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I'll always be an idealistic and unworthy lover
of distant voyages and azure seas,
and I'll die on a night, like other nights,
not having crossed the hazy lines of the horizons.
Nikos Kavvadias: (1910 - 1975) Greek poet and novelist
Θα μείνω πάντα ιδανικός κι ανάξιος εραστής,
των μακρυσμένων θαλασσών και των γαλάζιων πόντων,
και θα πεθάνω μια βραδιά σαν όλες τις βραδιές,
χωρίς να σχίσω τη θολή γραμμή των οριζόντων
Νίκος Καββαδίας :(1910 - 1975 ) Έλληνας ποιητής και πεζογράφος
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end up costing as much as regular stupidity ;-(
Dr. Idel Dreimer,
HGGT!!
bullfrog, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
Utrecht - Voorstraat
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The ACU is a political cultural center, located on the Voorstraat in downtown Utrecht. The ACU operates independently of (municipal) governments, on a non-commercial basis and is run entirely by volunteers. Thus it has proven its right to exist in Utrecht's cultural and political life for over forty years.
The ACU hosts a wide variety of activities: café, eatery, concerts, discos, political info evenings, jam sessions, benefits, parties and films. There is also a meeting room for idealistic and cultural groups and an exhibition space.
Talete fondò la geometria perche' per primo vide con gli occhi della mente il triangolo formato da un uomo e la sua ombra.
I bambini amano molto giocare con le ombre, ma pochi riescono a vedere che tra l'altezza del corpo e la base rappresentata dalla sua ombra, si può immaginare un terzo lato disegnato nell'aria dal raggio di sole che unisce la cima della testa all'estremità dell'ombra, scoprendo il triangolo rettangolo che si forma.
Quei triangoli, diversi tra loro per via delle diverse altezze dei bambini, hanno una proprietà decisiva che ha cambiato la storia della percezione umana dello spazio: sono triangoli simili.
Possono essere piccoli o grandi, ma le proporzioni tra i lati restano uguali.
Se li osserviamo meglio ci accorgiamo che i tre angoli sono uguali.
Uguale infatti è l'inclinazione del raggio di sole a quell'ora, sia che unisca la mia testa all'estremità della mia ombra che la punta di un cipresso alla sua.
Talete è nato a Mileto, città di mare libera da imperi.
Uomo curioso e fattivo, commercia l'olio e viaggia in Egitto.
Quando si trova di fronte all'immensa piramide costruita da un Faraone che si crede Dio, gioca con la sua altezza e con la sua ombra, osando paragonare l'ombra della piramide alla sua.
Siamo nel deserto, fa molto caldo, ma il sole di Talete non è il potentissimo dio Ra degli egiziani.
È semplicemente un astro che gli permette di misurare un'altezza.
Di più, gli permette di paragonare l'altezza di un viaggiatore straniero all'altezza di un monumento concepito per essere incommensurabile.
Ora, se l'incommensurabilità è la cifra del potere assoluto che vuole incutere soggezione, ecco che quell'uomo greco, venuto per mare dalle coste dell'attuale Turchia, nel suo instancabile misurare e paragonare e ragionare, sta minando alla radice un sapere legato all'assoluto della religione e del potere, gettando le fondamenta del libero pensare della scienza e, forse, anche del futuro libero argomentare in democrazia.
Coi triangoli lavoravano da secoli Babilonesi ed Egiziani, i quali sapevano che con 3 segmenti di misura 3-4-5 si forma un triangolo rettangolo, assai utile per ridisegnare i terreni dopo le piene del Nilo. Ma nessuno aveva mai giocato con i triangoli in sé, oltre ogni utilità immediata, inventando la geometria.
Nessuno aveva sperimentato la straordinaria e irragionevole efficacia della matematica.
Talete è il primo che studia e domanda ragione di eventi naturali senza tirare in ballo gli dei. È dunque il primo scienziato, ma è anche il primo filosofo perché invita ad indagare sull'uomo e sull'origine di ciò che ci circonda.
Si addensano dunque, attorno al suo nome, una quantità di saperi al loro nascere e questo emoziona chi si domanda di continuo quale sia l'origine delle cose e come nascano i pensieri dentro di noi.
