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Liz Hickok takes photographs of whole cities, composed of scale models of buildings that she builds out of jello. COOL.
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The Galloping Gertie
My friend Stacey lives in Minneapolis and luckily was not on the bridge over the river at the time of its collapse. Which reminded me of the footage I’ve seen of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (also known, ominously, considering its fate, as “Galloping Gertie”) tearing itself to pieces in a high wind in 1940.
catching up with depeche mode (and me)
I leave town for a week, with scant computer access, and it feels like my arm is missing or something.…
things i did NOT need to know existed
this is real. it is not a joke, a hoax, a fabrication, or a composite image. it doesn’t exist yet, but it’s going to. a glass-bottomed bridge will be built over the grand canyon, arcing 60 feet out with no support beams, letting visitors look straight down beneath their feet to the colorado river more than 1 km below. yes, i totally understand the principles of cantilevering (thanks, frank lloyd wright) but that doesn’t make any difference when you’re 60 feet off the edge of a cliff with seemingly nothing holding you up — a la wiley coyote. doc said “Just for fun, I would be likely to jump up and down on it to see how much it moved… But thats just me.” i reminded him that all spouses have a few “the hell you will” cards over the course of their lifetimes, and this would be one instance in which i would pull one out and play it. suddenly, my idea about a glass bottomed airplane doesn’t seem so crazy.