Damaged Notions

some shit I did for school.

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:07:44 -0400

some shit I did for school.

Living Wall These vegetated surfaces don’t just look pretty....

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:11:17 -0400

These vegetated surfaces don’t just look pretty. They have other benefits as well, including cooling city blocks, reducing loud noises, and improving a building’s energy efficiency.What’s more, a recent modeling study shows that green walls can potentially reduce large amounts of air pollution in what’s called a “street canyon,” or the corridor between tall buildings.

For the study, Thomas Pugh, a biogeochemist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, and his colleagues created a computer model of a green wall with generic vegetation in a Western European city. Then they recorded chemical reactions based on a variety of factors, such as wind speed and building placement.

The simulation revealed a clear pattern: A green wall in a street canyon trapped or absorbed large amounts of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter—both pollutants harmful to people, said Pugh. Compared with reducing emissions from cars, little attention has been focused on how to trap or take up more of the pollutants, added Pugh, whose study was published last year in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

That’s why the green-wall study is “putting forward an alternative solution that might allow [governments] to improve air quality in these problem hot spots,” he said.Compared with reducing emissions from cars, little attention has been focused on how to trap or take up more of the pollutants, added Pugh, whose study was published last year in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

That’s why the green-wall study is “putting forward an alternative solution that might allow [governments] to improve air quality in these problem hot spots,” he said.

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The Most Fun Thing

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:15:14 -0400

The Most Fun Thing: themostfunthing: This is how our community works: we value factors we cannot...

bonerfamily.tumblr

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:48:00 -0400

bonerfamily.tumblr

issue 16 is live and in the streets.

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:32:00 -0500

issue 16 is live and in the streets.

16 hour days are easier when they end like this.

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:50:09 -0500

16 hour days are easier when they end like this.

new Skate Jawn is in the streets and this shit is creepin up....

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:49:24 -0500

new Skate Jawn is in the streets and this shit is creepin up. get at S.A.G.E Collective for submission info and come get weird with the homies in a couple weeks.

Ian Mackaye, Henry Rollins and Merrill Ward timmytostada

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:41:50 -0500

Ian Mackaye, Henry Rollins and Merrill Ward timmytostada

glasspope: it hasn’t come out yet, but here’s my drawing for...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:45:36 -0500

glasspope:

it hasn’t come out yet, but here’s my drawing for the artist feature of Skate Jawn.

Brick is a fucking boss.

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:16:59 -0500

Brick is a fucking boss.

Mono-no-aware means literally “the pathos of things”, also...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:49:23 -0500

Mono-no-aware means literally “the pathos of things”, also translated as “an empathy toward things”, or “a sensitivity to ephemera”, is a Japanese term used to describe the awareness of impermanence, or the transience of things, and a gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing. — (Wiki)

“Mono means things, and aware comes from the ancient Japanese exclamation ‘Ah(a)!’. In early Heian times (794-1185) aware became a noun designating a profound and individual emotion that one experiences in communion with the transient beauty of a person, an event, a natural object or a work of art. Aware is sometimes called the ‘ah!-ness of things’ you feel when confronted with beauty and at the same time are conscious of the transience or incompleteness of this beauty. Aware transcends the feelings of sadness and joy and merges these into a new, profound emotion. (…)

In the 12th and 13th centuries Southern France saw the troubadours turning their feelings of love, what they called fin’amor, into exquisite poetry. The basis of fin’amor was an emotion called joy.Joy caused an ecstatic experience in which the lover appreciated simultaneously the happiness as well as the sadness, the gaiety as well as the pains, of loving. The same is true for ‘mono no aware’, where an object, person or situation can cause a feeling encompassing happiness as well as sadness, and where experiencing both elements is essential to the emotion. When one experiencesfin’amor one forgets all about oneself. One can live life without the obstructions from one’s self-created ego and enjoy every component of one’s emotions, be they happy or sad.”

— Mono no Aware - A Sensitivety to Things

Seven Minutes of Dan Corrigan

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:59:37 -0500

Seven Minutes of Dan Corrigan: so refreshing.

Sub Zero - Real Life on some classic shit

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:40:00 -0500

Sub Zero - Real Life

on some classic shit

SF 2012

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:48:22 -0500

SF 2012

chrismulhern: Mitchell Wilson / Philadelphia, 2013

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:56:16 -0500

chrismulhern:

Mitchell Wilson / Philadelphia, 2013

Photo

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:56:28 -0500

Photo

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:34:55 -0500

this guy. smiles for miles.

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:32:23 -0500

this guy. smiles for miles.

Masao Yamamoto

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:26:17 -0500

Masao Yamamoto

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:05:01 -0500

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” - Vincent Van Gogh