iceplant radio : Thu, Nov 28, 2002

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Doc Searls

2002.11.28 . .

Check it out. A weblog by Doc Searls.

Ecology Center

2002.11.28 . .

The Ecology Center addresses the public need for unbiased, non-commercial information about household products, ecologically-sensitive methods of living, and large toxic threats to society and alternatives to those threats.

I live a few blocks away from the Ecology Center. It's a great place doing great things, like curbside recycling, farmer's market, and their top notch magazine, Terrain.

Late Season Fires in California

2002.11.28 . .

This just in from the NASA Earth Observatory.

Natural Hazards: Late Season Fires in California
On Monday afternoon, November 25, 2002, the Aqua MODIS instrument captured this true-color image of fires (red outlines) burning in California.

Matchstick art

2002.11.28 . .

Wacky/gorgeous online gallery of burning matchstick art
Artist David Mach creates sculptures from the colored heads of matches, then sets them on fire:

"I made my first matchhead in 1982. Kinskihead was a response to a reviewer comparing one of my magazine installations to a weekend modeller making a ship or the Eiffel Tower out of matches. The reviewer talked about matches as if their rightful place was at the bottom of the materials league. I was puzzled by this and immediately attracted to this underdog. Of course the reviewer was referring to modellers who don't use matches but just matchsticks, small pieces of wood. Live matches offer an entirely different proposition. The first head, Kinskihead, was set alight by mistake. It was originally made out of blue and red matches but once burnt they became different shades of grey ash. What interests me is the violence and power involved in that change and the fact that this performance comes from such a cheap, throwaway, almost non-material...
There doesn't seem to be any limit to the subject matter and of course they all have that lethal incendiary device capability. In fact you can describe three clear lives to these sculptures: the original head with colour; the performance of burning it; and the burned head, instantly aged black and white version of the original. Not bad for a nothing material."