Taro growing in Parramatta Park

Hello fronds

Some ferns

Tarps and prayers

An old house with a tarpaulin hanging off the roof. A faded string of prayer flags is hanging from what I think is the TV cable connection
Trees reflected in a river
Hope made Beijing dumplings cooking in a pan.

Lionel Hutz A world without lawyers, 2024 Acrylic on concrete

A colourful, happy painting depicting a train, a sailboat and countryside

Queens Square

A paved square with some figures walking across it. A church is visible in the background.
Greyscale image of a youngish child walking into tae kwon do class wearing protective gear
Greyscale image of wet pavers, which reflect the trees and sky overhead.

Painting the town red

A weird-looking wine pourer in the shape of a deer's head, with red wine pouring out its mouth.

Liquid3, an “urban photo-bioreactor” that a Serbian startup has developed to replace trees.

I, for one, welcome our new green slime overlords.

A narrow glass box filled with a bright green liquid, on a snowy street at night.
A line on concrete. Stencilled above and below it is "100m SPRINT FINISH"

The friendly, sad bloke at the cafe

A greyscale image of a small dog looking at the camera.

“a device that dispenses physical “attention receipts” that list exactly how much time you’ve spent watching YouTube videos”

A machine showing a receipt that lists youtube videos watched and their duration.

Attention cyberloafers

Text shot: Fig. 1 represent the hypothesized structural model with following hypothesizes:&10;H1: Students' cyberloafing behavior has a positive effect on disengagement of students in online learning.&10;H2: Students' satisfaction has a negative effect on disengagement of students in online learning.&10;H3: Self-regulation skills has a negative effect on disengagement of student in online learning.&10;H4: Self-regulation skills has a negative effect on cyberloafing behavior of student in online learning.&10;H5: Self-regulation skills has a positive effect on students' satisfaction in online learning.

Bit harsh on Whitlam

Poster saying never trust a pollie. Shows a politician who looks like Whitlam standing at a microphone, with the mic cord emptying liquid into a stormwater drain.

Stunning photo essay about Mexico City’s ancient floating gardens

A lake with tufts of vegetation. Mexico City is visible in the distance.

At the turn of the 21st century, corrugated cardboard accounted for just fifteen percent of the U.S. recycling stream. Today, it’s nearly half.

World in a Box: Cardboard Media and the Geographic Imagination placesjournal.org

Archiving...

Image credit Title: Piles of recycling waiting to be sorted Creator: World Resources Institute Date: 2019 Type: Colour digital photo Rights: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

A mountain of cardboard waste

Utopian Realism, a speech by Bruce Sterling

This is a great read, especially for anyone who’s spent time in Turin

A basic Turinese problem here is that Torino is progressive, but a heritage tourist industry, which is very attractive to tourists, has no avant-garde. Their stifling interest in your past holds you back. You can’t do “futuristic heritage industry.” Why? Because you can’t move forward into the past.

Utopian Realism, a speech by Bruce Sterling bruces.medium.com

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Image credit Title: Turin Creator: Ben Harris-Roxas Date: 20 April 2017 Type: Colour digital photo Rights: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0

Why doesn’t Hollywood make more mass extinction films?

A man sitting surrounded by plants. A scene from the film Silent Running (1972).