"The engineer in me wants to minimize friction and inertia to make the air visible. The architect studies matters of scale and proportion. The navigator and sailor want to know the strength and direction of the wind. The artist wants to understand its changing shape. Meanwhile, the child wants to play."
]]>"Purcell's first collaboration with Stephen Jay Gould, Illuminations (1986), features photographs of natural-history specimens chosen from the backrooms of collections like Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. The specimens are not arranged according to customary scientific groupings. Rather, they are displayed in alphabetical order, from albatross to zozymus"
" Mara G. Haseltine's love of the natural sciences and form has been a constant theme throughout her work. Her work is figurative in that even her most abstract forms relate to the internal-external body, as well as human psychology. In the past few years she has taken the leap to combine her art practice with scientific experiments and environmental restoration."
"I like to think about shapes, and occasionally I think up a new one, and usually they come out very symmetrical. I'm like any artist in that it's difficult to explain exactly how and why this happens. So I'll write about my odd points. Apparently I've studied more math than most artists."
"Ann Smith spends her days making little robotic like figurines from broken electronics and machine parts. The sculptures are sold in galleries and museums throughout the US and have been used as illustrations for various publications. "
"BOMB was named after Wyndham Lewis’s Blast, a 1917 journal edited by artists and writers. Following in this tradition, BOMB’s editors are also all practitioners of the arts. BOMB was launched because its early editors saw a gap between the way art and literature were discussed and understood by those individuals outside the creative arts and those within the disciplines. BOMB bridges that gap through intellectual, provocative, and daring interviews between artists speaking about their own process, as well as original poetry and fiction"
"Home Energy magazine’s mission is to disseminate objective and practical information on residential energy efficiency, performance, comfort, and affordability. It is the only magazine that thoroughly covers residential comfort issues from the only approach that really works, systems engineering."
"With the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, increased efficiency of energy use in China is an important element of a strategy to achieve sustainable world development. It is projected that future buildings in China will consume about one-third of the total energy. The aim of this project is to identify new technologies and applications of existing technologies that will significantly increase the efficiency of new and renovated Chinese buildings. "
" We publish green building information in many mediums to help you to design and build sustainable, healthy and ecological homes offices and factories. Our information is presented in a user-friendly manner to appeal to both professionals and the general public to aid in you in building green homes or finding green building products. "
"Our mission at The Pangea Partnership is to educate individuals from around the world about positive alternative choices for a wide range of housing, transportation, water, energy and other human habitat needs."
"This guide is all about sustainable living – activities and choices that can help sustain your health, your spirit, and the planet. The focus is on positive, constructive things you can do in your home, at work, at school, and at play. From bicycling to organic gardening... from non-toxic home and garden products, to strawbale homes... from co-ops to ecovillages... there's an amazing variety to explore and experience. You will find how to's, tips & ideas, products & services, organizations, education, employment and more."
"Plan B is a continuously evolving cooperative dedicated to the idea of local action and global vision. Environmentalists, artists, writers, musicians, entrepreneurs, designers, scientists, tradespeople, farmers and students - everyone can participate in the collaboration to create a new and sustainable lifestyle, culture and aesthetic."
"Any built structure is eligible for inclusion if it is fanciful/eccentric enough and shows folly in its creator. Curious garden features qualify too."
A Gazetteer of Follies and Monuments and Folly Temples around the UK.
French site on occult matters. Kabbalah, Alchemy, Gnosis...…
An older version of this mesoteric site.by Spartakus Freeman. Lots of texts on the templars, secret societies, but lots of anrchist texts as well. And Rabelais.