pausation

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that make sharon pause.

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♥ 544 22nd October 2012

"History is essentially longitudinal, memory essentially vertical. History essentially consists of passing along the event. Being inside the event, memory essentially and above all consists of not leaving it, staying in it and going back through it from within."

   ~   Gilles Deleuze (via eideticfields)

(via invisiblestories)

♥ 59 13th September 2012
♥ 107 3rd January 2012
ryanpanos: retroprojectiveroundabouts via deconcrete Roundabout Vancouver. 1914 What would a metropolis in the Pacific Northwest look like if urban planners at the turn of the 20th century recognized and exploited the spatial potential of existing old growth trees rather than their perceived resource potential?  Employing techniques of photomontage and urban mapping Goodweather takes us on an anachronistic detour that decouples empirical fact from historical memory. While in the present city of Vancouver, the centre space of roundabouts is given over to various sanctioned treatments—community gardens, a monumental rock, and so on—in this “retroprojective” proposal an alternative vision of the not-so-distant past is offered, one wherein forward-thinking city planners leave an old growth tree at the centre of each future roundabout. With this simple gesture we can envisage an entirely different city, one in which the massive trees are no longer a rarity but instead fundamentally define and shape our movement through the urban fabric of Vancouver. While the singular presence of each tree is in itself remarkable, their collective existence is a legacy comparable in size and density to that of Stanley Park, Vancouver’s beloved urban green-space. With this action on the civic imagination the city becomes a forest, and the forest a city.
♥ 19 26th December 2011
♥ 1080 2nd August 2011
architizer: James Corner Field Operations in Focus Above: “A Railroad Artifact, 30th Street, May 2000″ Photo by Joel Sternfeld, from Walking the High Line (2002). Via The Atlantic.
♥ 211 7th July 2011
petervidani: “The simplest and most radical thing that Ridley Scott did with Blade Runner was to put urban archeology in the frame. I hadn’t been obvious to mainstream American science fiction that cities are like compost heaps — just layers and layers of stuff. In cities, the past and the present and the future can all be totally adjacent. In Europe, that’s just life — it’s not science fiction, it’s not fantasy. But in American science fiction, the city in the future was always brand-new, every square inch of it.” — William Gibson, on Blade Runner
♥ 765 27th June 2011

"The moments of the past are not motionless; in our memory they retain the motion which precipitated them toward a future now likewise become the past."

   ~   Marcel Proust (via fuckyeahproust)
♥ 117 7th June 2011
love finding these in the city.
♥ 220 8th May 2011
one year ago today… At 8:04 p.m. on April 19th, 1904 (107 years ago today) a police constable on patrol in downtown Toronto reported the sight of flames shooting skyward from the Currie Building, which was located at 58 Wellington (near where the current TD Centre now sits). Spreading rapidly, by 4:00 a.m. an area of approximately 20 acres was destroyed by flames. To put that into some perspective, Ground Zero, the site of the former World Trade Centre in New York City, is about 16 acres. via blogto
19th April 2011
“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.  Consider this utterly commonplace situation: a man is walking down the street.  At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him.  Automatically, he slows down.  Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close in him to time.  In existential mathematics, that experience takes the form of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory: the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.” Slowness - Milan Kundera via Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects on slowness.
♥ 12 18th April 2011
mabelmoments: Stephen Wiltshire the human camera: autistic artist draws city skylines from memory “The aerial view can be difficult. The information is difficult to draw because there is so much information with lots of windows, park areas and buildings.” Amazing. Click link for picture gallery.
♥ 48 15th April 2011
chart-navigational. 20th-mid century 20th century. bamboo, cowrie shells, twine. pacific islander, marshall islands. In the Marshall Islands, navigation was, and remains, an essential skill on which the lives of the navigators and all who sailed with them depended. In the past, knowledge of the art of navigation was a closely guarded secret handed down within certain chiefly families. To assist in recalling and imparting aspects of navigational knowledge, navigators constructed diagrams representing different portions of the archipelago. Made from the sticklike midribs of coconut palm fronds, these objects were memory aids, created for personal use or to instruct novices, and the significance of each was known only to its maker. The charts were exclusively used on land, prior to a voyage. To carry one at sea would put a navigator’s skill in question. put me out to sea with one of these and you would never see me agian. text via met image via mfa
♥ 18 19th February 2011
 

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