Author: Marcus Trimble

An indoor mountain of salt used for de-icing roads in Germany.

CNN’s interactive 360° videos of Haiti. I have not come across this technology before, using your mouse, you can look around while the video plays. The effect is a little unsettling, given the content, like having access to a surveillance camera surveying the devastation, while I sit in an air-conditioned office drinking tea.

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter: An artwork by Caleb Larsen comprising of an internet connected black cube that perpetually auctions itself on ebay. Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended…

Infranet on post-peak phosphorous: Phosphorus is at the heart of modern farming; an essential ingredient of agricultural fertilizers. It has no synthetic alternative and is being mined, used and wasted as never before. Inefficiencies in the processing of food and the soaring demand for meat and dairy produce across Asia is fuelling demand for phosphorus…

Gold. The Big Pictures photo essay on gold, from riverbeds in Indonesia, to 30 million yen statues of Snow White to gold teethed football players.

Grout as Art Cement as Early Serra Nice packaging for CTA by War Design