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...edge precision of modernist architecture with creations that go way beyond raised flower beds and mounds of perfect lawn. "These gardens are about ideas first and foremost," says author Tim Richardson. "They're not mainly about plants and they're not really about function." Instead, they use surreal scaling, vivid colors and otherworldly shapes "to disrupt the modernist feel of rational, calm, ordered spaces - it sometimes looks as if some sort of earthquake has occurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Improbable Gardens | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...look at,” he says. The exhibit has inspired him to organize an additional exhibit in which other students who went on international spring break trips will bring their pictures together and relate them to poetry. This unification of visual and aural art forms creates a vivid look and sound to poetry that makes it accessible to a larger audience. Sifuentes’ innovative approach to poetry seeks to bring down the walls that can make poetry difficult to understand and relate to, encouraging us that there is nothing to fear when it comes to poetry...

Author: By Melanie E. Long, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'A' Is For April: Adams House Celebrates Poetry With Art | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

Clarke’s work consistently pushed the boundaries of science fiction through vivid depictions of imagined worlds. His legacy is perhaps best described in his own words, penned in a 1962 essay: “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sci-Fi Legend Moves On to the Afterlife | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...ensuing boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Games hardly had the humiliating consequence the Soviets hoped for, as the world witnessed the most commercially and financially successful Games in history. Rather than outright non-participation, the pedestal of the games should be used to cast a vivid spotlight on their locale, as has been done in the past. In Mexico City in 1968, when Tommy Smith and John Carlos raised their fists on the medal podium, the resulting image awakened the world to American racial injustice. In Sydney, the naming of Aboriginal track star Cathy Freeman as torch bearer...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: For the Love of the Games | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

This destructive biofuel dynamic is on vivid display in Brazil, where a Rhode Island--size chunk of the Amazon was deforested in the second half of 2007 and even more was degraded by fire. Some scientists believe fires are now altering the local microclimate and could eventually reduce the Amazon to a savanna or even a desert. "It's approaching a tipping point," says ecologist Daniel Nepstad of the Woods Hole Research Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clean Energy Scam | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

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