Tornare a Talete, quello presocratico dell'Acqua come Archè e il Talete dei quattro teoremi a lui attribuiti che si studiano in geometria, ci aiuta a comprendere limiti e guasti di una cultura che ancora paga la diffidenza idealistica verso il sapere scientifico.
Ritrovandolo, scopriamo quanto matematica e filosofia possano alimentarsi a vicenda perché l'instancabile misuratore di Mileto è anche il primo a cui si attribuisce la frase “conosci te stesso”.
Forse occorre tornare a vedere con gli occhi della mente e con quelli del cuore ... conoscere noi stessi, guardarci dentro, senza fretta, per poter cogliere e proteggere la meraviglia che ci circonda ...
Due to their success as hunters and their nocturnal schedules, owls are often considered as symbols of wisdom.
In Greek mythology, an owl traditionally represents or accompanies Athena, the virgin goddess of wisdom. Because of such association, the bird - often referred to as the "owl of Athena" - is used as a symbol of knowledge, wisdom, perspicacity and erudition throughout the Western world.
the 19th-century German idealist philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel famously noted that "the owl of Athena spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk"; philosophy comes to understand a historical condition just as it passes away. Philosophy appears only in the "maturity of reality", because it understands in hindsight.
"Philosophy, as the thought of the world, does not appear until reality has completed its formative process, and made itself ready. History thus corroborates the teaching of the conception that only in the maturity of reality does the ideal appear as counterpart to the real, apprehends the real world in its substance, and shapes it into an intellectual kingdom. When philosophy paints its grey in grey, one form of life has become old, and by means of grey it cannot be rejuvenated, but only known. The owl of Athena takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering."
(G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right (1820), "Preface")
Cosmo Sheldrake - Owl Song
Canned Heat - An Owl Song
the polder between Delft and Schiedam, Vockestaertpolder. On the photo more idealistic made than it is. Builders, constructors and architects have been very busy with changing the horizon forever.
A photographic movement in response to the emotional dramatic styles of photography in the 1920's; offered a return to unsentimental reality and a focus on the objective world, as opposed to the more abstract, romantic, or idealistic tendencies of photography.
Visional style through the exact representation of the subject, a clear and well defined image construction with particular attention to shapes and structures.
Germany: Albert Renger-Patszch.
America: Paul strand & Edward Weston.
as much as regular stupidity :-)
Dr. Idel Dreimer
HPPT!!
prunus mume, pink japanese flowering apricot, 'Peggy Clarke', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
USA Today bestseller by Leila Meacham.
At the height of World War II, a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the government, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds -- a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer -- all answer the call of duty, but each for a secret reason of her or his own. They bond immediately, in a group code-named Dragonfly.
every word spoken goes out into the universe... lands somewhere or on someone. Getting out of the negative feedback loop is easy.. be grateful and send out what you want to get back. Eventually it does come back around... everything does.
you can still see my installation "Choices" at Blue Orange- Project 4. would love for you to see how all these pieces fit together in the little space I built. If you've already visited, thank you <3 maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Empire%20State%20Island/23...
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu (柳沢吉保) was the No.1 favourite of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (徳川綱吉), the fifth Shougun (shogun). They were friends since childhood, and the Shougun often visited Rikugi'en to meet Yoshiyasu.
Tsunayoshi was an annoying idealist. He is remembered for issuing the Ordinance Prohibiting Cruelty against Living Creatures (生類憐みの令), which was an extreme animal protectionism based on Buddhist ideology of Nonkilling (Ahimsa).
He ordered to improve the treatment of prisoners and domesticated animals, in particular, dog, to impose the restriction on the use and possession of firearms, to discourage the use of leather, to ban falconry, hunting and angling, animal husbandry and aquaculture, keeping birds and fish as pet, training animals like dogs and monkeys to do tricks, etc.
Offenders were often exiled to Hachijoujima island, and some were even killed.
The ordinance had remained valid for 20 years until he died in 1709. The ordinance was lifted immediately after his death even before his funeral, which testifies how the people and government officials including his life-long friend Yoshiyasu felt about the ordinance.
