An old friend pointed me toward this image from Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 site, from the section on water network initiatives:
Hey, that cylindrical-shaft-extending-to-infinity thing looks familiar! The image from my blog’s header is from a photo I took at Chateau de Chambord in France’s Loire Valley, aiming up toward the sky in one of […]
I was surprised to encounter my hometown of Altoona, Pennsylvania, near the back of the U.S. section of the New York Times today. I wish it had been less ignominious news:
Altoona, With No Immigrant Problem, Decides to Solve It
I hadn’t heard about this ordinance passing. I can see how this might have played […]
Today I finally made the 47-mile ride to the Pacific Ocean and back. This ride was unofficially my first mini-goal on the way to a much (!) larger goal of taking a bike trip to Portland sometime in the next year and a half.
I’ve been getting sort of addicted to cycling since […]
Brace yourselves and bear in mind I have no easy explanation for this
Also by the same painter. Why Altoona? Is that Pittsburgh burning on the horizon?
WHY???
via ted, over a year ago
tom kidd altoonaaltoona art
This showed up on digg, and no doubt on its peers metafilter, boingboing, et al, but I still have to give a shout to a great post over at the Athanasius Kirchner Society on an
imaginary city painstakingly devised by an autistic savant named Gilles Trehin.
I am absolutely fascinated by autism and its […]