[…] I sat down on the hood and stared at the mountains. I paid particular attention to a couple of mountains where the snow was framed against trees and rocks and blue sky.
I was looking at the snow that would soon be expressing itself down the creek. I wondered if it had any idea of its fare and the trip down to the Gulf of Mexico, that soon it would become Pine Creek and then part of the Yellowstone River, to join the Missouri, to join the Mississippi and flow past Natchez and eventually the smell of Creole cooking would drift past its now familiarized watery nostrils.
Sitting on the hood of that car staring at the snow in the Absaroka Mountains, I knew that it didn’t have the slightest idea that it would soon be acquainted with gumbo.
—An unfortunate woman
Richard Brautigan
The storm water system in the typhoon prone city of Saitama in Japan, including a 25.4m tall, 177m long and 78 wide pressure regulating tank. The system is open to visitors.
From Archdaily
About 300 people live in the 200 miles of the underground storm system beneath Las Vegas. Each subterranean encampment can be as spartan as a few worn blankets, or as elaborate as an apartment fitted with queen-size beds, dining utensils and knickknacks.
From the here and there
What lies beneath the New York Harbor:
A new stream; Teredos (worms as big as your thumb, and nearly four feet long, with little triangular teeth) and Gribbles (bugs about the size of a pencil dot that look like tiny armadillos, and eat not only wood but also concrete); a 10,500-mile gas main; a pair of piggybacked shipwrecks; a freight train; dead bodies; surveillance systems; stripped cars; rebar, and a lot of it; another shipwreck; Hudson River alligators…
From New York Magazine via BLDG BLOG
This visual blog presents images and projects related to the WATERSHED+ art program.
WATERSHED+ is a public art program hosted by City of Calgary's department of Utilities and Environment Protection.
WATERSHED+ aims to develop awareness and pleasure in the environment, not by changing water management practice, nor developing a uniform visual language, but rather by creating a climate of opportunity for water initiatives to build an emotional connection between people and the watershed.
WATERSHED+ presents a unique approach to public art by embedding artists and artistic practices within UEP core activities, participating as members on infrastructure design teams, contributing to project design, development of events, community education, etc.
You can visit us at:
watershedplus.ca
This program was devised by Sans façon (Charles Blanc & Tristan Surtees) with a team composed of Matt Baker, Emlyn Firth, Yan Olivares of Yes Architectes, Eric Laurier and Bert van Duin.
