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Here's a quick look at a forthcoming paper in Environmental Science and Technology on the fate of BP's dispersants. As you may recall, BP loosed ~2.1 million gallons of chemical dispersants—1.4 million gallons to the surface and 0.77 million gallons into deepwater at the wellhead—in an attempt to break the oil into small droplets.
With its imposing black high-rises framing Alexander Calder’s bright red “Flamingo” sculpture (left), the Chicago Federal Center is one of the nation’s pre-eminent ensembles of mid-20th Century modernism. Yet for all its steely grandeur, the complex has woven itself into the life of its rambunctious city.
Loop office workers flock to the center’s farmers markets, just as reporters gather like hawks whenever a major trial is underway in the center’s Dirksen courthouse building. For years, last-minute tax filers have streamed to the center’s low-slung post office, which was designed, like the rest of the complex, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The center, which lines Dearborn Street in the South Loop, was completed in 1975, though it has since expanded.
Now, with little fanfare, the federal government is pouring more than a quarter of a billion dollars into four projects that seek to replace failing mechanical systems, make the center more energy-efficient, reduce maintenance costs, renovate the center's elegant but aging plaza and further expand the complex into a former department store along neighboring State Street. Three of the four projects are backed by the federal stimulus program, accounting for $155 million of the overall $276 million cost. The Dirksen building rehab was funded separately from the controversial program.
who is bozo texino?
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juan gris checkerboard 1915
helyes.fi
nendo: thin black lines + blurry white surfaces
buick skylark w/ lowered beltline was americas answer to the european sportscar
How to Turn Your Old TV Into a 60's Light Show
moss acres / ferns and allies
fiddlehead fern species: Matteuccia struthiopteris 'The King' (Perennial Ostrich Fern)
the mavericks
surfing a dangerous spectator sport at half moon bay
A pristine toy train station made in 1905 shines in an exhibition of 3,500 antique locomotives and railroad buildings at Sotheby’s in New York.more images (the bridges!!!!) and merklin (tm) collectors discussion
The group is part of the Jerni Collection, which includes more than 27,000 toys made between 1850 and 1940.
The auction house is offering the entire collection as a single lot in a private sale estimated to bring more than $10 million. Other experts put the value much higher.
“I think $40 million to $50 million is a very comfortable number for that collection,” said Noel Barrett, an appraiser on PBS’s “Antiques Roadshow” and president of Noel Barrett Antiques & Auctions.
mid-century architecture / woodstock hand made houses
via things mag
jackson bros. drag racing videos
40th aniv barrett jackson auto auction speed network
"Reacting to the tradition of neo-classicism as early as the 1830's, English architects and decorators took a renewed interest in the art of Gothic cathedrals. This movement, called Gothic Revival, shaped the whole Victorian era and was on a scale that had no equivalent in other European countries. In the midst of the industrial boom, the enthusiasm for the Gothic period, seen as an exemplary society in which the arts blossomed in a mystical and fraternal spirit, was set against the effects, considered degrading, of mechanisation.
Works from the Collection of Michael Crichton
via greg org on his quest for the missing johns flag painting
tesla 4 door S model
MLK streets project
Bernard Ratzer “Plan of the City of New York” in its 1770 state
chessboard had been a key image in Man Ray's work since as far back as 1911., when he had made the Tapestry, as well as other compositions based upon grids of squares. The famous Lips had begun as a similar grip upon a photograph of Kiki's mouth, "It helps you understand the structure, to master a sense of order," he wrote at the time. "When the ancient masters composed a painting, they used to divide the surface into regular squares."the imagery of chess
wild grapevine and how to get rid of it
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pre-pop
liquidating dennis hoppers art collection
fda recalls 'nuclear sludge' candy bars for unsafe lead levels
notes: on the berlin home/studio of conceptual artists karin sander recently published in the nyt.
the two floor rooftop addition (actually its a parabuilding) is ugly on the outside and opulently minimal inside. it looks very, very expensive. why do artists want to live like their affluent collectors? how about keeping more of a safe distance from the man.
11 small eco homes
Bohumil Stepan's cover illustration for Gulliverovy Cesty (Gulliver's Travels), Prague 1968
license plate maps of usa
pair of painted modern windsor chairs at rago discovery
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ny stories, a list
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AK container complex
modern shell on former cannon foundry house near vilnius
the 7 layers of forest gardening w/ robert hart
its my party
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The tensions of this art revolved around the very old dyad of adulthood and a child-centered world, but landed heavily on the side of the child. Formally, there was an aestheticization of the mode of pastiche, which Fredric Jameson identified in the early eighties as a characteristic mode of postmodern narrative. Here, however, “blank parody” gave way to a reconstruction of past techniques more perfect than the originals, in an irony without sarcasm, bitterness, or critique. Reflexivity was used as a means to get back to sentimental emotion.via MB
In the nineties, it had become commonplace to assume that one could no longer say heartfelt, sincere things outright, because all genuine utterance would be stolen and repeated as advertising. Whatever anguish this caused seemed gone in the artifacts of the early aughts. The ironic games were weightless. The emotional expressions suggested therapy culture, but hipster art often kitschified—or at least made playful—the weightiest tragedies, whether personal or historical: orphans and cancer for Eggers, the Holocaust and 9/11 for Jonathan Safran Foer.
lizzie farey pussy willow bowls
boris groys e-flux
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WUSA commercial free on the movie chanel hd - 1970 paul, joanne and ant + an odd police drama sourced supporting cast set in nola. 2.5 stars on imdb aint a great score and too heavy for the hour but this is a great period piece and worth a watch.
armour metals pole barns
Seymour Fogel Paintings
To say that we here at Between The Covers have a few boxes of uncataloged items is a bit of an understatement. While there’s a lot of work ahead, it’s fun going through those boxes to see what you find. The other day I turned up a cool item from the collection of Edwin Erbe, former publicity director for New Directions. It’s a copy of Left Bank This Month magazine with the cover story, “Inside the Beat Hotel” by Verta Kali Smart published in the late ’50s. If you’ve never heard of it, don’t be surprise because it seems that no one else has either
homage a toulouse-lautrec
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ww2 german helmet trench-art lamp
hMa's Bridge-Studio in Easton, PA: Update