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...Optimism.
This is me, thirty years ago this month as I graduated from high school in Florida. Back then I never imagined that I'd be where I am today (physically as well as mentally), but then again who among us is where we expected to be when we graduated from high school?
Session 3 at TEDxTehran 2019: Responsible Optimism, July 21, 2019, Milad Tower, Tehran, Iran. Photo: Zhanin Zahed/TEDxTehran
I paid for a sickly sweet fairy cake so I could sit across this mesmerising human lightbox, at the St Pancras lower concourse. I never knew what I wanted from it, but I was drawn.
Several listless moments later, three men performed to the script they could not have written together: one stripped off his dark coat and sweater, laid them tidily aside, and posed solemnly, his companion took a single shot, and a stranger took a second.
On the first day of a new year, it takes a tourist to see the optimism in the City's bright lights.
My grandson, Bader or Badouri and I trying to communicate and connect mentally. I think we managed somehow, especially that he heard my voice many times earlier!
Brazilian Optimism : This road built over an other road, to release traffic jam, is one of the thing that caused the whole downtown area to be deserted and squatted. People from the neighbor apartment had the joy to see car passing by their windows, and was a mistake at any level... BUT... every weekend, the road is closed to car and people can walk on it, play on it, and there is usually parties and concert organized there ! So, Paulistano can enjoy this ugly piece of concrete once a week.
is buying a $9 mandevilla rather than a larger one that's $26, assuming it will quickly grow to the $25 size.
Session 3 at TEDxTehran 2019: Responsible Optimism, July 21, 2019, Milad Tower, Tehran, Iran. Photo: Zhanin Zahed/TEDxTehran
During bad days, the prospect for better days is better than on good days.
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An schlechten Tagen ist die Aussicht auf bessere Tage besser als an guten...
(Werner Mitsch)
The Space Age was a time of bewildering change, yet also of great optimism about the future. Conceived at a time of general consensus in 1958 and designed to celebrate and promote the U.S. entry into the Space Age, the 1964/65 Fair opened instead amidst the turbulent conflicts of the Mid-Sixties. Robert Moses's presidency of the World's Fair Corporation became another flash-point for the conflicts emerging in the spheres of civil rights, planning, architecture, and art in New York. Donald De Lue’s sculpture The Rocket Thrower illustrates the conflicts between Moses's conservative aesthetic, the press, and the changing culture of the 1960's. Explore the "space age" art and architecture that survives in Flushing Meadows today which recalls those times and their contradictory currents.
This tour was part of a weekend long festival with Partners in Preservation, celebrating the Rocket Thrower. The statue is included in the MAS’s Adopt-A-Monument program which through private funding conserves and maintains works of public art. The Rocket Thrower is the last of 36 outdoor monuments in this program waiting to be restored.
Jane's Walk NYC is organized yearly by the Municipal Art Society of New York.
Learn more at janeswalknyc.org
For info about Jane's Walk around the world, please visit janeswalk.net
Photographer: Norman Chan