Rantings of an Apprentice Polymath

Oct 03

Architecture - Last Call for an Elegant Rail Station - Review - NYTimes.com

Sep 26

John Keats

stfrancis:

BRIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.

Sep 24

PreservationNation » Blog Archive » National Trust for Historic Preservation, Park Advocates, and Local Residents File Legal Challenge to ‘Wilderness Wal-Mart’ Approval -

Yowsa!!

Sep 16

from the prophet Isaiah

stfrancis:

On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples
                                            a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,
                                                                      of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
                                                     And he will swallow up on this mountain
                                                                                 the covering that is cast over all peoples,
                                                                               the veil that is spread over all nations.

He will swallow up death forever;
                                                                                             and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces,
                                                           and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,
                                     for the LORD has spoken.
                                                                                                        It will be said on that day,
                                                                                                         “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us.
                             This is the LORD; we have waited for him;
                                                                               let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”

Criticizing Biblical language is one of the arrows in the sling of the rampant empiricist. This, however, cannot be said to be anything other than moving, captivating, and wholly uplifting.

:: [ NBBJ ] Dalian Shide stadium

Huh. Not sure what I think about this - my initial reaction, without knowing anything about the functionality of the design, is - wow.

Sep 09

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New iPod Designs Leaked? [PICS]

Hmm… time to get a new Touch?

somethingchanged:

Adrian Tomine via fiddlersgreen: spaceships

This would be my daughter - couldn’t be bothered with such trivial things if a good book beckoned.

Sep 07

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Sep 05

landscapearchitecture:

(via makdreams)

Beautifully minimalistic and intriguing - but nothing that would work in the Midwest from October through April.