The view from lazy point
The conservation ethos is deeply present in each chapter.
Atrazine interferring with Amphibians.
Nurse shark
daffodils by April and red birds playing Prima Donna with their songs - 'It aint spring till I sing'. If these things signal spring, and thinking of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, spring stops being a season, it becomes a status signal.
When I came across Witness for Nature, with its massive 634 pages, I felt disappointed that I couldnt take it up for reading.
Parrotfish and coral reef
Net Galley Challenge
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
All those things
According to Simmel , all things not assimilated oppress us.
Reading of diyas, as Easter mugs,in Theories of things chapter of Stuff by Daniel Miller, I cannot recall any daily objects that have events on them as prevalent in US.
Relationships of things
Some are in pairs like the mortar and pestle.
The author studied pottery in India to understand how it sustains different forms for same function. Looking at the pictures of pots in Artefacts as Categories, I am reminded of tall pots about 4 ft high that were used to store grains.
Kabyle
Car upholstery culture
Reading of diyas, as Easter mugs,in Theories of things chapter of Stuff by Daniel Miller, I cannot recall any daily objects that have events on them as prevalent in US.
Relationships of things
Some are in pairs like the mortar and pestle.
The author studied pottery in India to understand how it sustains different forms for same function. Looking at the pictures of pots in Artefacts as Categories, I am reminded of tall pots about 4 ft high that were used to store grains.
Kabyle
Car upholstery culture
Saturday, March 12, 2011
trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I was first shown
a grackle
on a bent reed
Its shrieks too are
on a heavy strung reed
a grackle
on a bent reed
Its shrieks too are
on a heavy strung reed
Friday, March 11, 2011
Like a conversation
Half empty
Jacket art by Mark Matcho reveals that alls not well with the happy-go-lucky bunnies and the man rowing down the water about to take a plunge.
Pentimento
Subjective well being
Jacket art by Mark Matcho reveals that alls not well with the happy-go-lucky bunnies and the man rowing down the water about to take a plunge.
Pentimento
Subjective well being
Houghton Mifflin Logo
Upside down
A boy playing piper
balances a dolphin
turned up
on both ends
The symmetry
of dolphins
A boy playing piper
balances a dolphin
turned up
on both ends
The symmetry
of dolphins
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Decorative Lined Storage Wooden Crates
.. the crate hasnt just been packed tight for the sake of packing. - Adam Gopnik, Intoduction to Reporting at Wits end.
Tailored addictions
Our grandmothers had a little paraphernalia for their daily stimulation. A small fabric pouch that houses betel leaves, Areca nut,tiny steel containers with lids for slaked lime, Kaasu . The people in Trobriand Islands in Stuff add slake lime to betel nuts, to reduce the bitterness of the nuts.
Our grandfathers had a different setup, reminiscent of primitive cave man, they generated a sparkle to light their rolled cigarettes with friction.
Our grandfathers had a different setup, reminiscent of primitive cave man, they generated a sparkle to light their rolled cigarettes with friction.
Point of departure
After reading about the crows going for the snake livers in Wild comfort, I made a statement about intellect's role in driving addiction and hours later I questioned myself if I would be a non-vegetarian if I did the killing myself.
Ghost net.
I like the concept of 'Happy Basket'. I already know a basket perfect for it.
Bat ray
Totopos
Blue in wings
Nudibranch
Flounder has 3 kind of
skin cells to help in its camouflage.
Tree frogs
Ghost net.
I like the concept of 'Happy Basket'. I already know a basket perfect for it.
Bat ray
Totopos
Blue in wings
Nudibranch
Flounder has 3 kind of
skin cells to help in its camouflage.
Tree frogs
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Insect watching
Our abandoned balcony in the winter, has been an abode for industrious insects. My roomate showed me well crafted, beautiful web. In there, closer to the peripheries were tiny insects, spider babies? Hence my interest in the book
Insectopedia.
Morphologically disturbed insects
Conrad Gessner
Maria Sibylla Merian
Mary Anning
Insectopedia.
Morphologically disturbed insects
Conrad Gessner
Maria Sibylla Merian
Mary Anning
New poets
Why translation matters
It is because of Rabassa's translation that I read One hundred years of solitude but I wouldnt say that I remember his name. goes to say of the little credit that goes to the translators, according o the author who is also a translator.
As i kept reading 'The Notebook' by Jose Saramago, admiring is fluidity, i kept forgetting that its a translation well done.
Luis de Gongora
Juan Ramon Jimenez
Gustave Adolfo Becquer
Francisco de Quevedo
Jaime Manrique
Nicanor Parra
Jorge Manrique
Garcilaso de la vega
Fray luis de leon
Sor Juana ines de la cruz
It is because of Rabassa's translation that I read One hundred years of solitude but I wouldnt say that I remember his name. goes to say of the little credit that goes to the translators, according o the author who is also a translator.
As i kept reading 'The Notebook' by Jose Saramago, admiring is fluidity, i kept forgetting that its a translation well done.
Luis de Gongora
Juan Ramon Jimenez
Gustave Adolfo Becquer
Francisco de Quevedo
Jaime Manrique
Nicanor Parra
Jorge Manrique
Garcilaso de la vega
Fray luis de leon
Sor Juana ines de la cruz
Daffodils
My colleague asked me
to pick few daffodils
from her vase
I have never seen them
before
Read of them in
Wordsworth poem
The ones I have
are still buds
making the stalks
bigger
to pick few daffodils
from her vase
I have never seen them
before
Read of them in
Wordsworth poem
The ones I have
are still buds
making the stalks
bigger
Noiseless dream
In a childhood dream
there are snakes on
either side of the road
I am on my knees
a skateboard position
to zoom through
without touching them
What you notice most is the noise
At superstition mountains
I crossed a wanderer
lying on the path
and asked my friend
to quietly do the same
At BITS, I froze
when we were both
on the road
it crossing from a
mini garden
to a lawn
Always avoiding
each other
Vomeronasal
there are snakes on
either side of the road
I am on my knees
a skateboard position
to zoom through
without touching them
What you notice most is the noise
At superstition mountains
I crossed a wanderer
lying on the path
and asked my friend
to quietly do the same
At BITS, I froze
when we were both
on the road
it crossing from a
mini garden
to a lawn
Always avoiding
each other
Vomeronasal
Sunday, March 6, 2011
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