September 23, 2010 – Researchers figured out how to use single "slices" of an image on an iPad to create 3-D animations that appear to glow in mid-air when you photograph them with a long-exposure camera. More »
Stonehenge at Night, 1944
June 5, 2010 – In 1944, Harold Edgerton, one of the forefathers of stroboscopic photography, produced an extraordinary image of Stonehenge. According to the authors of Stopping Time, that image was commissioned specifically as part of a larger military/optical experiment: More »
Pieces of the city are forming, like islands
May 13, 2010 – Photographer Bas Princen has a fantastic new exhibition, called "Refuge," up at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Storefront describes the show as a "photographic fiction". Although it is the result of extensive travels and research in five cities of the Middle East and Turkey-Istanbul, Beirut,... More »
Dream-Sector Physics and Inception Space
April 19, 2010 – The Los Angeles Times calls Christopher Nolan's Inception "Hollywood's first existential heist movie." The architectural design of the movie is also incredible. More »
Klip House – Built Out Of Lego-Like Parts For A Future Without Mortgages
March 30, 2010 – The Klip House project, by Texan architects Interloop, dates back to 1997-2001. The architects describe it as "a delivery system that provides the physical and operational infrastructure for trade corporations to participate in the production, delivery, and servicing of housing." Not limited only... More »
The Dark Cities
March 22, 2010 – 26 years ago, the Guggenheim hosted an exhibition of work by Will Insley, focusing particularly on Insley's project ONECITY. The New York Times described it at the time as depicting an "imaginary labyrinth 650 miles square." It is "'situated' between the Mississippi and the Rockies and consists... More »
Quarantined in Utopia
September 21, 2009 – When we talk about the cities of tomorrow, it's easy to think only about futuristic architecture, or the urban technologies that are yet to appear. But we never think about the diseases, pandemics and viral outbreaks that'll also shape them. Think of it as the epidemiological future of cities... More »
Google Maps of Sci-Fi
March 28, 2008 – It's another installment of Entropist, a sci-fi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDG BLOG. The British branch of Penguin Books recently premiered a new website called - a bit lamely - We Tell Stories. More »
On the Trail of Grotesque Gods from Space
February 29, 2008 – It's another installment of Entropist, a scifi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDG BLOG. In his 1936 short story "The Shadow Out of Time," classic weird fiction author H.P. More »
