what were you thinking wearing white? didn’t you know that you might look like a deer’s throat? nevermind that you walk upright and study chemistry. That afternoon, Jason D. Cloutier, 31, a son of country folk with deep roots in the area, set off into the same woods. He donned blaze orange to comply with [...]
The self-righteous tone of the comments aside, Good Magazine’s blog has a nice photo show of traffic in Los Angeles. I realize that this collection of aerial photographs of mostly single-occupant smogmobiles is probably intended to be a critique of LA’s (and thus the USA’s) automobile dependence, but these photos are visually stunning and, dare [...]
Fairway Outdoor Advertising’s attempts at wooing City Council into removing the current ban on new billboards may not be going so well. At least, not for Fairway. The billboard industry suffered a trouncing at the March InterNeighborhood Council meeting, but the City Council vote that will ultimately decide the fate of Durham’s billboards will come [...]
Since interest in the last conference on Durham’s “green economy” was so high, I’ll post this announcement about an upcoming conference organized by the same folks. The Stimulus Package and Creating a Just, Green Economy in Durham: How do we get the money for the right priorities? Thursday, April 16th, 6:30 to 9:30pm Miller Morgan [...]
At its meeting tonight (7 pm, March 24, in the Herald Sun Community room), the InterNeighborhood Council (INC) will debate and vote on two resolutions concerning the billboard industry’s request to be able to upgrade billboards, to move them to new locations along I-85, 15-501, 501, 147, and Hwy 70, and to turn as many [...]
For their entry into the Juicy Ideas Entrepreneurial/Environmental Contest, a team of four industrial design majors at Appalachian State University reCYCLEd some plastic bottles. By melting down bottles, and I mean a lot of bottles, and fabricating them into the double-diamond shape of the traditional bicycle frame, they created a clean mode of transportation while [...]
Civil Air Traffic Worldwide 24h from Thomas Hofer on Vimeo. Even better in HD.
In addition to the great art festivals going on in the Triangle this weekend (Centerfest, Blues Festival, and SparkCon), Durham plays host to a conference that aims to shape the future of our state. In the B. N. Duke Auditorium on North Carolina Central University’s campus, public, private, and community groups will gather to discuss [...]
I work in a place that hosts academics for a fellowship year, so each summer the residential fellows have to return home (sometimes to their dismay at having to leave the Center). Paul Werth, one of last year’s Fellows, and I talked a lot about video while he was here. We discovered a shared love [...]
When Mike Halligan isn’t skating across frozen bridges, he’s reclaiming thrown away objects for recycling. Just last week, the Warehouse Manager at Morgan Imports rescued a Schwinn Suburban from a downtown dumpster after spotting it from a Lull forklift. He’s also an avid paddler, guiding canoe and kayak trips with Frog Hollow Outdoors. Distressed by [...]