Fiona Apple “Across the Universe”
Live at the Bowery Ballroom - last night - 3/26/2012
I think every single person in the room was hanging on every single note she sung when this song began last night. (via perpetua)
(Source: youtube.com)
Fiona Apple “Across the Universe”
Live at the Bowery Ballroom - last night - 3/26/2012
I think every single person in the room was hanging on every single note she sung when this song began last night. (via perpetua)
(Source: youtube.com)
crazy beautiful video… totally feeds to my obsession with bodies, muscles, dancing, lines, light, shadow, contrast, intensity and just general passion in motion… good stuff @amritaraja
giant wooden xylophone… thanks to @amritaraja via @swissmiss…
this is definitely inspiration for my fabrication installation for visualization.
greg lynn’s ted talk on how calculus changed architectural practice…
i love it when qualities of simplicity are appreciated. being simple, modest, minimal, bare, whatever you wish to call modern architecture, does not necessarily reflect the inability to see beyond fundamental abstractions. quite the opposite - simplicity can represent the essence of understanding something so thoroughly that it becomes a guise for more complex ideas.
harvard chemistry professor, georoge whitesides, applies a similar theory to advancements in diagnostic chips that are nearly weightless and costless. he states that it is when things are broken down to their most simplest forms that they become most “reliable and workable.” his work involves an effort to detect infection with a drop of blood on a tiny piece of paper.

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