Posted in Above the surface, Current currents, Design, Inhabitants of the ocean, Innovation, Media, Nature, Politics, Rhetoric, Under water on December 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Using the sun to make a rhetorical point on the climate crisis - watch the video…
Posted in Current currents, Nature, Politics, Religion, Trends on July 27th, 2007 3 Comments »
The environment is all over us again. Global warming is so hot that Paris Hilton will probably become an environmentalist before long. The Man Who Would be President gets the star treatment all over the world. But this is the really interesting thing about this trend: Environmentalism is becoming a right wing value. Don’t change […]
Posted in Art, Inspiration, Mixed Waves, Politics, Technology, Wavy patterns on July 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
Here’s an art project I encountered in the front office of the Danish minister of culture Brian Mikkelsen. As far as I know it’s still there. The piece is a seemingly ordinary cup of coffee placed on a windowsill a few metres away from the actual office of the minister. Every 10 seconds, a mechanism triggers shockwaves (well, more like […]
Posted in Above the surface, Business, Innovation, Mixed Waves, Politics, Technology on May 3rd, 2007 4 Comments »
Wave Dragon - the world’s first offshore wave energy converter producing power for the grid in Denmark. Soon being moved from Nissum Bredding to Wales, because of the lack of political will and funding in Denmark.
Posted in Life, People, Politics, Relations on April 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
Just felt this needed to be here, post-V.Tech.
Posted in Architecture, Politics, Trends on April 1st, 2007 3 Comments »
A new wave of ‘republican architecture’ has hit Denmark.
‘The association for a crown-free-democracy’ has been lobbying for several years to be allowed to rebuilt, remodel og redecorate several of Copenhagen’s landmarks. The idea is that all royal details and symbols on the buildings associated with democracy should be replaced by more suiting symbols. The key […]
Posted in Above the surface, Architecture, Inhabitants of the ocean, Places, Politics, Travel on February 15th, 2007 4 Comments »
The self-declared micronation Sealand is for sale (or rather: “available for transfer” - as countries cannot be “sold”!), so if you’ve got the funds, you can own your own haven in the waves. You will be close to European metropolitan areas, yet all by yourself in the wild and rugged sea, outside British jurisdiction.
Sealand was built […]
Posted in Current currents, Media, Politics, Rhetoric, Travel, Wavy patterns on February 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
When I was a kid I remember the older generations asking eachother “Where were you when Kennedy was shot?”
I thought it was fascinating that some incidents were of such importance that they made the world freeze for a few minutes, hours, days, months. Back then I wondered - and feared - what ‘wolrd-altering’ events would […]
Posted in Creation, Innovation, Politics, Science, Under water on January 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Levendes post on Protection just triggered a new brainwave:
If Al Gore is right and most of the worlds major cities will be under water in a few decades from now, we’re about to make the myth of Atlantis come true.
That leaves us with the choice between two major paths to go down when it comes […]