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A comparison of average tree heights, from a keshitsubo (0.08 meters) to a sequoia (116 meters).

Aug 15, 2019
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Welcome to 1988 in the Hood Internet's ongoing series of year-in-one-song audiovisual mashups.

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"Whether the data is or isn’t normalized to population size will produce really different outcomes." How maps manipulate reality.
↩︎ CityLab 12h
The topography of each state rendered as Unknown Pleasures-style joyplots.
↩︎ Imgur 12h

Unlike those on the mainland, people in Hong Kong have been able to vote for their own lawmakers in the legislature since 1998. Half of the 70 legislative councilors are chosen democratically, while the other half are “elected” through not-so-democratic means.

Democracy is dying in Hong Kong, and no one seems to be able to stop it.
↩︎ The Ballot
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Mount Everest's height is disputed, "specifically whether or not the official number should account for the snow atop it."
↩︎ Outside 12h
Quarantine has meant fewer would-be patients, resulting in a massive experiment in what happens with less medical intervention.
↩︎ CNN 13h

I always advise sharing a favorite memory of the deceased, but if you don’t have one, it is fine to say, “I didn’t know your loved one personally, but I wanted to let you know I’m thinking about your family.”

Many are grieving right now on social media. Here’s what you should say.
↩︎ The New York Times
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The short explanation for why men are posting photos of themselves pointing guns at their crotches is that they want to troll you.
↩︎ VICE 13h
As of now, bidding for the reactor control/monitoring system from a former nuclear plant is at 3,250 GBP.
↩︎ BidSpotter 13h
To disinfect police cruisers from potential COVID-19, Ford develops software to heat interiors to 133 degrees for 15 minutes.
↩︎ Engadget 13h

Watercolor floor plans of houses from movies and television, by Boryana Ilieva.

Imagine a world where architects design houses based on a scenario and thus direct the life of the future inhabitants. Nowadays it is mostly cinema that preserves this dream and it is director Bong Joon-Ho who built such a house for his latest film Parasite. He designed it based on the script he wrote. Read below for yourselves what formed the shapes of Bong Joon-ho's house: 1. People should be able to spy on each other, easily listening to conversations without being seen 2. The coffee table and bed need to be big enough and high enough to fit lying people under 3. There has to be a manifested shining entrance leading to the biggest secret in the house 4. The second-floor hallway needs to offer hiding niches Please, do add to that list! The film is absolute fun, but the greatest part is thinking about why Bong Joon-ho had to create this and that shape. In comments below! @parasitemovie #parasite #bongjoonho #productiondesign #interiorsketch @sodam_park_0908 @lightyears81 @neonrated @dntlrdl @cjent_usa @archdigest @posteraholic

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You don’t have to bother yourselves watching Blue Velvet (1986) over and over again (or Zizek’s analysis on it) to get one of the main hidden stories in the film. Every performance follows a simple architectural scheme: dark rows for the public from one side, backstage rooms on the other side, and, of course, well lit stage between the sides where performance actually takes place. The floorplan of Dorothy’s apartment possesses all of the above to convey the message of a deeply complicated Freudian drama: Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) acts as the shocked but hypnotizingly attracted son having a reserved voyeur seat in the first row (the closet). Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini) and Frank (Dennis Hopper) get to be acting the parents that actually want to be seen as they use the main stage set (living room) for exposing their strange sexual relationship as a templelike ritual. The kitchen? Well, it had to be there as Lynch wants to trick us – to make believe that the stage set is an apartment only and that all of the explanations above are irrelevant. #BlueVelvet #kylemaclachlan @kyle_maclachlan #davidlynch #slavojzizek #zizek #movies #movielover #ilovemovies #movieflyer #movieposter @juxtapozmag #architecturesketch #arch_more @arch_more #archisketcher @arch_grap @architecturesketch #arquitetapage #patreon @patreon @artistic_unity_ #society6 @society6

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"It's kind of a piece of political theater." Trump's executive order targeting social media is legally unenforceable.
↩︎ Vox 15h
Artist Ai Weiwei creates a series of face masks to support human rights and relief organizations.
↩︎ designboom 1d
How pandemics have previously ended: “a long and difficult process” of people, at different times, deciding they're done.
↩︎ The New York Times 1d
An appreciation of Stephen's Shores early 1970s series "American Surfaces" finds echoes in much of contemporary photography.
↩︎ ARTnews 1d

A "new" Philip Glass work has emerged, having gotten "lost" at some point in the 1970s. 

Performed a handful of times in 1970, the manuscript of the piece went missing until the score was rediscovered at Christie’s Auction House in New York City in late-2017. Composed right in the middle of Glass’s Minimalist period, in early 2018 the score was obtained by Glass’s publishers, Dunvagen Music Publishers. Alex Gray, music assistant at the publishing company, thought it would be interesting to realize the work for the instrumentation of the Philip Glass Ensemble: woodwinds, keyboard, and voice. As part of Gray’s research, he copied the score, made a synthesized demo of the piece, and he wrote a thesis on the project. The Philip Glass Ensemble then organized performances of this lost piece in the spring of 2020. It was to be the first time audiences would hear this music in five decades.  

Members of the Ensemble recently recorded their parts at home. Via kottke.

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