It is a lesson of history for the Japanese, but I have an impression that the history is repeating itself on a global scale.
We are surrounded by beauty and thousands of things demanding our attention that they in and of themselves hold the value and satisfaction we need to solve our deepest void. How many times has the world promised you that if you got the perfect job, house, car, spouse of your dreams, and kids that are perfect in behavior that all of your problems would be solved and the deep void in your heart would be filled. In reality you would be considered very blessed if you managed to have all of those things at the same time. For those of us who may struggle financially or have a less than perfect family situation, it can be easy for us too often covet this idealistic picture that the world tries to market to us as the very thing we need to make us feel complete. We all know that this is not actually true, or maybe you are still figuring that out for yourself. The rich buy more and more things to try and satisfy. The family vacation that you longed for and dreamed of is fun while it lasts, but then what's next? A new car, that only lasts so long. There is a deep void in our hearts that only the Pearl of Great Price can fill.“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold everything that he had and bought it." (Matthew 13:45-46) We can spend our whole life trying to fill this deep void in our hearts and in the end we will still come up empty, but if we pursue the One True Treasure, that is Jesus, our hearts will be made full and the treasures of this world will grow strongly dim.
FlowerChild
noun, word origin,
-a young person, especially a hippie,
rejecting conventional society and advocating love,
peace, and simple, idealistic values.
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It was a real eye opener for me as a Canadian to initially visit Europe and see how the culture has kept alive the whole concept of community closeness that seems to have eluded North America where we embrace the community from our individualistic point of view.
Maybe in our rush to embrace the New World in addition casting off the old ways of compliance and subservience we gave up a sense of community responsibility in exchange for a perceived rugged idealistic individualism that makes for great stories but not a great community.
The Netherlands was my easy entry into travel in continental Europe after having spent months in Scotland and some travel exploration of England realizing there exists a world outside of North America not just what you see in TV and Movies.
Spending a lazy weekend in Holland especially with almost everyone speaking English and all citizens seeming very tolerant of ignorant North Americans especially ignorant Maritime Canadians is a great place to spend your first weekend in Europe.
The last thing I want to mention is a photographic tip about leading lines in your travel photos find them and use them they are everywhere and using them to direct the viewer through a picture is as old as photography and one of the most effective tools you have in your arsenal.
I took this on September 19th, 2017 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 42mm 1/8s, f/11 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , Luminar and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress.
"An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.” Unknown quote.
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Happy Monday Blues!
Il fiore di una mia pianta grassa, l'epiphyllum
Mi ha fatto venire in mente un quadro di Edvard Munch, intitolato appunto ' Il rosso e il bianco', in cui descrive l'amore idealistico e poi sensuale.
Fa parte del 'Fregio della vita', in cui il pittore racconta l'esistenza umana con le sue fragilità : l'amore con le sue speranze e dissoluzione, l'angoscia, ed infine la malattia e la morte
The Red and the White, love shades
( an idea from a painting of Edvard Munch with this title)
Life Electric (also known as The Life Electric) is a contemporary sculpture, dedicated to the physicist Alessandro Volta (1745–1827). Completed in 2015 it is located in Como, Italy. Life Electric was designed by Daniel Libeskind, and was a gift to Como.
Life Electric takes inspiration from the electric tension existing between the two poles of a battery. It creates an idealistic third pole. The sculpture is designed to suggest connections among three of the five natural elements: light, wind and water. Libeskind's artwork aims to create geometries that connects the sky, lake and mountains, elements that typify the Lake Como landscape.
From Wikipedia
Amsterdam - Amstelkwartier.
-Het Amstelkwartier is een buurt in Amsterdam in de wijk Overamstel in het zuiden van het stadsdeel Amsterdam-Oost. De buurt ligt ten zuiden van en aan de bocht van de Amstel omsloten door Spaklerweg en Duivendrechtsevaart.
-The Amstel Quarter is a neighbourhood in Amsterdam in the Overamstel district in the south of the Amsterdam East district. The neighborhood is located south of and on the bend of the Amstel River surrounded by Spaklerweg and Duivendrechtsevaart.
