May 2008
5 posts
April 2008
2 posts
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March 2008
8 posts
Night
Yesterday happened that I was in London. I decided to go and have a look at the site during the night. Got off at Limehouse station, and made my way to Shadwell Basin. Lots of traffic on the main road (“The Highway”) (it was about 19:00) and I noticed ambulances since there’s a hospital near by. Turn on Glamis Road and arrived at the site. Deserted is the word to describe it....
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest;...”
– This goes along with all the troubles I had to finally put the right weightlines into autocad. Damn!!!
“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche”
Shadwell Basin
London, 06 March 2008 AD. Arrived to the new site for the last project of the year. Gray day, does not help at all for good photography. Means another visit to the site, hopefully a sunny day with less wind and maybe more people about. It is, at first glance, a working neighbourhood. People who disappears into the city in the morning only to comeback in the evening. The place is populated during...
February 2008
2 posts
Tutorial
n1944: New York Learning to See It is noon and James Baldwin is walking with a friend through the streets of downtown Manhattan. A red light stops them. “Look,” says the friend, pointing at the ground. Baldwin looks. He sees nothing. “Look, look.” Nothing. There is nothing to look at but a filthy little puddle of water against the curb. His friend insists: “See? Are...