7 More Deserted Wonders of the Modern World

31/Aug/2007

From Web Urbanist comes another great list with pictures of abandoned towns, cities and facilities... click the pic for more. Read More...

The Cliche Challenge

17/Jul/2007

How various clichés of our times are faring based on the number of references on Google over a three month period. click pic to read this fascinating list of modern cliches. Read More...

Dropping Knowledge - Participatory Global Dialog

02/Dec/2006

Based inGermany and San Francisco, Dropping Knowledge seems to be answering questions and asking a few of their own with activist print ads, short films, posters and kits the public can download. Really interesting and fairly even handed. Read More...

Found Magazine - digging in your trash for the cultural zeitgeist

26/Nov/2006

Found Magazine has been around for a number of years and chronicles the dumpster dive finds of a small crew of people. The print magazine tends to primarily just be photos of the finds and a little bit of commentary, not too snarky... mostly observational. I like that this is real time archeology and captures weird sometimes dark corners of what's going on via people's trash or things that have been lost. Click the pic to go to "find of the day sequence" Read More...

Maya Culture "ahead of it's time"

24/Sep/2006

Elaborate ritual objects and carved masks have been uncovered in the ancient ruins of a city in Guatemala.

Exploration of the 2,000-year-old site has caused archaeologists to question the established chronology of the enigmatic Maya civilisation. The city, Cival, thrived in what is generally considered the “pre-classic” period – but it bore the hallmarks of the more advanced “classic” period.

The excavations were supported by the National Geographic Society.

The ancient city of Cival, in Guatemala’s Peten region, was first mapped by the explorer Ian Graham in 1984. Since 2001, it has been the focus of an exhaustive excavation, led by Francisco Estrada-Belli, of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, US.

His team’s discoveries have included two monumental carved masks, 120 pieces of polished jade, a ceremonial centre that spanned 800m (2,600ft) and an inscribed stone slab dating to 300 BC. Read More...