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(“An ostrich-come-camel creature with the head of a man and an attenuated, reptilian-like winged neck,” from Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri's Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world, 1585.)

We're sure you're going to love this set:

Exoplanetology: the art and science of new worlds / Peeling Back the Bark: exploring the collections, acquisitions, and treasures of the Forest History Society / In public space we trust / Undercity.org / Big American Night / Landscape Architecture Foundation News Blog / Bauzeitgeist / Soto la vernice / National Museum of Surveying Blog: from Springfield, Illinois / BUNNKR

More here and more again next month.

(Introducing the Google Earth Engine.)

Here's two more to add to yesterday's blog list. First is the Institute for Augmented Ecology. What exactly is “augmented ecology?” Well that's what the Amsterdam-based group will try to find out.

Basically it's an exploration of the field before it gets to be defined and/or narrowed down by convention. For now it looks like a one year research-period starting Jan 2011 investigating the possibilities which the field of AR offers for connecting people to their direct environment, trying to propose tangents to explore and perhaps prototype new practices or technologies.

From their most recent post, we discovered Google Earth Engine, Planetary Skin and the Living Earth Simulator, three projects that aim to collect, analyze and simulate everything about the whole planet.


(Mixed Garden by Simone Ferracina.)

Second is Organs Everywhere by Brooklyn-based Simone Ferracina.

Organs Everywhere refers to the post-human condition of the disembodied human being, a cybernetic assemblage that challenges traditional notions of time and space. The aim of each issue is to imagine and explore ways for the technologically enhanced men and women of the future to socialize, play, design, domesticate and inhabit. The blog is a live platform where ideas from the zines are allowed to grow and evolve in conversation with academics, activists, film makers, technologists, economists, artists, futurists and designers.

On Twitter, they are @IforAE and @oeverywhere.

(“Figure with wings emerging from buttocks, a face on the torso and the head of a serpent, standing in a landscape,” from Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri's Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world, 1585.)

Since it's been awhile, here's an extended list of blogs and sorta-kinda-maybe-like-blog blogs we've added to our links page in recent months, the first group being this month's additions.

DEMILIT / Near Future Laboratory / BAUFUNK / Kept Ephemera / Compleat Wetlander / fabric | rblg is our favorite reblog.

Check out CyArk Blog for the latest in digital preservation and laser scanning. / Words in Space / Design Culture Blog / Magical Urbanism

Vanishing Point / Fritz Haeg's Wikidiary / Manystuff / Parchment and Pixel / One of regular web haunts is Circle of Blue WaterNews. / We also check out Green Prophet several times a day. / BI Blog / entschwindet und vergeht / Observers Room

Into The Loop / Naught Thought / Sociolography / OUTR Blog / Breakfast in the Ruins / Markasaurus / Architecture for the End of the World

Rejectamentalist Manifesto / Landscape Suicide / Greg Lindsay is the co-author of the forthcoming book Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. / Spéciale'Z Blog / Shrapnel Contemporary / Centre for Aesthetic Revolution / paesaggiocritico / Drawing on the Land / Bad at Sports / Cryptoforestry

Department of Small Works / This Big City / Resonant City / Spatial Analysis / A Barriga de um Arquitecto / Spatial Sustain / Spime

More next month.

(A false-color Landsat image of farms in northwest Minnesota. Through classes offered in nearby colleges, farmers can learn how to download satellite images of their farms from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, and more importantly, how to interpret them to better gauge the health of crops and manage their water and pesticide use. See also Agro-veillance. Image courtesy of the Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium.)

Now our monthly list of blogs and sorta-kinda-maybe-like-blogs blogs. First up is the pick of the bunch:

Edible Geography. After working behind the scenes of BLDGBLOG and contributing marvelous posts for years, Nicola Twilley now has her own blog. Check out her post on mushroom farming in an abandoned railway tunnel and cupcake gentrification. (@nicolatwilley.)

And the rest:

Animal Architecture. With an interesting niche claimed, all it needs are more projects to post. Help them out with tips.

Delta National Park. John Bass blogs about the contested terrain of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, through which approximately 40% of water in California flows before entering San Francisco Bay and out into the Pacific. Liberally covered are aquapolitics, agriculture, hydro-infrastructure and other spatial systems, from small to large scales. Also be sure to check out the non-blog part of the site. (@DeltaNatlPark)

Diffusive Architectures.

Landezine. With a bit more hard work, a few extra help and guilt-free copy-pasting, it could turn out to be the ArchDaily of Landscape Architecture.

Oh Boym.

Polis. The talented roster of writers include a couple of Where alumni.

Spatial Robots.

Subterranea Australis. One of those copy-paste blogs but we're glad it's returned after a summer hiatus, with a changed name, to copy-paste some more.

Tommy Manuel Blog. This interview with the photographer Harald Finster should help you dig in into the archives. The discussion centers on the aesthetics, documentation, preservation and rehabilitation of industrial installations.

