Kiyoshi Suzuki

Suzuki was a photographer who self published eight books between 1972 and 1998.

He died at the age of 57 in 2000.

California Academy of Sciences

I’ve spent many a afternoon in Golden Gate park looking at the construction of the California Academy of Sciences hoping it would open soon. Housing a natural history museum, planetarium, aquarium, and “living roof” with seven hill that will provide habitat for local species, it is set to open in September.

Under the cut are some behind the scenes photos, while it’s still under construction.

AKAT-1 Analog Computer

AKAT-1, was a Polish made analog computer made in the 1960’s.

“An analog computer is a form of computer that uses continuous physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities to meld the problem being solved.”

meatpaper

“Meatpaper is an investigation into what we see as a growing cultural trend of meat consciousness. It explores a category of food that inspires intense emotions and reactions. Meatpaper is about meat as a provocative cultural symbol and phenomenon.”

The magazine runs the borderline of pretentiousness, but is totally rad.

meatpaper.com

Seen in Los Angeles

Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Garage

BP gas station at Olympic & Robertson streets.

NYC Waterfalls

Olafur Eliasson has designed four waterfalls that will be on display in New York city from late-June through October. The falls will range from 90 to 120 feet, and will be accessible to the public in places from the East River to the New York Harbor. I’m thinking a trip to NYC is in order, considering I went over there just to see Cristo’s Gates in 2005.

Christian Marclay

Nice little mini documentary on Christian Marclay and the different branches of his schtick.

Kolumba Art Museum

In Cologne’s city centre is the newly opened Kolumba Art Museum which stands directly on the ruins of a gothic church that was destroyed during World War II. The Museum houses a collection that was established 1853 which features early Christian art up to contemporary pieces. The basement of the museum allows visitors to walk amongst the ruins of the church which has been preserved for its archaeological and architectural features.

Manhattan underground streams

With Manhattan constantly being broken down and built up; being the embodiment of urban, it’s hard to imagine what it looked like in its natural state with wildlife and streams running throughout the island. Any and all natural topographic features have been leveled and paved over, so it comes as quite a curiosity when in 1971 Jack Gasnick reminisces in a letter to the editor of the New York times about how he had stepped into a cellar at Second Ave. & 53rd Street to find a stream bubbling about 5 feet wide, 6 feet deep, with dark green mossed rocks on each side and was able to catch a carp in it.

Gasnick went on to say that the stream ceased to exist in his lifetime. There is however, a well documented brook that bubbles up in the lobby of a building in Lower Manhattan.

more here.

Alexey Titarenko

Alexey Titarenko makes some great time-lapse photos. I especially like his City of Shadows series made in St. Petersburg shortly after the fall of communism in the early ’90s.

alexeytitarenko.com