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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.
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...
All my books currently in various stages of active consumption as of 11/19/2007. In no specific order
Long rows of books hold thousands of books....
Texture by Golden Crotolo www.flickr.com/photos/goldencrotalo/6715637577/
Saturday February 27, 2010 I love that I continuously challenge myself. Sometimes this can be a curse, sometimes this can be a direction. Sometimes this means that you don't get to sleep at night because you are constantly thinking of ways to better yourself.
I took this on my break. I don't actually work in the bookstacks putting them away, I mainly work at the desk checking them in and out. In a book today I found a postcard from someone's vacation.
Tonight a concert at a local venue, tomorrow schoolwork.
An amazing book store in Halifax. We wandered in becasue the site of piles and towers of books stacked in the windows made us curious. There were towers up to the ceiling, windows cut out through books, stairs lined w/ books. There were narrow corridors and twists and turns - some you could not even get through.
If there is anything called madly in love
This is it
Irrationality is overwhelming
Every bit of logic and sense
And I know
I will never love another like I do again
[At a Book Festival, Senayan, Jakarta]
Avoiding — So I’ve been avoiding this series ever since I read the third book when it came out, which was suppose to be the end of the series, but then it wasn’t and I haven’t picked up a Cassandra Clare book since (besides rereading City of Bones last year and being really disappointed with it). I’ve just been really hesitant to reenter this world, especially with my expectations so high. My goal is to read/reread the books before the last book comes out. But who knows, maybe that won’t be the last book, again.
The British Museum Reading Room, located at the heart of the Great Court, was designed by Sydney Smirke and opened in 1857 to house the growing library of the British Museum. Constructed of cast iron, concrete, and a papier-mâché dome inspired by the Pantheon, the room’s circular design accommodated thousands of books and readers, with surrounding iron bookstacks and forty kilometers of shelving. It served as the principal reading room of the British Library until the collection relocated to St Pancras in 1997. After restoration, the Reading Room reopened in 2000 for general visitors, later hosting major exhibitions from 2007 to 2013 before closing for archival use until reopening in 2023.
The British Museum, located in Bloomsbury, London, was established in 1753 and opened in 1759 as the world’s first national public museum. Originally housed in Montagu House, it now occupies a grand neoclassical building designed by Sir Robert Smirke, constructed between 1823 and 1852 on the same site. The museum’s encyclopedic collection of over eight million objects spans over two million years of human history, with major highlights including the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, and the Sutton Hoo treasures--many of which remain the subject of ongoing repatriation discussions.