And now, a couple shots of what Chihuly is best known for - his chandeliers.
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This room was absolutely breathtaking. I felt like I walked into the courtyard entrance of an extraterrestrial estate.
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I couldn’t even begin to describe the beauty of this room. The art was the ceiling itself… layers of glass pieces, rippling out like raindrops on a pond’s surface, this photo was the closest I was able to come to doing it justice.
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The comparison of glass to water is a trite and cliche one. But I’ve never seen one so aptly substituted for the other as this piece was.
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Chihuly’s influence by traditional weaving, in color and texture, probably shouldn’t have come as great to a surprise to me as it did.
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So for my day off, I went down to the FolkArts Fest in good ol’ Seattle Center under the Needle. The Fest itself was awesome, good music, an unexpectedly high counter-culture turnout (who the hell expects furries at a folk fest?), and I got a beautiful new jacket from my favorite Tibetan dealer.
But what I wasn’t expecting was Chihuly Garden and Glass to be open. And oh. my. gods. I just… aaaaaah!!! It was stunning! And it was spectacular! And I took photos! And I will show them to you in the hope that you will go and see this man’s incredible work.
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Oh hey there new followers
I’m assuming y’all got here from Kisu’s reblog of the feminist post. Welcome to my blog! Got ranty stuff, recycle-y stuff, arty stuff, and stuff that I take pictures of. Have fun and enjoy your stay!
"It’s hard to not respond with texting because you’re not exactly sure what somebody said. You didn’t see the nuances in their face or hear the nuances in their voice. And that changes the nature of human communication."
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On today’s Fresh Air, James Steyer explains how texting and the Internet are changing the way we interact. (via nprfreshair)
Oh for crying out loud.
Is it more difficult to differentiate whether a ‘hey’ means ‘she’s responding to be polite’ and ‘she wants my dick’ through just the text? Sure. But anyone who frequently uses text to communicate already knows this:
Aside from that, I’m sure this will come as a devastating shock to anyone who doesn’t frequently communicate through text, people’s word choice and sentence structure change depending on their mood and perceived relationship.
If these idiots would quit pretending that it’s the end of civilization as we know it just because our modes of communication and language are evolving, like they always have, and always will, they’d actually be able to study these newly developing nuances in literacy as expression and the underlying psychology, possibly revealing things about the human brain that we didn’t know before.
Also - this quote was taken out of the context that kids stay up all hours responding to texts because they’re “not sure what somebody said”. Bullshit. They respond to texts because someone is trying to communicate with them, and communicating back validates their relationships, it creates a sense of security that they ‘exist’ to the world, and simultaneously induces an anxiety that if they do not respond, and continue to provide the validation that they exist, via constant texting and FB updates, that they’ll fade into nonexistance, unimportance.
Mind you, this isn’t necessarily a reflection of a neglected child or some crap about the plight of the latchkey kid. Getting attention, especially from your peers, is addicting, no matter what your background. And that’s what it ultimately all boils down to, an addiction to attention.
This anxiety is compounded tenfold when the texts and updates are of an online alter ego identity they’ve built up, whether as a ‘baller homie’, or a blog owner, forum administrator, troll, the list goes on and on.
And these people wrote a book on parenting in the digital age, eh? At least they’re giving some practical advice. Their theories on why kids do what they do couldn’t be further off the mark, but practical advice nonetheless. If they’d quit mystifying the whole mess long enough, they’d see that it’s the same problems that kids have faced for as long as we’ve acknowledged the existence of childhood.
More extreme fingerpainting on a device with more technological capabilty than the computers that put humans on the moon. … I use my resources well.
TRMS Headline Writing Challenge: Infoxication
That story is actually about OSHA warning people who work outside to get enough water, rest and sit in the shade from time to time.
Though in Fox Nation’s hands, this innocuous, even slightly boring story, becomes an anxiety-filled conspira-bomb…
via ryking
American media, ladies and gentlemen. Where the news to report is government programs repeating the screamingly obvious, and the media outlets transform it into gloom, doom, and in some cases imply extremist views of said government.
Fox News of course is an easy target. Criticizing Fox is the social critique equivalent to hitting the side of a barn (though can we take a moment to appreciate the hilarity of a government summertime health advisory being put under the “Culture” section?).
All American media is guilty of this. That’s the depressing part. Instead of conducting investigative, thoughtful journalism, they snag onto the most mundane, meaningless tidbits of whatever happen to float their way and transform them into a crisis piece, bloated with political bias. And gods help us all if something significant actually happens. Y’know… like a 5 year old white, blond haired, blue eyed pageant princess being abducted.
In the meantime, foreign news agencies continue to cast an eye on the American police brutality levels that have been on the rise since 2008, the utter destruction of the ecosystem surrounding the BP Gulf spill while BP reports record-breaking profits, and the terrifying escalation of gang warfare in Mexico, and the revealing of just how high the corruption had risen.
This is why I’ve chosen local papers to be the only American-based media I consume.
Students from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam designed “brick biotopes,” made from plaster and sand, which serve dual functions:
1) as bricks, and 2) as a home for house sparrows, which often nest in cracks.
During the past 20 or so years, sparrow populations have declined in many European urban environments. The hand-crafted bricks’ design allows plants and wildlife to “co-exist with architecture.”
This video shows how they’re made.
This is such a cool idea! I only wish it came in something other than … well… white. But still, a very cool concept!
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Another plastic wrap basket completed! Haven’t stopped long enough to line these guys and plant them up, but it’s coming soon.
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“Voters in North Carolina approved Amendment One, a constitutional measure banning gay marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships, on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.”
Well fuck.
(Source: giohotpantsborgia)
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