Zaghouan Aqueduct. South of Tunis, Tunisia.
Visited in 2014. Built by the Romans almost 2,000 years ago, and channeled water from the springs to the south to coastal Carthage.
Microblog
Saint John Church of Sohrol. East Azerbaijan Province, Iran.
Map of Paris by Michel-Étienne Turgot. 1739.
The beautifully rendered topography of Switzerland.
Possibility space →
Gordon Brander:
There is something powerful about this notion of possibility spaces, both from a theory standpoint, and as a way of seeing. It causes you to approach challenges in a different way. You don’t need to be creative. The creative breakthrough already exists out there in the space of possibility. It’s just waiting to be discovered.
Monthly Links, March 2024 →
My most interesting links from March.
Scenius, or Communal Genius →
Kevin Kelly:
Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or “scenes” can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: “Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the genius.”
The blue and white architecture of Sidi Bou Said. Tunis, Tunisia.
Electrum , the world’s largest tesla coil. Auckland, New Zealand.
Omni magazine covers.
Oldsmobile Incas concept car, 1986.
Resurrect the 80s concept car design language.
This existed and they used a Ford Taurus in Robocop?
Workout. Hank Mobley, 1962.
James Niehues’s famous ski resort maps.
A big takeaway from economic history is that the past wasn’t as good as you remember, the present isn’t as bad as you think, and the future will be better than you anticipate.
—Morgan Housel, Little Rules About Big Things
Teatro Regio. Turin, Italy.
That lighting.
Adalaj Stepwell. Gujarat, India. Built in 1498.
We should build more stepwells.
Dune read by Frank Herbert, vinyl records on Caedmon Records 1977 - 1982. Art by John Schoenherr & Frank Kelly Freas (‘The Banquet Scene’)
Incredible. Would love a hardcover set with these images.
From orbit to the seabase.
The Zones of thought from Vernor Vinge’s eponymous science fiction series.
RIP, Mr. Vinge. 1944-2024.
Entrance to the Cuiraing, Skye. Waller Hugh Paton, 1873.