Waiting in line
Friday, April 7th, 2006“Waiting at Kyoto Station for the train to the airport I spotted this man waiting in line…” by roseinhalf on Flickr
Archive for April, 2006
Waiting until death to escape our containers
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006David Maisel: The Library of Dust
“What happens to our bodies when we die? Inside a dusty room in a decaying outbuilding on the grounds of a state-run psychiatric hospital are simple pine shelves lined three-deep with thousands of copper canisters. The canisters hold the cremated remains of mental patients who died at the hospital from […]
Of men and water
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006Geoff Manaugh’s BLDGBLOG is nothing short of wondrous. With Nicola Twilley, Geoff also wrote a great little article “On Flexible Urbanism” for the journal’s special issue on New Orleans. I’m currently reading Graham Swift’s Waterland, and have been thinking about the metaphorical potential of using processes of siltation and reclamation in […]