transforming communities in need, engaging broad publics, and inspiring a younger generation of artists.”— Anne Pasternak As we always say at Creative Time, public art isn’t just heroes on […]
- LIVING AS FORM: OVER 100 ARTISTS AND PROJECTS, 25 CURATORS, 9 NEW COMMISSIONS, 1 OPENING WEEKEND
  Following the third annual Creative Time Summit, join us on Saturday and Sunday, September 24 and 25, as we kick off Living as Form—an unprecedented, international project exploring over twenty years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and community engagement. Explore, read, eat, dance, discus […]
- SUMMER UPDATES FROM GHANA THINKTANK
  Since launching the Ghana ThinkTank Mobile Unit with Creative Time at the Festival of Ideas for the New City, the Think Tank moved to the Queens Museum for the Summer, collecting problems of Corona, Queens to be solved by a group of think tanks in the “Developing World,” including the Gaza Strip, Cuba, Serbia, Iran, Filipina workers in Lebanon, and incarcera […]
- CREATIVE TIME TWEETS CONTINUES WITH JILL MAGID'S #FAUSTOSWITNESS
  At 12:15 p.m. on January 21, 2010, a 24-year-old man named Fausto Cardenas fired several shots from a small caliber handgun into the air from the steps of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, without a clear motive. Jill Magid (@JillMagid)—who happened to be visiting Texas to research snipers—was an eyewitness to this mysterious, strangely tragic and poetic, s […]
E-Flux
- Minouk Lim: Heat of Shadows
  The Walker Art Center is pleased to present the first in-depth museum exhibition by Seoul-based artist Minouk Lim. Merging performance, video, and documentary, Lim has created a body of riveting work that critiques the social and political conditions of a contemporary global society fueled by rampant growth and development. Describing her video-based work as […]
- ACTS – Festival for Performative Art
  Participating artists: Ben, Rør og Stampes (DK/SE), Dorit Chrysler & Katherine Liberovskaya (A/CA), Sophie Dupont (DK), FOS (DK), Molly Haslund (DK), Mads Bech Paluszewski (DK), Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt & Matthias Meppelink (DK/DE), Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (DK), Hartmut Stockter (DE), Lilith Performance Studio, Einat Amir (IL), Elin Lundgren & P […]
- Manifesta 9, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and RAY 2012: Europe’s art summer
  MANIFESTA 9 Former coalmining complex of Waterschei Genk, Province of Limburg, Belgium Manifesta 9, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, will take place from June 2 until September 30, 2012 in the former Waterschei coal-mining complex in the city of Genk, Limburg (Belgium), under the direction of curator Cuauhtémoc Medina (Mexico) and co-curators Kat […]
- Babak Ghazi and Gareth Jones
  Raven Row presents two related exhibitions by Babak Ghazi and Gareth Jones. Each artist will stage a totalising view of their work, marking both an end and a beginning of a period of activity, offering a personal synthesis of art and life. During the past four years Babak Ghazi has jettisoned his art production to concentrate on the manifestation of Lifework […]
- Search for Director
  The Board of the Serralves Foundation is seeking to appoint a new Director to the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, an important Museum of Contemporary Art within an international context as well as the first institution of its kind in Portugal. Situated within the historic 18 hectare Serralves Park, the Museum of Contemporary Art opened in 1999 […]
- stanley brouwn
  Curated by Nathalie Ergino, Director of the Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, assisted by Anne Stenne. stanley brouwn has been invited by the Institut d'art contemporain for a solo exhibition in which he will fill the entire exhibition space with new works. A historical figure in conceptual art, stanley brouwn is still extremel […]
- Simon Starling / Superflex and Ephemeropterae˜
  Turner Prize winner Simon Starling (born 1967) has been invited to work in collaboration with the Danish artists group Superflex to inaugurate and unfold the new Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary exhibition space at Augarten—a striking modern pavilion structure completed in 1957 as an artists' workshop—with a presentation of works from the TBA21 colle […]
- Punk, Ash and Holocaust
  Participants: Punk Movement from Craiova, Cristian Comosteanu, and Romeo Tiberiade Curated by Electroputere Punk, Ash and Holocaust is a project that highlights events and situations displaying different modalities of subjectivisation, freed from any form of cultural fetishism or artistic engagement. This project-exhibition documents three situations deeply […]
- Pink Caviar and Two Days Art
  Pink Caviar participating artists Ai Weiwei, Rosa Barba, Yael Bartana, Sophie Calle, Vija Celmins, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Eriksson, Simon Evans, Öyvind Fahlström, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Poul Gernes, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Shilpa Gupta, Jacob Holdt, Roni Horn, Elliot Hundley, Matthew Day Jackson, Chris Johanson, Isaac Julien, Jesper Just, Zilvin […]
- The State of Human Rights
  More than sixty years after the Declaration of Human Rights, the protection of human rights is still an urgent global issue. NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights is a major international contemporary art exhibition dedicated to human rights. It will chart the development of the human rights movement and its evolving discourse since the post-war era. NEWTOPIA […]
Metropolis Magazine Blog
- Reimagining Infrastructure: Part 1
  Oyster-tecture is one of several emerging practices that are shifting the way we think about infrastructure. The old ideals behind public works projects were focused only on enhancing people’s lives. Oyster-tecture provides needed services to people while also fostering vibrant, healthy ecosystems. The result is a more affordable, resilient, longer-lasting u […]
  Neil Chambers
- Getting to the (living) future… or 100% for all?
  There’s something daunting about a speaking slot called “15 Minutes of Brilliance.” At the Living Future (un)conference, these speaking engagements took place before the keynotes each day, a nice way to give individual speakers a platform. But the “brilliance” and the (somewhat false) time limit give these sessions a sense that the person might spontaneously […]
  Kira Gould
- The Big Apple vs. the City of Lights
  Sometimes they’re more alike than you think, Paris and New York. You just have to be looking, and it helps if you live in both cities, constantly, as does Vahram Muratyan. Growing up in Paris, Muratyan always dreamed of living in New York. These days his work keeps him straddling both the City of Lights and the Big Apple. In Paris, he uses le metro to visit […]
  Mercedes Kraus
- Lab Report: XXVIII
  New ways of envisioning architecture, design, and construction are being created at ITAC (Integrated Technology & Architecture Center) by a team of professors, students, and industry professionals. The lab focuses on what co-director, professor Ryan E. Smith calls a “building ecology.” Specifically, it centers on what many in the architecture and buildin […]
  Sherin Wing
- Something old, something new
  New York City’s Le Bernadin was the tres chic restaurant venue for a recent press luncheon held to announce the opening of the new Barnes Art Museum in Philadelphia. A narrow stairway off West 51st Street led up to a not very large room. Circular tables ringed with top-flight design journalists and editors were packed in like proverbial sardines. “I'd r […]
  Joseph G. Brin
- Nine Lives of Green
  Recently at the Living Future event in Portland, Oregon, I had an opportunity to explore “lives of green” with eight other women working in the sustainable design space, as it is often called. We followed the Pecha Kucha format (my first time with the 20-seconds-for-each-of-20 slides). Barbra Batshalom, a Boston-based “recovering architect” talked about her […]
  Kira Gould
- Q&A: Nina Rappaport
  Vertical Urban Factory Exhibit, Photo by Christopher Hall After a six-month run in New York City, Vertical Urban Factory, curated by Nina Rappaport, opened on May 11th and runs through July 29th at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). A longtime fan of the process of making things and the buildings that contain the manufacturing occupations, as we […]
  Susan S. Szenasy
- Tough Love
  John Edelman, the CEO of Design Within Reach, has no patience for self-indulgent design. Or, as he disparagingly puts it, design-for-design’s-sake. Unless a product merges beauty and marketability, the ultimate sweet spot, he’s just not interested. For our “So You Want to Be a Product Designer” story, we talked to creative directors at six American manufactu […]
  Derrick Mead and Martin C. Pedersen
- Made in America
  With a past life in corporate interior and architectural design in San Francisco, I have been aware of 3Form’s many uses as an interior manufacturing company for several years now. I had seen their products used again and again in our sustainable projects, but the image of a conference room divider using their organic Varia Ecoresin Interlayers, in which bea […]
  Kadie Yale
- Help Save NYC Historic Places
  What if, with a push of a button, you could save one of your favorite historic places? The Partners in Preservation need your help. They need you to press a button and help decide who should get $3 million. Some of the places on the list are really well known in New York and beyond; the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Gugg […]
  Ryan A. Cunningham
BLDG Blog
- Mobile Surroundsound
  Two design competitions that might catch your eyes and ears: 1) Legendary L.A. radio station KCRW is looking for a mobile sound booth: a "space where conversation can happen amidst the urban chaos. A comfortable space that isolates sound for good recording, but also gives the listener a sense of place." KCRW is hoping to go on the road, "takin […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Vitamin C and Aloe
  Hidden in an article about New York City's first million-dollar parking space is the somewhat incredible fact that, up in the apartment building this parking space will be attached to, "the shower water will be pumped full of vitamin C and aloe" for the building's economically distinguished residents. Like the home vodka tap we joked abou […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Under Angeles
  Design writer Alissa Walker recently took a tour of L.A.'s original subway system, one whose tunnels are no longer in operation, though they remain down there— [Image: L.A.'s original subway, now walled-off beneath downtown; photo by Alissa Walker]. —bricked off and all but forgotten beneath buildings downtown. [Image:Photo by Alissa Walker]. Cue h […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- SubBrit
  I finally became a paying member of Subterranea Britannica this week, a website and historical organization whose interests (and influence) cast a long shadow over this blog's early years. Joining is £28 a year for overseas members and seems well worth it so far, having received my first issue of their internal newsletter, Subterranea, just last night. […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Secret Soviet Cities
  [Images: From ZATO: Secret Soviet Cities during the Cold War at Columbia's Harriman Institute; right three photographs by Richard Pare]. Speaking of Van Alen Books: earlier this week, they hosted a panel on the topic of "Secret Soviet Cities During the Cold War." These were closed cities or ZATO, "sites of highly secretive military and sc […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Perhaps it is not a city
  [Image: Michael Maltzan's Inner City Arts building, Los Angeles; photo by Iwan Baan]. I'll be speaking tonight, May 17th, at Van Alen Books with architect Michael Maltzan about his book No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond, edited by Jessica Varner, previously discussed on BLDGBLOG here. The book includes inter […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Papercraft
  [Image: Wifi-blocking wallpaper from the Grenoble Institute of Technology]. 1) A collaboration between the Grenoble Institute of Technology and the Centre Technique du Papier has produced wifi-blocking wallpaper: a printable electromagnetic shield that "only blocks a select set of frequencies used by wireless LANs, and allows cellular phones and other r […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Mega City Soundtrack
  [Image: A map of fictional mega cities, via 2000AD]. A short review in the most recent Wire discusses a new album by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury: a speculative urban soundtrack to Mega City One, a "post-apocalyptic sprawl covering the eastern seaboard of the United States" from Judge Dredd. "Portishead's Geoff Barrow and BBC soundtrack […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Water vs. World
  [Image: Illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; courtesy of the USGS]. In Charles Fishman's compelling exploration of water on Earth, The Big Thirst, there is a shocking statement that, despite the apparent inexhaustibility of the oceans, "the total water on the surface of Earth (the oceans, the ice caps, the atmospheric wa […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Lost Lakes of the Empire State Building
  [Image: Sunfish Pond]. Something I've long meant to post about—and isn't news at all—is the fact that there is a lost lake in the basement of the Empire State Building. Or a pond, more accurately speaking. After following a series of links leading off from Steve Duncan's ongoing exploration of New York's "lost streams, kills, rivers, […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Astrobiology and Drowned Nations
  There's a lot going on again this week at Studio-X NYC. Two quick things to put on your radar, in case you're near New York: [Image: NASA astrobiologist Lynn Rothschild measures solar radiation, via NASA]. 1) Tonight at 6:30pm, we've got NASA astrobiologist Lynn Rothschild coming in to discuss her work, from extreme environments here on Earth, […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Performing Mars
