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Future Megastructures, Starship Breaking, and Independence Day 2

As the human race dares to venture further out into space, we’re going to have to adapt our construction methods for large-scale space travel — think starships, space docks, habitable satellites, and other mega-objects too insanely large for construction on this gravity-well we call Earth. In a thought-provoking article, scifi blog io9 takes a look […]

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Ant Farm Media Van v.08 Update 2

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Supergraphics Provide A New Perspective on Parking Structure

[image via Eureka Carpark, Melbourne] “Perspective-localized” art—that is, art intended to be seen from a specific vantage point—is by its very nature architectural. An installation localized within and completely dependent on the space it occupies. Perhaps best known for using the technique (besides sidewalk-chalk street artists), is Italian artist Felice Varini, who describes the work […]