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These pics are *very* cool – it’s hard to tell the scale of the quarry in the first few until you get to the later pics as he pans way out so you can see the scope of the quarry. Yet again I marvel at 18th Century grit and labor – because they didn’t have fancy boring and drilling machines nor huge dumptrucks, etc. – amazing to think about….

Article here:
Vermont’s “inverted skyscrapers” — and their architects

slideshow here

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Pretty cool. This is currently showing at LACMA, so if you are in Los Angeles, check it out!

Reminds me a bit of OMSI’s Gravitram in Portland, Oregon – which dates from the early 70s. Video of the Gravitram in action below also…

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CHRIS BURDEN: Metropolis II

OMSI Gravitram:

So one of the editors at the local Stranger weekly newspaper has been featuring cool local artists/band posters for the past several months. They are sometimes hard to find in the paper – usually back amid all the weekend band/club ads – but they are usually pretty cool and almost always have links back to the artist who did them. As I’m always jonesin’ for cool backdrops on my computer, I wanted to find these online, and got some help from the Stranger’s webmaster today on lining them up from a search result.

Click here to enjoy!

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