How the British (literally) Landscaped the World
Did you hear about the Five Pillars of the British Landscaping Empire during your religion classes? To sort them by order of importance within the Holy Book of Grass: First is grass. Second is pasture...
View ArticleMontreal Street Bath: An Impression of the City from the Ground
Montreal is not a city of big monuments . It is a city of neighborhoods and streets. It is a patchwork city, made by assembling former villages and municipalities of the island, which reflects in the...
View Article“Big, Wild, Scenic”: The Making of the Canadian Dream
Sixteen million international tourists visited Canada in 2012. They were even more in 2013: 18.2 million, mainly going to the provinces of Ontario (7.7 million), British Columbia (4.3 million) and...
View ArticleInner Places and The Wild: The Quest for Emptiness in the World
There is something about matter being incompressible. It is impossible to cut the volume of one liter of water just by clenching it. There is no way you will make a rock fit in a box that is smaller...
View Article“Earth Porn”: How to Consume One Planet At the Age of Social Media
Canary Sky Time lapse Video by Daniel Lopez - Time-lapse video are a growing form of “earth porn” many places – from cities to countries – use to promote themselves on the internet What it is called...
View ArticleColor Explosion – The Last NASA Beautiful Earth Sat Shot
“In the words of Carl Sagan, “The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.” But to us, it’s everything. The place where we live, love, work and play. The place where we are born and where...
View Article“Genius Loci”: Why Places Can’t Be Described Objectively
What is that magical difference that make us feel carried away while looking at one picture, while remaining rather indifferent to an other one? What makes us fall in love with one place and cross...
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