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bldgblog.blogspot.com - 8/21/2009

The Bioluminescent Metropolis

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[Image: "Lightning Bugs in York, PA," by tom.arthur , courtesy of a Creative Commons license]. While staying in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney for a few days last week, I managed to re-read W.G. Sebald's book The Rings of Saturn . At one point, Sebald describes two entrepreneurial ...

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Links for 20th August 2009
Velcro City Tourist Board — Fresh from the clogged tubes of teh intarwubs… The Bioluminescent Metropolis "Sebald goes on to write, elsewhere in the book, that, "From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away." But it's the idea that we could use the bioluminescent properties of animals as a technique of urban illumination that absolutely fascinates me." I was thinking of exactly the same thing a ...

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Warren Ellis — End-of-week stuff that needs collecting up. Pachube. I haven’t paid attention to this, yet, but I need to get around to it, because, as Adam Greenfield says, it’s pointing at something very interesting and valuable Related: Tom of BERG on "Preparing Us For Augmented Reality." Geoff Manaugh on The Bioluminescent Metropolis, or: ….you’re watching a film one night down at the cinema when you realize that there is no light coming ...