Doogie Howser Was The First Blogger

I Bought Some Bones Soft Core Wheels

they are very soft and 52 mm. I feel as tho I am riding kryptos when I am rolling around and now feel inclined to skate EVERYWHERE I go. Never thought I'd be a cruiser but I cruise like a mother fucker.

Martha Cooper Blogging About My Dawg Ellis G.

http://www.12ozprophet.com/index.php/martha_cooper/entry/fire_tagging_101/

Blu Vid

Here goes another Blu vid that I am a few weeks late on.

The Future

Vertical Farms
Basically these are just farms in buildings on city blocks that could feed and provide energy for up to 50,000 ppl. These are only a couple of the many design images on the website and there is a ton of info obviously. I think this might be a really good idea. I will definitely feel as tho I am living in the future when these things start popping up.



The site is right here: The Vertical Farm Project

From the site:
The Problem
By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth's population will reside in urban centers. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim. An estimated 109 hectares of new land (about 20% more land than is represented by the country of Brazil) will be needed to grow enough food to feed them, if traditional farming practices continue as they are practiced today. At present, throughout the world, over 80% of the land that is suitable for raising crops is in use (sources: FAO and NASA). Historically, some 15% of that has been laid waste by poor management practices. What can be done to avoid this impending disaster?

A Potential Solution: Farm Vertically

The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes, a wide variety of herbs, and other produce has been in vogue for some time. What is new is the urgent need to scale up this technology to accommodate another 3 billion people. An entirely new approach to indoor farming must be invented, employing cutting edge technologies. The Vertical Farm must be efficient (cheap to construct and safe to operate). Vertical farms, many stories high, will be situated in the heart of the world's urban centers. If successfully implemented, they offer the promise of urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply (year-round crop production), and the eventual repair of ecosystems that have been sacrificed for horizontal farming.

It took humans 10,000 years to learn how to grow most of the crops we now take for granted. Along the way, we despoiled most of the land we worked, often turning verdant, natural ecozones into semi-arid deserts. Within that same time frame, we evolved into an urban species, in which 60% of the human population now lives vertically in cities. This means that, for the majority, we humans are protected against the elements, yet we subject our food-bearing plants to the rigors of the great outdoors and can do no more than hope for a good weather year. However, more often than not now, due to a rapidly changing climate regime, that is not what follows. Massive floods, protracted droughts, class 4-5 hurricanes, and severe monsoons take their toll each year, destroying millions of tons of valuable crops. Don't our harvestable plants deserve the same level of comfort and protection that we now enjoy? The time is at hand for us to learn how to safely grow our food inside environmentally controlled multistory buildings within urban centers. If we do not, then in just another 50 years, the next 3 billion people will surely go hungry, and the world will become a much more unpleasant place in which to live.

This Happened

I Bought A CD Today

Circle Jerks "Wild In The Streets"

See It

The Decline Of Western Civilization

JR > You

via Wooster:

Exciting news from our friend JR who emailed us just a few moments ago from Kibera, Kenya - on of the largest slums in all of Africa.

Today, after more than a year of planning, 2000 square meters of rooftops have been covered with photos of the eyes and faces of the women of Kibera. The material used is water resistant so that the photo itself will protect the fragile houses in the heavy rain season. The train that passes on this line through Kibera at least twice a day has also been covered with eyes from the women that live below it. With the eyes on the train, the bottom half of the their faces have be pasted on corrugated sheets on the slope that leads down from the tracks to the rooftops. The idea being that for the split second the train passes, their eyes will match their smiles and their faces will be complete.

This new work, by far JR's most ambitious to date, can be seen from space and will be seen in Google Earth.

This is one of the most impressive art projects I've seen. Up there with Blu's MUTO. JR and BLU have worked together btw.

I Lego NY

By Chris Niemann via the NY Times:

During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, I spend a lot of time with my boys in their room. And as I look at the toys scattered on the floor, my mind inevitably wanders back to New York.




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