Going out with Frank Hendriks.
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
H. L. Mencken
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Billions want to come to the UK. So, stop the boats! These illegal incomers want to take your job, your second home and one of your cars (at least) and, God forbid, take your daughters from you. They will invade our NHS and their foreign offspring will fill our schools too. Do not listen to Labour, the reds, the trade unions and the churches. Don't read the papers of the liberals and the left - these are loony humanitarian idealists. Beware! Stop the boats, get things done, and off to Rwanda with them!
visionary
/ˈvɪʒ(ə)n(ə)ri/
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thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom.
"a visionary leader"
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relating to or having the ability to see visions in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition.
"visionary dreams"
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a person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like.
"he is a visionary keen on policy-making"
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"Through these city nightmares you'd walk with me
And we'd talk of it with idealistic assurance..."
Anne Clark - Our Darkness
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New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings, the spacious and well-designed workers' housing, and the dignified educational institute and school still testify to Owen's humanism.
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concludes that it will also make better soup ;-)
H. L. Mencken
Climate Change Matters! Vote!!
acer, japanese maple, 'Nuresagi', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
I like to imagine my ideal autumn get-away and see if I can create it in imagery. This comes close. A small cottage by a peaceful little stream with fall colors bursting all around. Unfortunately when you pinch me, it disappears.
Location: an idealistic corner of my mind.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio 2.0 and Lightroom Classic.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken
Kinderdijk near Rotterdam and Dordrecht in South Holland has the largest collection of historical working windmills in the Netherlands. The 19 windmills (windmolen) at Kinderdijk are on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list and a very popular day-trip destination from Rotterdam and even Amsterdam.
Kinderdijk is the best place in Holland to see working windmills. The 19 windmills of Kinderdijk form an idealistic panorama of historic rural Holland as it was a century or two ago. In contrast to most other open air museums with windmills in the Netherlands, the windmills at Kinderdijk have always been here and were not brought to Kinderdijk as museum exhibits.
The windmills at Kinderdijk date from the eighteenth century. These windmills were watermills – wind-powered mills used to pump water from low-lying land back into the Lek River. Steam-powered pumps took over in the late nineteenth century (and eventually electricity) but the windmills were still operational in emergencies up to the mid-twentieth century.
(EuropeanTraveller.com)
Flipping the Lens: Women's Perspective on the World of Men
" Most nice guys say they 'can be' a Don Juan anytime, but they choose not to be. Most women wonder if these men are nice because they choose to be, or if they were simply unable to win over the challenges of manhood.
To be a Don Juan is not just a choice for men, but rather an achievement that comes after hardship and growth. Some men may never attain this status in their lifetime, no matter how hard they try. It takes wisdom and courage to become a Don Juan (Redpill) "
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Methods for becoming a Don Juan ??
" Embrace the Don Juan mindset, acknowledge the amoral nature of existence, and understand that strength in character will always captivate women's hearts. "
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. . . How To . . .
There are 5 brief steps - the science of attraction and the ascent to becoming an ace that high-quality women pursue and admire.
Lv 1. Pure Bluepill
☑️ Completely immersed in fantasy
☑️ Living entirely within an idealistic fantasy
☑️ Unaware of the harsh realities of life and the truth
Lv 2. Acknowledge the Redpill
☑️ Beginning to understand the Redpill, but still holding onto Bluepill habits.
Lv 3. Purplepill
☑️ Grasping Redpill concepts, but struggling to fully adopt them due to lingering personal biases
☑️ Realizing that being a "nice guy" , being nice ALONE won't attract high-quality women without ample resources (attractive appearance, success, reputation, assets, power, or high quality connections)
☑️ Recognized that being a nice guy only works with high-quality women if one has abundant resources (attractive appearance, success, reputation, assets, power, or high quality connections)
Lv 4. Mindset shifted to Redpill
☑️ Firmly believing in the Redpill,
☑️ Well-versed in Reality and Redpill principles
☑️ Acknowledging of hypergamy
☑️ Gaining an understanding of hypergamy and how its impact on quality women's choices for seeking superior men or those with higher status/quality
☑️ Deeply comprehended Redpill but remained vulnerable to relapsing into Bluepill mindset when exposed to Bluepill media (movies, songs, books, media)
Lv 5. Pure Redpill
☑️ Living as a true Redpill.
