It's Architectonic!

a blog from Infinite Banane

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astrobleme

astrobleme [ahr-key-dee-uh n] adjective noun 1.Geology. an erosional scar on the earth's surface, produced by the impact of a cosmic body, as a meteorite or asteroid.

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Image analysis allows us to derive new understanding from existing data by creating analytic maps for insight and knowledge. These raster (cell-based) layers can be used to map and model virtually anything that happens across the earth’s surface, like agriculture, planning, hydrology, climate, wildlife habitats, and much more.

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2011

polymer gypsum, fiberglass, wood, steel, aluminum foil, pigment

120 x 240 x 156 inches

304.8 x 609.6 x 396.2 cm

Photo Credit: Jason Wyche

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2012

polymer gypsum, fiberglass, steel, wood, polystyrene, plaster, pigment

282 x 204 x 126 inches (716.3 x 518.2 x 320 cm)

Commissioned by the Visual Arts Center in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.    

Photo Credit: Robert Boland  

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Vanishing Point

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#DYK That Over Half of the BLM’s Rangeland Management Program Funds Rangeland Health and Wildlife Projects?

Federal funding for the Rangeland Management Program is delegated into categories and various types of projects that not only support the grazing program, but also support the health of the land and wildlife. Some of these projects include removal of invasive weeds on rangelands and in waterways to restore native plants and wildlife, as well as to prevent soil erosion.

Photo by Bob Wick, BLM.

Click here to learn more about Rangeland Health projects across BLM-managed land. 

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Someone Built a Rock-Sorting Robot and It Is Downright Hypnotizing

Two artists built a robot that sorts stones and it's totally spellbinding.

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Speed of light by sandervanderwerf

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How Should You Organize Your Closet? Exactly Like a Computer Organizes Its Memory

Step aside, Martha Stewart: It's time to get your closet and piles of paper organized! Computer science can help.

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New concrete can repair its own cracks with bacteria

Dutch researchers have infused concrete with the bacillus bacteria to create a bio-concrete that has the ability to self-repair.

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Amazinggggggg #HolidayReading

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Finito #HolidayReading

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I will never not reblog this. 

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Deep Tunnels and Caves of Suspended Torn Paper by Angela Glajcar

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Future

In the future, customized online searching will be so integrated with the data defined by the input, that users shoudl be selective with what information every leaves their fingertips. The lingering action of an ideal or extraneous search will be something that will marr all future research and should be very consciously pursued by the academic.