  [Image: Image via Karst Worlds]. An ice cave in Austria was recently used as a test landscape for experimental spacesuits and instrumentation systems—including 3D cameras—that might someday be used by humans on Mars. The Dachstein ice cave was chosen, Stuff explains, "because ice caves would be a natural refuge for any microbes on Mars seeking steady te […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Breaking Out and Breaking In Finale
  [Image: Poster design by Atley Kasky of Outpost]. Although I hope to post again about the specific topics to be discussed at this event, I didn't want to lose any more time in announcing the Breaking Out and Breaking In final public event to be hosted at Columbia University's Studio-X NYC on Monday, April 30, featuring a unique and exciting panel o […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Ephemeral islands and other states-in-waiting
  [Image: Temporary islands emerge from the sea, via]. In the Mediterranean Sea southwest of Sicily, an island comes and goes. Called, alternately and among other names, depending on whose territorial interests are at stake, Graham Bank, Île Julia, the island of Ferdinandea, or, more extravagantly, a complex known as the Campi Flegrei del Mar di Sicilia (the P […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Glass Hills of Mars
  More than 10 million square kilometers of landscape on the surface of Mars, a region nearly the size of Europe, is made of glass—specifically volcanic glass, "a shiny substance similar to obsidian that forms when magma cools too fast for its minerals to crystallize." [Image: An otherwise randomly grabbed image of Mars from the fantastic HiRISE site […]
  Geoff Manaugh
Huffington Post Green
- Kit Vaughan: Gambling With the Future of the Planet
  Recent science analysis predicts that we are heading for between 4- 6°C of global warming. Such rapid change in our climate system will bring about profound and in some cases catastrophic damages. This is the stuff science fiction movies are made of: Storms and typhoons will be more frequent and will kill more lives and destroy more infrastructures. […]
  Kit Vaughan
- Peter Lehner: Farming Better, Eating Better: On the Ground Solutions From the Growing Green Awards
  Brown succeeds because he loves his work, he loves his land, and he believes that by making his ranch more sustainable, he's doing the right thing, for his family and his faith. […]
  Peter Lehner
- Peter Bosshard: World Bank to Fund Destructive Dam Through the Backdoor?
  On June 21, the World Bank is expected to submit to its Board of Directors a credit of $684 million for a 1,000-kilometer-long transmission line from Ethiopia to Kenya. Strong evidence links this transmission line to the Gibe III Dam. […]
  Peter Bosshard
- Strong Earthquake Rattles Japan
  TOKYO -- A strong earthquake has struck off the coast of northeastern Japan, but no tsunami is expected. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-6.1... […]
  AP
- New Mexico Jet Fuel Spill Could Be Twice The Size Of Exxon Valdez
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A decades-old jet fuel spill threatening Albuquerque's water supply could be as large as 24 million gallons, or twice the size... […]
  AP
- WATCH: Joplin Boy With Autism Saved Family From Tornado, Said 'I Love You' For First Time
  "I hear the horns." Those were the four words with which Maddox Prier, a nine year old with autism, woke his family before the EF-5... […]
  Emily Heinz
- Michelle Obama To Appear On 'The Daily Show' With Jon Stewart
  First Lady Michelle Obama will make her second appearance on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on Tuesday, May 29, according to a press release... […]
  Carol Hartsell
- Jeff Biggers: Mountain Mourning: Appalachian Women Lead Dramatic Protest Against Mountaintop Removal: Interview With Marilyn Mullens
  After serving her country as a major in the U.S. Army for 22 years, Marilyn Mullens is now leading a group of her fellow Appalachian women to the West Virginia state capitol on Memorial Day to protest the growing humanitarian crisis of mountaintop removal mining. […]
  Jeff Biggers
- Moon Chips Cleared For Landing Back At NASA
  LAS VEGAS — It's been a long, strange trip for what appears to be several tiny chips of lunar rock that found their way into... […]
  AP
- Competition Sniffs Out Top U.S. Police Dogs
  LAKELAND, Fla. -- With barely a woof and many a sniff, police canines from around the country are gathering in Lakeland, Fla., this week to... […]
  AP
- The Top 25 Bike-Friendly Cities In The U.S.
  May is National Bike Month, a time dedicated to the Earth- and body-friendly practice of cycling. According to Rutgers University professor John Pucher, biking has... […]
  Jessica Leader
- 2 Homes Destroyed In 'Wall Of Fire'
  HOLBROOK JUNCTION, Nev. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire erupted in a rural neighborhood near the Nevada-California line and destroyed two homes but no injuries have... […]
  AP
- New Homes For Ohio Suitcase Pups
  TOLEDO, Ohio -- Six bulldog-mix puppies found in a suitcase next to a trash bin in Ohio now have new homes. Winners of a lottery... […]
  AP
- PHOTOS: National Zoo Cheetah Cubs Will Be Hand Raised
  WASHINGTON -- Two cheetah cubs have been transported to the Smithsonian's National Zoo to be raised by hand after a risky birth three weeks ago... […]
  AP
- Dr. Karen Becker: 10 Reasons Fish Make Good Pets
  Fish make truly wonderful pets for people who don't have the time or physical space to devote to a higher-maintenance companion animal. […]
  Dr. Karen Becker
Pruned
- When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a drone
  (Björn Schulke, Observer #2, 2003.) […]
  Alexander Trevi
- 72 Hour Urban Action in Stuttgart (and Imagining Kowloon Skyfavelas)
  (Stuttgart is calling!) You have just about a week to put a team together and vie for one of the spots in the next edition of the 72 Hour Urban Action competition, which the organizers bill as “the world's first real-time architecture competition.” If you can find only a couple of interested colleagues or no one at all, you can still apply as an individ […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Kerb 20
  It's that time of the year again when Kerb sends out another call for submissions. Overseen once more by an editorial staff of students at the RMIT University School of Architecture and Design in Melbourne, this year's theme is Speculative Stories: Narratives in Landscape Architecture. Speculative narrative and the potential of imagination are impo […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Harvesting at the Biogas Farm
  (Image via Sohu.com.) In one version, it's a woman from Binzhou in China's Shandong Province carrying a large plastic bag inflated with natural gas, tapped from a pipeline near some oil and gas wells. It's an illicit hack with “many latent dangers.” (Image via Sohu.com.) In another version, it's a woman from the coming era of radical sust […]
  Alexander Trevi
- A New Anti-Tsunami Archipelago for Japan
  (Image courtesy of Sako Architects.) Instead of protecting Japan's coastal cities from tsunamis with massive seawalls, a strategy hardly foolproof as evidenced by the spectacular failure of the country's flood barriers during last year's disaster, why not concentrate all that concrete into tower blocks and resettle everyone on top? Instead of […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Image of the (Leap Year) Day
  (While incarcerated for war crimes and crimes against humanity, a Nazi architect used to garden here.) […]
  Alexander Trevi
- What is (non-)essential knowledge for (new) architecture?
  For the next 306090 book, guest editor David L. Hays wants to know, “What is essential knowledge for architecture?” This frequently posed question targets fundamental principles of design, those basic criteria and priorities through which disciplinary stability is ensured. Yet, insofar as relevance is a core value of architecture, in both theory and practice […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Where is Alloura Zion?
  (Where the earth is the sky is the earth, where is Alloura Zion? Image courtesy of NASA. Source.) Read more » […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Gravity Base Stations
  (Possibly outdated data sheet for a gravity base station in JFK International Airport. Image courtesy of NOAA. Source.) When I first stumbled upon these poorly scanned data sheets of so-called gravity base stations, I thought they were actual “stations,” that is, actual gravity sensing devices that are constantly taking measurements of local geodetic conditi […]
  Alexander Trevi
- (Im)possible Chicago #31-40
  ((Im)possible Chicagos is a series of hallucinatory joyrides through one hundred and twenty five asynchronous Chicagos.) […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Mythologizing the Dredge Boaters
  (Steampunk terraformers draining a swamp. Image courtesy of Walkerton Area Historical Society. Source.) Once the cities established their beachheads, the dredge boaters and their mud-suckers entered the soft, defenseless womb-belly of the Great Dismal Swamp. There was an Empire to be made. (Photo courtesy of Bill Hewitt. Source.) Some began on the margins, g […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Gardens as Crypto-Water-Computers
  (Vladimir Lukyanov's water computer, 1936. Image courtesy of the Polytechnic Museum, Moscow.) I only recently found out about Google's reverse image search functionality. Since then I've been busy feeding its search engine some of the more mysterious images that have been littering my archives for years, hoping finally to figure out what they […]
  Alexander Trevi
- The Provisional, Improvisational, Guerrilla, Unsolicited, Tactical, Temporary, Informal, DIY, Unplanned, Participatory, Open-Source Pavilion
  (Guerrilla grafters turn non-fruiting street trees into fruit-bearing ones. Via @nicolatwilley.) Here's your chance to have your work be included in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. The theme is “Spontaneous Interventions: design actions for the common good.” This year's curators, from the New York-based Institute for Urb […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Guerrilla Depaving
  (Viva la hidrología!) Guerrilla depaving is an illicit form of urbanism wherein impermeable hard surfaces are wholly removed or perforated to reveal the underlying soil bed. This site preparation precedes the introduction of agriculture, ornamental gardens, cryptoforests and other pata-artisinal land-uses, which alleviate the urban heat island effect. Howeve […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Dispatches from the Sousveillance Zoo
  (Near-future geiger monkeys. Original photo by Koji Sasahara/AP. Source.) As reported by CNN and other venues, Japanese scientists apparently want to recruit wild monkeys to measure radiation levels in Fukushima Prefecture, specifically in a mountainous area of the city of Minamisoma. Each animal will be outfitted with a collar containing a small radiation m […]
  Alexander Trevi
Core 77
- Jonathan Ive Talks Design
  It's a shame Jonathan Ive doesn't grant more interviews, but it's easy to see why: There exists a YouTube clip of Ive being interviewed by a British tabloid-style TV show some years ago, and rather than being given an opportunity to engage in a potentially-edifying discussion about design, the cloddish host ambushes him with questions about a […]
- NY Design Week 2012 - ICFF: Stickbulb
  When the designers at RUX finished a recent wood-based project, their workshop was littered with leftover wood scraps and offcuts, everything from Maple to sun-bleached Ipe salvaged from the Coney Island boardwalk. Instead of tossing away the bits and pieces, they decided to make it a design challenge to come up with a product that not only made use of the l […]
- Arqball Spin Turntable Not Heavy-Duty Enough? Check Out These DIY Motorized Turntable Tutorials
  In a reminder that not every Kickstarter project is a blowout, last week the Arqball Spin project we've been keeping tabs on squeaked over the finish line, barely reaching its $40,000 target with mere hours to spare. While I dig the technology, plan on using it and will pay whatever the service ends up costing, I wasn't sure the Arqball guys would […]
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is seeking a Director, User Experience in Dublin, Ireland
  Director, User Experience Houghton Mifflin HarcourtDublin, Ireland Houghton Mifflin is seeking a Director, User Experience (UX), who will be responsible for ensuring all Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) learning products provide a best-in-class and age-appropriate user experience. HMH learning products include books (in print, audio, and electronic formats), […]
- Furniture As Street Art: DENNIS Design Center by Copenhagen's Bureau Detours
  Not that it wasn't relevant a month ago—after all, I happened upon the daring Danes during their pop-up studio during the Salone—but the guerrilla ethos of the DENNIS Design Center has taken on an ethical significance in light of the recent events surrounding designer Takeshi Miyakawa's (benign) intervention on the occasion of the ICFF in New York. […]
- UK Design Profs Start Materials Re-Usage Website
  Tracy Cordingley and Jamie Billing, product design professors at the UK's Nottingham Trent University, have launched a website that's something like Instructables for the recycling-minded. Called Co-oproduct.org, the site is a "web portal that shows you how to creatively ReUse your Household Packaging and Everyday Waste Materials to make new d […]
- Catalysts for Change: How to Gamify a Path Out of Poverty
  A map of the global game guides who helped manage the Catalysts For Change game during its 48 hour run. It seems like we're playing video games every day. Every morning and evening on the subway, I see people swiping their phones, whether they're slinging a red bird into a pile of green pigs, guessing a friend's drawing, or any number of fun, […]
- NY Design Week 2012: WantedDesign Student Design Challenge, Part 2
