Small Steps

By: Matthew Battles
March 26, 2010

Simon Sellars is a Melbourne-based writer and the publisher of the web site Ballardian. His film Landing Sites wants to remind us that we’re all playthings in a world of confounding scales. And who can resist a crusty toy astronaut? The aphoristic text is taken from the writings of architecture theorists/gurus Shusaku Arawaka and Madeline Gins, authors of the book Architectural Body, whose writings were the subject of a seminar for which Sellars made the film.

Landing Sites from Simon Sellars on Vimeo.

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Part of the founding HILOBROW crew, Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology has appeared in such venues as The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Orion. His most recent book,Tree, was published in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2017. After ten years exploring the dark abundance of libraries and museums with metaLAB (at) Harvard, Matthew now edits Arnoldia: the Nature of Trees, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum.

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