How to Speak Poetry
by Leonard Cohen
Take the word butterfly. To use this word it is not necessary to make the voice weigh less than an ounce or equip it with small dusty wings.
How to Speak Poetry, by Leonard Cohen
November 11, 2016
favourite
Dance number from Adavi Donga that makes Lidsville look less drug-induced
June 17, 2016
The 1985 film Adavi Donga, with Chiranjeevi, Radha, Sharada, Rao Gopal Rao. And various animals. Directed by K. Raghavendra Rao.
A favourite among my many favourite Indian film numbers.
Balafire flicker bulb
December 5, 2015
This is a “flicker light” from my childhood. The green lacquer coating on the bulb is coming off, but amazingly it still works. It makes a soft tinking sound as the filaments hit the glass on either side.
Pied Beauty
October 30, 2015
In spite of being completely irreligious and not fond of any of the patriarchal monotheisms with fathery deities, I still love this poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins from 1877. We studied it in high school and for some reason I never forgot it.
From Syria to Greece to Corbusier: Hozoviotissa monastery
September 5, 2015
Earlier this summer a number of the Syrians fleeing civil war landed on the Greek island of Amorgos. Amorgos is not a common landing point in the exodus—most people are now landing on Kos not far from the Turkish coast.
Goodbye Mork
August 11, 2014
Shazbot. Sad loss of Robin Williams today. Thanks for the many laughs.
And Robin before a Senate committee on preventing homelessness
Torggler doors
February 5, 2014
Two brilliant, beautiful door designs by Klemens Torggler. Above is the Evolution; below is the Stahltür. They work on a similar principle.
I find the doors so beautiful that to some extent questions about practicality seem a bit irrelevant, but let’s deal with those first.
Mother of Pearl
December 23, 2013
Merely because this blog was previously bereft of this song, which was an oversight.
Protected: Interpretation of Enzo Mari’s Sedia Chair by Russell Baker, Bombast Furniture
November 27, 2013
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Soviet Saturn vs. Hoover Constellation vacuum
October 12, 2013
From “Soviet Life“, via Google Translate: “Hoover “Saturn.” In production since 1962 in Lithuania. His prototype – American «Hoover Constellation» 1955. Soviet engineers gave the American a spherical shape, and added features (the ability to use a blow-off mode) and mobility.
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