Aria Ritz Finkelstein
@coastofbohemia.bsky.social
Researching coastal and ocean space at MIT Urban Studies and Planning + WHOI Marine Policy Center. Atlantan. Jew. Frequent forgetter. She/her. www.ariaritzfinkelstein.com. How are people liking it here?
Here's some!
February 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Here's some!
This cat lives in my house.
February 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This cat lives in my house.
Is this a timeline miracle? Nightmare? @fripperskitter.bsky.social @ptros.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Is this a timeline miracle? Nightmare? @fripperskitter.bsky.social @ptros.bsky.social
Goodbye to this week. May next one be better.
January 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Goodbye to this week. May next one be better.
Not the book's funniest passage but one of its most striking. If you need respite from *waves arms* all this...this isn't that, but it's a spectacular, hilarious, uncanny way of accessing the absurdity.
January 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Not the book's funniest passage but one of its most striking. If you need respite from *waves arms* all this...this isn't that, but it's a spectacular, hilarious, uncanny way of accessing the absurdity.
Patience! Let the organic matter snow, let it snow, let it snow ❄️ #oceantwilightzone #marinesnow
January 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Patience! Let the organic matter snow, let it snow, let it snow ❄️ #oceantwilightzone #marinesnow
In need of a light display today? William Beebe's Half-Mile Down, his travelogue through the #OceanTwilightZone, recounts one of the best. The Silvery Hatchet-fish, its "many lights" and "silver tinsel." archive.org/details/half...
December 25, 2024 at 7:03 PM
In need of a light display today? William Beebe's Half-Mile Down, his travelogue through the #OceanTwilightZone, recounts one of the best. The Silvery Hatchet-fish, its "many lights" and "silver tinsel." archive.org/details/half...
I've marveled at the seamlessness of translation at UN mtgs. @touloumi.bsky.social's story of its machinery--equip., spatial config., + interpreters grinding, "enabling the fantasy of organic communication" toward smooth internationalism--is full of insight. And pics! Arch, design, media, int'l law.
December 2, 2024 at 6:32 PM
I've marveled at the seamlessness of translation at UN mtgs. @touloumi.bsky.social's story of its machinery--equip., spatial config., + interpreters grinding, "enabling the fantasy of organic communication" toward smooth internationalism--is full of insight. And pics! Arch, design, media, int'l law.
yeah, same 😂
December 1, 2024 at 1:44 AM
yeah, same 😂
This review of Anthropocene ocean soundscapes explains the relationships btwn marine biology, acoustics, human activities, and potential policy to deal with the serious harms of noise pollution. It's great. Crystal clear, super informative, absolutely worth reading. @carlosduartephd.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 11:06 PM
This review of Anthropocene ocean soundscapes explains the relationships btwn marine biology, acoustics, human activities, and potential policy to deal with the serious harms of noise pollution. It's great. Crystal clear, super informative, absolutely worth reading. @carlosduartephd.bsky.social
It's not cold yet here in Atlanta, but when it begins to hint that it will be I start missing the weirdly sublime infrastructural landscape of Northern winters that I never got used to when I was living in Boston.
Salt mountains in Chelsea, MA, several Novembers ago.
Salt mountains in Chelsea, MA, several Novembers ago.
November 18, 2024 at 7:09 PM
It's not cold yet here in Atlanta, but when it begins to hint that it will be I start missing the weirdly sublime infrastructural landscape of Northern winters that I never got used to when I was living in Boston.
Salt mountains in Chelsea, MA, several Novembers ago.
Salt mountains in Chelsea, MA, several Novembers ago.
What, this? Let's all try to keep a more open mind.
November 15, 2024 at 4:32 PM
What, this? Let's all try to keep a more open mind.