For more, check out our RSS subscriptions [good links] on Bloglines.

(Georgia O'Keeffe, Sunrise, 1916.)

Start your day (or render it unproductive yet again) with this month's crop of blogs and sorta-kinda-maybe-like-blogs blogs.

1) Beton + Garten

2) Cityscapes, by Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin.

3) Engineering Society

4) everydaytrash.com

5) Foodprint Blog

6) Groundswell Blog

7) Making Public Spaces

8) Smudge. This longish post summarizing a CLUI bus tour of “New Mexico's superlative ground-sky resonances” is spectacular. (via @bldgblog.)

9) Trash Blog

10) Volume Blog

For more, check out our public list of RSS subscriptions [good links] on Bloglines.

(Or "A deformed young man, nude, with a headless young child's body attached by the neck to the chest of the young man, in the place of arms, the child has a large finger at either side of his torso; at right an inscribed pedestal," from Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri's Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world, 1585. Source.)

This month's wunderkammer of marvelous blogging:

1) Critical Terrain, by Alan Rapp, editor of The BLDGBLOG Book, etc. (Also: @Kipple1.)

2) Flores en el ático.

3) Governors Island Blog. The island, in Upper New York Bay and legally part of Manhattan, is the site of a planned major series of public open spaces by West 8. (Also: @Gov_Island.)

4) Inspiration Wall, by Lisa Town. (Also: @lisastown.)

5) Mark Lamster was formerly the anonymous sniper of The Gutter. (Also: @marklamster.)

6) NL Architects Blog.

7) Spillway, by Will Wiles, senior editor of Icon magazine. (Also: @WillWiles.)

8) Urban Omnibus is an online project of the Architectural League that explores the relationship between design and New York City's physical environment. (Also: @UrbanOmnibus.)

9) UrbanTick.

For more, check out our public list of RSS feeds [good links] on Bloglines.

(Or “A naked man with a twin conjoined at the belly, standing in the landscape,” from Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri's Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world, 1585. Source.)

Because sometimes we think bloggers, particularly those on the built environment, are a monstrous sub-breed of humanity: preening, humorless, fringe feeding, attention whoring polemicist and apologists who take too many things too seriously too many times.

But these ones aren't.

arch-peace news and articles: blog of Architects for Peace.

By Design: by Allison Arieff.

High Line Blog: if you're one of the most famous post-2000 designed landscapes, you gotta have a blog.

Hungry City, the blog: by Carolyn Steel, author of Hungry City, the book.

People and Place: a tumbleblog by @a_me1, we think.

rory hyde dot com blog: via @roryhyde.

Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome Weblog: so far just a smattering of posts that interest us, but the few that do, such as those on Alan Berger and the academy's Rome Sustainable Food Project, make subscribing to its feed worthwhile. And then there are the photos of boozy jamborees of the Veuve clique and the culturati and arrivistes greasing Last-Tango-in-Paris-like around the canapé trays.

Sustainable Stormwater Management: they must be after our hearts.

Veg.itecture: an off-shoot of Landscape+Urbanism.

Water in the Sustainable Environment: blog of Natural Systems International, specialists in alternative wastewater/stormwater management, and part of the design team of the Sidwell Friends Middle School project.

For our public blogroll, see our list of RSS feeds [good links] on Bloglines. Which of these you are going to subscribe to (or whether or not you are going to follow even one of them) will be up to you.

(Reimagine the fantamagical paleo-battlescapes of your childhood or late 20s at Dino-Riders.com.)

They're all out there, surveying the built and natural environments for you with whatever tools they've got, and probably having fun doing it. Go read their reports.

A New F*cking Wilderness

Bad British Architecture

Dave's Landslide Blog

Javierest

Low-tech Magazine

Mammoth

Mañanarama

Mobile City

Resilience Science

Yskira

For our public blogroll, see our list of RSS feeds [good links] on Bloglines. Which of these you are going to subscribe to (or whether or not you are going to follow even one of them) will be up to you.

(Or “A Female Figure with Large Breasts, Three Eyes, Deformed Ears and Four Hands Standing in a Landscape,” from Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri's Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world, 1585. Source.)

It's been a while since we posted a list of recently discovered blogs. Despite the lamentations of my colleagues about the demise of both the quality and quantity of blogs on the built environment, for every one that goes dimmer with each passing week without a post, there's a handful that crops up, most of which are worth keeping tabs on.

Of course, these newer blogs aren't going to be any less ephemeral. In fact, those started by thesis students and studios will most likely expire with the end of term, but at least a record of their investigations exists for anyone to use for whatever purpose. Because what if before they published the book, Venturi and Scott Brown's Las Vegas studio had maintained a blog in which students and instructors recorded all their initial observations, posted their pre-collaged photos, lecture podcasts and unedited videos using Flickr, Vimeo and YouTube, and the Web 2.0 crowd participated wiki-like, unencumbered by notions of proprietary and editorial control? It would have been interesting at the very least.

