Geoff Manaugh
@geoffmanaugh
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Cities Crime Design Science Fiction Landscape Futures | @NYTimes-bestseller, https://t.co/3iFmOpmS5F | Co-author https://t.co/ejDz75Q7eE
Los Angeles, CA
Joined August 2008
Really wild aesthetics here. Police wear “hyper-realistic” masks of the suspects they chase, equal parts Philip K. Dick and René Girard. Mimicry and the hunt. Imagine police show up at your door, but they’re wearing your face.
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It’s cheesy as hell, but, after spending all day underground, we came outside and the first thing we saw was this huge rainbow in the sky.
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Finally, the Dutch stored a bunch of paintings from the Rijksmuseum down there during WWII to protect them from Nazis (and from stray Allied bombs). So there’s a whole section of the mine known as The Vault, where Rembrandts (among others) were kept safe.
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I’m basically only in Maastricht to get over jet lag before attending an archaeological conference next week, but it was well worth it—locked steel doors leading down into a world of arches and pillars as thick as houses.
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"If your child says he or she are transgender or non-binary — you don't have to affirm that. In fact, affirming that is the worst thing you can do." @MariaKeffler addresses parents of children struggling with sex identity disorder. Time-Tested Parenting Book:
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Allegedly people have gotten lost down there, and it’s not hard to see why.
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The city is also home to a colossal limestone mine, with more than 200km of tunnels extending over the border into Belgium. Only 80km remain—but they’re endless, huge vaulted rooms that feel prehistoric and are covered in centuries’ worth of carved graffiti.
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Spectacular day in Maastricht visiting 18th-century underground fortifications, a maze of brick tunnels now underlying city parks and suburban neighborhoods. Apparently, unmapped tunnels sometimes collapse in floods, leading to sinkholes in the streets above.
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Style built for the spotlight. Crafted for performance. Blake Snell wears JAXXON.
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Here’s a link to the episode, along with scheduled airtimes. If you know anyone who experienced the dam collapse or subsequent flood-wave—which reached 80' high in places and washed away whole neighborhoods—I’d love to hear more.
pbssocal.org
Trace the devastation of the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse and its deadly flood.
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Los Angeles has a long history with disaster. Last summer, I took a roadtrip with @nathanmasters and @KCET to film an episode of “Lost LA” about the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse, a catastrophe that destroyed communities all the way to the sea. Episode premieres tonight on PBS.
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Was randomly looking at mega-mansions in Los Angeles and found this detail—the owner invented a new financial product derived from the same math he previously used to send robotic spacecraft to Mars and Venus. (Right pic is the house.)
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Thanks to @ArnoldiaMag for including my review of “Landscapes of Retreat” by Rosetta S. Elkin, on the environmental, political, and—Elkin argues—therapeutic implications of “retreat.” Not online, but the journal, published by Harvard’s arboretum, is here:
arboretum.harvard.edu
Sections About The quarterly magazine of the Arnold Arboretum, Arnoldia explores knowledge, experience, and imagination wherever they entangle with the nature of trees. For more than 110 years, Arn...
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Nakatomi Space: “wherein buildings reveal near-infinite interiors, capable of being traversed through all manner of non-architectural means... Why not personally infest the spaces around you?” RE:
bldgblog.com
[Image: From Die Hard, directed by John McTiernan based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorpe].While watching Die Hard the other night—easily one of the best architectural films of …
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Ancient Nakatomi Space.
Thucydides also records one of the earliest example of "mouseholing" during #urbanwarfare. In counter-attacking the Thebans, "to avoid being seen going through the streets, [the Plateans] cut passages through connecting walls of their houses and so gathered together in numbers."
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I’ve been looking back recently at a project, designed with John Becker, called the “Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis,” developed around a fictional rock-dissolving acid that could create huge underground caverns in limestone plains. Quick new post! https://t.co/6mKZGblqDa
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20 years ago today I launched a website called BLDGBLOG, about architecture in various fields, from military adventurism to sci-fi to horror to materials science to folklore to poetry to burglary & crime. A blog about what I would now call spatial anthropology.
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Speaking of which, Elizabeth Kolbert says FROSTBITE “will forever change the way you look at food.” In a starred review, Publishers Weekly calls it “a revelatory deep dive into refrigeration’s past and present... a brilliant synthesis.” Due out tomorrow! https://t.co/mSZF9ytXKS
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Proud to see FROSTBITE—my wife’s book, out tmw—in the NYT! “engrossing... an exploration of the vast system known as the cold chain... a thoughtful consideration of how daily life today is both dependent on and deformed by this matrix of artificial cold.” https://t.co/sEwA3jMc2b
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“To umarell is to take an interest in the built environment”—where an “umarell” is a slightly comical, usually retired man who pauses to watch construction sites. Stoked to be a judge for the inaugural 2024 World Umarelling Championship! Rules here:
scopeofwork.net
The World Umarelling Championship is now live!
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A “trend of ‘burglary tourism‘ from South America... Once in the country, police say, they plan heist sprees and fence the loot,” targeting “homes often connected to open spaces, hiking trails and canyons.” #burglarsguide
latimes.com
Crews of thieves who travel from Chile and other South American nations for the purpose of stealing jewels and luxury goods are not new in Los Angeles, authorities say, but such heists "are way, way...
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Full poem here, from a collection published by Louisiana State University Press (1998):
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