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[29th March 2012|06:04pm] |
There was a time when my world
Was filled with darkness
Then I stopped dreaming now
I'm supposer to fill it up with something
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| [Here we go] |
[12th March 2012|02:05am] |
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Life is going at a fast pace, I learned some new tricks in autocad today, working on the pruitt igoe competition, Surjans midterm is tomorrow. I actually crossed stuff off a list and feel in control for a change.
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[7th March 2012|11:35pm] |
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Finally a relaxing night, the izz with a bone and me with Pessoa.
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[7th March 2012|02:36am] |
I don't get many things right the first time
In fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
Brought me here
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| [whatyouregoingtodowhenyougraduatecollege.] |
[16th February 2012|12:09am] |
Continental Divide Trail, USA
Start/finish: Antelope Wells, New Mexico to Glacier NP, Montana
Length: 4,960km
Connect Canada and Mexico via 5,000km of backcountry walking along the north-south spine of the USA. The Continental Divide follows the Rocky Mountains, dissecting New Mexican badlands, the gold ghost-towns of Colorado, the geyser-spews of Wyoming and the granite massifs of Montana. The trail is only 70% usable (though some have walked its entirety); dip in ? at Yellowstone National Park or the San Juan Mountains ? for a fine taster.
Read more: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/dominica/travel-tips-and-articles/76736##ixzz1mWRAjlVa
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[13th February 2012|01:24am] |
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
- Albert Einstein
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are
doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
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[8th February 2012|01:58am] |
Courage is grace under pressure- Hemingway
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway
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[31st January 2012|01:04pm] |
? One or two sentences that summarize the article?s primary thesis, theme, or message.
? Discuss two or three key points that stand out to you.
? Share a question or lingering idea that the article has provoked in you.
The Postindustrial Landscape
This article is about how over time, jobs humans used to do have been replaced with computers. It discusses how it has affected our citie's landscape.
What I thought was intresting was the way the author painted the picture of abandonment in our heads with the disapearance of the clerks and the brakemen. I found it interesting
Also the idea that we dont really know how allowing these industries to replace human jobs with computers affects our social and economical consequences. I believe that it is good in some aspects, as not to risk human life where a task could be dangerous. I also believe it could be detrimental to human kind and make us lazy and uncaring about where and how our goods are made.
The industrial revolution has been in the past for awhile, it is interesting to talk to my dad about how things used to work back when he was my age. What I have become to realize is that the ones who are most hurt by the replacement of computers with human jobs is his generation. He holds a sense of pride in the idea of a hard days work. That idea is something I feel my generation is missing, because we are so entwined with what technology can do for us, it is difficult to relate to the industrial revolution.
The Landscape of Contemporary infastructure
This essay is about how urban sprawl affected our cities infastructure. It includes examples of New Jersey and Germany's new road systems as well as Louis Kahn's circulation diagram of Philidelphia.
What I found intresting about this essay was that all this technically was made possible by the car, without the car we wouldnt have needed these new forms of infrastructure. It is clear to me why it bothered people, these huge massive structure covering up their once naturalistic landscapes. It is also nice to know towards the 1990's that they began to intermix these large structures with other forms of transportation such as train ferrys and bus stations. There are people such as BIG thinking about ways to make these mega structures more relevant to our cities such as Loop City.
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[28th January 2012|02:40pm] |
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exemplifies the musical style of Hall & Oates which features pop rock qualities, r & b influences, a prominent rhythm piano part, use of a string ensemble and major key tonality.
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[24th January 2012|08:27pm] |
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Be mindful of and focus on the important things in your life.
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[14th January 2012|12:05am] |
Canyons
Calculated canyons
Tesselated
Variants of color.
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| [Dickinson and Stein 11/12/2007] |
[25th December 2011|06:01pm] |
What makes a person a genius? Do they need to be aware they are a genius? Can you become or are you born a genius? Now there are millions upon millions of authors which include even you and me. So what separates the geniuses from the rest of us authors? Well maybe we can find an answer by comparing Emily Dickinson and Gertrude Stein. As different as they are from each other and the morals they hold, these two women have invoked their writing styles which are not even the same format and delivered the same effect of dwelling wonderment.
