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Interview with Allan Ellerby

by Tommy Manuel

TM: One of the major themes in your work that inter­ests me is this use of the city’s image as a sort of build­ing block.  I believe I referred to them as recon­struc­tions or assem­blages in my intro­duc­tory post to this inter­view. How would you char­ac­ter­ize the way in which you com­bine these images?
AE: Yes, […]

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Cities are BLANK

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Orig­i­nally posted at Aribra.com
Cities are _____. Cities are organic. They are like plants. Cities are like ecosys­tem. Cities are jun­gles. Cities are like bac­te­r­ial colonies. Cities are fortresses against the per­ils of nature. Cities are machines, engines of cul­ture and progress. Cities are like libraries, or like a liv­ing museum.  Cities are amusement […]

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Ancient civilization discovered on the bottom of a lake

by Tommy Manuel

Ancient civ­i­liza­tion dis­cov­ered on the bot­tom of a lake
Lake Issyk Kul (Image: http://www.kgs.bishkek.gov.kg/)
Archae­ol­o­gists have dis­cov­ered the remains of a 2500-year-old advanced civ­i­liza­tion at the bot­tom of Lake Issyk Kul in the Kyr­gyz moun­tains in Rus­sia. The team con­sisted of Kyr­gyz his­to­ri­ans, led by Vladimir Ploskikh, vice pres­i­dent of the Kyr­gyz Acad­emy of Sci­ences, and other […]

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