London Calling
Starting with a quote… “Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.” — Calvin I was drafting a post loosely titled, “5 Things I Believe Emphatically” and Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Countries
Weekend 218.0 (Monuments out of moments)
(1) Espousing the Marriage to Slowness (WSJ) This rhythm ricochets through “Collected Poems,” the complete sentence yielding to a sequence of fragments. The grammar impedes the action, performing the “marriage Continue Reading →
Weekend 217.0
(1) Orchidelirium: Blooming on everything from fabric to fine china, orchids are the season’s most intoxicating flowers (WSJ) (2) Is it worth buying British bikes? (3) The Man Behind the Continue Reading →
Weekend 216.0
(1) How To Be Creative (WSJ) (2) The London Oratory (2a) @LondonOrat – “We must pray incessantly for the gift of perseverance.” (3) The Story of The Famous Poster – Continue Reading →
Weekend 215.0 (Inventors Edition)
(1) The Nucleus of the Digital Age: In pursuit of hydrogen bombs, a math genius and a brilliant tinkerer in Princeton developed the modern computer (WSJ) (2) A related quote Continue Reading →
Weekend 214.0 (Almost)
(1) The scan is from The Art of the The Secret World of Arrietty. I can’t scan the entire book BUT will add the abandoned gazebo (not tea house) in Continue Reading →
Weekend 213.4 (Made in England)
I was in NYC on Saturday to demo and purchase a Brompton from NYCeWheels. I spent half the demo trying to fold and unfold the bike and probably looked like Continue Reading →
Weekend 211.1 (Man is the measure…)
“But to me they were living and the turf that covered them was a skin, under which their muscles rippled, and I felt that those hills had called with incalculable Continue Reading →
Weekend 209.1 (Tires/Tyres)
Yeah. I’ve added a category for tires/tyres because of my obsession with vulcanized rubber. Photographs of tires/tyres for me are like hi-res food shots to foodies. I watched Tokyo Story Continue Reading →
Weekend 206.0
(1) Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373 (2) Fantastic hyperrealistic oil paintings by Steve Mills (3) Ways to Manage an Image (WSJ) (3a) The Art and Soul of Disney (4) Jean Nouvel: Continue Reading →