glimpse of the city through glass walls

gustave doré, view after thousands of years(london destroyed)woodcut, 1872 champs-elysées, jardin d'hiversection through the nave, showing fountainca. 1850thierry, lithograph, champs-elysées, jardin d'hiver, ca. 1850victoria regia house, berlin-schönebergengraving (built 1882, destroyed 1907)joseph paxton, engraving of interior regia houseat the great conservatory, 1849(paxton's daughter is shown

un coup de dés

photos taken by the near-unknown polish photographer bolesław okoniewski, taken in the 1950s in the great kraków conservatory of flowers,all images taken of the floor while walking through the space, making sure not to look through the viewfinder, but to be occupied by the plants and flowers instead, and to pay little or no attention to focus and exposure issues. okoniewski certainly deserves

gift of simplicity

all images from documentarythe shakers: hands to work, hearts to god, 1984 *more images here *

monochrome music

listening, new and not new - studies in abstractionnew -- aix em klemm - s/t - kranky - 2000 (via gossamer)collaboration between bobby donne of labradford and adam wiltzie of stars of the lid- asher - instability - leerraum [ ] - 2008....leaves blowing through a snowy landscape, not quite visible....- johann sebastian bach / john holloway - the sonatas and partitas for violin solo - ecm - 2006-