☑️ Firmly rooted in reality with no possibility of returning to Bluepill mindset
☑️ Fully accepting reality and embracing a truly Redpill lifestyle, leaving no room for regression to Bluepill beliefs.
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#2 Why ???
- George Carlin.
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Over the years, I have had many chances to visit the excellent Horseshoe bend near Page, Arizona. While incredibly popular and stunning in its own right, the photographic options are limited here. The two main styles of images I have seen here are the ones that focus on the river and its very photogenic horseshoe turn and the types of photographs that use the canyon edge as foreground interest like the one here. I have always navigated towards the latter style of photos that include foreground interests. Still, while going over some old images, I realized that I had taken some photos focusing on the river. This photo is, in fact, from our first trip to the northern Arizona area, a chaotically planned trip that resulted in me forgetting my tripod and witnessing a super rare cloud inversion at the Grand Canyon on Thanksgiving Day.
Shot as JPEG. Lead and Wood. After the poem "Appassionata" by Kevin Hanson, The Golden Oriole (2019), 26.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
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Kiev 60 TTL , Kodak Ektacolor Pro 160 , f 2.8 1/30 .
collaboration works with Shinzo " deadstock " Takahashi .
The Ministry Studio .
Kuala Lumpur .
Malaysia .
"Ich möchte Leuchtturm sein
in Nacht und Wind –
für Dorsch und Stint –
für jedes Boot –
und bin doch selbst
ein Schiff in Not!“
(*) Lighthouse
I 'd like to be a lighthouse
in night and wind--
for smelt and cod--
for every boat--
but yet I am myself
a ship in distress.
A piece from the Hamburger Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe. Not for the religious reasons, but only for the hopelessly idealistic ideas, and selfless sacrifice.
The poem is from Wolfgang Borchert, a poet, author, playwright from Hamburg, who lived a very short, but prolific life from 1921 to 1947. A man with a giant heart filled with love and compassion, in a fragile body, murdered by the senseless war. A member of the Trümmer Literatur (rubble literature)
Anne Clark (Devil Machine Remix) - Our Darkness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-lN7L7dkAw
Through these city nightmares you'd walk with me
And we'd talk of it with idealistic assurance
That it wouldn't tear us apart
We'd keep our heads above the blackened water
But there's no room for ideals in this mechanical place
And you're gone now
Through a grimy window that I can't keep clean
Through billowing smoke that's swallowed the sun
You're nowhere to be seen
Do you think our desires still burn
I guess it was desires that tore us apart
There has to be passion
A passion for living, surviving
And that means detachment
Everybody has a weapon to fight you with
To beat you with when you are down
There were too many defence between us
Doubting all the time
Fearing all the time
Doubting all the time
Fearing all the time
That like these urban nightmares
We'd blacken each other skies
When we passed the subways we tried to ignore our fate there
Of written threats on endless walls
Unjustified crimes carried in stifled calls
Would you walk with me now through this pouring rain
It used to mingle with our tears
Then dry with the hopes that we left behind
It rains even harder now
Voices | Max Richter
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“Deemed humanity’s Magna Carta by Eleanor Roosevelt, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 established a baseline for human rights around the world in the wake of the devastation of WWII. Its 30 articles respect the dignity of every human being and commit to nondiscrimination, while also guaranteeing rights to education, nationality, marriage, and leisure. It was an ambitious, wholly idealistic document then, and now—with the declining trend of democracy around the world—the goalposts of the UDHR feel even further away.”
Lyrics:
Eleanor Roosevelt:
I'm going to read you the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The preamble:
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world. Now, therefore, the General Assembly proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance
Article 1:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights
Kiki Layne:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights
They are endowed with reason and conscious
And should act towards one another in the spirit of community
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this declaration
Without distinction of any kind
Such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status
Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of country to which a person belongs
Multiple languages:
Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude
Slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms
New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings, the spacious and well-designed workers' housing, and the dignified educational institute and school still testify to Owen's humanism.
