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A friend once told me her idea to study the books she found abandoned on the streets of NYC. Who knows what you would learn in Street School?
Today's curriculum found on 5th Street, Brooklyn:
- Train Talk: An Illustrated Guide to Lights, Hand Signals, Whistles, and Other Languages of Railroading by Roger Yepsen
- Neuroscience, by Dale Purves, et. al. (Eds.)
- The Astronomer's Universe: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmos by Herbert Friedman
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I'm not sure who Mr. Belvedere is, but the name just came out that way :)
Apparently Mr. Belvedere is one of those pieces of Americana that I missed before coming here... or so I'd thought.
Strobist Info: Vivitar 283 through white ubmrella at 7 o'clock
6th floor: book. The book stacks at Cofrin Library, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. I like the number font above the doorway. Edited w/ the CameraBag desktop app.
The Long Room, Old Library, Trinity College, Dublin. Built in 1712-1732 as a single-level reading room. In 1860 the roof was raised to allow construction of the barrel-vaulted ceiling and upper level stacks. The collection of busts of literary and philosophic figures began in 1743.
The bookstacks, arranged in bays, are called Stalls and are lettered. A type of fixed location notation. Single letter Stalls are on North side, double letters on South side.
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The lovely bones / Alice Sebold
Scapegallows / Carol Birch
The river knows / Amanda Quick
An empty death / Laura Wilson
The scarlet contessa / Jeanne Kalogridis
in recent months, i've not read as much usual, and my bedsite book stacks show it: they're an odd mix of things i finished months ago, books borrowed from j. and christmas presents. i'm too tired at night and spend the long hours on various trains every other weekend either sleeping or working. that's my two main acitivities right now, anyway.
however, these past three weeks, i've read two books, somehow, between the sleeping and the working: barack obamas "the audacity of hope" and "dreams from my father". and they've strengthened both my crush and my belief that he'd make a fanastic president for the united states.
i wish we had politicians this awesome round here.
go obama!
On My Toes In The Library
Today I felt like paying a little more attention to my photography and took a trip to one of the many libraries at my school. I should have changed my lens from my 50mm to my kit lens but I like my 50mm more and as I started to take pictures my friend texted to go out to eat. So I only took a couple of pictures in the bookstacks and then went off to eat.
Still I like this picture. I feel like it says a bit about me. I'm short so often I have to get on my toes to reach things and I love reading so I like being around books. I tend to like bookstores more than libraries though. Anywho, this is definitely a location I will be revisiting in the future.
Reading (on the iPad): "In Darkness" by Nick Lake. Listening (on the iPhone): "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz, read by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The other three are under consideration for "up next"." Last time I posted a book stack, I had a ridiculous number of books in progress at one time.....this is probably a little more normal.
Architects: RMJM
Completion: 1998
Image Taken: June 2009
RMJM designed their Phase I building at Lincoln to be flexible. Phase II however was to be quite the opposite. Designed as a bespoke academic building housing the learning resource centre and the media studies department, this building uses a similar language to the Phase I building (although in practice, the wooden cladding in particular, has been treated with rather different products, resulting in less of a 'family look' than was perhaps originally intended), but in a different way.
With Phase II, the building is split into two bays, but lengthways (as opposed to Phase I's three widthways bays) by a central core holding circulation and more cellular spaces. The uses were designed to each occupy one half of the building. The TV studio, media spaces, edit suites etc. occupying one side (to the left of the core in this image) in a more visually enclosed 'box', befitting the use of the spaces, and the learning resources centre workstations and bookstacks (though the focus was originally on PC space) on the other side where the façades are more highly glazed.
Where on the other three elevations the building steps out, almost like a reverse wedding cake, the entrance elevation is a sheer four-storey cut with a largeoversailing canopy to signify the entrance (shown here).
The University of Lincoln campus continued to expand after the completion of this building, and it was rendered redundant by the completion of a larger library building on another part of the site in 2004. The former learning resources centre was divided up into smaller lecture theatres and seminar rooms.
The building made a brief appearance in the 2002 (but filmed in Summer 2000) film: Possession, as the workplace of Gwyneth Paltrow's character, Maud Bailey.
My passion rises for storytelling and somehow I've been making a career out of it, from TV now at Intel. Now I'm wising up and reading books about the wonders and techniques. Springboard storytelling was like reading what I've been experiencing inside Intel -- immovable at first, then skyrocket results when you can tell good stories that cut through the data and reliance on reason.
I don't know why libraries (bookstacks in particular) have such an intoxicating effect on me, but I love them!
Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth I picked up on my return from Italy in April 2008. I've listened to him read his previous works -- wow!
Speak like Churchill, Sound Like Lincoln just the title alone grabs me! I could use the help, and I hugely admire both people leaders.
The Opposable Mind was just finished today. This jumped out at the perfect time as I spend 2007 integrating my skills, passions and people and teams at work. This book is a bit repetitive, but describes and motivates to go beyond yes and no. Take the best of everything and shake it all about with your experience, understanding of complexity that is life, reflect and move ahead to mastery and originality in the way you think and things you do.
The Story Factor is my next book to read on the joys, power and techniques of storytelling.
On the Road to Mr. Mineo's by Barbara O'Connor: greetings-from-nowhere.blogspot.com/2012/04/on-road-to-mr...