Author: michaelsaup

new world map

Contiguous land Accept the challenge and employ a new world map that includes 100% of life on earth. The anthropocentric Dymaxion map, our grand inspiration, can not do that as it splits the oceans, which cover 70% of earth. An estimated 50-80% of all life on earth is found under the ocean surface and the […]

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of unknown origin – Death goes

in girum imus nocte
et consumimur igni

A fire of unknown origin took my baby away.
Fire of unknown origin took my baby away.
Swept him up and off my wavelength.
Swallowed him up like the ocean in a fire thick and gray.
Death comes sweeping thru the hallway like a ladies’ dress.
Death comes riding down the hallway in it’s sunday best.
Death comes driving; death comes creeping;
Death comes I can’t do nothing.
Death goes, there must be something that remains.
Death, it made me sick and crazy
‘Cause that fire took my baby away.

–Patti Smith – Fire Of Unknown Origin

 
 

we turn in the night
and are consumed by fire

 
 
 

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°ABOUT

“Sometimes, it felt like the inner workings of the universe made visible. It revolved slowly, then grew in complexity until it seemed, in substance if not style, like a collaboration between da Vinci, Picasso and Stephen Hawking.”
Evening Post, New Zealand

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DUST VR [video]


Our work DUST VR uses virtual reality to represent and investigate the invisible sphere of urban particulate matter. We give representation to the recent developments of open data and citizen science and chip away at popular incognizance of just how much dust, and now data may impact our private lives.

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