A new artist book released recently by Paula McCartney, who is also creating an SP Weather Report for December 2012, imagines scenes of snow and ice entirely using darkroom manipulation. The project is a subseries of McCartney's work, A Field Guide To Snow and Ice which isolates elements of natural and imagined wintry landscapes, imbuing them with otherworldly, cosmic … [Read more...]
2011 Weather Reports Portfolio at IPCNY
We're happy to announce that the 2011 Weather Reports Portfolio was selected to be included in the International Print Center New York's 'New Prints/2013 Winter' exhibition! Please join us at the opening reception on Thursday, January 17, 2013 6-8pm, at IPCNY, 508 West 26th Street, Room 5A, New York, NY 10001. http://www.ipcny.org/node/1889 About the exhibition: IPCNY … [Read more...]
On Scale of 0 to 500, Beijing’s Air Quality Tops ‘Crazy Bad’ at 755
From The New York Times: "BEIJING — One Friday more than two years ago, an air-quality monitoring device atop the United States Embassy in Beijing recorded data so horrifying that someone in the embassy called the level of pollution “Crazy Bad” in an infamous Twitter post. That day the Air Quality Index, which uses standards set by the United States Environmental … [Read more...]
Bleeker Street Documents
SP Weather Station interpreter Peter Jellitsch has recently completed 'Bleeker Street Documents', a project which records and makes visible WLAN-Wireless Local Area Networks in an apartment in Manhattan. See more at: http://www.peterjellitsch.com/2012/12/21/bleecker-street-documents/ … [Read more...]
12/29: A Perfect Snow in NYC
By Andy Newman for The New York Times: The ideal city snowstorm, meteorological Platonists say, blankets the landscape without burying it, beautifies but does not burden, transforms and cocoons without paralyzing or even particularly inconveniencing. Such an event is expected to come our way on Saturday. Flakes should begin falling around 11 a.m., as a low pressure … [Read more...]