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kateoplis: Mike Monteiro

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:22:32 -0400

kateoplis:

Mike Monteiro

evocativesynthesis: “Cathedral” by Nigel Christopher Mullaney

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:36:49 -0400

evocativesynthesis:

“Cathedral” by Nigel Christopher Mullaney

This summer

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:33:43 -0400

Tira: Let's get skinny this summer.
Me: Dear god, yes. How do we do that?
Tira: Stop eating.

Richard Parkes Bonington, La Ferté (detail), about 1825 (x)

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:11:43 -0400

Richard Parkes Bonington, La Ferté (detail), about 1825 (x)

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:42:48 -0400

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

- Albert Einstein

nearlya: AMY SCHISSEL. CYBERFIELDS, 2 OF 9 PANELS, 2012,...

Thu, 02 May 2013 01:15:26 -0400

nearlya:

AMY SCHISSEL. CYBERFIELDS, 2 OF 9 PANELS, 2012, ACRYLIC, INK, CHARCOAL, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (with detail views)

victortsu: (by victortsu)

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:25:52 -0400

victortsu:

(by victortsu)

earlyfrost: Beach Scene (detail), 1874, Gustave Courbet

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:24:41 -0400

earlyfrost:

Beach Scene (detail), 1874, Gustave Courbet

fuckyeahcrystals: scienceyeah: tordles: odditiesoflife: The...

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:16:53 -0400

fuckyeahcrystals:

scienceyeah:

tordles:

odditiesoflife:

The Fukang Meteorite

Back in the year 2000, an incredible meteorite weighing 2,211 pounds was discovered near Fukang, a city located in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, China. Named the Funkang meteorite, it was identified as a pallasite, a type of stony–iron meteorite. With 4.5 billion years in the making, its golden olivine mixed with silvery nickel-iron to create a stunningly beautiful mosaic effect.

Pallasites are extremely rare even among meteorites (only about 1% of all meteorites are this type) and Fukang has been hailed as one of the greatest meteorite discoveries of the 21st century.

It has since been divided into slices which give the effect of stained glass when the sun shines through them. It is so valuable that even tiny chunks sell in the region for $40 to $60 a gram. An anonymous collector holds the largest portion, which weighs 925 pounds.

WHO ELSE MISREAD THIS AS “THE FUCKING METEORITE”

fukang beautiful

God fukang dammit

hautekills: Christian Dior haute couture s/s 2013

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:13:59 -0400

hautekills:

Christian Dior haute couture s/s 2013

Methods for supporting a protecting gallery on stone corbels and...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:10:45 -0400

Methods for supporting a protecting gallery on stone corbels and on iron struts, Viollet Le Duc, 1872, from Lectures on Architectures (image courtesy of Penn Libraries)

Double Negative is Michael Heizer’s first prominent...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:08:54 -0400

Double Negative is Michael Heizer’s first prominent earthwork. Double Negative consists of two trenches cut into the eastern edge of the Mormon Mesa, northwest of Overton, Nevada in 1969-70. The trenches line up across a large gap formed by the natural shape of the mesa edge. Including this open area across the gap, the trenches together measure 1,500 feet long, 50 feet deep, and 30 feet wide (457 meters long, 15.2 meters deep, 9.1 meters wide). 240,000 tons (218,000 tonnes) of rock, mostly rhyolite and sandstone, was displaced in the construction of the trenches.

"The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have..."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:43:06 -0400

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The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.

In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts. This may sound outrageous, but think about how you react when precocious children dominate the talk at an adult party. As women begin to make inroads into formerly ‘male’ domains such as business and professional contexts, we should not be surprised to find that their contributions are not always perceived positively or even accurately.

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- Dale Spender

Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions.

Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time.

In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share.

[x] (via neighborly)

Ritratto Portaluppi in casa Atellani 1957 Villa Necchi Campiglio...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:41:20 -0400

Ritratto Portaluppi in casa Atellani 1957 Villa Necchi Campiglio (via Skymino: Un GENIO)

"Perhaps the assembly of broken dreams is preferable to a complete totalitarian nightmare."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:54:37 -0400

“Perhaps the assembly of broken dreams is preferable to a complete totalitarian nightmare.”

- The Architectural Review’s Folio

Photo

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:23:47 -0400

"We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopaedic knowledge, and men as..."

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:45:15 -0400

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We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopaedic knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of empirical data and a mass of unconnected raw facts which have to be filed in the brain as in the columns of a dictionary, enabling their owner to respond to the various stimuli from the outside world. This form of culture really is harmful, particularly for the proletariat. It serves only to create maladjusted people, people who believe they are superior to the rest of humanity because they have memorized a certain number of facts and dates and who rattle them off at every opportunity, so turning them almost into a barrier between themselves and others… which has given birth to a mass of pretentious babblers who have a more damaging effect on social life than tuberculosis or syphilis germs have on the beauty and physical health of the body…

They end up seeing themselves as different from and superior to even the best skilled workman, who fulfills a precise and indispensable task in life and is a hundred times more valuable in his activity than they are in theirs. But this is not culture, but pedantry, not intelligence, but intellect, and it is absolutely right to react against it.

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- Antonio Gramsci (Working-Class Education and Culture)

Mesa Verde (via john locke)

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:54:56 -0400

Mesa Verde (via john locke)

This. Just this.

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:37:24 -0400

This. Just this. :

This leads to one of the strongest reasons to denounce urban renewal, which is the range of civic activities destroyed by the removal of communal physical spaces caused by the homogenization of the town when all but the rich are pushed out.

-John Locke on Marfa

Encouraging words for a quitting architect. No help at all.

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:21:33 -0400

Encouraging words for a quitting architect. No help at all.