10 posts tagged “astrarium”
I've been thinking for a while of moving to a new blog that combines the thought I put into my posts on Astrarium with the ease and bite-size chunks of Vox posting (but without the Vox advertising). In the middle of one of my fever dreams last week the name came to me:
...which has been a fave nickname for myself for a while. I'm still tinkering with it, but so far I'm pretty darn pleased. There's an RSS feed if you'd like to add me to your reader (and my Facebook profile automatically updates every time I post), because most of my meanderings are going to be over there now. I'm officially done with Astrarium, and I think I'll just be a reader (and commenter) here on Vox. Unless I have sordid dating tales to relate to my neighborhood!
Edited to add:
Thanks to Carolee for creating a syndicated account for Engineer's Daughter on LJ, for those who prefer reading their feeds there! I also recommend Google Reader.
Fresh new Astrarium: Eternal Spring. Please enjoy!
J.M.W. Turner, Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Customs House, Venice, 1833 (UK)
New Astrarium: Around the World in 80 Beers. Please enjoy!
Noises: High in the empty streets of the harbour district they are as densely and loosely clustered as butterflies on a hot flower bed. Every step stirs a song, a quarrel, a flapping of wet linen, a rattling of boards, a baby's bawling, a clatter of buckets. Only you have to have strayed up here alone, if you are to pursue them with a net as they flutter away unsteadily into the stillness. For in these deserted corners all sounds and things still have their own silences, just as, at midday in the mountains, there is a silence of hens, of the axe of the cicadas. But the chase is dangerous, and the net is finally torn when, like a gigantic hornet, a grindstone impales it from behind with its whizzing sting.
--Walter Benjamin, from One-Way Street and Other Writings, 1979 (Germany)
New Astrarium: World Clique. Please enjoy!
Chino Otsuka, poem and treated photograph (the artist with her younger self) Paris, France 1982 + 2005 (Japan)
A new Astrarium is up, briefly encapsulating the last three weeks of cultural meanderings. Please enjoy!
Yasui Nakaji, Window, from the Wandering Jew series, 1941 (Japan)
A new Astrarium is up: Bazaar Bizarre.
Compare and Contrast: two engravings by Andreas Vesalius, Switzerland, 1543
I posted a new Astrarium last night! It had been far too long. Next thing you know, salons will be back again. Stay tuned in 2008...
Against Landlords! For Land Reform! Stencilled poster, Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA), USSR, 1920
