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Brilliant response to that idiot’s wall by Indigenous Psychologists in the U.S.

LB — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 20:48:41 +0000

Border following the Rio Grande. Image from CNN video

The Society of Indian Psychologists (SIP) Statement on the Proposal to Build a Wall between what is Known as the US and what is Known as México:

Approved by the SIP EC January 27, 2017

The Society of Indian Psychologists strongly opposes President Trump’s proposal to build a wall between what is known as the United States of America and what is known as México.

Pied Beauty

LB — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 22:15:06 +0000

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.

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Sophisticated sundial clock in Medellín, Colombia

LB — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 23:53:52 +0000

A little hard to tell from these photos how beautiful this clock is. Depending on which side of noon you are, you view either one side or another. I believe noon hits (more or less) the circle in center.

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Ultra Ruin in Taiwan by Finnish architect Marco Casagrande

LB — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 03:54:27 +0000

“Ultra-Ruin is a wooden architectural organism that is growing from the ruins of an abandoned red brick farmhouse in the meeting place of terraced farms and jungle. The weak architecture follows the principles of Open Form and is improvised on the site based on instincts reacting to the presence of jungle, ruin and local knowledge.”

For more photos of Ultra Ruin see Marco’s post here.

You know nothing of the crunch

LB — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 04:46:01 +0000

“I’ve seen your CV; there’s nothing on it… You’ve read all the books, but when it comes to the crunch, where are you?”

“The crunch, how dare you speak to me of the crunch?

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Apelle – boat-like house by Finnish architect Marco Casagrande

LB — Mon, 06 May 2013 22:55:54 +0000

Another pleasing structure by Finnish architect Marco Casagrande. (See other projects here.) Called Apelle, it’s made to resemble a boat, and was in fact assembled by local boat carpenters.

Tower of Babel

LB — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:28:22 +0000

Tower of Babel, 1563 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Bruegel painted a series of three pictures of the Tower of Babel; one, on ivory, is lost.

‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.’ (Genesis 11:4).

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Spring

LB — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:54:39 +0000

It is very hard to post a photograph of April flowers in Vancouver without someone in Toronto taking it personally.

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Architectural photographs by Vancouver photographer Krista Jahnke

LB — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:36:36 +0000

A small selection of architectural photographs by Vancouver photographer Krista Jahnke. Trained as an architect at Carleton University, Jahnke also has a BFA in photography from Vancouver’s Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

The Spider Who Couldn’t Hide

LB — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:02:28 +0000

We can see you.

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