For the last four years, the Dredge Research Collaborative has been looking at dredging and erosion control as a form of often unacknowledged landscape architecture. Part of their work is a series of festivals they’re calling DredgeFest that celebrate and examine the role that dredging plays in landscaping. Their next event is in Louisiana. Gizmodo asked them to explain why.
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The place: a runway completely flooded with the thickest mud in Bodaybo, Irkutsk region, Russia (where else). The plane: an Antonov An-24. The situation: the An-24 starts take off but it seems it can’t gain much speed because of the drag caused by the mud. It looks like it’s going to fail big time. More »
It’s like watching Shamu and being in the splash zone only worse because it’s dirty, filthy mud that gets splattered all across your body. But come on, giant tank plus mud puddle? You already know it’s coming. Mud for you! Mud for you! Mud for everyone! [The Awesomer] More »
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