ok, architecture and citrus.
2 pictures of a beautiful craftsman house, and 2 pictures of people cleaning and cutting up oranges.
first: i was driving down a random street on a random day in hollywood and i saw this perfect little craftsman house so i decided to stop illegally and take some pictures.
i love this particular craftsman house because the japanese influence is so clear and apparent.
it’s in the middle of hollywood, but it sort of kind of looks as if it could be in/on hokkaido.
ok, in the spirit of full disclosure: i’ve never been to hokkaido.
i was just trying to sound worldly.
i do know that there’s a pumpkin called the ‘hokkaido pumpkin’.
and i think that tadao ando has built some great buildings in hokkaido.
but again, i was just trying to sound fancy in referencing a place (hokkaido) to which i’ve never been.
and, second: pictures of people washing and cutting up oranges.
see, bill pullman and his amazing wife have been instrumental in setting up the hollywood orchard:
http://www.hollywoodorchard.org/
and saturday they had their first: ‘pick’n kitchen’.
basically people went around the neighborhood and gathered up ripe fruit (1,500 pounds gathered!) and brought
it back to the pullman’s and made juice and dehydrated oranges and all sorts of other things.
you know, typical gritty, urban activities (to be clear: this sentence is me being facetious, as it was neither gritty nor typically urban, as evidenced below).
it was a really nice day, just neighbors picking and gathering and juicing fruit from the neighborhood.
so, hokkaido inspired craftsman house and hollywood orchard ‘pick’n kitchen’.
thanks,
moby
Benedict Cumberbatch attends Paul Smith Los Angeles Hosts Gary Oldman And Jack English For Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Still Photography Exhibit at Paul Smith on February 23, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
Oh Benedict, we all miss you.
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R.E.M. wave goodbye with a big old Beach Boys sound: “We All Go Back to Where We Belong”
31 Razones para dar las gracias¡¡¡…Viva R.E.M.
1. Por la coherencia musical e intelectual a lo largo de su carrera.
2. Por hacernos sentir orgullosos de sus declaraciones.
3. Por los singles del fanclub.
4. Por la mítica cinta de las polkas.
5. Por el videoclip de Crush With Eyeliner.
6. Por Tyrone’s y el 40 Watt Club.
7. Por la historia de Minnie Minnola.
8. Por Be Mine, Find The River y Fall on Me.
9. Por Tired Pony, Minus 5 y The Baseball Project
10. Por el Vote for Change.
11. Por el aneurisma y el incidente aéreo.
12. Por Scott Litt.
13. Por las giras por Sudamérica.
14. Por las historias sureñas.
15. Por la Rickenbacker.
16. Por Vienne y el Sant Jordi de Barcelona.
17. Por Kenneth y la frecuencia.
18. Por Murmur, Up y Automatic.
19. Por sus directos.
20. Por el Morning Team.
21. Por su época IRS.
22. Por Everybody Hurts en vivo.
23. Por Zoe y Zelda.
24. Por los “nudie suits” de Mike.
25. Por el Tourfilm.
26. Por Bertis Downs, Jefferson Holt y Mitch Easter.
27. Por su época Warner.
28. Por Andy Kaufman.
29. Por la lista de correo, el foro, el twitter, el facebook y el blog.
30. Porque siempre podrás decir que eres fan de R.E.M. con la cabeza bien alta.
31. Porque quiero que añadas más razones en los comentarios.
Hoy en día hablamos demasiado. Se pronuncian demasiadas palabras, demasiadas promesas incumplidas que destruyen nuestra belleza interior. El silencio preserva esa belleza, la mantiene pura .
Kim Ki-duk, cineasta Koreano.
Goodbye R.E.M.
“To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening.” R.E.M.
In their own words: The guys share their thoughts on why now.
MIKE
“During our last tour, and while making Collapse Into Now and putting together this greatest hits retrospective, we started asking ourselves, ‘what next’? Working through our music and memories from over three decades was a hell of a journey. We realized that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together.
“We have always been a band in the truest sense of the word. Brothers who truly love, and respect, each other. We feel kind of like pioneers in this—there’s no disharmony here, no falling-outs, no lawyers squaring-off. We’ve made this decision together, amicably and with each other’s best interests at heart. The time just feels right.”
MICHAEL
“A wise man once said—‘the skill in attending a party is knowing when it’s time to leave. We built something extraordinary together. We did this thing. And now we’re going to walk away from it.
“I hope our fans realize this wasn’t an easy decision; but all things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way.
“We have to thank all the people who helped us be R.E.M. for these 31 years; our deepest gratitude to those who allowed us to do this. It’s been amazing.”
PETER
“One of the things that was always so great about being in R.E.M. was the fact that the records and the songs we wrote meant as much to our fans as they did to us. It was, and still is, important to us to do right by you. Being a part of your lives has been an unbelievable gift. Thank you.
“Mike, Michael, Bill, Bertis, and I walk away as great friends. I know I will be seeing them in the future, just as I know I will be seeing everyone who has followed us and supported us through the years. Even if it’s only in the vinyl aisle of your local record store, or standing at the back of the club: watching a group of 19 year olds trying to change the world.”
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