Latest Posts by maurohussein-blog - Page 5
Landscape
Architecture
Peace
kari-shma:
© Joseph Holmes | Photographed looking down on West 43 St. in New York.
magdalina:
Geoff Manaugh at BLDGBLOG on what might have been The Road’s world-ending disaster:
The only glimpse we’re given of what violently ends the known order of things is this brief scene; I have left McCarthy’s original spelling and punctuation and intact:
The clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions. He got up and went to the window. What is it? she said. He didnt answer. He went into the bathroom and threw the lightswitch but the power was already gone. A dull rose glow in the windowglass. He dropped to one knee and raised the lever to stop the tub and the turned on both taps as far as they would go. She was standing in the doorway in her nightwear, clutching the jamb, cradling her belly in one hand. What is it? she said. What is happening?
I dont know. Why are you taking a bath? I’m not.
After this, the landscape outside—everywhere—is described as “scabbed” and “cauterized,” heavily covered in ash. McCarthy memorably writes: “They sat at the window and ate in their robes by candlelight a midnight supper and watched distant cities burn.”
… McCarthy’s end-times scenario sounds, to me, remarkably like nuclear war, but in his Wall Street Journal interview McCarthy entertains, even if only casually, that it could also have been the caldera beneath Yellowstone National Park finally exploding. McCarthy:
A lot of people ask me [what caused The Road’s apocalypse]. I don’t have an opinion. At the Santa Fe Institute I’m with scientists of all disciplines, and some of them in geology said it looked like a meteor to them. But it could be anything—volcanic activity or it could be nuclear war. It is not really important. The whole thing now is, what do you do? The last time the caldera in Yellowstone blew, the entire North American continent was under about a foot of ash. People who’ve gone diving in Yellowstone Lake say that there is a bulge in the floor that is now about 100 feet high and the whole thing is just sort of pulsing. From different people you get different answers, but it could go in another three to four thousand years or it could go on Thursday. No one knows.
It was thus amazingly interesting to read that no less than 1,799 earthquakes have occurred beneath Yellowstone since January 17, 2010—a so-called earthquake swarm.
Art
Architeture
Orchids : Arundina bambusifolia
dubdudu:
PLAYBOY
robotindisguise:
I just stared at this for 5 solid minutes.
anosognosia:janitoroflunacy:dariuswhiteplume:(via lumos-maxima)
Städte und Ruinen
robotindisguise:
Jump Rope.
Any one know what building and when this one done? I tried to find it but no luck. (website I got this from had no original source)
dubdudu:
PALACETE DA FAMILIA MARTINELLI - Flamengo - 1952
( Como alguém pode colocar uma jía como essa abaixo? )
retrospace:
Bond (via doppelganger X)
Art
Art
(via sotona)
fuckyeahghosttowns:
Bokor Hill Station, Cambodia (via)
Bokor Hill Station is an abandoned French town in Preah Monivong National Park, located in northern Cambodia.
The town was built in 1921 as a resort by the colonial French settlers to offer an escape from the heat, humidity and general insalubrity of Phnom Penh. Nine hundred lives were lost in nine months during the construction of the resort in this remote mountain location. The centrepiece of the resort was the grand Bokor Palace Hotel & Casino, complemented by shops, a post office, a church and the Royal Apartments. It is also an important cultural site, showing how the colonial settlers spent their free time.
Bokor Hill was abandoned first by the French in late 1940s, during the First Indochina War, because of local insurrections guided by the Khmer Issarak, and then for good in 1972, as Khmer Rouge took over the area. During the Vietnamese invasion in 1979, Khmer Rouge entrenched themselves and held on tightly for months. In earlier 1990s Bokor Hill was still one of the last strongholds of Khmer Rouge.
Now abandoned, most of the buildings are still standing. The site is owned by the government but is under 99–year lease to the Sokimex Group who are undertaking to relay the road and redevelop the site, repairing the old hotel and casino along with new buildings.
Landscape
Landscape
robotindisguise:
She’s the Angelina Jolie of the animal world.
Zafira
Zafira (by mobile)
oldhollywood:
Jeanne Moreau in La Notte (1961, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
kevin:
My mom has been sending me pictures of wintry fog in Overland Park, Kansas — and to me it always looks like the ice planet Hoth from The Empire Strikes Back. So, I took it a step further and added some AT-ATs. That’s my high school football stadium in the background.
Coqueirão Ipanema Beach
Clouds