“I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody’s head.”
— John Updike, Hugging the Shore
The world’s first astronomical site, Nabta Playa, was built in Africa and is 2,000 years older than Stonehenge. Located in the Sahara desert, the 7,000-year-old stone circle was used to track the summer solstice and the arrival of the annual monsoon season. via /r/space https://ift.tt/2Nh3ux8
Geghard Monastery. Armenia. via
Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary.
Oscar Wilde
Bearth Deplazes - Schweizer-Schmid house, Ardez 2018. Photos © Gion von Albertini.
Fala Atelier, House Along a Wall, Porto, 2018
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Gravitational View #02
Yigal Pardo
United States, c. 1960: No. 8228
A split-level house with a roofline making it look more like a ranch. The L-shaped counter in the kitchen is of note.
Homes in Brick by L. F. Garlinghouse Co., c. 1960. (Topeka, KS, USA) —from my library
Medieval scribes writing things like “fuck the abbot” (their boss) and “I am so hung over I feel dead” and “that goddamn cat got in here and pissed on the manuscript” and drawing penis monsters and purposefully unflattering portraits of public figures and animals in the marginalia is funny, yes. But more than that it is so deeply quintessentially human. It reminds you that they were largely just frustrated young adults who did an extremely repetitive and tedious job 6 days a week during daylight hours in poor conditions and felt the same malaise young adults feel now.