(music begins at 1:01) The landscape architect Olmsted declared that ‘landscapes moves us in a manner more analogous to music than anything else’ (Olmsted biography by Martin 2011, 155). He was aware of a fascinating […]
Tag: experience
A near future with external memory storage and Bionet >>> wait a minute… bionet?
Will landscape experiences change by the influences of smartphones and on-site-extensive-information (OSEI)? Yes, probably just as radical as novels and travel guides have changed the perspective of the tourist/public gaze, since they first became popular. […]
Billy Pilgrim, landscape bombing backwards
This excerpt is from a book by Kurt Vonnegut (1922 Indianapolis USA – 2007), an American writer who writes hilariously funny about modern or future American life. Most of his books are written from the […]
European Jungles
As a child I fantasized about woodlands bigger than the ones that existed in my native – Dutch – country. Big canopy trees with widespread roots and branches to hold a treehouse or two. Hills […]
In remembrance of the Wheel of Time
Today appears to be an ordinary day, yet from an imaginative perspective it is a colossal day. Today I finished reading the last book of a long series of highly detailed landscape fantasies: The Wheel […]
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