Looking west from the Westfield Mall's rooftop eating area, as a fog bank comes over the distant hills. This perspective reveals many San Francisco landmarks that aren't often seen all at once. I've labeled a number of them in the photo, but one of particular interest that I didn't know of before is McAllister Tower.
As per Wikipedia: "McAllister Tower Apartments is a 28-story, 94 m (308 ft) residential apartment skyscraper at 100 McAllister Street in San Francisco, California. The property is owned and operated by the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. The tower includes mixed-use offices on various floors, and the Art Deco-styled "Sky Room" with a panoramic view on the 24th floor." The building has a fascinating history, that will be sure to interest historic architecture buffs.
From this perspective, one can sense the idealistic vision of beauty and unity-in-diversity that comprises the essence of San Francisco. Now if only the reality on the streets can fully match that high ideal...
my sister in the tiny village church
the most members of my family are non believers, pacifist, left wing humanists and non nationalists, you can classify us as unattached idealists and the cosmopolitans, I'm quiet proud on this fact.
Twilight of the Gods (although I'm not thinking of Wagner here)
Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, known as Palladio (* November 30, 1508 in Padua; † August 19, 1580 in Vicenza), was the most important architect of the Renaissance in Northern Italy and will perhaps remain the greatest architect of all time in retrospect.
Palladio was the "first great professional architect" who only worked as an architect without excelling in any other field of art. His role models were Roman antiquity and the great architects of the Italian Renaissance, above all Bramante, Michelangelo, Sanmicheli and Sansovino. However, he never pedantically imitated them, but rather used them creatively and unconventionally for the respective building task.
Palladio's aim was to create an architecture in which the aesthetic principles of proportion and balance were observed, taking into account the requirements of the building's function and the practical and idealistic needs of the client as well as the conditions of the building site. As a result, the unique harmony and elegance of his buildings is emphasized.
Influenced by Palladio's buildings and theoretical writings, from the 17th century onwards Palladianism, which was named after him, had a major influence on architecture in Western and Northern Europe, Great Britain and the United States that was committed to classicism.
I would like to show you the "other" Palladio here in a series that you may not yet be familiar with.
Götterdämmerung (wobei ich hier nicht an Wagner denke)
Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, genannt Palladio (* 30. November 1508 in Padua; † 19. August 1580 in Vicenza), war der bedeutendste Architekt der Renaissance in Oberitalien und wird im jeweiligen Rückblich vielleicht der größte Architekt aller Zeiten bleiben.
Palladio war der „erste große Berufsarchitekt“, der nur als Architekt tätig war, ohne sich auf einem anderen Gebiet der Kunst hervorzutun. Seine Vorbilder waren die römische Antike und die großen Architekten der italienischen Renaissance, vor allem Bramante, Michelangelo, Sanmicheli und Sansovino. Diese wurden von ihm jedoch niemals pedantisch imitiert, sondern schöpferisch und eigenwillig für die jeweilige Bauaufgabe fruchtbar gemacht.
Das Ziel Palladios war eine Architektur, bei der unter Beachtung ästhetischer Prinzipien von Proportion und Ausgewogenheit die Anforderungen an die Baufunktion, an die praktischen und ideellen Bedürfnisse des Auftraggebers ebenso berücksichtigt werden wie die Bedingungen, die sich aus den Gegebenheiten des Bauplatzes ergaben. Als Ergebnis wird die einzigartige Harmonie und Eleganz seiner Bauten hervorgehoben.
Durch Palladios Bauten und theoretische Schriften geprägt, gewann ab dem 17. Jahrhundert der nach ihm benannte Palladianismus großen Einfluss auf die dem Klassizismus verpflichtete Architektur in West- und Nordeuropa, Großbritannien und den Vereinigten Staaten.
Ich möchte euch hier mit einer Serie den "anderen" Palladio zeigen, den ihr vielleicht noch nicht so kennt.
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“An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.”
Felix Adler