Entries Tagged as 'seasteading'

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

The Relentless ~ Artstead Boat Project — Kickstarter

via kickstarter.com “Crew members from the project “Swimming Cities of Serenissima” by the artist Swoon have teamed up with an all star crew of Bay Area artists to rescue a 1945 hand crafted houseboat from the dump. We plan to convert the boat into a mobile artstead in the ad-hoc style of San Francisco’s unique [...]

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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Capsule Hotel – 9 Hours

via vimeo.com “The 9 Hours is the brand new capsule hotel unveiled in December 2009 by Tokyo-based Cubic Corp. Designed in a collaboration with designer Fumie Shibata of Design Studio S, it looks nothing like its predecessors and represents a revolution in the capsule concept. Gabriel Leigh visits the hotel to see what’s different.” Posted [...]

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Monday, May 31st, 2010

Living Sculptures

via livingwallart.com “These are fascinating sculptures done by Robert Cannon. He’s got a B.A. with distinction in Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. He calls the work Terraform Sculpture and uses concrete and mosses with most of his creations. “ Posted via web from crasch’s posterous

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Monday, May 31st, 2010

Aquaponic Vertical Garden from Inka Biospheric Systems

via livingwallart.com “Perhaps the most interesting, however, is the completely closed-loop urban food growing system – the Inka Sun Curve. The fish in the tank need oxygenated, clean water. The water from the tank is pumped up through the system and the roots of the plants act as a biofilter to help clean the water. [...]

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Monday, May 31st, 2010

The World’s Smallest Apartment Gets a Tenant

via rentedspaces.com “Ever think about living in a cramped, windowless room with a wire roof? No, not like a battery cage chicken, more like, a 25-year old Chinese woman named Zhang Qi. Her insanely-tiny apartment is just 21 square-feet! She’s the first to move into what the developer is calling a “capsule apartment” — and [...]

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Monday, May 31st, 2010

Floating Gardens

via livingwallart.com “This unique form of gardening is based off of kokedma. Kokedma is the art of growing plants from moss balls – Koke (Moss) Dama (Ball) – “the poor man’s bonsai”. Robin from Urban Gardens Web (a great site) got in touch with Fedor who put his unique twist on typical kokedma by hanging [...]

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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Vertical Gardens, Grown on Walls

via nytimes.com These days, Mr. Riley’s project isn’t that unusual. Vertical gardens — which began as an experiment in 1988 by Patrick Blanc, a French botanist intent on creating a garden without dirt — are becoming increasingly popular at home. Avid and aspiring gardeners, frustrated with little outdoor space, are taking another look at their [...]

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Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Bloom Box: What is it and how does it work? / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com

So what is Bloom Box? It’s a collection of fuel cells – skinny batteries – that use oxygen and fuel to create electricity with no emissions. Fuel cells are the building blocks of the Bloom Box. They’re made of sand that is baked into diskette-sized ceramic squares and painted with green and black ink. Each [...]

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Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Aquaponics, a Gardening System Using Fish and Circulating Water

via nytimes.com “THERE’S a “Beyond Thunderdome” quality to Rob Torcellini’s greenhouse. The 10-by-12-foot structure is undistinguished on the outside: he built it from a $700 kit, alongside his family’s Victorian-style farmhouse in Eastford, Conn., a former farming town 35 miles east of Hartford. What is going on inside, however, is either a glimpse at the [...]

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Monday, February 8th, 2010

Seoul launching ‘Floating Island’

via joongangdaily.joins.com “The Seoul Metropolitan Government’s ambitious plan to revitalize recreation areas and the ecology by establishing the “Floating Island,” three large-scale, man-made floating islets on the Han River near Banpo Bridge in the heart of Seoul, will be launched tomorrow after a year of construction, according to the city government. With a combined investment [...]

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