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Geogg Dalglish, Walking Water, Rajendra Singh

Walking Water: Eastern Sierra Pilgrimage of Healing the Drought

October 30, 2015 by The Outpost 1 comment

Alexis Slutzky tells the story of a September 2015 pilgrimage through California’s Owens Valley, called Walking Water. This first phase of a much longer journey began at Mono Lake and ended 180 miles south at Owens Dry Lake. For 100 years, Los Angeles has piped water from there over 300 miles further south to sustain the city, draining ancient lakes and groundwater, destroying natural water systems. In the fourth year of an historic drought, Walking Water seeks to create a new narrative regarding this life-giving resource, investigating our common and often conflicting needs, and learning how to live within our means.

Eco-Cultural-Travel

Eye of God: Big Bear’s Sacred Site of Creation

September 21, 2015 by Jack Eidt 2 comments

Big Bear in the San Bernardino Mountains has year-round outdoor attractions, including skiing, hiking, boating, and fishing. Yet long before the resorts, the area was called Yuhaviat, or “Pine Place” by the original inhabitants, the San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians, with their sacred site of snow quartz called the Eye of God.

Culture, Sound

Is Classical Music, and the Desire for Rebellion, Dead?

August 2, 2015 by The Outpost 0 comments

Do today’s elite lack the patience and culture for classical music? Or is it a matter of cultural dominance of the popular, the fame producing, and capital revenue streams which have sacrificed painstaking complex creation? John Halle opines.

Design

Public Art and the Psyche: Olafur Eliasson on Cities

July 15, 2015 by The Outpost 1 comment

“City planning has been way too pragmatic for a long time.” So says Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, who creates artistic environments that break down the industrial expanse of cities with faux-natural elements, hot sun, waterfalls, rivers, and take over the senses of their spectators.

Lauren Monroe Jr. artist, Blackfeet Tribe

Sustainability, Urban Art, Visual Art

Geo-Fauvism: Waking to the Wild Earth Through Visual Art

June 5, 2015 by Jack Eidt 8 comments

This is the first post in a series where I present the case for Geo-Fauvism, a growing movement of wild earth inspiration in art, literature, music and design. Taking off from the early 20th Century French art “Fauvists” or “Wild Beasts,” these cross-disciplinary creations respond to and react against the collapse of global environmental systems, the destruction of indigenous earth-based societies, and a narrowing of cultural opportunities in the mainstream corporatized media. Geo-Fauvists create to reconnect with the wild and heal humanity’s rift with the landscape, building a new community based on integration with the ecosystem.

Aktivhaus, Passive House, green building

Design, Sustainability

German Prefab House Generates Twice its Own Energy

May 9, 2015 by The Outpost 1 comment

The prefab Active House B10 prototype in Stuttgart can be built in a day, but its implications will be felt for years. Taking the passive house net zero concept one step further, this fully recyclable tiny house actively generates enough power for multiple properties through its rooftop photovoltaics.

Design, Urban Land

Starchitects and Spectacle: Sustainability Solutions Needed

April 8, 2015 by The Outpost 1 comment

Architecture must move on from an addiction to spectacle and fad, adrift in a sea of meaningless forms, leaving serious design and sustainability problems unresolved, says Peter Buchanan. But to do this will require a more critical perspective from architectural academe and the media.