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Venue is a cumulative, participatory exploration on nearly a continental scale — a twenty-first century expedition on which you are all invited. At 6pm on June 8, 2012, at the Nevada Museum of Art in...
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DesignPeopleSupportersPressContact Venue — a portable media rig, interview studio, multi-format event platform, and forward-operating landscape research base — will pop up at sites across North America...
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ScheduleSubmit Your Own DeviceContactMAILING LIST SUGGEST PEOPLE & PLACES The purpose of Venue is to assemble a narrative core sample of the greater North American landscape for the 21st century....
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Reno, We Have Lift-Off!
Unpacking Venue in the Nevada Museum of Art's loading bay. Photographs by Nicola Twilley. The various elements of Venue — its tripods, box, devices, and, finally, its human operators — have made their...
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Edward Burtynsky, In Someone Else's Words
You're looking at something pretty amazing: a photograph of a photograph taken by Edward Burtynsky, one of the world's most celebrated landscape photographers, especially for Venue. Except that...
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Mono Lake
I was thrilled the other day to have an opportunity to fly around the shores of Mono Lake, California, with celebrated aerial photographer (and pilot since the age of 14) Michael Light. The images...
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Primary Landscapes: An Interview with Edward Burtynsky
"Oil Spill #2," Discoverer Enterprise, Gulf of Mexico, May 11, 2010. Photograph by Edward Burtynsky. Venue's debut last week at the Nevada Museum of Art coincided with the premiere of a new exhibition...
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The Grid & The Sign
After an all too brief visit and hike through the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest yesterday afternoon, Venue turned south along US 395, stopping off at the incredible Coso Volcanic Field near Inyo,...
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An Underground Forest, In Search of Silver
Grafton Tyler Brown & Co. map of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe Mining Claims in Storey & Lyon Counties, Nevada, published in 1873, via. Although tourism is now Nevada's largest employer,...
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Parkitecture and Petroglyphs
On the road between Palm Springs, CA, and Springdale, UT, yesterday, Venue stopped off at Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park, whose spectacular red sandstone formations both inspired its name and have...
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Manhattanhenge
Map of the city of New York and island of Manhattan as laid out by the commissioners appointed by the Legislature, April 3, 1807, published in 1811, from the collection of the New York Public Library...
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Worm Power
According to Jack Chambers, proprietor of the Sonoma Valley Worm Farm and a former Delta Air Lines pilot, when he got in the cockpit of a 747, "the other guys would have second homes and boats and be...
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The Bat Tower
Perky's Bat Tower stands at the end of an unmarked dirt road on Sugarloaf Key as a striking, albeit unsuccessful, monument to both biological pest control and cross-species design. Before the Florida...
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Beneath the Streets, Wheels
Every day and night, beneath the streets of San Francisco, huge wheels turn, pulling cable cars to their far-flung destinations and back again, as if weaving them across the city in loops. The cars...
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Stiltsville
Biscayne Bay is home to the cities of Miami and Miami Beach, the Port of Miami (from which one in every seven cruise passengers in the world departs), a 172,000 acre National Park that includes the...
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Rural and Proud
While staying in Moab, Utah, and after interviewing Vicki Webster of the U.S. National Park Service, Venue received a dinner invitation on Twitter from a small community arts organization called...
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Life on the Subsurface: An Interview with Penelope Boston
A landscape painting above Penny Boston's living room entryway depicts astronauts exploring Mars. Penelope Boston is a speleo-biologist at New Mexico Tech, where she is Director of Cave and Karst...
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Hollow Mountain
There is not a whole lot to say about the Hollow Mountain gas station, other than that Venue arrived in Hanksville, Utah, simply as a stopping off point to get some sleep for the night, and, when we...
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Lava River Cave
Inspired by our conversation with Penelope Boston, in which she described to Venue the possibility of extraordinarily ancient lava tubes on Mars (and even the Moon), we decided to visit an earthly...
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The Humongous Fungus
On what was to be, sadly, Venue's only stop in Oregon, we went off-road to visit the world's largest organism, a colossal fungus in the remote eastern mountains of the state, about an hour west of the...
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