Here, meanwhile, is the list. The bloggers responsible for these blogs may or may not be as described above, but they all possess fertile minds and fecund imagination, are consummate observers, have individualized but keen insights into important issues of the day, and are voracious collectors of net flotsam and jetsam.

21st Century Plowshare

Arts and Ecology

christian barnard landscape blog

Edificial

fruitful contradictions

Geometry of Bending

Infrastructurist

Invent Civil

Mockitecture

Pop-up City

there is a lot to say, of this we are sure

Urban Floop

U.S./Mexico Border Wall as Architecture

Vulgare

The following are maintained by the incredibly fortunate three who were awarded The John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship.

Re:mote.......Controlled

Soundscrapers

Untested City

For our public blogroll, see our list of RSS feeds [good links] on Bloglines. Which of these you are going to subscribe to (or whether or not you are going to follow even one of them) will be up to you.

(The post-Olympic pageantry of Willi Dorner and Lisa Rastl; so many bodies, so little urban space. Via designboom.)

Some blogs discovered recently or otherwise:

InfraNet Lab, the digital playground of Mason White, Lola Sheppard and Lateral Architecture, investigates “the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics,” such as enviro-veillance, Icelandic data islands, artificial wave-breaking reefs, etc. They must be after our hearts.

Art21 Blog

boiteaoutils

David Barrie

Design Under Sky

local ecologist

(For our complete blogroll, see our RSS subscriptions [good links] on Bloglines.)

(Agnus scythicus, or the future agro landscape.)

Now that we'll be posting some of the more interesting links and articles that we find out there as individual entries, our Prunings will be retired soon. But not before we reach L, because this auspicious initial calls for something special. But what? Any ideas?

Meanwhile, here are some blogs, discovered recently or otherwise:

Architectural Scholar

Buildings & Grounds

Check-in Architecture

Fantastic Journal

Metropolis POV

Paisajes Mineros

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(Daniel Gustav Cramer, Untitled (Woodland) #56, 2006. Source.)

Blogs, blogs, blogs, except when they're not.

1) Three by “arcady”: gardenhistorygirl, good church design and playscapes.

2) СОВЕТСКАЯ АРХИТЕКТУРА, or Soviet Architecture, as documented by other cosmic communist constructions photographers.

3) Materialecology, by Neri Oxman.

4) At 168 Elm Ave., there is a sustainable pilot project with green stormwater management technologies, best management practices (BMP's) and Low Impact Development (LID) principles.

5) Grist has a special series on the Army Corps of Engineers and the Mississippi River. There are 8 articles.

(More links [good links]. More links. More links.)

(The landscape architecture of the cosmos, or a brief homage to BLDGBLOG.)

It's been awhile since we've done one of this, so here are a few blogs we've discovered recently or otherwise.

active social practice

Building Light

Chris Drury Antarctica

Eco Art Blog

greenmuseum.blog

Landscape+Urbanism

Nanoarchitecture.net

Water for the Ages

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(Yet another fine illustration found in Taking Measures Across the American Landscape by James Corner, of Field Operations, and Alex S. MacLean.)

On blogs discovered recently or otherwise.

airoots. This is a must-read.

Curious Expeditions

loud paper

PASSAGES

Varieties of Unreligious Experience. On Busby Berkeley, Marshall Island hoping, Arcosanti, Cohn's New House, San Francisco, the Delphic E, etc., etc.

Very Spatial

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(How to navigate Rilib and Kaelib, from “On sea charts formerly used in the Marshall Islands” by Captain Winkler. For more on these ocean-faring tools, read these spectacularly awesome posts from Varieties of Unreligious Experience and The Nonist.)

On blogs discovered recently or otherwise.

All-Terrain, “an occasional journal at the intersection of National Geographic and the kitchen sink.”

Private Islands Blog, for those wanting to buy their own islands.

Robotic Ecologies Lab. This, “an experimental energy-harvesting robotic glass house,” is interesting. Can it be turned nomadic? Moving, topsy-turvy-like, across the Illinois plains (or a super-mega Wal-Mart parking lot) like tumbleweeds? Or scurrying through Floridian wetlands in advance of hurricanes or through the Public Lands of the West to flee from wildfires?

Super Colossal Blog, formerly gravestmor. This post, on the perpetual traffic of New New York as imagined in Gridlock, a third series episode of the rejuvenated Doctor Who, is a recent great.

Virtual Sustainability, by Quilian Riano.

Waterblogged. On water!

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(Greg Daville, “Sunk”, Urbicide, 2005-ongoing.)

On blogs discovered recently or otherwise.

catieblog : weather permitting

dysturb.net

Side Effects

Temporary Travel Office

The Itinerant Urbanist

Where

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