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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 8d

Incredible. Wasn't the Green only refurbed a couple years ago?

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 14d

The SS United States in axonometric projection in the Hermann Bollmann map of New York City, 1963

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 18d

How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Jun 8

Deranged

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Apr 10

They've made it almost shrine-like

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Mar 25

Can I get a subsequent prayer emoji

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Mar 3

Ships are so often prostheses; see the Bibby Stockholm as an extension of the British immigration-carceral system; Carnival cruises ships at APEC 2018 as as extension of the fortified hotel compound; the aircraft carrier as four acres of 'sovereign' US or British territory moved to a theatre of war.

The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · Feb 27

These power ships are floating plug-in energy plants that Karadeniz to leases to various countries, including Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Indonesia and Ghana. Günel’s essay explores the geopolitical implications of this ephemeral infrastructure, which extends power far beyond the nation’s borders.

Offshore grid: the rise of the power ship

Power ships extend the electricity grid at sea, but their geopolitical ramifications reach even further | Essays

www.architectural-review.com

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Feb 21

Checkmate, globeheads

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Feb 19

Wild that large vessels like this are still deliberately scuttled and then called "reefs", as if by being sent beneath the sea they suddenly start to accord to a natural order

CNN @cnn.com · Feb 19

After months of multiple delays, the SS United States finally left its longtime home of Philadelphia. The storied ocean liner’s next stop is Mobile, Alabama, where it will be prepared for its final mission — to become an artificial reef off the coast of the Florida Panhandle.

SS United States finally leaves Philadelphia to begin its last chapter | CNN

After months of multiple delays, the SS United States finally left its longtime home of Philadelphia just before 1 p.m. ET Wednesday. The storied ocean liner’s next stop is Mobile, Alabama, where it w...

cnn.it

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Feb 6

Why though

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Feb 6

Our 3-D model visualizes what Black Hawk helicopter pilots could see minutes before a fatal crash with a jet in Washington.

What the Black Hawk Pilots Could See, Just Before the Washington Crash

A 3-D model created by The Times visualizes the helicopter pilots’ field of view minutes before a fatal crash with a jet in Washington.

www.nytimes.com

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Jan 29

Gesturing wildly:

"—are you supportive of these onesies?"

Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Jan 10

Agree, no slow down in accretion of data. Just 0s, not Nulls.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Jan 10

But the speed at which we now demand digital maps, especially in journalism, means that cloud obscuration is back - there's no time to wait for a clear day. Just today, in a map representing the damage from the LA fires, the NY Times has placed a label not unlike the ones at the top of this thread.

Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Jan 10

Today, clouds have almost disappeared from the stable, seamless 'mosaics' that are the background layers for platforms like Google Maps. This is a function of blending thousands of images together. But there were moments, especially in earlier versions, when clouds appeared out of place.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Jan 7

But the throughline seems to be the industrialisation of content that no-one actually pays attention to - at the expense of everything else

Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Jan 7

Between @tavlin.bsky.social's n+1 article on the Typical Netflix Movie (TNM) and @lizpelly.bsky.social's Harper's article on Spotify's Perfect Fit Content (PFC), it's looking bleak folks

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Dec 30

You've never needed a last minute pneumatic log splitter?

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Dec 22

Lutheran infrastructure, Bodø

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Dec 10

Featuring Miquette Giraudy of Gong, the film was scored by Pink Floyd, who then released the accompanying album 'Obscured by clouds'. The album makes use of the EMS VCS 3 synthesiser, which really sets the scene for misplaced spiritual voyages.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Dec 10

Schroeder skewers his colonials, who trick themselves with a kind of hippie truth-seeking until it is too late. But this critique is not really extended to the film itself, which repeatedly dislocates Indigenous people and their language in the service of spectacle.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Nov 26

Shame about the permanent mourning veil on the tower though

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Nov 22

Can't DM you directly! Might need to change a setting

Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Nov 21

Would you post to Norway? Can cover the fee and any strange taxes they add over here.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Nov 17

Featuring Miquette Giraudy of Gong, the film was scored by Pink Floyd, who then released the accompanying album 'Obscured by clouds'. The album makes heavy use of Peter Zinovieff's EMS VCS 3 synthesiser, which supplies a decaying drone well suited to misplaced spiritual voyages.

Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · Nov 16

Once such gap is the subject of Barbet Schroeder's strange and cynical 1972 film La Vallée, in which a group of bourgeois New Agers journey through the Papua New Guinean bush in search of what they believe to be one of the world's last scraps of the 'unknown'.

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