Zack M. Davis
(looking at baby/toddler photos a year apart) "How does he look so different and yet so the same at the same time?" "Just in case that was non-rhetorical, the answer is that your brain evolved to be good at factorizing overall appearance into orthogonal 'personal appearance' and 'age appearance' …
Zack M. Davis
"We really need another bookcase." "I'm not thinking about that right now. But like, if you got another bookcase, I wouldn't object." "Where would we put it?" "I'm also not thinking about that right now, but I've already started speaking a sentence in response to your question, so I might …
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"The sink is full and it's your turn to do the dishes! Ugh, why are you so inconsiderate of others?!" "Not true! Note that the dishes pile up just as badly when you're away." "So?" "So, it's not that I'm inconsiderate of others; I'm inconsiderate towards people in the future …
Zack M. Davis
"—but I am not a vengeful man." "..." "I mean, I'm proportionately vengeful, within the bounds of the moral law."
Zack M. Davis
"Plastic flowers? Seriously?" "They'll last forever! Much like my love for you."
Zack M. Davis
Today, we celebrate the end of the first of no more than three world wars.
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[Small multiples of the extent of North Pole sea ice, 1979-2014; via NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio.]
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[Hauling earth during the expansion of the Panama Canal; AP Photo] A quick and rather late notice, of particular relevance to readers in NYC: I’ll be on a panel this Friday, September 26, for The Five Thousand Pound Life’s “Land” symposium, which is co-sponsored by the Architectural League of New...
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At Next City, Amanda Kolson Hurley reports on two examples of contemporary suburban growth, Montgomery County in Maryland and the York region of Ontario, and ties those two examples into broader questions regarding the future viability of suburbanism: Dead malls. Zombie subdivisions. Metastasizing...
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[Two images from artist Jenny Odell’s series Landmarks, which traces “inadvertent monuments” produced by remote infrastructural operations, such as the Athabasca Oil Sands (top) and a network of “unknown detonation sites” (above) at the Nevada Test Site. The images can be seen in larger and much...
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[Four recent atmospheric paintings of abstracted anthropogenic geomorphologies by Philip Govedare, whose work was recently featured on Butdoesitfloat. In order from top to bottom, the paintings are: “Melt”, “Excavation #5”, “Mesosphere”, and “Excavation #6”.]
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[As a Friday return to blogging for mammoth, photographs of Formlessfinder‘s lovely half-pile under cantilevered canopy at Design Miami, December 2013. You can watch the architects talk about the design and construction of the pile over an exceptionally annoying soundtrack here. More architecture...