  For the second part of the Student Design Challenge hosted at WantedDesign, students representing three American and three French schools were divided by the judges into small teams based on their individual presentations. With access to acrylic, a laser-cutter and 3M-donated architectural films, the students began meshing their ideas together with their tea […]
- Ecolean's New, Flexible Package Material is Everything It's Chalked Up to Be
  I prefer Doypacks to bottles, but during my gig as a structural package designer, the corporate marketing higher-ups were adamant that the American public would never accept them. So we churned out bottle after bottle after bottle. It's heartening to see China, with all of their one-billion-plus consumers, readily willing to put the the Doypack into com […]
- NY Design Week 2012 - ICFF: Miss Sinclaire
  The trick to standing out amongst the 35 designers crowded into the Designboom mart at ICFF is not to overwhelm your tiny display space with everything you've ever made. Canadian designer Miss Sinclaire set up shop with just one product, her tiffin lunch kit, and its clean lines and thoughtful design elements easily caught my eye. As anyone who regularl […]
- Google Putting the "G" in "Design?" Acquires Mike & Maaike
  With zero fanfare, Google has acquired San-Francisco-based ID studio Mike & Maaike. (You'll recognize their name from their Autonomobile project of 2009.) The firm, led by native Californian Mike Simonian and Dutch expat Maaike Evers, has produced designs for Steelcase, Incase, Microsoft's Xbox division, the Republic of Fritz Hansen, and others […]
- Design-build a sound booth for KCRW's Sonic Trace Project
  Nothing makes a designer's day more than seeing his creation out and about. In last week's episode of KCRW's Design and Architecture host Frances Anderton tipped us off to a quick turnaround mobile design challenge that promises to take your work deep into unexplored Los Angeles neighborhoods and into dusty cities across the border. Producer P […]
- NY Design Week 2012: Vitsoe x Kinfolk (or, 'Less, But Better' x 'Ways & Means')
  It should come as no surprise that Vitsœ—a company that employs cycling enthusiasts on both sides of the Atlantic—were happy to host "Built to Last," an exhibition of beautiful bicycles by New York's own Kinfolk Studios. The short talk by Kinfolk co-founder Ryan Carney last Thursday was among the first events to mark the ICFF festivities in to […]
- 16bitghost 's Museum-Worthy Shrine to Every Home Videogame System Ever Made
  Thrones of Game The contents of this gaming room would make for a hip MoMA exhibition: Austin, Texas-based Pete, a/k/a gaming enthusiast 16bitghost, has built a functional shrine to virtually every home videogame system ever made. To outfit the room, you might expect the guy to make an Ikea run, pick up a half-dozen Expedits and call it a day. But we dig tha […]
- NY Design Week 2012 - ICFF: Symbol Audio
  Blake Tovin and Matt Richmond of Tovin Design Limited are furniture designers first and foremost, but as they're also huge audiophiles their newest line, Symbol Audio, might just be their biggest indulgence yet. So far there are three products in the line, the consumer friendly Tabletop HIFI, a luxe set of subwoofers that can plug into everything from y […]
Inhabitat
- 24 Gorgeous Green Lamps That Look Great With Energy-Saving LED Bulbs
  You’ve probably heard by now that the much-hyped light bulb phase-out begins this fall in the United States, which means it’s high time to switch out any old energy-guzzling incandescent light bulbs you have for more energy-efficient options. Not sure which energy efficient light bulbs are best for you and your sophisticated design sensibility? Don’t […]
  Jill Fehrenbacher
- MIO’s Adorable Softbowls are Made from 100% Wool Felt
  We recently spotted these nifty wool bowls by MIO at ICFF during New York Design Week. Even though they’re not new to the scene, we were so enamored by their cute design, we couldn’t help but feature them here on Inhabitat. The Philadelphia-based studio, run by brothers Jaime and Isaac Salm, puts a huge emphasis on not only […]
  Holly McWhorter
- CP Lighting Combines Recycled New Growth Lamp With a Dining Room Table
  Lighting designer Christopher Poehlmann is no stranger to Inhabitat or the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City. Although 2012 marks CP Lighting’s 18th year at the ICFF, they continue to produce exciting new sculptural products for every new show, putting them high on our list of favorite lighting designers. Their latest creation is [.. […]
  Tafline Laylin
- Twin Apartment Towers in Seoul are Joined by a Common Roof and a Bevy of Sky Gardens
  Read the rest of Twin Apartment Towers in Seoul are Joined by a Common Roof and a Bevy of Sky Gardens Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Daniel Libeskind, double skinned facade, eco design, green design, korea, Muphy/Jahn, Pentimonium, seoul, sky forest, sustainable design, Yongsan International Business District […]
  Lori Zimmer
- PHOTOS: The Best Green Designs From ICFF 2012!
  Read the rest of PHOTOS: The Best Green Designs From ICFF 2012! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", "sustainable furniture", "vertical garden system", Art of Board, broom lamp, david clarkin, dutch house closets, green design, green interiors, green products, headliner seat, ICFF, icff 2012, Inter […]
  Jill Fehrenbacher
- Kohler Makes a Splash at ICFF with a Neon Chartreuse Shipping Container Booth
  Read the rest of Kohler Makes a Splash at ICFF with a Neon Chartreuse Shipping Container Booth Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: “green furniture”, design week, eco design, green design, ICFF, International Contemporary Furniture Fair, Kohler, kohler booth, kohler booth at icff, kohler shipping container, new york design week, recycled furnitu […]
  Yuka Yoneda
- 10 Must-See Design Destinations Around The World
  If you’re daydreaming about your next vacation, and looking for something a little off the beaten path, why not consider embarking on a global design tour? The world is full of inspiring destinations for travelers looking for a recharge, and you only need to do a bit of googling to plan a unique design vacation. […]
  Lori Zimmer
- Golden Glory is a Gilded Temporary Art Pavilion in Germany
  Read the rest of Golden Glory is a Gilded Temporary Art Pavilion in Germany Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Art, bicycle capital of Germany, culture, eco design, germany, gilded pavilion, GOLD, golden glory, green design, Modulorbeat, Muster, sustainable design, temporary construction, temporary design, Urban design […]
  Tafline Laylin
- BRC Designs’ American Pipe Dream Chair and Table Are Made from a Maze of Copper Piping
  Read the rest of BRC Designs’ American Pipe Dream Chair and Table Are Made from a Maze of Copper Piping Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: american pipe dream, american pipe dream chair, “green furniture”, Benjamin Rollins Caldwell, BRC Designs, copper pipe chair, copper pipe table, design week, eco design, green design, […]
  Yuka Yoneda
- At Labo’s Wood Veneer Lamps Are Puzzles You Put Together Yourself
  Read the rest of At Labo’s Wood Veneer Lamps Are Puzzles You Put Together Yourself Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: at labo, at labo lighting, “green furniture”, design week, eco design, flatpack lamps, green design, green lighting, ICFF, International Contemporary Furniture Fair, japanese lamps, lightweight lamps, new york design week, susta […]
  Yuka Yoneda
- Robo-Fish: The Robotic Fish Designed To Detect Pollution
  While harbors and ports around the world are crucial to global trade, industrial activities are often responsible for high levels of pollution and water contamination. Fuel leaks, emissions, and general waste all contribute to the problem, but now scientists from the European BMT Group have developed a new weapon in the war against maritime defilement: […]
  Timon Singh
- Tesla to Deliver the First Model S Electric Sedans on June 22
  Tesla Motors has announced that the first deliveries of its new Model S electric sedan will begin on June 22nd, ahead of the previously predicted July delivery date. The first Model S buyers will receive their cars at an invitation-only event at the Tesla Factory in Fremont, California. Additionally, the automaker plans to kick off […]
  Marc Carter
- Seoul’s Kukje Art Center is Wrapped in a Funky Mesh Armor that Reduces Solar Heat
  Read the rest of Seoul’s Kukje Art Center is Wrapped in a Funky Mesh Armor that Reduces Solar Heat Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, art gallery, Daylighting, eco design, flexible facade, green design, Iwan Baan, Kukje Art Center, seoul, SO-IL, solar gain, south korea, sustainable design, urban planning […]
  Tafline Laylin
- Transform Bare Walls to Bright Indoor Gardens with the Versatile Urbio System
  Spotted at New York Design Week, we are in love with the Urbio, a system of mix and match modular planters and organizers that snap into place with high-strength magnets. The series of various sized containers allow for the creation of a personalized wall garden, an elegant centerpiece, or a space-saving solution for organizing your […]
  Lea Bogdan
- BRC Designs’ Spineless Chair is Adorned with the Spines of Old Books
  Bibliophiles are sure to get a kick out of BRC Designs‘ new “Spineless” chair, which is made up of the spines of hundreds of old books. Spotted at ICFF this past weekend, the literally literary seat has a color-blocked design that references Mondrian. The designer, Benjamin Rollins Caldwell, explained that he obtained many of the […]
  Yuka Yoneda
Sundance Blog
- Cruise Control 2013: What they’re wearing in Cannes
  How does one get to Cannes, Marseilles, or Moncaco? By yacht, of course. For the vast majority of people, this is a lofty prospect. But for the select few with the means (private jet, Maserati, large boat), the appropriate fashion is paramount. Fortunately there are visionaries in the world that still cater to the one percent of beautiful people in need of h […]
  Paul Ohan
- No zombies in Chernobyl, but plenty of other horrors
  On Friday, the new horror flick CHERNOBYL DIARIES will no doubt have folks all over the country screaming and holding their hands over their eyes. Those of us old enough to remember the actual Chernobyl disaster, in which a nuclear reactor northeast of Kiev, Ukraine exploded, might take some comfort in this: the world's worst nuclear disaster is far eno […]
  Jeff McIntire-Strasburg
- GET TO WORK: Sundance Channel docu-series gets folks jobs
  It's no secret that getting, and keeping, a job in this economy takes more than just luck. After enough rejection, it's easy to feel entirely locked out of the game. Right now there are millions of Americans out of work and this August, Sundance Channel's original docu-series GET TO WORK will take you behind inside a groundbreaking back-to-wor […]
  Sundance Channel
- Hollywood drama hits the red carpet at Cannes
  The Cannes Film Festival is the doyenne of all film festivals. It has kept the attention of film industry and it's supporters for sixty-five years and has no signs of slowing down. And with an abundance of red carpets opportunities, after parties, and the usual fare of celebrities reveling in the beauty of the Riviera, it's a perfect photo opportun […]
  Paul Ohan
- Just how stupid is that homophobic pastor’s plan to round up the gays?
  This video of a North Carolinian pastor spewing homophobic hate has been making the rounds. Made "pukin' sick" by the thought of men kissing men, Pastor Charles Worley comes up with a big idea to get rid of homosexuality once and for all -- a "final solution," if you will: Build a great big large fence, 150 or 100 miles long. Put all […]
  Em and Lo
- Check out the set of MOONRISE KINGDOM with Bill Murray
  If you're not at Cannes (and if you are, stop reading this and go do something fabulous), then you're probably tired of hearing about the new Wes Anderson joint MOONRISE KINGDOM. You're tired of it because you know you won't be able to see Bruce Willis rock highwaters and spectacles until Friday (if you're lucky enough to live NY or […]
  Michelle Byrnes-Carney
- Tatzoo: Wildlife advocacy meets tattooing
  Got a tattoo of your favorite endangered species? If you're my age, you'll probably answer "No" with an annoyed look. However, if you're a twentysomething, I may have you thinking "Heyyy - that's a great idea!" Generation Y is into its tatts, as well as making the world a better place. If someone figured out a way to b […]
  Jeff McIntire-Strasburg
- How to spot a hipster in the bedroom
  Last week we wrote about how to spot a hipster in the wild. Inspired by that, we decided to put together our own guide to spotting hipsters... in the bedroom. Here are our top twenty ways to know you're having sex with a hipster. […]
  Em and Lo
- Lelo’s short film of vibrators at Cannes
  The Cannes Film Festival is in full swing right now (May 16-27) and one of its special guests is one of our favorite pleasure-object producers: the high end Swedish design company, Lelo. They're screening their very own short -- okay, it's a crummy commercial. But as with everything Lelo does, it's beautiful, sleek, glamourous, luxurious and i […]
  Em and Lo
- World leaders gather to solve econ…no, watch “football”
  What did you do this weekend? Well, it seems as though all of the important people in the world were either at G8 sleepover. Good times! Allegedly, the world leaders were discussing this economic pickle we still seem to be in. But, really, they were watching the Champions League final. It's kind of like the Super Bowl of European soccer. Or, as my Engli […]
  Michelle Byrnes-Carney
- Kristen Wiig’s final SNL spawns thousands of online tears
  This past weekend on Saturday NIght Live, the show said a final goodbye to cast member Kristen Wiig. It ended on a sweet note with Kristen holding back tears as she danced with her cast members and some SNL alums. The last dance was with Lorne Michaels who whispered in her ear, "If you don't return for another season on my show I will eat your firs […]
  Matthew Rodriguez
- Wes Anderson and Woody Allen save summer cinema
  Not that sequels prequels, slapstick comedies, superhero flicks, and action/adventure thrillers can't be intelligent, lol. But still, can we expect anything a cut above? Yes! Some warm-weather flicks are filtering in made by actual artistes with real aspirations, at least judging from the heady descriptions. Some of them are even coming before summer’s […]
