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National Library of Latvia
Riga
"Looking at the building we see an intriguing form. It is visually attractive to us. What is it like? It is expressive. It is a library, a functional symbol. It is a reminder of an outstanding historical event, important for Latvia, the making of its statehood, as well as praise to the rebirth of the state and its renewed collections of cultural treasures.
The linear nature of words fail to describe fully the three dimensional architectural shape. As to the expressivity the form has many meanings.
To perceive its meaning, it we have to return to the feelings and intuition that accompanied the moment of creation." (the architect Gunars Birkerts about the idea of the project)
If you love books, you won´t ever be able to leave this place....just don´t sit down! Go and find your way through the labyrinths!
“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”
Walter Moers
Make sure to check out this amazing sim inspired by Walter Moers´ Zamonia series:
your uber to The Empire of Dreaming Books
Maybe you´ll even find this one if you look close enough:
In 1993, our daughter was preparing to enter the university, and Myshka and Vaska considered it their duty to help her, going to sleep on her books and notebooks. But it did calm her down and she worked harder in the presence of the cats.
Thank you all for visits, favs and comments, it's greatly appreciated!
This week's Happy Caturday theme is "books". I have given away or donated almost all my books but I still have a book I made of some of my early photos, so I opened to a photo of Jimmy so I could have all three cats in today's post.
Happy Caturday: Books
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Been pondering why we see so little still life in B&W, I'm guessing it's because it's not always immediately eye catching so maybe doesn't attract as many likes! Oh well, I like it :)
Why not head over to the Definitely Dreaming blog and check out the Free Photography Course
Why do we love reading books? Is it because we can explore other worlds or because through them we can escape our own?
Maybe we just like that we can always bookmark a page and return to it anytime we want...
Life doesn't give us this... life is an adventure we cannot pause...
We can just live, learn from experiences, have fun as much as we can... and hope to enrich this adventure we call life.
International Mother Language Day is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism.
(www.un.org/en/observances/mother-language-day )
Therefore I placed a spoon on the Kindle Reader on my iPad and captured this Welsh novella , not that there are many Welsh Language Books available on Amazon.
Taken on the first floor of Bromley House Library, Nottingham, 2018 - Bromley House is a private subscription library founded in 1816.
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The whole world fits inside a used bookstore with its old books and vinyl records.
And this is already the second photo in the black and white photography project depicting daily life in the city of São Paulo.
Compositionally Challenged Week 4 - Books
CC Most Versatile - EV Settings
Got the idea for this in a Google search of flat lay books.
Macro Mondays: "Bookmark"
For bookmarks I use whatever peice of paper happens to be laying around. In this case a used ticket and the documentation for cheap electornic device.
The image is about 7.5 cm (3 inches) square.
Books to get by this stay home time
Poem by a Taiwan poet, 周梦蝶
Essay reflecting Growing old and taking care of old parents
3rd book is about a poet in Sung dynasty
some info digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/11117
These books are all miniatures. To give you an idea of scale, the one standing up on the right is exactly 1" tall. It's about fashion through the ages and has an illustration opposite each page of tiny text. Most of my friends would probably say they'd need 10ft long arms to stand any chance of seeing it, but I'm short-sighted and can read it easily if I take my glasses off. Perhaps I've found the one advantage of being short-sighted. :)
For this week's Crazy Tuesday group theme, Libraries and Books.