@nuclearbbq.bsky.social someone could turn their weakness into their superpower
November 12, 2024 at 6:17 PM
@nuclearbbq.bsky.social someone could turn their weakness into their superpower
Flipping through Peter Hall's Cities of Tomorrow, this pic always stops me, self-portrait of Patrick Geddes, "the indefatigable folder of paper and drawer of diagrams here conducts an incomprehensible experiment on himself." I love this caption and whatever you call the tone that it's dripping with.
November 12, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Flipping through Peter Hall's Cities of Tomorrow, this pic always stops me, self-portrait of Patrick Geddes, "the indefatigable folder of paper and drawer of diagrams here conducts an incomprehensible experiment on himself." I love this caption and whatever you call the tone that it's dripping with.
This diagram of ocean discovery by depth is 55 yrs out of date, awkward as hell to read, and still a thrill to read. From "Our Nation and the Sea," AKA the Stratton Report, pub. 1969.
November 11, 2024 at 7:38 PM
This diagram of ocean discovery by depth is 55 yrs out of date, awkward as hell to read, and still a thrill to read. From "Our Nation and the Sea," AKA the Stratton Report, pub. 1969.
I've read through the 1969 Stratton Report's recs for a national ocean policy about a hundred times and have only now noticed this photo of mouse inside a tank of water whose inner membrane supposedly acts as an artificial gill. "Living normally," the caption says. Anyone know who this man is?
November 9, 2024 at 10:03 PM
I've read through the 1969 Stratton Report's recs for a national ocean policy about a hundred times and have only now noticed this photo of mouse inside a tank of water whose inner membrane supposedly acts as an artificial gill. "Living normally," the caption says. Anyone know who this man is?
Hi kids, I'm Aria! I research ocean planning. Before moving my focus out to sea I spent much of my time as an urban designer. This pic is from a day spent working on the hull of a sailboat that used to be my home in Boston Harbor. I'm terrible at this posting thing but maybe that'll change. 🐋
November 8, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Hi kids, I'm Aria! I research ocean planning. Before moving my focus out to sea I spent much of my time as an urban designer. This pic is from a day spent working on the hull of a sailboat that used to be my home in Boston Harbor. I'm terrible at this posting thing but maybe that'll change. 🐋
Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou invite us to learn "feral history," or to pay attention. My review of their 2022 "Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature"
October 27, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou invite us to learn "feral history," or to pay attention. My review of their 2022 "Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature"
Sharks or no sharks? 🤔
August 29, 2023 at 6:13 PM
Sharks or no sharks? 🤔
Taking a mid-morning visit to the ocean twilight zone with William Beebe, Half-Mile Down, 1934: “Bright light…Brilliant animal lights…Brilliant animal light still…More lights going by…Still brilliant lights…” What an incredible travel log ia801603.us.archive.org/10/items/hal...
August 23, 2023 at 3:02 PM
Taking a mid-morning visit to the ocean twilight zone with William Beebe, Half-Mile Down, 1934: “Bright light…Brilliant animal lights…Brilliant animal light still…More lights going by…Still brilliant lights…” What an incredible travel log ia801603.us.archive.org/10/items/hal...
Obsessed w this description of the Law of the Sea Conference, awarded the title of one of the most boring places in New York, New York Magazine, 1981 🏆😂
August 15, 2023 at 5:22 PM
Obsessed w this description of the Law of the Sea Conference, awarded the title of one of the most boring places in New York, New York Magazine, 1981 🏆😂
"Patrick Geddes. The indefatigable folder of paper and drawer of diagrams here conducts an incomprehensible experiment on himself." I'm always tickled by this image, maybe even more so by the inclusion of it (as incomprehensible as the "experiment" in the first place?) in Cities of Tomorrow.
August 11, 2023 at 5:46 PM
"Patrick Geddes. The indefatigable folder of paper and drawer of diagrams here conducts an incomprehensible experiment on himself." I'm always tickled by this image, maybe even more so by the inclusion of it (as incomprehensible as the "experiment" in the first place?) in Cities of Tomorrow.