If Emily Dickinson knew her simple and stark poems would lead her to be called a genius, why would she just throw them in a drawer and let them collect dust and time? Why would Gertrude Stein address which is truly her autobiography as Alice B. Toklas's? Why would these two literary masterminds treat their work like junk to be thrown in an old dresser or just simply given away? These questions lead us to come to yet another question. Were these women aware of their genius? Emily, who is known to be one of the two quintessential poets of the nineteenth century had to have at least a feeling she may be something of unique importance. She had one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine poems just sitting in that dresser, waiting, and she knew it. Now Gertrude pretty much states right out of Alice B. Toklas's mouth that she herself is a genius as read here, "I may say that only three times in my life have I met a genius and each time a bell within me rang and I was not mistaken, and I may say in each case it was before there was any general recognition of the quality of genius in them. The three geniuses of whom I wish to speak are Gertrude Stein?" (Stein) Oh really Alice B. Toklas? I believe they had the idea they were something spectacular but just was not sure the public would think so also. Which lead them not to put their names in jeopardy and in Dickinson's case, her work altogether.
Both these women were also well educated in literature. This leads me to also state that before you can truly be thought of as genius, you must know what you are doing. You must be aware the rules before you can break them. Stein's run on sentences and repetition of words would be nothing of stature if she had not been aware of the problems they would create in making simple and easy-to-understand sentences. She knew she was breaking these rules to make you think, to analyze and truly take in what she was saying. In example,
"You know how painters are, I wanted to make them happy so I placed each one opposite his own picture, and they were happy so happy that we had to send out twice for more bread, when you know France you will know that that means that they were happy, because they cannot eat and drink without bread and we had to send out twice for bread so they were happy." (Stein)
Stein first states her intent was to make the painters happy. She then explains how she keeps them happy. She brings up the topic of bread twice, stating the exact same idea in two different contexts. After reading this excerpt, you will not forget how she kept those artists happy or how many times she had to send out for bread. She repeats this simple idea of making artists happy with bread because it is important for us, which she feels, to see what is important to these artists in regards to their happiness which happens to be bread and in view of their work.
Emily's poems are so simple and stark. I at first really didn't enjoy her poetry for I wanted vivid word usage and the picture of her poems to be given to me. Emily knew the importance of elaborating to create understanding. By her leaving her poems so simple and stark, it really allows us to interpret them and paint our own picture. Her poems really bend themselves to the reader's imagination. Unlike Gertrude's work which has the total opposite effect of making us not forget for a second who she may be talking about.
I feel Emily felt the simplicity of her work was important in making people think about their lives other than what she was thinking or feeling. She lived her life for God; I have come to think that she felt her writing is what God put her on Earth to do. Fame to her was unimportant; she was here on a mission to help others to connect themselves with the bigger picture which is god and not herself. Which then leads me to the question of why would she leave all these poems in a drawer? Emily, for most of her life, was a recluse and never went outside. She felt awkward around people and knew they felt the same about her presence. I come to see that Emily felt people wouldn't understand her genius and possibly dismiss her work for simple junk. Let's refer to one of her poems.
"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind-"(Dickinson)
I use this poem in specific because she allows us to figure out and comprehend how her poetry works. When she says "The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind-"she is telling us that you don't need to get the big picture right away, that poetry is a process, reading it as much as writing. To put it simply, she says too much information hinders you more than helping you understand what she wants you to think.
Another similarity that Stein and Dickinson shared was the presence of an internal struggle. They are unable to relate the Average Joe. All of Dickinson's life she was thought of as a recluse and outcast. As for Stein, her life style and idea of life is eccentric in itself. They knew something was different about them. In reference to Stein, "She always was, she always is, tormented by the problem of internal and external." (Stein)
Stein and Dickinson may have been extremely different externally but internally they both had complex brew of genius stewing. They took what they learned and did exactly the opposite, but with the justification of getting us to process and take in what they were saying slowly instead of having it spoon fed to us. Geniuses always find a way to not only make us listen, but to take us outside of the box and think freely. If you can do that, I think the title genius has been earned.
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[15th November 2011|10:09am] |
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Maybe your growing up and instead of just saying what's on your mind, you are becoming more reserved, and actually think before you say something..... your behavior is changing and you notice that you actually like the "new" you.
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| [Science is Beautiful.] |
[4th November 2011|01:15am] |
20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz.
20 Hz from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
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[31st October 2011|04:20pm] |
?If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.?
? Jim Jarmusch
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking
Don't fight forces, use them.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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| [Judging a person does not define who they are,] |
[22nd October 2011|04:24pm] |
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It defines who you are.
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[17th October 2011|01:49am] |
weltschmerz
\VELT-shmerts\ , noun;
1.
Sentimental pessimism; sorrow that one feels and accepts as one's necessary portion in life.
Don't forget that even our most obscene vices nearly always bear the seal of sullen greatness.
Share Gesualdo Bufalino
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