Friday 28 September 2012
post-meridian or l’isola del tesoro
Thursday 27 September 2012
discontiguous
A few weeks ago, during the run up to municipal elections, I noticed this billboard—for what turned out to be a study proposing that Bavaria could manage for itself independent of the rest of Germany, posted on a concrete column at the intersection that tends to host political posters, though not exclusively.
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ช๐บ, ๐ฌ๐ง, economic policy, revolution
Wednesday 26 September 2012
tithe
Usually I am an unabashed apologist for the Catholic Church, ready to make excuses for a very human institution—although some conduct by some members is inexcusable and past conduct certainly deserves reproach—however I am very saddened and disheartened to hear the outcome of their latest stance and statute, licensed by a court of law, which essentially ruled that members of the Church that choose not to pay the eight percent customary tax to support the Church cannot remain in good standing.
conching
I imagine that precision clockworks will be next. Of course, with imported food, consumers need to know what they’re eating is safe, but it is American agribusiness and appetites that’s escalating many of the problems with food supply and actual food security, and submitting to indignities that defy common-sense is not much of an alternative to being blocked, cut-out or compromised. Chocolate-makers would face pyrrhic victory is they were allowed to stay in the export business, providing they toss aside traditional manufacturing methods or possibly feed their milk cows a recombineered diet.
catagories: ๐จ๐ญ, ๐บ๐ธ, ๐, environment, food and drink, Wikipedia
run-off or terrestrial sunsets
These incredible images are created by volcanic ash, vibrant and chthonic minerals that the Earth gives up on a fairly regular basis there, being scuttled away by rivers and streams.
The photographer’s eye and technical acumen, I think, are really able to capture in this series what photography was intended for and distinguished from the other visual arts by—being able to distill and communicate a sort of landslide never seen before nor will ever be seen again, like being able to capture the roiling shadows of a cloud or the play of colours in a sunset.
Be sure to check out some of the other photographs featured on these communities. These smoky, spyrograph moments are outstandingly beautiful and makes me hopeful that I might be able to also frame such compositions as they flow downstream.
catagories: ๐ฎ๐ธ, graphic design
Tuesday 25 September 2012
memory alpha or library of last resort
catagories: ๐บ๐ธ, ๐, libraries and museums, philosophy, Wikipedia
Monday 24 September 2012
wies’n or the price of eggs in china
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ป, ๐, Bavaria, economic policy, holidays and observances
Sunday 23 September 2012
libelle
catagories: ๐ฅธ, environment, graphic design