Glenn Murcott

Glenn Murcott on how to site a building within the landscape
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good article on Glenn Murcott

Theo Jansen

Video of Theo Jansen explaining the way his wind powered walking sculptures work.
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Theo Jansen's website

Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Liz Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro) talks about the practice's work including the Blur Building.
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DS+R web site

As Slow as Possible

A piece of music composed by John Cage that will take 639 years to play. ORGAN2/ASLSP As Slow aS Possible.

Clock of the Long Now

"When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the year 2000. For the next thirty years they kept talking about what would happen by the year 2000, and now no one mentions a future date at all. The future has been shrinking by one year per year for my entire life. I think it is time for us to start a long-term project that gets people thinking past the mental barrier of an ever-shortening future. I would like to propose a large (think Stonehenge) mechanical clock, powered by seasonal temperature changes. It ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium." Daniel Hillis - The Long Now Foundation.
More info here.

Figuring Landscapes

Tate Modern are showing a series of short films (around 5mins) on the theme of landscape from Friday 6 February – Sunday 8 February. TATE link. The overall series relates to a link between UK and Australia, however taken individually the films deal with very relevant issues, such as time, place and being in the landscape. Programme 3 'Surroundings' seems particularly relevant as a set of films. More info here.
Others of interest:
All the Time in the World, Semiconductor, 2005, 5 min, UK 'A geological time frame is rendered in human seconds and minutes while the convolutions of the earth are enacted in ‘reel’ time.' more info
Static No. 10 (falling as a means of rising)Daniel Crooks, 2007, 3:55 min, Australia 'unravels our notion of the time-space continuum and hints at hidden rhythms in the landscape' more info
Lake George (after Mark Rothko) John Conomos, 2008, 7 min extract, Australia more info
Tidemills Nick Collins, 2002, 10 min, UK more info

For info on the individual films see these four links: 1 2 3 4

Some interesting and relevant ideas from a conference on walking and place which took place a few years ago, but the none less relevant for that. Have a look through the site: link here

Chameleon Material

Scientists at Toronto University have developed a material that can change to any colour of the spectrum by applying a electric current. See more at New Scientist and
Opalux the company they have set up to market it.