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Monthly Archives: January 2011
The City of Rema
Note: this is based upon one of Italo Calvino’s Invisible cities, Eusapia (pp 96 – 97, Invisible Cities, Vintage Classics). A city by the name of Eusapia has an underground city, identical to its surface city dedicated entirely to the … Continue reading
Posted in Invisible Cities
Tagged Busy, City, Danse Macabre, Dead, Death, Eternity, Eusapia, Faults, Flaws, Heaven, Hell, Hide, Hiding, Immortalize, Invisible, Invisible Cities, Invisible City, Isolated, Italo Calvino, Lights, Massive, Night, Rema, Skeleton, Skeletons, Subterranean, Surface, Swapped, Underground
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The City of Ikue
Ways of remembering ones dead are many and varied. The dead have been buried, cremated and immortalized in statue and monument. For the city of Ikue none of these were enough. Ikue needed a much more grand, and majestic way … Continue reading
Posted in Invisible Cities
Tagged Ancestors, Animal, Bones, Buried, City, Cremated, Dead, Death, Grave, Grave Yard, Human, Ikue, Immortalize, Immortalized, Invisible, Invisible Cities, Invisible City, Judge, Judging, Legacy, Monument, Skeleton, Skulls, Statue, Sublime
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The City of Lise
A city can be built of many things. Stone, wood, concrete, steel and many other types of materials. The city of Lise is constructed of words. All of its infrastructure and buildings, they have all been built with words. The … Continue reading
Posted in Invisible Cities
Tagged Academic, Books, Bridges, Buildings, Change, Churches, City, Clean, Construct, Cultural, Flux, Foundations, Human, Human Construct, Infrastructure, Invisible, Invisible Cities, Invisible City, Language, Libraries, Lise, Lofty, Majestic, Monasteries, Mosques, Museums, Railways, Reliable, Religious, Roads, Sewers, Signs, Strongest, Temples, Words
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The City of Marcia
By all appearances Marcia is a normal city. You enter into Marcia and everything you expect to see in a city is there. There are sky scrapers, shopping districts, museums and a cultural district were cafe’s, libraries and bookstores are … Continue reading
Posted in Invisible Cities
Tagged Anonymity, Anonymous, Architecture, Art Galleries, Bookstores, Cafes, City, Concert Halls, Invisible, Invisible Cities, Invisible City, Italo Calvino, Libraries, Marcia, Mask, Masquerade, Museums, Shops, Sky Scrapers, Streets, Surreal, Surrealism, Visage
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Kaoru Abe, Alto Saxophone Improvisation, No.3 1.21.1972
For some basic information here is Kaoru Abe’s Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoru_Abe Unlike Motoharu Yoshizawa’s vast catalogue of music, Kaoru Abe’s is a little smaller. Well, it’s a lot smaller. But it more than makes up for that in energy and … Continue reading
Spiders
Spiders are amazing animals. For starters they have eight legs that move in perfect synchronicity. They can naturally create a material stronger than steel. They possess eight eyes and kill their prey with fast acting and deadly venom. In addition … Continue reading
Posted in Fragments
Tagged Atmosphere, Bath, Eight, Hairs, Jumping Spiders, Legs, Random, Short, Spider, Spiders, Synchronicity, Venom, Vibrations
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A Manifesto on Catching (Inspired by Erlend Loe)
Many manifestos that you read will call upon you to do a great many things. Rise up, create new political systems and get swept up in the zeitgeist. Not this manifesto though. This one is a little simpler, but no … Continue reading
Posted in Manifesto
Tagged Ball, Bounce, Catch, Catching, Catching Mitt, Drop, Dropping, Erlend, Erlend Loe, Indoors, Keeping Quiet, Loe, Manifesto, Mitt, Naive.Super, Outdoors, Pablo Neruda, Random, Wall
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Golden Giraffes Riding Scarlet Flamingos Through The Desert of Forever 