Fictitious.
Burning embers of a city,
town,
streets.
Only to be viewed
from an airplane,
or some high above place
in the universe.
Some may light
to a full fledged fire,
Using oxygen as it’s major source.
Growing larger, taller.
Skyscrapers.
Some go out
The very last house loses flame.
The region is dark.
Funny how light signifies life,
Existence.
But without existence,
this false “light” wouldn’t even exist.
This fictitious light
has a hold on us.
Control.
Without it,
We’d be just another dark, cold planet.
Lights Flickering | Storms Producing Prose
Is he really the Tallest Man on Earth?
I like to listen to songs of love
with the rain & thunder
in the background.
Almost as a test on their ability
to be heard through
the music of Mother Nature.
She sings,
like an opera,
the anticipation built up
by flashes of light.
She laughs at us,
shaking the ground.
No music, no sound
can exceed her limits.
…But it does add a nice touch,
doesn’t it?
Almost mockingly so…
We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.Dr. Seuss
Ceiling in the Sky
@ Christian Science Plaza
l.e.
I love Brattle Bookshop and I am so glad The Atlantic did a post about it. Makes me want to go there and explore the rest of their building, I usually stick to the outside books and the first floor, where they have the majority of their poetry books. I think I’ll return tomorrow. :)Brattle Book Shop at 9 West Street in Boston, Massachusetts. One of America’s oldest and largest used book shops, the Brattle features an outside sale lot, two floors of general used books, and a third floor of rare & antiquarian books. Housed in a three-story building in the heart of Downtown Boston, The Brattle Book Shop carries an impressive stock of over 250,000 books, maps, prints, postcards and ephemeral items in all subjects. In addition to its general used and out-of-print stock, The Brattle Book Shop also maintains an inventory of collectibles, first editions and fine leather bindings in its rare book room. (photos by Lance Gagnon)
(via theatlantic)
Dancing with Swans
-l.e.
taken in Los Angeles, CA
Cornered
-l.e.
taken in Boston, MA
Mental Breakthrough
-l.e.
taken in Boston, MA
A Lovely Conversation with Two Loveliest Beings
>”Let the rain beat down,
The vagabond finds reprieve,
The path ahead, waits.”
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<”As the rain subsides,
Two smiling girls venture out,
Our joyful hearts synced.”
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>”Your joyful hearts synced,
Sharing the same beat’in path,
My steps will be near.”
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<”Your steps come nearer,
Listening to our laughter,
Our love reaching you.”
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>”Your love reaches me,
The echoing sirens song,
Is sweeter from two.”
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<”You smile knowingly,
We are together at last,
Three content beings.”
Coffee Roasting Facility…
You shall be designed.
Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, a collaboration between young Belgian architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh, have built a see-through church in the Belgian region of Haspengouw. The church is a part of the Z-OUT project of Z33, house for contemporary art based in Hasselt, Belgium.
The church is 10 meters high and is made of 100 layers and 2000 columns of steel. Depending on the perspective of the viewer, the church is either perceived as a massive building or seems to dissolve – partly or entirely – in the landscape. On the other hand, looking at the landscape from within the church, the surrounding countryside is redefined by abstract lines.
The design of the church is based on the architecture of the multitude of churches in the region, but through the use of horizontal plates, the concept of the traditional church is transformed into a transparent object of art.
Ingenius. I love spaces that change without physically changing.
(via architectureblog)
Today I took off all my clothes and entered Giant Psycho Tank—a large, faintly lit, polypropylene tank filled with about a foot of supersaline water. Why did I do this you ask? For the art of the experience, of course. Welcome to the New Museum’s terrifically fun, thrilling and sometimes downright disorienting exhibition Carsten Höller: Experience, on view now through January 15 in NYC. Höller is probably best known for his long, elegant, tubular slides. At this exhibit, visitors can scoot themselves into a 40-feet high, 102-feet long, steel and glass tube on the fourth floor and zoom down to the second floor—screaming all the way. Happily, the nude averse can do this fully clothed.
—Keith Mulvihill
Check out video of the giant slide here.
This is a perfect reason to re-visit New York and the New Museum.
How nice a day
Is this?
What
A nice day
Such a day comes
with packing,
music,
music,
and cool cat clothes.
What a day.
Day day day.
l.e.
Woot Now an *Official* Word According to the Concise OED
A new edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary arrives in stores today, and it contains some 400 new(ish) words, including woot, sexting, retweet, and cyberbullying.
To make room for the new, some words that have fallen out of use had to be excised from the edition’s pages, such as “brabble” (meaning “paltry noisy quarrel”) and “growlery” (a “place to growl in, private room, den”). The editor of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary notes that we might call a growlery a “man cave” nowadays, but growlery is so evocative I hope it makes a comeback.
Growlery > sexting. There should be a dictionary made of all the words that have been taken off in replace for this junk. The dictionary will soon no longer be a very reliable resource.
