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Landlines encourage connection—without the downsides of smartphones.

This research and photography project is an attempt to develop a typology of dwindling “vacant” spaces of Bushwick, Brooklyn. Of course so-called “vacant” land isn’t really vacant. It lacks the all-encompassing artifice associated with consistently maintained, human-centered habitats. It’s also void of certain culturally recognized markers of progress, from cement and steel foundations masking and […]

A man and his cigar on whatever comes our way

Cargo

With backing from Atari's cofounder, an engineer-navigator brought high-tech driving directions to cars--during the Reagan Administration.

Air ︎ Travel Design Guide The Air Travel Design Guide is a guidebook for airport stakeholders, designers, and air travel enthusiasts, which...

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High up on the Chisos, Davis, and Guadalupe mountains, rarified ecosystems abound in the sky islands of the Trans-Pecos

— COSMIC 🐙 SLOP (@afrocosmist)

For Guardabosques, the mind-boggling variety of bats inspires 'Amiguitos de la Oscuridad,' or "little friends of darkness."

The author imitates a publication. Featuring the usual suspects: interesting internet links, enjoyable media, some art. New this time: a poetry section!

Jane Kenyon and I were married for twenty-three years. For two decades we inhabited the double solitude of my family farmhouse in New Hampshire, writing poems, loving the countryside. She...

May is the unofficial start of the pottering season. For the uninitiated, pottering involves wandering aimlessly around the house or garden in a pleasingly disassociated meditative state, straightening pictures, wiping plant leaves, or de-bobbling jumpers.

Beauly Priory is one of three priories founded in Scotland in about 1230 for monks of the Valliscaulian order. The area around Beauly, meaning ‘beautiful place’, includes several mature trees, including this ancient elm in the graveyard. It is thought to be around 800 years old, making it one of the oldest Wych Elms in Europe and a piece of heritage in its own right. Sadly, the tree has been suffering from Dutch elm disease in recent years and very little of its fabric is living material. To learn about visiting Beauly Priory, go to our website. Rae Project - Beauly Elm - 3D model by Historic Environment Scotland (@HistoricEnvironmentScotland)

Jamie McGregor Smith has spent the last five years capturing brutalist and modernist churches across Europe for his book Sacred Modernity.

You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you saw in the window. When you download a second app the prices are different again. You ring

A selection of paintings by Cable Griffith from his latest exhibition, "Sightings."