Tokyo Compression by Michael Wolf

“On the JR Yamanote Line, it’s common during peak times for cars designed to hold 160 passengers to carry twice that number.” ~Japan Today
Photographer Michael Wolf’s “tokyo compression” focuses on tokyo’s underground system. Every day thousands and thousands of people enter this subsurface hell for two or more hours, constrained between glass, steel and other people who roll to their place of work and back home beneath the city.

In Wolf’s pictures you can look into countless human faces, all trying to sustain this evident madness in their own way. The Huffington Post called the series “zen commuters.”

All photos, Michael Wolf.

Via http://informationfarm.blogspot.gr

Chengdu Tianfu District Great City

Great City, outside Chengdu, China, is envisioned as a prototype satellite city to be replicated in other locations throughout the country. The development is intended to respond to the problem of overburdened infrastructure in many of China’s major urban centers without contributing to the high energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with suburban sprawl.



Great City will be home to about 30,000 families totaling 80,000 people, many of whom will also have opportunities to work within the development. The distance from any location in the city to any other location will be walkable within about 15 minutes, all but eliminating the need for most automobiles. The city will also be connected to Chengdu and surrounding areas via mass transit to be accessed at a regional transit hub at the Great City center.

Great City will use 48% less energy and 58% less water than a conventional development of similar population. It will also produce 89% less landfill waste and generate 60% less carbon dioxide.



The project has been designed to conserve existing farmland, with more than 60% of the 800-acre site area preserved for agriculture and open space. The 320-acre urbanized area will be surrounded by a 480-acre buffer landscape, whose natural topography—including valleys and bodies of water—will be integrated into the city itself. Within the city, 15% of the land will be devoted to parks and landscaped space, while 60% will be parcelized for construction. The remaining 25% will be devoted to infrastructure, roads and pedestrian streets.



The city’s perimeter is defined by a clear edge, from which the city center can be reached on foot within 10 minutes. An extended recreation system connects the pedestrian network to trails that run through the green buffer and surrounding farmland. The infrastructure and public-realm networks include electric shuttles, plazas, parks and links to the recreation system. As a primarily pedestrian city, only half of the road area is allocated to motorized vehicles. All residential units will be within a two-minute walk of a public park.



In addition to improved efficiencies within buildings, the city will use seasonal energy storage to use waste summer heat to provide winter heating, and a power generation plant will employ the latest co-generation technology to provide both electricity and hot water. AS+GG has worked with the infrastructure consultant Mott MacDonald on plans for an Eco-Park located on the northwest edge of the city will integrate waste water treatment, solid waste treatment and power generation.

More at http://smithgill.com/work/great_city/ 

TOP 10 “REALLY HIP” MOUSTACHES IN L.A.

Like the title says...

via thrashlab

Erdal Inci Gifs

Just some cool cloned motion gifs, by Erdal Inci.

See the last one in video too:

Via http://erdalinci.tumblr.com/

Borondo

Street art – gritty, political, rebellious, controversial, anonymous and often, ugly. Beauty is never in question with the quasi-classical work of Spanish artist Borondo.



















“As Aldous Huxley wrote, we live in two worlds: the world of facts and the world of symbols. The social life is built on a base of symbols that … become rules and institutions. In consequence, the world of everyday life is a symbolic world; it is developed in the framework of secular and sacred symbols, but also symbols that create institutions, which become symbols of language, customs, fashions, ways of being. Human beings tend to sort their feelings, desires and thoughts through forms symbolic as religion, art, myths, language and dress.” – Borondo

More at borondo.blogspot.it

Tag Galaxy

Explore the world! Tag Galaxy is a cool flash website that presents the earth's different places as planets in small galaxies. Search the city you want, click on its planet and a variety of beautiful pictures appears. Select the picture you like and click on it again for linked information. Web traveling!!!

http://taggalaxy.de/

Deep Thoughts of Carl Sagan

Saphon Energy

Saphon has changed the way of thinking about using wind to produce electricity. They use sails instead of turbines, that move in a 3D direction in order to be more effective. Could this be the future of wind power?

Just Some Cool Pictures..

Unreal Candy

Candy unjunked. Could it taste better? It sure is healthier, too.

Jay Mark Johnson's Photography

"With his spacetime artworks, Jay Mark Johnson explores the possibilities for timeline photography. Challenging the norms of perception, his visual and conceptual experiments are painterly, poetic and critically engaging. The artist/writer lives in Venice, California."

The reason they look like this is because he uses a slit camera that emphasizes time over space. Whatever remains still is smeared into stripes, while the motion of crashing waves, cars and a Tai Chi master’s hands are registered moment by moment, as they pass his camera by.Like an EKG showing successive heartbeats, the width of an object corresponds not to distance or size, but the rate of movement. Viewing the left side of the picture is not looking leftward in space but backward in time.

More at http://www.jaymarkjohnson.com/