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1 year ago

“ALCATRAZ” AND FORD RECREATE BULLITT’S CLASSIC CHASE

Love that they are recreating the classic car chase from “Bullit” for the final episode of “Alcatraz”, this time with the 2013 Ford Mustang. More info here. Here is part of the original chase:

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1 year ago

A Weathervane Wall Turns Wind Patterns Into Data Art

Windswept is an art installation at San Francisco’s Randall Museum that celebrates the intricacies of wind interacting with architecture. To create the effect, designer Charles Sowers deployed 612 freely-rotating anodized aluminum arrows on a 20’x35’ grid, each serving as a “discrete data point” of extremely local airflow to form “a kind of large sensor array.” (Fast Company)

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1 year ago

Two Stunning Examples Of Urban Waterfront Renewal

San Francisco’s Crissy Field and New York’s Brooklyn Bridge Park are stunning examples of reinvented waterfronts. (Fast Company)

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2 years ago

ALEX MACLEAN: THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE AT THE TIPPING POINT

Desert Overlay, Kingman North, Arizona, 2009 (Photograph by Alex Maclean)

This Thursday in San Francisco opens an exhibition of the photographer Alex MacLean. The exhibition runs until July 2 and, having seen his work for many years, you shouldn’t miss it. Below the press release from the gallery.

“The Robert Koch Gallery is pleased to present its first exhibition of photographs by Alex MacLean, who for over thirty years has been documenting a changing American landscape, and the complex relationship between its natural and constructed environments. Internationally recognized for his aerial photography and ecological commitment, the works in The American Landscape at the Tipping Point bear eloquent witness to the marks and transformations humanity has wrought on the American landscape.”