  Michael Musto
- We’ve got Bill Murray’s candid Cannes photos
  Whether he's chauffeuring you home in a golf cart or sneaking up behind you in public, Bill Murray commands your attention. His mere presence at the 65th Festival de Cannes is no different. He is certainly the most important member of director Wes Anderson's party posse. They're debuting their latest collaboration, MOONRISE KINGDOM, and while […]
  Sundance Channel
- This week’s top trending videos: Starring food buffet drama!
  If you had a stressful week at work just know that it was nowhere near as bad as what the Wisconsin resident featured in video number three had to go through. And here's hoping you have a relaxing weekend, like the cat in the video number five. So, read for more trick shots, Sponge Bob and a little gear-shift supercut. […]
  Matthew Rodriguez
- Naked news: “mankini” to be worn during Olympics Opening Ceremony?
  This week, homophobia is down, gaydar is up, female objectification is over the top, and home HIV tests are around the corner. Oh, and a mankini is on the way: […]
  Em and Lo
Designboom
- kazuhiro yamanaka: it's only a paper moon lamp
  a clothing peg, a piece of paper and a hanging bare bulb are the only elements in a pendant design which focuses on simplicity and honesty in design. read more […]
- stilla 3D photo app for iPhone
  using the iPhone's built-in gyroscope, the app stitches together multiple photos into a navigable object in virtual 3D space, letting users create multi-perspective views of their surroundings.read more […]
- levitating sound sculpture by david letellier
  the artist has created a site-specific and temporary kinetic sound sculpture from 300 fine strands of wire for saint sauveur chapel of caen, france.read more […]
- 0e1 arquitetos: apartamento da atriz
  apartment renovation in the historical district of porto alegre that transformed a neglected city space into cozy residential studio.read more […]
- a2o-architecten: de waai party hall
  a performance space located among a cluster of municipal buildings. the building mimics the classical column structure creating rhythmic pattern on the exterior facade.read more […]
- cre8: iPad keyboard capsule-2
  a case that solves three main points currently associated with the iPad: protection, mistyping on the touch screen keyboard, and holding it for prolonged periods of time.read more […]
- NRM architects office: house in sakai
  set back from the street, a solid facade of striated black metal panels borders an expansive forecourt, offering inhabitants outward views from a singular rectilinear dormer window which peers above the roofline.read more […]
- moment factory: interactive musical wall for saint-justine hospital
  the musical wall is an environmental work which requires feedback from the viewer, as the piece was developed to stimulate the imaginations of hôpital ste-justine's young patients. read more […]
- design miami basel 2012 - humans since 1982 for victor hunt gallery
  the collection investigates the exhibition of design elements, not only for their intended use, but as an exploration of their aesthetic and functional properties. read more […]
- luigi rosselli architects: gordons bay house
  a residence which looks at how 6 degrees of separation might negotiate a web of complex associations in order to produce a structure that integrates the built form into its context.read more […]
- pollution-detecting robotic fish
  small schools of robotic fish will monitor pollution in harbors and other aquatic areas, communicating with each other and port authorities to provide realtime data on environmental contaminants.read more […]
- HOK: university at buffalo school of medicine and biomedical sciences
  the project presents a transformation of the buffalo niagara medical campus into a bold statement for architecture and urban design in the city. read more […]
- AUDI e-bike worthersee
  designed for performance and trick cycling, the electric bike offers the highest output of any production electric model. in addition, an electric control system can stabilize the rider when doing wheelies and other stunts.read more […]
- tent city at stuttgart 21 by frank bayh & steff rosenberger-ochs
  as construction commenced on the 'stuttgart 21' train station, the protesters set up camp on the site to stop the progress. the photographic series explores the new urban districts which have thus developed. read more […]
- AQSO arquitectos office: connecting riads
  residential buildings continuously wrap to generate internal courtyards for inhabitants, mediating the urban historic district, adjacent residences and public park of casablanca, morocco.read more […]
We Make Money Not Art
- Links for 2012-05-22 [del.icio.us]
  'Gay' penguin couple given egg of their own Every spring for six years Gentoo penguins Inca and Rayas have lovingly built a nest together, only to find that no eggs arrive to fill it. It doesn't seem to have dawned on the couple that both of them are male. […]
- Links for 2012-05-21 [del.icio.us]
  The Dwarf Zoo is a growing collection of insularly dwarfed animals Often when a species gets stuck on an island their size changes. Sometimes they grow larger like the giant turtles on the Galapagos. In Dwarf Zoo however we are interested in insular dwarfs; island animals that have evolved to a strikingly diminuitive size. Perhaps these evolutionary precurso […]
- Subversion in the Arab Art world
  There's an exhibition featuring sci-fi, history, video games, homosexuality, soap operas, censorship and a powerful sense of humour at Cornerhouse in Manchester right now. The show is called Subversion and it questions and knocks around whatever assumption you might have about an homogenous 'Arab world', whatever image politicians and the medi […]
  Regine
- #A.I.L - artists in laboratories
  The first episode of the radio show about art & science i'm recording for Resonance FM is broadcast today Monday 21 May at 16.30 (London time.) There will be a repeat on Thursday at 22.30. You can catch it online if you don't live in London. This week i'm talking with the lovely and lively Anna Dumitriu, visual artist and respected founder […]
  Regine
- An Ant Ballet at FutureEverything
  Ollie Palmer's Ant Ballet is a three-year research project into control systems, paranoia and dancing insects, and has culminated in the world's first ballet to exclusively feature ants. The projected insects is part of the FutureEverybody Art Exhibition at the 1830 Warehouse in Manchester continue […]
  Regine
- Links for 2012-05-15 [del.icio.us]
  Portrait of the artist: Bill Viola, video artist | Culture | The Guardian 'I fell into a lake aged six and saw the most beautiful world. My work is about getting back there' […]
- Links for 2012-05-13 [del.icio.us]
  London 2012: army to use 'sonic weapon' on Thames during Olympics American-built 'long-range acoustic device', used by US military in Iraq, can produce deafening 150db levels at one metre […]
- Sony World Photography Awards 2012
  object to paying £7.50 to see and exhibition which title starts with the name of a brand. I feel cheated when the show closes with a shop selling goods manufactured by the above-mentioned brand and i don't look kindly to being forbidden to take pictures (which i do purely for documenting reason) because that would mean that i won't shell more ££ to […]
  Regine
- My Name Is Janez Janša
  The film that inspires you to google your name again.... My name is Janez Janša is a documentary film about names and name changes, focusing on one particular and rather unique name change that took place 5 years ago, when three artists officially changed their names into the name of the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša continue […]
  Regine
- American Dreamers
  Does the American dream still exist? What is its future in an era in which the promise of happiness and economic prosperity seems to clash with an increasingly complex and difficult scenario? continue […]
  Regine
- The Chronocyclegraph
  The museum of photography in Antwerp has a number of fascinating show right now. One of them is an installation by Zoe Beloff that takes as its point of departure America's longest running comic strip to explore the influence of cinema on the movement of the body and the mind. Beloff's exhibition contains a number of historical documents. Some of t […]
  Regine
- Links for 2012-05-03 [del.icio.us]
  2012 Olympics: Kabul. Baghdad. London. Three to avoid this summer The Olympics have become an Orwellian parody of what happens when a world agency blackmails a government aching for prestige into spending without limit. Not one defence spokesman has come up with a plausible scenario for the jets and missiles. The latter have a range of just three miles and a […]
- The Immortal, life-support machines keeping each other alive
  A number of life-support machines are connected to each other, circulating liquids and air in attempt to mimic a biological structure. The Immortal investigates human dependence on electronics, the desire to make machines replicate organisms and our perception of anatomy as reflected by biomedical engineering continue […]
  Regine
- Compulsion
  In Prager's part film noir, part fashion shoot work, heroines wear impeccable make-up, pose as if they were in a Hitchcock movie, breathe through an atmosphere worthy of David Lynch, and are submitted to ordeals inspired by the images of crime photographers Weegee and Enrique Metinides. The stories might take place in Hollywood-like settings but they pr […]
  Regine
- Links for 2012-04-29 [del.icio.us]
  Co-op boycotts exports from Israel's West Bank settlements | World news | The Observer Hilary Smith, Co-op member and Boycott Israel Network (BIN) agricultural trade campaign co-ordinator, said the Co-op "has taken the lead internationally in this historic decision to hold corporations to account for complicity in Israel's violations of Palest […]
Infranet
- Bracket 3 [at Extremes]
  Bracket 3 invites the submission of critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate the potentials when situations extend beyond norms – into the extremities. We are conditioned, as designers of the built environment, towards the organization of people, programs and movement. Indeed the history of modern urbanism, architecture and building […]
  InfraNet Lab
- All Creatures Great & Small
  [Animal Architecture Awards 2011] Our Friends at Animal Architecture are launching the inaugural Animal Architecture Awards. The competition seeks "exciting projects that engage the lives, minds and behaviors of our alternate, sometimes familiar companion species — insects, birds, mammals, fish and microorganisms – each one with unique ways of world-ma […]
  Neeraj
- The New Gold and its Unconventional Reserves
  [Utility Poles from the Ottawa Area] Barrick Gold’s recent bid to acquire copper miner Equinox Minerals suggests that the bullion giant sees copper as the new gold. Both minerals are currently valued at record highs. The price of gold has doubled in the past two years on account of investor fears of inflation and political turmoil. […]
  Maya
- Cycling Infrastructure
  With warmer weather just around the corner those of us who didn’t brave cycling through the winter months are preparing our two-wheeled transit for another season. We are not alone. In cities across North America bicycle ridership is on the rise. Montreal and New York City have both increased their ridership by 35 and 28% […]
  Maya
- New Northern Cartographies
  [New Northern Cartographies, Phyllis Lambert Seminar, 25-26 February, at the Univertsity of Montreal.] The 2011 Phyllis Lambert Seminar, organized by Alessandra Ponte, is centered on the theme of the North. It is titled “New Northern Cartographies” and we are honored to be among the architects, artists, film-makers, geographers, and climatologists included i […]
  Mason
- Infrastructural Opportunism, A Manifesto
  [Mimi Zeiger presents an Infrastructure of Manifestos at Storefront on 28 January, 2011.] Thanks to those that came out to Storefront for Art and Architecture on a chilly Friday in late January to celebrate the publication of Pamphlet Architecture #30: COUPLING and to hear provocative / entertaining manifestos as delivered by some of the brightest minds [... […]
  Mason
- Fourth Natures: Mediated Landscapes
  [Fourth Natures Conference] InfraNet Lab is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a conference entitled ‘Fourth Nature: Mediated Landscapes’ at the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture, in Cambridge, ON, this Friday, Feb. 4th and Saturday, Feb. 5th. The conference brings together scholars and practitioners working at the disciplinary intersec […]
  Lola
- Postcards from a Future
  [Scenario: The iconic City office tower is now high-rise housing. Originally converted into luxury flats, the block soon slid down the social scale to become a high-density, multi-occupation tower block. The Gherkin now worries the authorities as a potential slum. Refugees from equatorial lands have moved north in search of food. They make their […]
  Neeraj
- Ecological Reading
  [The New City? Photo published in Ecological Urbanism by Agnes Denes] As the year winds down, I wanted to touch on two books – one that was released a few months ago and one to be launched… any minute- that may be of interest to our readers. The first is a recent publication from the GSD entitled […]
  Neeraj
- Call for Submissions: Almanac 2, Bracket [goes soft]
  [bracket goes soft!] We are excited to be launching the second almanac of bracket with our fantastic team of Actar, Archinect and graphic designers, Thumb. We are also thankful of the generous support from the Graham Foundation. Bracket 2 invites the submission of critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate physical and […]
  Neeraj
The official weblog of the Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
- A December 2011 Conference on Roman Architecture in Memory of William L. MacDonald, FAAR’56 (1921-2010)
  Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli. Credit: Gjon Mili (LIFE/Google) It was on 12 July 1921—precisely 90 years ago today—that noted architectural historian William L. MacDonald (FAAR’56) was born in Putnam, Connecticut. His death in March 2010 deeply touched his numerous friends, colleagues, and former students, many of them linked by their connections with the Americ […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- Remembering AAR Trustee Cy Twombly (1928-2011)
  Artist Cy Twombly, as the 2006 recipient of the AAR’s McKim Medal, which he himself had earlier designed Rome resident and beloved American Academy Trustee artist Cy Twombly died 5 July 2011 aged 83. Many obituaries worldwide have appeared, including that of Randy Kennedy inThe New York Times (in its full version here). Remembers AAR […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- On Tuesday 28 June, A Book Presentation of ‘Sacred Possessions: Collecting Italian Religious Art 1500-1900′
  Four years ago (19-21 June 2007), the American Academy in Rome hosted a conference co-organized by the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the Bibliotheca Hertziana—Max Planck Institute for Art History that explored the collecting of religious art in and of Italy. On Tuesday 28 June 2011 at 5 PM the Academy hosts the […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- In Rome, a Conference on History and Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean (Wed 15-Thu 16 June 2011)
  Whether it is climate, or the use and overuse of timber resources, or the extent and effects of urbanization, or a host of other issues, the history of the Mediterranean environment in antiquity is full of unresolved debates. The intention of the conference History and Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean is scarcely to resolve these […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- In Rome, American and Spanish Academies Present ‘Dialogue: Two Projects of Antoni Muntadas and Giulio Squillacciotti’
  Internationally-renowned artist Antoni Muntadas brought two Janiculum neighbors together on Tuesday 7 June 2011, when the American Academy in Rome and the Real Academia de España en Roma united to present two Muntadas events as well as a new project by Italian artist Giulio Squillacciotti. At 6 PM, Muntadas spoke in the AAR Lecture Room […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- A Whirlwind Week in Review: Annual Events in Late May for AAR Fellows, Trustees (Part 1)
  Fellows’ Open Studios, Wednesday 25 May 2011 It was five full days, but still it seemed like a whirlwind when the AAR’s Board of Trustees made their annual visit to Rome from 25 May to 29 May. They convened formally in committees and as a whole, took a good look at the institution they support […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- From 25-28 May, the AAR Presents the Fellows’ Annual Events in the Arts: Open Studios, Reading, and Concert
  Three days in late May—Wednesday the 25th, Friday the 27th, and Saturday the 28th—see one of the Academy’s oldest and most consistently rewarding traditions, the annual presentation of work by current Rome Prize Fellows in the AAR’s School of Fine Arts. On Wednesday 25 May (6-9 PM) the Academy’s Open Studios in the McKim, Mead […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- In Rome on 24 May, Trustee John R. Clarke RAAR’95 Delivers the 2011 Friends of the Library Annual Lecture
  One of the undisputed highlights of the Academy’s year in Rome is the   Patricia H. Labalme Friends of the Library (FOL) Lecture. This year the lecture is dedicated to the memory of Christina Huemer, Drue Heinz Librarian Emerita, who served as a spirited leader of the AAR’s Arthur and Janet C. Ross Library for fifteen […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- Looking Back at Galileo’s Gianicolo Anniversary (2): ‘Conversations That Matter’ (07.04.11)
  On Thursday 7 April 2011 the American Academy in Rome hosted a public program on “Science and Faith” in its Conversations That Matter series. Academy Director Christopher S. Celenza (FAAR’94. pictured above at left) discussed the interrelationship between scientific and religious inquiry with bestselling author Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, astronomer at the […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- Fellows Explore Aqueducts at Vicovaro, and (with AIAC) under the American Academy
  The Anio gorge at Vicovaro. Photo: current Fellow Casey L. Brown It may well become an annual ritual. On 30 April, archaeologist Gianni Ponti—veteran Advisor to the American Academy in Rome and a dean at Rome’s IES—once again brought a somewhat incredulous group of AAR Fellows to the Roman aqueducts near Vicovaro (45 km northeast […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
MiglioraRoma
- Fermiamo la distruzione di Villa Borghese: petizione email
  sopra: Villa Borghese "invasa" dai Tir per la preparazione di Piazza di Siena 2011 Come l'anno scorso questo Blog si mobilita per l'ennesimo scempio che si sta compiendo in questi giorni nel cuore verde della Capitale: il Concorso ippico a Villa Borghese.Le gare dei cavalli durano solo quattro giorni (24-27 maggio), ma La Villa storica vi […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Hortus Urbis Domenica 15
  Ricevo e pubblico:All'Hortus Urbis, l'orto antico romano nel Parco dell'Appia Antica, proseguono le attività nell'orto aperte a grandi e piccini che si ripeteranno tutte le domeniche a seguire fino a giugno.Domenica 15 aprile le attività previste sono:Dalle ore 10.00 attività nell'orto, Alle ore 10.45 registrazione e merenda. Dalle […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Diciamo ad Alemanno: No alla privatizzazione di acqua e servizi!
  sopra: un'immagine dal sito www.dilloadalemanno.itRicevo e pubblico:"Come forse sapete è in discussione al Comune di Roma una manovra di bilancio che se approvata rappresenterebbe un colpo al cuore ai referendum di giugno e un vero e proprio sfregio a volontà popolare e democrazia. La Giunta Alemanno sta infatti mettendo in vendita un ulteriore 21 […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Alemanno: basta affissioni selvagge (?)
  Ricevo e pubblico:"Alemanno cerca di giocarsi le ultime carte per le elezioni del prossimo anno.Ieri mattina, presso gli Studios De Paolis di via Tiburtina, il Sindaco ha presentato, insieme a numerosi assessori della sua giunta e a molti rappresentanti del mondo della politica, della cultura e dello spettacolo, la nuova rete di associazioni "Rete […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Domenica 25 Marzo: Hortus Urbis sull'Appia antica
  Ricevo e pubblico: COMUNICATO STAMPA Roma 16.03.2012 Prenderà l'avvio il 25 marzo HORTUS URBIS il primo orto antico romano della capitale nel cuore dello splendido scenario del Parco Regionale dell'Appia Antica con una grande festa aperta a tutti, grandi e piccini, presso l'ex Cartiera Latina a via Appia Antica 42 nell'ambito delle iniz […]
  MiglioraRoma
- 15 Marzo: Convegno “Roma sceglie sostenibile” - Scriviamo all'Assessore
  Ricevo e pubblico:"Gentili Signori,Roma Capitale ha aderito al Patto dei Sindaci, un accordo che impegna le città d’Europa a ridurre, entro il 2020, le emissioni di CO2 del venti per cento.A tale scopo l' Assessorato capitolino all’Ambiente ha redatto un Piano d’Azioni per l’Energia Sostenibile (PAES) che contempla gli interventi necessari per aume […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Guerra alle affissioni abusive!
  sopra: affissioni abusive in Piazza Augusto Imperatore da parte della Giunta ComunaleLa nostra città è invasa dalla pubblicità, gli ultimi dati ufficiali parlano di ben 220.000 metri (220 km!) di pubblicità presente all'interno del territorio del nostro Comune.E' una cosa indecente, per di più perchè parliamo di una città storica, in cui lo spazio […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Scriviamo al Presidente dell'Ama per i rifiuti zero
  Ricevo e pubblico:"Il Movimento 5 stelle fin dalla sua nascita ha come visione di riferimento la condivisione delle "buone pratiche" e la loro messa in rete. Guardare alle esperienze pratiche positive realizzate altrove e provare a replicarle, adattandole al contesto, è parte del nostro dna. Una di queste riguarda come affrontare praticamente […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Giovedì 17 Novembre: Decoro Day
  Giovedì 17 novembre, presso l'Aranciera, nella sede dell'Assessorato all'Ambiente in Piazza di Porta Metronia 3 si svolgerà Il Decoro Day, al quale sono invitati a partecipare tutti i cittadini e blogger attivi nella salvaguardia del decoro della città. La giornata inizierà alle 11 del mattino, tra i vari interventi, quello in cui prenderà la […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Il "Piano Pullman" del Campidoglio non convince nessuno
  sopra: il prospetto dei costi in euro che sostengono i pulman turistici per circolare a RomaL'Assessorato alla Mobilità del Comune di Roma ha risposto (in copia visibile!) a vari cittadini che avevano scritto contro l'attuale invasione della Capitale da parte dei pullman turistici:"Gentile cittadina/o, il Piano Pullman varato dall'Ammini […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Cartelloni: la Giunta Alemanno è parte incivile
  immagine da Repubblica Ricevo dalla Presidenza dell'XI Municipio e pubblico:Comunicato del 03 novembre 2011“E’ una tragedia e una vergognosa metafora. A Roma si muore schiantandosi su un cartellone abusivo che viola il Codice della Strada, come qualche decina di migliaia di obbrobri simili. La Giunta Alemanno lo sa e invita l’operatore economico a spos […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Bando per servizio civile con scadenza 21 Ottobre
  Ricevo e pubblico:Cara Martina,Per chi ha tra i 18 e i 28 anni è possibile prestare servizio volontario per un anno presso l'Associazione Luca Coscioni grazie a un progetto di "Servizio civile nazionale" finanziato dallo Stato. Di seguito trovi tutte le informazioni nel dettaglio. Grazie, Marco Cappato (Associazione Luca Coscioni) e Simone S […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Sabato 8 Ottobre Manifestazione a Riano contro la nuova discarica
  sopra: Riano, veduta aerea di dove dovrebbe sorgere la discarica dei rifiuti romani Ricevo e pubblico:Data: Sabato 8 Ottobre ore 8:45Luogo: Riano (bivio via Tiberina).Ormai è certo il Commissario Straordinario all’individuazione del sito per il dopo Malagrotta, Prefetto Pecoraro, ha previsto a Riano (via Flaminia – area nord di Roma) il luogo dove realizzar […]
  MiglioraRoma
- L'Atac: inadeguata ai disabili
  da Youtube. un filmato che mostra l'accessibiltà del sistema di trasporto pubblico a ChicagoRicevo e pubblico:"Spett.le Atac,Sono una disabile in carrozzina, Vi Scrivo per denunciare che le vostre rampe per i disabili sono spesso rotte perché la manutenzione è nulla. Quando quelle poche volte funzionano, sono gli autisti a non saperle fare funziona […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Zappata Romana: orti e giardini condivisi a Roma
  Ricevo e pubblico, visto che si tratta di una bella iniziativa. "Gentile Redazione, Le scriviamo per segnalarle Zappata Romana. Si tratta di una mappa on line che censisce 70 realtà di orti e giardini condivisi a Roma con un prevalente carattere di socialità e di creazione di spazio pubblico. Per ognuno una foto e una breve descrizione. Chi prende spun […]
  MiglioraRoma
La Repubblica
- Cartella di Equitalia da 30.000 euro Artigiano si suicida per debiti
  Si è impiccato dopo aver ricevuto la cartella esattoriale e dopo che gli è stata pignorata la casa. Da quattro anni era senza lavoro e non sapeva più come...storie correlateEmilia-Romagna, si riducono le scosse Ma gli sfollati restano nelle tendopoliItalo, il primo bilancio in un mese centomila bigliettiStacca a morsi il naso all'amico arrestato l' […]
- All'Opera di Roma torna l'Attila di Muti
  storie correlateBrad, criminale "sensibile" e sulla Croisette torna da singleLe foto di Art Kane tornano in Italia nella mostra 'Pictures From A Visionary Photographer'Kristen, eroina della Beat Generation l'ex vampira "sulla strada" con KerouacNozze gay alla Marvel: un X-Man sposa il fidanzato […]
- Jonathan Ive, baronetto dell'iPhone onoreficienza per il designer Apple
  Diventa "Sir" il progettista numero uno di Cupertino. "Sono il prodotto di un'istruzione di tipo britannico", dichiara. E per Steve Jobs era un partner...storie correlatePeddl, il geo-marketplace compro e vendo a chi è vicinoAllwinner Mk802, microPC AndroidJuicetank, custodia e caricabatterie insiemeLa sanità in un click e tutto in R […]
- La torcia verso Londra, il tedoforo è Drogba
  storie correlatePellegrini, Marin e Magnini: "triangolo" a tavolaBrasile, missione Olimpiadi Dream Team contro il tabùNadal si allena già a Londra... ma è di ceraAlonso, casco d'oro per Montecarlo […]
- Alonso, casco d'oro per Montecarlo
  storie correlatePellegrini, Marin e Magnini: "triangolo" a tavolaBrasile, missione Olimpiadi Dream Team contro il tabùNadal si allena già a Londra... ma è di ceraLa torcia verso Londra, il tedoforo è Drogba […]
- Nozze gay alla Marvel: un X-Man sposa il fidanzato
  storie correlateBrad, criminale "sensibile" e sulla Croisette torna da singleLe foto di Art Kane tornano in Italia nella mostra 'Pictures From A Visionary Photographer'Kristen, eroina della Beat Generation l'ex vampira "sulla strada" con KerouacAll'Opera di Roma torna l'Attila di Muti […]
- Paltrinieri show sui 1500 Oro e pass per Londra
  Il diciassettenne di Carpi vince la gara più lunga in 14'48"92, ottenendo anche la qualificazione per le Olimpiadi. Alle sue spalle gli ungheresi Kis e Gyurta....storie correlate"Che emozione portare la bandiera Rappresento un paese che non si arrende"Primo oro azzurro A Scozzoli i 100 ranaLa "vergine" Jones si confessa "Pi […]
- Sorrisi dalla terra di canguri la felicità è di casa in Australia
  Ha evitato la recessione che da cinque anni tormenta l'Europa e gli Usa, ha quasi piena occupazione e sta vivendo un boom di risorse naturali: per questo è... […]
- "Aiutateci a scrivere il futuro" Le vostre idee per il cambiamento
  Mandateci, in 140 caratteri (hashtag #scrivoilfuturo) quello che pensate dei tempi che verranno: i problemi, le speranze, le preoccupazioni e le possibili... […]
- Pallavoliste "a nudo" per il volley
