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One of the most satisfying things about words is their black-and-whiteness, the neat, austere simplicity of their process. Letters on a page are so direct, so literal. The connection between writer and reader is intimate, personal and immediate: a moment of thought held, suspended, in a few marks, then reinvigorated. It has remained the same since cuneiform was pressed into wet clay with a reed. Words on a page have no backstage, no sleight of hand, nowhere to hide the workings. Words are what they say they are. You read a sentence and you can see how it was made; you can trace the thought. You know how it’s done — just as long as it’s prose.
With poetry, however, the rules don’t apply. It’s a fish of a very different colour. On the face of it, it looks the same; the letters, the words, are familiar. But it isn’t what it appears. By some internal magic, poetry hovers above the page, over the words. It happens outside the black-and-white lines, as if the writing were clairvoyant, calling spirit meanings, voices from beyond.
from Poetry is the cornerstone of civilisation | AA Gill
Photo by Olivier Gilet
Movement
The movement of lace at the brink of the weir,
The gulf at the stern,
The swiftness of slope,
The vast sway of the current
Draw the voyager through extraordinary lights
And chemical change
Surrounded by waters of the vale
And the strom.
These are the conquerors of the world
Seeking their personal chemical fortunes;
Amusement and comfort travel with them;
They carry the education
Of races, classes and creatures, on this vessel
Repose and vertigo
In the diluvial light,
In terrible nights of study.
For from the conversation among the equipment, the blood, the flowers, the fire, the gems,
The anxious calculations on the fleeing deck,
– One sees, rolling by like a dyke beyond the hydraulically-powered road,
Monstrous, illuminating endlessly – their store of studies;
Driven themselves into harmonious ecstasy,
And the heroism of discovery.
Among the most surprising atmospheric events,
A young couple hold aloof on the ark,
– Is it a pardonable primitive shyness? –
And sing and stand guard.
Trans by A.S. Kline
Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent but by compulsion, when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing, when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but in favors, when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you, when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.
Excerpt from Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, 1957.
via Means
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(November) The New Zealand Yellow Pages is conducting a marketing promotion to show that no matter what your project is, the Yellow Pages can help you complete it. To prove it, they’re building a restaurant 10 metres up a redwood tree, and the idea is to source all products and services through Yellow Pages listings.
As you can see the treehouse is now complete. You can read the original post about the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant - here.
The Treehouse was designed by architects Peter Eising and Lucy Gauntlett from Pacific Environments Architects.
Photographs by Lucy Gauntlett.
Visit the Pacific Environments Architects website - here.
Visit the website for the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant - here.
The Eden Project is a well-known education center that encourages people to learn how to
look after nature in a time of radical change. They offer educational programs,
exhibits, events and workshops and especially focus on educating children and
encouraging them to be part of nature.
Naturally, the Field of Light is best viewed at night after the sun has set, when the lights begin to glow and the starry sky appears to be reflected on the ground. The beautiful installation will be on display through the Winter and into Spring 2009. As Munro remarks, Field of Light, like a giant surreal camp-site banana, is an alien installation in the midst of nature. And like dry desert seeds lying in wait for the rain, the sculptures fiber optic stems lie dormant until darkness falls, and then under a blazing blanket of stars they flower with gentle rhythms of light. Field of Light is about the desert as much as the roadside campsites.
via Inhabitat
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