"The wind farm became fully operational on April 8, 2013. Twenty days later, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite captured this image of the area. The second image is a closeup of the area marked by the white box in the top image. White points in the second image are the wind turbines; a few boat wakes are also visible. The sea is discolored by light tan sediment—spring runoff washed out by the Thames.
To date, the London Array includes 175 wind turbines aligned to the prevailing southwest wind and spread out across 100 square kilometers (40 square miles). Each turbine stands 650 to 1,200 meters apart (2,100 to 3,900 feet) and 147 meters (482 feet) tall. Each is connected by cables buried in the seafloor, and power is transmitted to two substations offshore and to an onshore station at Cleve Hill."
2. Prison Obscura is an exhibition of images from and about prisons in America.
"Hackneyed and clichéd photos of razor wire, anonymous silhouettes, and hands through bars serve stock photography agency sales more than they do informed debate. But, we mustn’t give up on images. We must instead look toward more elusive and unexpected types of imagery. By showcasing vernacular, surveillance, evidentiary, workshop-inspired, collaborative, and prisoner-made photographs, Prison Obscura purposefully offers new models of seeing, recording, and making visible."
"However, the exact opposite point can be made—and, in fact, this is the dominant interpretation of this much-disputed desert site—which is that these remote and dusty landscapes are just gravel mistaken for tools. It's just a bunch of rocks.
There is nothing at all to see here, in other words, except some unremarkable stones, accidentally chipped and weathered over tens of thousands of years to resemble prehistoric human-made scrapers and blades.
So is this geology or is it technology? Are these natural objects or are they artificial tools? This weird interpretive dilemma is central to the Calico Early Man Site."
4. A guy cataloged every appearance of computing technology in every Law & Order episode.
"And this is the 'the kind of obsessive project where you don’t remember starting it,' as he puts it. He started out watching old Law & Order episodes on Netflix just for diversion. But he would periodically take screenshots of interesting oddities for his blog.
Then he started noticing computers. And eventually he realized what he was really watching was a massive audio-visual database charting two decades of technological evolution.
So he applied for a grant from Rhizome, a nonprofit arts organization that specializes in tech-culture projects, and he won one of the 2012 commissions decided upon by Rhizome member votes. (Rhizome Commissions range from $1,000 to $5,000.) On February 1, he’ll give an 'illustrated lecture' at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, discussing his findings."
"I should add that my character is wearing camo pants, a black jacket with 'MEDIA' printed across the back, and a helmet. I try very hard to find and use the WEZL News van to drive to the hot spots to take pictures.
It's fun to see who 'get it' and let me get up close while they fight. Most people seem to have fun with it, but there is always one guy who can't stop trying to run me over. And they are always dressed as some ridiculous ICP Clown nonsense..."
+ See also: Fernando Pereira Gomes.
Today's 1957 English Usage Tip:
amazedly. Four syllables.
Ah-mayz-ed-ly: "in an amazed manner." Bring it back, Internet. (I guess the alternative was ah-mazed-ly? Gross.)
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