  storie correlateEmilia-Romagna, si riducono le scosse Ma gli sfollati restano nelle tendopoliItalo, il primo bilancio in un mese centomila bigliettiStacca a morsi il naso all'amico arrestato l'ex socio di Bobo VieriPalazzo Chigi dà l'ok alla discarica di Corcolle Ornaghi dice no, Cancellieri: "Chiarire in Cdm"Cartella di Equitalia da […]
- La "vergine" Jones si confessa "Più dura la castità delle Olimpiadi"
  storie correlate"Che emozione portare la bandiera Rappresento un paese che non si arrende"Primo oro azzurro A Scozzoli i 100 ranaPaltrinieri show sui 1500 Oro e pass per Londra […]
- Mazda e Fiat: spider insieme Così rinascerà il Duetto
  Firmato un primo accordo per far nascere una spider Alfa Romeo da una costola della mitica Mx-5storie correlateSciopero del consumo benzina L'Aci lancia la provocazione […]
- Il neo-sindaco non lascia la Camera nel Pd scoppia il "caso Tidei"
  Il primo cittadino di Civitavecchia aveva annunciato in campagna elettorale che avrebbe rassegnato subito le dimissioni da deputato. Ora rinvia a data da...storie correlateAuthority, voto alla Camera rinviato al 6 giugno Fini: "Renderò pubbliche le candidature"Finanziamento, sì all'articolo 1 che dimezza i rimborsi elettorali"Il Pdl è fin […]
- Italo, il primo bilancio in un mese centomila biglietti
  Le prestazioni del treno ad alta velocità di Ntv presentate a Roma, alla presenza di Alemanno. Aumentano i coinvogli sulla Milano-Napoli, poi l'allungamento...storie correlateEmilia-Romagna, si riducono le scosse Ma gli sfollati restano nelle tendopoliStacca a morsi il naso all'amico arrestato l'ex socio di Bobo VieriPalazzo Chigi dà l'ok […]
- Sospetto ritardo della crescita? Ecco quali accertamenti svolgere
  Quali possono essere le cause che rallentano lo sviluppo di un bambino? Le spiegazioni dell'esperto. Chiarimenti anche sul bruxismo notturno e sulla peluria... […]
La Corriere de la Serra
- Borse in rosso, Milano la peggiore
  Piazza Affari negativa: perde circa quattro punti, vendite sugli istituti di credito. Male anche Francoforte, Parigi e Madrid […]
  Redazione Online
- Bimbi in ufficio Il 25 maggio le aziende aprono le porte |
  Per un figlio è importante vedere dove il genitore lavora. È un aiuto pure per i genitori? Sacchi […]
- Tutti pazzi per Zeman Mezza Italia lo vuole
  La promozione del Pescaraha fatto riscoprire il boemo […]
- Balotelli chiude la porta (per ora) «Non vado al Milan, non in questi anni»
  L'azzurro: «Adesso sono e resto al Manchester City» Galliani: «Via Lopez, Aquilani e Merkel. Resta El Shaarawy» […]
  Redazione Online
- Gregorio Paltrinieri, oro a 17 anni
  Il giovanissimo si impone sui 1500 stile libero e guadagna il pass per Londra 2012: «Non me l'aspettavo» […]
  Redazione Online
- Rodriguez si prende anche il tappone Tra i favoriti staccato solo Kreuziger
  A Cortina lo spagnolo batte allo sprint Basso e HesjedalScarponi guadagna posizioni in classifica […]
  Redazione Online
- Raid anti-immigrati a Patrasso Scontri tra polizia e neonazisti
  Grecia, decine di manifestanti, tra cui militanti di Alba D'Oro, hanno lanciato pietre e incendiato cassonetti. Cinque arresti […]
  Redazione Online
- Il collezionista di Horror in 3000 locandine
  Roberto D’Onofrio, colleziona la «paura» dall'età di 13 anni: «Negli anni 40 raccontavano la crisi, poi le multinazionali» […]
  Jacopo Storni
- Waterstones venderà i Kindle
  Waterstones venderà i Kindle […]
- Pdl nella bufera, i dubbi di Berlusconi «Escludo di ricandidarmi a premier»
  Il coordinatore Bondi presenta (di nuovo) le dimissioni L'ex premier le rifiuta: ma della crisi del partito non parlo […]
  Redazione OnlineCorriereit
- La prima capsula privata Dragon in volo verso la stazione spaziale
  Lanciata in perfetto orario con il razzo Falcon 9 da Cape Canaveral. È in viaggio verso la stazione orbitale ISS […]
  Giovanni Caprara
- Fecondazione eterologa, resta il no
  I giudici ordinari devono valutare la sentenza di Strasburgo che sulla fecondazione lascia libertà di decisione ai governi […]
  Redazione Online
- Apple, il marchio che vale di più Ibm sorpassa Google al secondo posto
  Nella classifica dei brand la Mela vale 183 miliardi dollariTelecom unica realtà italiana all'84esimo posto […]
  Daniele Sparisci danielesparisci
- Miami, misterioso italiano acquista super attico da 25 milioni
  A South Beach, Florida. L'appartamento di 700metri più 600 di terrazzo era di proprietà di un erede Birkenstock […]
  Redazione online
- Emilia, nelle zone del sisma via libera ai test per un maxi-deposito di gas
  Il maxi deposito sotterraneo dovrebbe contenere 3,2 miliardi di metri cubi in una cavità naturale. I Verdi: una follia […]
  Alessandro Fulloni @alefulloni
White House Blog
- In Case You Missed It: Broad Bipartisan Support to Extend the Production Tax Credit
  Tomorrow the President will travel to TPI Composites in Newton, Iowa where he will highlight steps Congress can take right now to create American jobs, and support American companies and manufacturers – all while continuing to increase clean energy production here at home. As part of his Congressional To-Do List, the President will call on Congress to pas […]
  Heather Zichal
- President Obama Touts a New American Century to Air Force Grads
  President Barack Obama salutes graduating cadets as they cross the stage at the United States Air Force Academy commencement ceremony at Falcon Stadium, USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, May 23, 2012. President Obama delivered the commencement address at the ceremony. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy) Four years ago, when President Obam […]
  <a href="/author-detail/3336903">Matt Compton</a>
- SBA Announces National Small Business Week Video Contest Winners
  At the U.S. Small Business Administration, we have the great privilege to work with many amazing small business owners. Every day I see how small businesses are creating an economy built to last and living the American Dream. I wanted to share these great stories with everyone – so we asked small business owners to share their stories in a short video that d […]
  Karen Mills
- My First Job: Nancy-Ann DeParle
  Summer Jobs+ is a call to action for businesses, non-profits, and government to work together to provide pathways to employment for young people in the summer of 2012. It's about helping people find their first jobs. Today Nancy-Ann DeParle is an Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House. It's a big change from her ver […]
  <a href="/author-detail/475">Colleen Curtis</a>
- Everyone Can Find a Way to Honor our Service Members
  This op-ed by Dr. Jill Biden was first published in The Hill Over the past few years, I have been blessed with the opportunity to spend time with our veterans, troops and military families. With every visit, I come away inspired. They are military spouses, who balance work, family and school — all while dealing with the emotions of a deployment. They are mi […]
  Dr. Jill Biden
- 2010 Census: On-Time, Under-Budget, and Extremely Accurate
  Ed note: this was originally posted on The Commerce Blog, the official blog of the US Department of Commerce Yesterday's U.S. Census Bureau report shows that not only was the 2010 Census delivered on time and significantly under budget – but even more important, it was extremely accurate. I am proud of the extraordinary accomplishment by the Census Bure […]
  Rebecca M. Blank
- Roadmap for a Digital Government
  When the Internet revolution arrived in the 1990s, the U.S. Government embraced this new medium to interact with the American people. Today, what started as basic information pages has evolved into sophisticated transactional systems that allow us to pay taxes online, download medical records, and so much more. Like the 1990s, we are now in the midst of ano […]
  Steven VanRoekel
- Wanted: A Few Good Women and Men to Serve as Presidential Innovation Fellows
  Today, we are very excited to be launching the new Presidential Innovation Fellows program. This new initiative will bring top innovators from outside government for focused “tours of duty” with our best federal innovators on game-changing projects. Combining the know-how of citizen change agents and government change agents in small, agile teams that move […]
  Todd Park
- An Ongoing Commitment, a Bright Future
  Darla Armstrong is one 25 AmeriCorps members still serving in Joplin. Darla Armstrong worked in the Joplin School District for 31 years, both as a teacher and administrator. But all that experience could not prepare her for the events of May 22, 2011. She was home at the time the EF-5 tornado was expected to hit her neighborhood in the north side of Joplin, […]
  Wendy Spencer
- Ask an Entrepreneur: How Do Small Businesses Benefit from Federal Research Grants?
  Ed note: In honor of Small Business Week, StartUp America is highlighting success stories and advice from American entrepreneurs It is not always obvious what will come of a federal research grant. Would you expect that a federal research grant from the National Institutes of Health for “Image Slicing Spectrometer for High Resolution Sub-Cellular Microscopy” […]
  Allison Lami Sawyer
- Behind the Scenes: Burt Bacharach and Hal David Receive the Gershwin Prize
  Last night, PBS broadcast "In Performance at the White House: Burt Bacharach & Hal David: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song," a tribute to one of America's most successful songwriting teams. Before the event took place earlier this month in the East Room, we spoke to some of the performers about what it was like to be […]
  <a href="/author-detail/475">Colleen Curtis</a>
- Number of the Day: 82 years
  Of all the incredible stories to come out of the effort to rebuild Joplin, Missouri after the May 22, 2011 tornados, few are more powerful than that of the response from volunteers -- everyday people from all over the country and the world who poured into the community and returned again and again to help with the recovery. In the year since the storm, more […]
  <a href="/author-detail/3336903">Matt Compton</a>
- My First Job: Andy Katz
  Summer Jobs+ is a call to action for businesses, non-profits, and government to work together to provide pathways to employment for young people in the summer of 2012. It's about helping people find their first jobs. Andy Katz, a sports reporter and analyst, got his first job at a sporting goods store, where he once sold a pair of hand weights to then-M […]
  Megan Slack
- JudyCare: Focusing on Fighting Cancer, Without Fear of Lifetime Insurance Caps
  Ed. note: This is cross-posted from HealthCare.gov Judy Lamb from Colorado is an inspiration. Despite fighting breast cancer that has spread to her bones and liver and undergoing weekly chemotherapy, she has a positive outlook on life. “I have three children, I’m married, and I cook dinner every night. It’s not really exciting, but it’s a wonderful life. I’m […]
  Dori Salcido
- President Obama Returns to Joplin
  President Barack Obama delivers the commencement address to the graduating seniors of Joplin High School at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, May 21, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) Speaking tonight to the first group of students to graduate from Joplin High School since a tornado ripped through the Missouri city one year a […]
  <a href="/author-detail/3336903">Matt Compton</a>
Associated Press
- Pakistan convicts doctor who helped find bin Laden
  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden was convicted Wednesday of conspiring against the state and sentenced to 33 years in prison, adding new strains to an already deeply troubled relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan.... […]
  By CHRIS BRUMMITT and RIAZ KHAN
- Haslem suspended for Game 6 of Heat-Pacers
  MIAMI (AP) -- Udonis Haslem insists he meant no harm. The NBA deemed otherwise, and the Miami Heat will be without one of their co-captains when they try to close out the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night.... […]
  By TIM REYNOLDS
- Romney promotes education agenda, defends Bain
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Originally planning to focus on education, Mitt Romney instead reignited the debate over his business credentials on Wednesday, welcoming scrutiny of the private equity firm he co-founded and declaring he's a far more qualified steward of the economy than President Barack Obama.... […]
  By STEVE PEOPLES
- Between Facebook and JPMorgan, Wall St. woes mount
  NEW YORK (AP) -- Almost four years after the financial crisis, Wall Street still can't get it right.... […]
  By CHRISTINA REXRODE and PALLAVI GOGOI
- Eager Egyptians hold landmark presidential vote
  CAIRO (AP) -- After a lifetime of being told who will rule them, Egyptians dove enthusiastically into the uncertainty of the Arab world's first competitive presidential race Wednesday, wrestling with a polarizing choice between secularists rooted in Hosni Mubarak's old autocracy and Islamists hoping to infuse the state with religion.... […]
  By HAMZA HENDAWI and LEE KEATH
- Play on: Google posts synthesizer tribute to Moog
  NEW YORK (AP) -- Bob Moog's synthesizer helped change the sound of modern music. On what would have been his 78th birthday, Google is paying tribute to the man with a virtual version of his famous Moog on their homepage - and it's completely playable.... […]
  By JAIME HOLGUIN
- States looking to new tolls to pay for highways
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Driving onto an Interstate highway? Crossing a bridge on the way into work? Taking a tunnel under a river or bay? Get ready to pay.... […]
  By JOAN LOWY
- DC zoo hand-raising cubs after rare cheetah birth
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two cheetah cubs have a new home at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and are being raised by human hands after a risky birth last month at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Virginia.... […]
  BRETT ZONGKER
- Inquiry hears of wider Secret Service misbehavior
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senators investigating the Secret Service prostitution scandal said Wednesday that dozens of reported episodes of misconduct by agents point to a culture of carousing in the agency and urged Director Mark Sullivan to get past his insistence that the romp in Cartagena was a one-time mistake.... […]
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Roman rooftop

