http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity There are angels, in your angles, there's a low moon caught in your tangles...* Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:04:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Greetings from Medfield, Massachusetts, population: 12,000, median household income: $98,000. I seem to recall that when I was in high school I spent a lot of time drinking Budweiser on deserted dirt roads in this town. When I was in college my friend's brother died of a heroin ... http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/19/medfield-massachusetts/ What is the relationship between the importance of a building and the brightness and saturation of its colors? One building in this photo provides energy for cars. The other provides housing and food for people. OK, whatever. Perhaps try a grok at this instead: Gas stations have remarkably resplendent ... http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/16/follow-the-color/ Stupid machine.  That is all. http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/16/regress/ True Story: The City of Seattle has taken space away from cars and given it to cyclists. And not just any space, but the most sacred kind of space there is in car culture: parking. A new bike lane will soon open on the west side of ... http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/14/progress/ In the several reviews that followed the release of Jared Diamond’s book Collapse, it seemed as though a multitude of the reviewers concentrated solely on Diamond’s summary of the event’s that led to the end of human occupation of Easter Island. The tone was universal, as though this information ... http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/12/its-the-water/ The downtown office core harbors a cornucopia of uncanny urban spaces. The other day I happened to pass by the one shown above and couldn't resist busting out the Panasonic DMC-TZ3, thinking I'd probably want to write something about how these grand entry plazas are usually such a stupid ... http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/11/that-which-shall-not-be-photographed/ I am thoroughly nonplussed and disheartened that the hugeasscity readership did not have the wherewithal to correctly identify the reason for the three-story windowless concrete penthouse atop the Financial Center building. As is screamingly obvious in the photo above, the blank concrete band at the top of the building ... http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/11/answers-that-lead-to-more-questions/ http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/11/312/ There are aspects of the building shown above that are more consequential than the orange wall, though that bad boy is a piece of work, to be sure. Pb Elemental's designers, not known for subtle gestures, continue to be the local masters of ignoring context -- not that that is ... http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/07/orange/ By the year 2012, according to a new report (pdf) from CIBC World Markets on the effects of the rising cost of oil. Among the predictions: oil at $200/barrel and gasoline at $7/gallon by 2010 10 million fewer vehicles on the road by 2012 (peak at 240 million) 15% reduction in vehicle ... http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/07/06/the-greatest-mass-exodus-of-vehicles-off-americas-highways-in-history/