Preparing for vacation season, H was looking where we might take the Silver Lady this summer.
Sunday 7 April 2013
happy camper
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐️, lifestyle, transportation, travel
hari kuyo or last honours
Via the emporium of curiosities, Oddity Central, I learnt that the Japanese reserve the last day of the Lunar New Year’s celebration with a sweetly touching ceremony that’s a final tattoo for lives of long and dedicated service for pins and other such small and disposable things.
catagories: ๐ฏ๐ต, holidays and observances, philosophy, religion
Saturday 6 April 2013
smarch und mapril
I like how the trappings of Easter, unlike with other holidays, are compelled to be taken down and stowed away for next year—or replaced by the commercial creep and anticipation of the next batch of observances around the corner, right away. I guess that’s partially owing to the fact that the customs associated with Easter, partially, are a mixed-metaphor, with all notions of promise, renewal and rebirth celebrated and borrowing from one another, and something to be savoured.
Most decorations are such eggs hanging from willow switches or displayed on a village well, but I also appreciated this last interpretation, which seems a custom in itself, exchanging the Christmas lights for plastic edges on these sculpted hedges. It feels like a weird, inverted interlude, barreling towards Winter rather than Summer. I hope keeping these charms on exhibit do us a better turn.
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ✝️, ๐, ๐ฑ, environment, food and drink, foreign policy, holidays and observances
Friday 5 April 2013
diorama or microcosmos
Bremen Public Radio features a collection of photographs from local artist Nikolai Keller posing tee-tiny people in the greatly magnified details of everyday surroundings. The article (the link does not seem to work) includes a video segment documenting his technique and patience with these model train scale figures and a link to the gallery of the artist.