On July 26th, 2011, A NEW HOME FOR THE ROMAN ROOFTOP GARDEN…

a happy new home on the ground at the Ex-SNIA community center for the Roman rooftop garden

…on the ground of the former parking lot at the Ex-SNIA community center – a vast abandoned industrial complex east of Termini being reclaimed by trees and meadows and groups like Ciclofficina where you can get your bike fixed for free, also known in the 90′s for it’s raves, but now more frequently offering a place for the local unemployed and immigrant communities to gather, meet and hold events – so yesterday a big truck showed up at the Academy on the West side of town to haul the entirety of the Roman Rooftop garden to Ex-SNIA on the east side of town where local organizer installed it in a smart new arrangement working around a few existing plantings (such as a few small fruit trees and zucchini in bathtubs) and integrating locally scavenged materials in the spirit of the original garden (like wood palettes for enclosure and to lift the planting beds off the ground since this is highly contaminated soil), which was born and raised in high isolation on top of a building on top of a hill on the other side of the river, and will now continue to thrive down on the ground as the center of meals and community activities.

By Fritz Haeg on July 26, 2011 | gardens
Tags: community center, Ex-SNIA, food, gardens, Roman rooftop, Rome

On July 25th, 2011, A FAREWELL ROMAN ROOFTOP DINNER…

farewell Roman Rooftop dinner party

…last night, cooking for my local Roman friends, was the best way to say goodbye – to them, to the city, and to the garden, which was picked up this morning – after a final harvest – by a local community center this morning at 6:30am.

By Fritz Haeg on July 25, 2011 | food
Tags: food, gardens, Roman rooftop

On July 1st, 2011, THE BEAN POLE WIGWAM…

bamboo bean pole wigwam dramatically on axis with top floor AAR corridor

…I placed on axis with the top floor Academy corridor – where I live and work – is providing some drama in the distance this morning as I wake up and head down the hall for coffee and morning garden watering.

By Fritz Haeg on July 1, 2011 | gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, bamboo, beans, food, gardens, Roman rooftop, Rome

On June 29th, 2011, CUCUMBERS…

night portrait of Roman rooftop cucumber

…cetrioli, (two of them) are busting out, pumping up daily, from those vines creeping up the rebar structures that I installed months ago – finally, finally being put to use by those lazy climbers.

By Fritz Haeg on June 29, 2011 | food, gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, food, garden, gardens, Roman rooftop

On June 27th, 2011, BORLOTTI…

borlotti garden harvest

…beans have arrived to the rooftop garden, with harvest day for the speckled magenta pods hiding everywhere I look.

By Fritz Haeg on June 27, 2011 | gardens
Tags: Edible Estates, food, gardens, Roman rooftop

On June 12th, 2011, THE MID-SUMMERS ROMAN ROOFTOP GARDEN…

a hazy June morning in the Roman rooftop Edible Estate

…is needing a good watering every morning (that nearby Lago Bracciano is happy to oblige, providing Rome with the abundant local clean water that is the pride of this city and celebrated in it’s generous bounty of public fountains) which I am happy to offer every morning, wandering with a hose from planter to planter, getting my head eased into the day, pondering the big picture of the sprawling city framed by the volcanic mountains beyond, and paying attention to each member of the wild assortment of ambitious little plants making the most of their shallow beds and cramped roots, reaching as far up and out of the dirt as they can manage – and today the real troopers seem to be the barlotti, zucchini, and pomodorini all setting fruit, but taking their time. (Roman rooftop Edible Estate webpage)

By Fritz Haeg on June 12, 2011 | gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, Edible Estate, food, gardens, Roman rooftop

On June 3rd, A ROOFTOP SUNSET DINNER PARTY…

places set for a sunset rooftop garden dinner party

…last night, just after an errant storm passed over delivering a bit of cooling rain, was enjoyed on long rooftop garden-side peony-centered table set in the colorful vintage linens laid out by Academy friend Siena – who acquired them Porta Portese (defying my assumption that everything there was junkie) – and to eat we made the most of what is to be had in the garden right now, like squash blossoms, basil, mint, and the last of the fava beans (which I am ashamed to admit I am getting a little tired of).

By Fritz Haeg on June 3, 2011 | gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, Edible Estates, gardens, Roman rooftop, Rome

On May 28th, 2011, ROMAN ROOFTOP GARDEN NEWS…

view of Roman Rooftop this morning

…includes reports on recently planted loquat seeds; sad bean plants that are still refusing to climb up the bamboo wigwam structure that was made for them months ago; some eggplants, zucchini, and tomatoes that are starting to flower and set fruit; lots of pretty lettuce plants that are being left to bolt up like mad and make pretty purple flowers; favas that are still producing; and a bin full of ever multiplying worms that keep eating and eating.

By Fritz Haeg on May 28, 2011 | gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, Edible Estates, food, gardens, Roman rooftop, Rome

On May 24th, 2011, A SOLITARY BEE ESTATE…

making the trap nests for Roman bees

…or trap nest – similar to the more massive, monolithic version that I made for the Mason Bees in New York City in 2008 – is my Roman rooftop homestead project for the day – having found a big long log out back which I am now drilling a series of holes into, which female bees will hopefully find, fill with nectar, lay eggs inside, cover with mud – in hopes that new bee life will emerge later…

By Fritz Haeg on May 24, 2011 | animals
Tags: Animal Estates, animals, bees, Roman rooftop

On May 22nd, 2011, THE STRAWBERRY REPORT…

spring strawberry arrival

…brings good news of the most regular and welcome daily fruiting arrivals in my Roman rooftop garden these days – with always a few to be found hiding in a planter – but never enough to do more than the occasional nibbling and grazing.

By Fritz Haeg on May 22, 2011 | food
Tags: American Academy in Rome, Edible Estates, food, gardens, Roman rooftop, strawberries

On April 29th, 2011, SPRING PLANTINGS IN THE ROMAN ROOFTOP GARDEN…

spring view north over the Roman rooftop

…including little tomato starts, bean seeds, eggplants, basil, squash, corn, and other future pleasures of the summer finally went in the rooftop dirt this week after much delay – and now we will wake up with an extra bit of curiosity each morning to see what they are doing.

By Fritz Haeg on April 29, 2011 | gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, Edible Estates, gardens, Roman rooftop, Rome

April 23rd, 2011, FAVAS…

fresh favas twice de-nuded: served fresh they should be shelled from the pod and then de-skinned

…from the Roman rooftop - shelled twice and served fresh with pecorino are the classic May 1st Roman picnic dish – which we are enjoying a week early tonight.

By Fritz Haeg on April 23, 2011 | food
Tags: fava beans, food, Roman rooftop, vegetables

On April 20th, 2011, RSFP ROOFTOP SALAD HARVEST…

Miles gathering lettuce for the Academy dinner

…was a proud moment today, as Miles from the Rome Sustainable Food Project kitchen – which energizes us with daily meals of local, seasonal, organic and delicious food made from the freshest Roman stuff around grown by farmers they know by name – arrived at my door with two empty crates inquiring about the possibility of harvesting some of my out-of-control more-than-I-can-eat bright green and burgundy lettuces taking over the Roman rooftop garden for this evening’s dinner.

By Fritz Haeg on April 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Tags: American Academy in Rome, garden, Roman rooftop, Rome, Rome Sustainable Food Project, yoga

On April 19th, 2011, YOGA ON THE ROOF…

rooftop garden yoga studio with four mat capacity and the occasional danger of handstands ending in muddy feet in planters

…today and frequent evenings around 17:30 is the great gift of warmer days, later sun sets, stone pavers that hold the days heat, and a critical mass of friendly yogis – especially newly arrived friend Gaby – willing to hoof it up to the top floor garden yoga studio overlooking the city for an hour or so of free movement and occasional inverted chit-chat from down-dog.

By Fritz Haeg on April 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Tags: American Academy in Rome, garden, Roman rooftop, Rome, yoga

On April 11th, 2011, PEA, FAVA & WORM POOP HARVEST…

the big beautiful fava pods posing by the worm estate, being harvested of it's rich fertile black worm stuff

…is the breaking news from the Roman rooftop garden this morning – having never grown the favas, I’ve waited until they are as big as those I’ve been seeing at the farmer’s market (which is BIG) before picking – and as far as that worm compost is concerned, I’ve been waiting all year to pull out the fertile goods – putting off the dirty work (which is now urgent since it is full of compost – great for the plants, but toxic for little squirmy guys – crawling around in their own waste and all) of somehow extracting the castings and not the worms to start a fresh new bin – of which there are a few methods, mine being the slow process of leaving the top of the bin exposed direct sunlight forcing the them to retreat down into the darker depths, and then scraping off a top layer until I find them again, and those that are too slow just end up in a planter with some other good things to eat, which isn’t so bad for them either.

