Chirkeysk Hydro Dam on Sulak River in the Buinaksk district of Dagestan, Russia

Similar thoughts here as with the Super Kamiokande experiment; there's a whole lot of Akira going on at this site. Great example of an aesthetically fascinating industrial installation. Particularly look at the interior machinery design & coloration.

Visual Concept Dictionary: Nostalgia, Futurism

Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detection Experiment

Nostalgia

I wonder at the scale and and futurism and (guided by the Japaneseness of the thing) I remember Akira and then Blade Runner, 2001, and even, laughingly, Total Recall;  a culture that justified studios rendering epic machinations like this for its stories. Sure; it's entirely functional and built specifically to best do what it does, but it's almost cartoonish how dramatic it is in photographs. It's a great piece for the visual dictionary because it triggers so much with its visual presentation. I think I'm nostalgic for that time I've associated with celebrating impressionist futurism.

Amazing Advertising...

My mind was blown so I wanted to share with you all :)

A Future of Urbanization

Nicely put together proposal for effective urban planning with a focus on pedestrian life quality given a future of urban densification and as inspired by infamous the Kowloon Walled City.

Owing Chateau Marmont $46,000

Jeff Minton for The New York Times

Michael DeForge's "Ant Comic"

Fascinating and enrapturing, Michael DeForge's "Ant Comic" series is a hell of a trip with rich, bizarre visuals and some heady sondering.

The story is loosely based on the typical life of an ant colony, with a healthy spattering of anthropomorphic mysticism & existentialism.

It's also a little NSFW, fair warning.

Check out the whole series on Michael DeForge's site!

1920s Japan

I'm trying to figure out what it was like to grow up in 1920/30s Japan. I think I'm going to interview my grandmother at some point in this, but I'm doing a more cursory look at references in the meantime.