mogzy:unconsumption:while visiting the Rural Studio this week in Newbern, Alabama, I encoutered this vernacular homage to an Eames rocker. This one’s seat is made from poured concrete, the legs are rebar, and the rockers are wood reclaimed from an old porch.
flâneur
The term flâneur comes from the french masculine noun flâneur—which has the basic meanings of “stroller”, “lounger”, “saunterer”, “loafer”—which itself comes from the French verb flâner, which means “to stroll”. charles baudelaire developed a derived meaning of flâneur—that of “a person who walks the city in order to experience it”. because of the term’s usage and theorization by baudelaire and numerous thinkers in economic, cultural, literary and historical fields, the idea of the flâneur has accumulated significant meaning as a referent for understanding urban phenomena and modernity.
turfing..
use the city.
burning bomb squad. thanks teaim.
Undertakers Oversee Unloading of Coffin Train, Johnstown Flood
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, June 1889, Silver Gelatin Print
On May 31, 1889, a rich man’s resort was responsible for bringing about one of the most infamous disasters in American history. The dam for Lake Conemaugh, a private fishing lake, burst flooding Pennsylvania’s Conemaugh Valley, decimating Johnstown. Over 2,200 people died, thousands were injured, and hundreds were missing. Fourteen miles up from the town, the small lake had been expanded to a length of three miles and was contained by an earthen dam 450 feet higher in elevation than Johnstown. The project had been the brainchild of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, whose members were wealthy Pittsburgh steel and coal executives. Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon were among the club’s members. Warnings of the poor condition of the dam went unheeded. The dam broke, releasing over 20 million tons of water and debris, which traveled up to 40 miles an hour, creating a wave as high as 60 feet. It hit the town at about 4:10 PM. In ten minutes it was over. However the suffering for the company town of some 30,000 German and Welsh steelworkers was far from finished. Thousands were trapped, and houses and debris caught fire, killing eighty who had survived the flood. The cleanup took years. Bodies were still being discovered up to a decade later. Despite the shoddy condition and poor upkeep of the dam, no successful lawsuits were ever brought. Johnstown eventually rebuilt. On August 31, 1964, The Johnstown Flood National Memorial was established at the remains of the Old South Fork Dam and former lakebed. This photograph is from a series of images of the disaster. Photographs of piles of coffins were popular because they represented the numbers of dead.
From Sleeping Beauty II - Grief, Bereavement and the Family in Memorial Photography by Stanley B. Burns, M.D.
timely work on the love of oil.
the notepad looks like an everyday yellow legal pad of paper, however each line of each page of the notepad is constructed of micro-printed text and contains the personal details of iraqi civilian casualties. each printed edition of 100 notepads is covertly distributed to the united states congress. once in circulation on capital hill each notepad then acts as a trojan horse - slipping the unwanted and unacknowledged civilian body count data into official governmental archives.