By Fritz Haeg on April 11, 2011 | gardens
Tags: Edible Estates, food, gardens, Italy, Roman rooftop, Rome, worm composting

On March 26th, 2011, ROMAN ROOFTOP HOMESTEAD GARDEN UPDATE…

rooftop garden view with my studio windows beyond

…today includes happy news about the reals stars of the show at the moment, the bursting crop of fava beans (which I saw all over Praiano this week) starting to produce their gigantic pods, plus more lettuce than I can eat, pea-pods getting plumper by the day, little peach trees displaying their pink blossoms, baby potatoes asking for another harvest, strawberries that do not seem to understand it is spring, and some very slow beets which I am really starting to wonder about, but container root vegetables are sometimes tricky.

By Fritz Haeg on March 26, 2011 | food, gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, Edible Estates, food, gardens, Roman rooftop

On March 17th, 2011, DINNER FROM THE PLANTS…

Roman rooftop potatoes

…of the Roman rooftop homestead tonight included baby potatoes with mint/rosemary/nettles pesto – harvested during a brief afternoon break in the rain – as a steady stream of red, green, and white flag carrying folks pass on the sidewalk below returning from Porta San Pancrazio (where Prime Minister Berlusconi and President Napolitano made appearances) next door and the overlook at Piazzale Garibaldi where there were festivities marking the 150th anniversary of a united Italy.

By Fritz Haeg on March 17, 2011 | food, gardens
Tags: gardens. Edible Estates, plants, Roman rooftop, Rome

On March 13th, 2011, MINI ROOF GROTTO…

the mini roof grotto spilling into a modest mossy garden

…in a big barrel was my solution to the daily rearranging of my moss gardens by the big birds who rule the skies up here on the Gianicolo – so into the huge sideways olive cask went all of the mossy rocks that would fit, then filled with water, spilling into a lush mini landscape on a circular dish….and finally the personal grotto I have always wanted.

By Fritz Haeg on March 13, 2011 | gardens
Tags: gardens, grotto, moss, Roman rooftop

On March 3rd, 2011, MINI MOSSY ZEN ROOF GARDEN…

Roman rooftop mini mossy Zen garden

…is something I started messing around with a few months ago (featuring a miniature landscape of tufa rocks and scavenged blocks covered with pieces of moss varieties gathered on daily walks) on the part of the roof where water stands after rains or plant-watering and in today’s morning light it is looking picturesque out my studio window.

By Fritz Haeg on March 3, 2011 | gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, gardens, moss, Roman rooftop, Rome

On February 21st, 2011, THE PEA REPORT…

the first peapods on the roof

…from the Roman Rooftop Homestead is very good indeed, with the happy plants beginning to climb up the pea-stake branches that were just installed for them, and today I notice the first peapods hiding in the bright green foliage, and then, as often happens when first discovering something, you begin to realize it is everywhere.

By Fritz Haeg on February 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Tags: American Academy in Rome, food, gardens, Roman rooftop

On February 14th, 2011, ROOFTOP PLANTING CRATES…

lettuce, potatoes, fava beans, onions, rosemary, and some quiet strawberries in the rooftop garden planting crates lined with burlap

…and their happy healthy plant residents enjoying this afternoon’s sun, are visible out the window as I shuffle around in my dim influenza delerium, at least encouraged to know that they are out and enjoying the weather.

By Fritz Haeg on February 14, 2011 | gardens
Tags: food, gardens, Roman rooftop

On February 2nd, 2011, THE LETTUCE REPORT…

winter insalata in make-shift planters on the roof

…from the Roman rooftop garden is good – and though some are still looking small and scrappy after months in the ground, growing very slowly with the cool temperatures and little light available to them in the winter – others are looking more robust and ready to eat, and I am realizing that my extreme rooftop micro-climate does have some pluses in the winter which became apparent last month when a few nights of frost descended on the gardens out back, but not on the roof garden, probably the result of a high elevation garden avoiding the sinking cold air? plus the bit of warmth absorbed by the stone pavers during the day and released at night? neato.

By Fritz Haeg on February 2, 2011 | gardens
Tags: food, gardens, Roman rooftop, Rome

On January 26th, 2011, ORTICHE…

ortiche showing up in the pot of a small bare peach tree which is a bit Charlie Brown Christmas, so every bit of green is welcome these days

…or nettles, are to be found all over the streets of Rome, coming up from any unattended space between stones, they sting (a fact I am sure every Roman child learns early on with a warning from a parent – since it is the first thing that all of my Italian friends say about them: ‘pizzica!’), are known as a sort of peasant food, can be brewed as tea, or cooked with pasta, making a cameo appearance in Pasolini’s ‘Teorema” when the maid refuses to eat anything else – and I am letting them have their way in my garden as they pop up here and there – a pretty green in a winter garden – since they are such a quintessentially Roman street food.

By Fritz Haeg on January 26, 2011 | gardens
Tags: food, gardens, nettles, Ortiche, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roman rooftop, Rome

On January 21st, 2011, THE FLOWERING FAVA BEANS…

the promising winter flowers of my happy fava bean plants

…or Vicia faba, are keeping my rooftop garden spring-like in the middle of a Roman winter – and since I have never grown them before, it is all new to me – like the fact that they are often used as a cover crop, excel at fixing nitrogen in the soil, grow to become 2-6 feet tall, do great in cold weather, have those pretty wing-petaled white with black-spot-centered flowers, and here in Italy are typically planted on 2 November, All Souls Day, and harvested in time to be eaten with Pecorino for a traditional May Day picnic.

By Fritz Haeg on January 21, 2011 | food, gardens
Tags: fava beans, food, gardens, Roman rooftop, Rome

On January 5th, 2011, THE WORM REPORT…

a close up view of the Roman red worms getting busy - mostly eating, pooping, and reproducing

…is good, they are devouring my kitchen scraps (about 3 pounds a week), turning it into sweet smelling fertile black-gold worm casting compost, and reproducing like crazy (lots of little babies) – all from the comfort of their plastic bin which feels like the essential heart of the Roman Rooftop Homestead, the highlight of each garden tour when the cardboard cover is removed to introduce them to curious humans.

By Fritz Haeg on January 5, 2011 | animals, gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, animals, garden, Roman rooftop, Rome, worm composting

On December 30th, 2010, ROOFTOP POTATO HARVEST…

a modest bounty of rooftop baby potatoes

…is the surprising legacy of the potato plants that were cut down by the one night of frost up on the roof last week – and as I am back in the happy business of gardening in the sun, moving dirt, emptying the pots of ill-fated wild transplants, moving salad starts into bigger flats, transplanting eager artichokes into more spacious accommodations, and optimistically planting even more fava bean stalks knowing full well they may come to naught – I come across the hidden golden treasures ready for a minestrone of verdure, farro e lenticchie. (more about the Roman rooftop homestead)

By Fritz Haeg on December 30, 2010 | gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, food, gardens, Roman rooftop, Rome

On December 20th, 2010, BACK TO THE ROOFTOP…

Roman Rooftop Homestead at dusk

…for the Roman Rooftop Homestead plants – returning from their warm holiday retreat in my makeshift window greenhouse – now that this city has returned to it’s Mediterranean-climate senses with night time temperatures back above freezing.

By Fritz Haeg on December 20, 2010 | gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, Roman rooftop, Rome

On December 18th, 2010, A WARM GARDEN BUBBLE…

plant refugees from my Roman rooftop garden huddle up against heater and East window in their new bubble greenhouse

…has been created in my East studio window this morning, providing a new winter retreat for my rooftop plant refugees as sub-freezing temperatures arrive in Rome evidenced by the ice forming in the Academy fountain out in the courtyard below….and hey, it just started to snow (which is only supposed to happen every 20 years?), now googling “warm winter beach yoga retreats.”

By Fritz Haeg on December 18, 2010 | gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, garden, plants, Roman rooftop, Rome

On December 7th, 2010, PLASTIC BOTTLE SEED-STARTER COLD-HOUSE WATER-CATCHMENT…

bottle gardening, before (left), 'cold-cover' arrangement with cover to keep the plants warm on cool nights (middle), and 'water-catchment' arrangement with bottom on top to collect water in hot dry weather (right)

…is a simple little system I have going on the Roman rooftop garden (also known as Edible Estate #9: Rome, Italy) which involves collecting unwanted empty containers (from American Academy residents, who also happen to write their names on their bottles when they leave them in the communal kitchens, which adds a really cute personal kindergarten-like detail to the garden) – and then (a) they are cut in half (b) the cap is placed inside the bottom of the neck to keep the soil in place (c) the ‘top’ half is then filled with soil and planted with seeds (d) the ‘bottom’ is then either used as a cold-cover or base to catch water depending on the weather.

By Fritz Haeg on December 7, 2010 | gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, Edible Estates, gardens, Roman rooftop, Rome

On November 19th, 2010, A RAINBOW OVER THE ROMAN ROOFTOP GARDEN…

Roman rooftop garden rainbow

…this morning is a welcome punctuation to endless days of November Roman rain.

By Fritz Haeg on November 19, 2010 | Rome
Tags: American Academy in Rome, gardens, Roman rooftop, Rome

On November 5th, 2010, LETTUCE IN CARTONS…

lettuce in silver-lined milk and juice cartons

…is beginning to pop up – obviously enjoying the alternating sunny and rainy weather we have been having – and creating brilliant contrasts between the raw wood crates containing the colorful graphic wrapped cartons with their shiny silver interiors holding the bright spring green shoots.

By Fritz Haeg on November 5, 2010 | gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, gardens, Roman rooftop

On November 4th, 2010, POTATOES GROWING IN BURLAP COFFEE BEAN BAGS IN WOOD FRUIT CRATES…

potato sack potatos

…is the cute, rustic, and homespun exception to my otherwise ‘trashy’ (in the best sense) garden of exclusively found, salvaged, and recycled goods with all of the plants growing in the random empty containers I have gathered around the Academy – but those potatoes are really looking classy.

By Fritz Haeg on November 4, 2010 | gardens
Tags: American Academy in Rome, gardens, potatos, Roman rooftop, Rome

On November 3rd, 2010, WORM COMPOSTING…

my bin of Roman red worms making compost

…also known as ‘vermicoltura’ around here, is going well up on the Roman rooftop and the little red worms are reproducing quickly, eating their daily kitchen scraps, turning it into fertile worm castings, and all the while smelling just great – ‘che bel profumo!’ we say as we stick our noses in – and their luxury accommodations and deliciously local fresh organic meals have inspired some to identify the bin as the Worm Academy in Rome with hand-picked squirmy fellows in residence for the year.

By Fritz Haeg on November 3, 2010 | animals, gardens
Tags: compost, gardens, Roman rooftop, worm composting

On October 24th, 2010, ROMAN ROOFTOP HOMESTEAD ARRANGEMENT…

Roman rooftop homestead arrangement 3.0

…is at version 3.0 with small revisions every day, and now my worm compost bin is outside too, so the worms can get a little fresh air.

By Fritz Haeg on October 24, 2010 | gardens, Rome
Tags: American Academy in Rome, homestead, Roman rooftop, Rome

On October 22nd, 2010, A SUNSET OVER ROOFTOP GARDEN PROGRESS…

my Roman rooftop as the sun sets over the current garden plan

…this evening as I continue to figure out what form this rooftop homestead should take, though I suspect it will continue to change, evolve, and mutate through the year.

By Fritz Haeg on October 22, 2010 | gardens, Rome
Tags: American Academy in Rome, gardens, homestead, Roman rooftop, Rome

On October 17th, 2010, A ROMAN ROOFTOP HOMESTEAD…

the beginning of my Roman rooftop garden

…is what I’ll be gradually making for myself this year, including a kitchen garden, bat and bee estates, worm compost bins, laundry lines, a garden of plants for textile dyes, etc. – but only with materials, containers, seeds, plants, dirt that are found or scavenged – and here is a little preview…

By Fritz Haeg on October 17, 2010 | gardens, Rome
Tags: American Academy in Rome, gardens, homestead, Roman rooftop, Rome

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