I’ll just leave this here.
The curious, wonderful collision of science and poetry. Her face!
One of the DO Flickr’s pictures ended up in the CHS photo roundup again this week. Whee! Continue reading
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Hither and Thither #10
Ocularists: a creator of prosthetic eyes. It’s meant a lot of things over the last couple millennia, but for a pair of families, it means two strikingly different philosophies. The LA Times explores the gulf that exists between the art and science of ocularistry.
Because Halloween is so awkwardly midweek, I declare that this weekend has also been Halloweekend. (The substantial number of costume-wearing people I saw Friday and Saturday night agree with me.) As such, this excellent roundup of horror movies set in New York is still timely. This is a new blog I’ve found, which looks at New York from the distinctive view of a location scout.
Also, this kind of thing is why going to New York feels like entering the real world, and leaving feels like going back to the outside to look in.
Capitol Hill has a new bookstore, and I can’t wait to wander through it!
Hither and Thither #9
As I mentioned last week, I listen to a lot of podcasts. It’s at the point that I’m pretty choosy about taking new ones on, because I hate a backlog. (The 47 unheard podcasts on my phone as of this writing would be surprised to learn that.) However, when I read Sarah Vowell’s post about 99% Invisible on Facebook, I got that big-pupilled Kate Beaton drawing look on my face that means “WE WANTS IT, GIVE IT TO US.” I’m looking forward to diving in this weekend.
In the meantime, they have a Kickstarter to support their next season. I am 99 percent sure I will be throwing them money once I listen to, oh, about 0.75 of one of the podcasts. Because it is a podcast about beauty, design, intention, and history. Are you kidding me.
An overview of Washington’s own deeply unlikely Bavarian-style town, written by a British woman on her Paris-themed blog. Yes, internet, I like you just fine.
I like Leavenworth, although I’ve been once and don’t feel compelled to go again. I went around Christmas with friends several years ago. Lots of tourists in weird hats, due to an oddly successful weird hat store, placed prominently in the center of the town. My favorite part was a big, big tree, its canopying branches carefully wrapped in softly glowing blue-white lights. If it hadn’t been about 25 degrees, I might’ve laid down on the stone wall beneath it and stared up at it and the peeks of midnight-blue sky showing through for hours. I’m not sure if it’s better or worse that I didn’t have a camera up for capturing it. Continue reading
Hither and Thither #8
A nearly deserted replica of Paris in Tianducheng, because of course there is. Continue reading
Hither and Thither #7
So, uh, I figured out where I’m going to be this time next year, I think. (On a temporary basis, that is.*) Behold:
On the Closure of Another Mainstay, on the New Landmarks of Another Day
I walk by this every day. Often twice.
And yet, its impending expiration gave it an extra layer of specialness. Induced me to leave my homework and go outside for coffee at 9:45 pm on a Saturday night. Prompted me to take a couple dozen pictures of things I’ve seen and not thought deeply about so very many times. Continue reading
On the Shore of Lake Crescent
A couple weekends ago, I was part of an unlikely trio. I’ll let you finish the joke yourself: a Frenchman, a Chinese student, and a former Midwesterner are in an Audi, speeding through the Washington peninsula on a fine sunny Saturday. Continue reading
Hither and Thither #3
What shall we use to fill the empty spaces where we used to talk? Over on io9, an embarrassing wealth of ghost towns.
Hither and Thither #2
“I want to go here; add this to the list” is something I say to myself pretty often lately. (Two recent additions: Alaska in the summer, to hike and see the nearly-all-day sun; a couple free-form weeks on the Eurail. These both happened within FIVE MINUTES.) But Asia is something that hasn’t piqued my interest so much until recently, mostly because of my fears around not being able to talk to everyone.* But OH MY GOD, this! According to this, the Wat Samphran Temple isn’t on many mainstream tours, which says, to me, that most mainstream tours are exercising poor judgment. I want to go there and just stare at it for about 15 minutes before wandering through all the (publicly accessible) nooks and crannies of this incredible place. Continue reading
Hither and Thither #1
It’s Seattle. Of course there are bees on a dock in South Lake Union. OF COURSE THERE ARE.
Capitol Hill Seattle’s picture roundup of the vigil for Melrose and Pine. Now’s the time to sit at Bauhaus, have ok-enough coffee, and pass judgment on people walking by – its days are waning as another big, dumb construction project looms. Continue reading