Weekend 177.0
(1) Best feet forward: Fairfield forum for cyclists, walkers (Fairifeld Citizen) (2) The Sleepless Elite: Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done (Wall Street Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Quotes
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Walt Disney loved trains and planes—all modes of transportation, in fact, whether modern or historical. — Becky Cline
Weekend 176.0 (the Bilbao Effect)
(1) Found – The Comics Of Chris Ware: Drawing Is A Way Of Thinking I just finished Makeshift Metropolis by Witold Rybczynski so the timing of this “find” is serendipitous. Continue Reading →
Weekend 175.2
“Decaying and dilapidated architecture resonates as loss, as evidence of the irreversible passage of time, yet architectural ruins emanate past grandeur.” — Daniel Worden, On Modernism’s Ruins: The Architecture of Continue Reading →
Weekend 175.0
“One realizes oneself only one piece at a time.” — Marcel Proust, The Fugitive (1) Christo Without Jeanne-Claude – Where monuments pretend to endure, their work suggests the fleeting nature Continue Reading →
Weekend 171.1
(1) Stained glass in an 18th century library (2) Faith is an attitude; it is saying “Yes” when reason might well suggest “No.” Yet reason itself is without tone and Continue Reading →
Weekend 171.0
(1) Bother Me, I’m Thinking (WSJ) “People unable to focus are more likely to consider information that might seem irrelevant but will later inspire the breakthrough. When we don’t know Continue Reading →
Weekend 170.0 (Valentine’s Day Edition)
BIG love?!?! (1) The Lady and the Reaper (2) “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” by Death Cab for Cutie …You and me have seen everything to see…From Bangkok Continue Reading →
Weekend 167.0
(1) An exceptional PLAYMOBIL display at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, WA. Arranging PLAYMOBIL tyres in a pile makes me a bit giddy. Daran habe ich gar nicht gedacht. Continue Reading →
Weekend 162.0
The blinking of its ruby lights could been seen at dusk from Windsor Castle, the terminal’s forms giving shape to the promises of modernity. – Alain de Botton (1) Airport Continue Reading →