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holy smokes bullwinkle! i got an air port connection waiting here at the ft lauderdale airport
Bisazza was established and maintains its headquarters in the northern Italian city of Vicenza, which Palladio also called home. Founded by Piero's father, Renato Bisazza, in 1956—a time when the fortuitous combination of craft tradition with postwar industrialization put Italy at the vanguard of contemporary design—the company developed mass-production processes that moved ancient Venetian glassmaking in the direction of a modern mosaic industry. In addition to classic glass mosaic mounted tesserae-style on paper or mesh, Bisazza produces specialty tiles like Oro, featuring 24-karat gold leaf sandwiched between vitreous layers, and Gemme, which incorporates avventurina, a synthetic stone developed in 17th-century Venice that creates a glittering, jewellike effect.
so-fla vernacular: trailer home w/ "florida room" addition
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"If you look back to the founding document of the 60's left, which was the Port Huron statement (also promulgated in Michigan), you will easily see that it was in essence a conservative manifesto. It spoke in vaguely Marxist terms of alienation, true, but it was reacting to bigness and anonymity and urbanization, and it betrayed a yearning for a lost agrarian simplicity. It forgot what Marx had said, about the dynamism of capitalism and ''the idiocy of rural life.'' Earlier 18th- and 19th-century American communards had often been fleeing or preparing for a coming Apocalypse, and their emulators in the 1960's and 1970's followed this trope as well, believing everything they read about the impending crash, or the exhaustion of the world's resources. The crazy lean-to of the Unabomber began to take dim shape at that period, even if many of the new pioneers were more affected by the work of the pacific Tolstoy or of C. Wright Mills (who used to recommend, if memory serves, that people should build their own cars as well as their own houses)."
im getting everybody free mp3s for christmas this year. so here, merry christmas. maybe start with ODB sussudio and come back to the rest for desert.
the six words dj tony coulter uses to describe the music he plays are : psychedelic, progressive, experimental, folk, sound collage. i could shorten that even further to : world-psyche. his is the type of musical sensibility that dug up "os mutantes" from brasilian obscurity a few years back. but thats just a starting place. he mines even rarer psych music from all over the world. check his playlists and listen to the archives.
"A theory that the ancient Mayans built their pyramids to act as giant resonators to produce strange and evocative echoes has been supported by a team of Belgian scientists"
Agnes Martin, White Flower, 1960. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 72 inches. RIP 12.16.2004
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"The velvety surface of the in-situ black concrete skin was glowing in the light rain at the Topping Out ceremony on December 8th. Ordrupgaard Director Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark thanked the construction crew for their teamwork and superb workmanship in the realization of Zaha Hadid’s visionary design. Minister of Culture Brian Mikkelsen led the list of speakers.
The topping out, an important tradition in construction projects, is when the uppermost steel beam is put into place, which means that the structure under construction has reached its highest point. A flag and evergreens are placed on top of the structure marking the final stretch in the building’s progress."
Freedom Tower Site Poised for a Game of Inches
"Yet the waves have to be 20 feet or higher for the contest to occur, and the competition has been held in only six of the past 16 seasons. With waves of about 30 feet breaking at Waimea this morning, the surf was high enough for the contest to start at about 8:30 a.m. local time, media director Jodi Young said by telephone on what she called ``an absolutely perfect day.''
``It's amazing,'' Young said. ``There's probably about 10,000 people here. It's definitely the most people this beach has ever seen. Really it's just an absolute spectacle. The waves that are coming through are just dwarfing the houses.''
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration has launched development strategies in over 20 New York City neighborhoods to create new offices and new housing.