
Inspired by these
photos of "feral houses", discovered awhile back via
Fafblog.
Other random link I found interesting:
Coming up with a warning sign for Yucca Mountain meant to last ten thousand years. As a commenter notes, the skull-and-crossbones we think of as the universal warning could eventually be mistaken as symbolizing a burial site, which would then tempt grave-robbers and archeologists. It's fascinating to me that they opted to make an anti-monument monument, saying the exact opposite of what every other monument ever does:
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here... What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. The ideas about building giant cool art installations of concrete thorns or forbidding black blocks seemed laughably problematic to me-- I mean, could there be a better way to intrigue hypothetical future people who've forgotten what's there?
One more link I've been meaning to point to: Most of my co-workers and art acquaintances have known this for ages, but illustrator Barron Storey has
a blog set up featuring pages from his personal journals.
Barron was the best teacher I've ever had, and I'm still tremendously influenced by him and his work, as I mentioned in this journal some years back when I posted
this caricature sketch of him. My thanks to the folks running his blog, and to Belgian connoisseur
Carl Wyckaert, for making possible a long-awaited reprint of his Marat-Sade Journals.