“Art Deco never tried to be a 'movement'; no architect proclaimed him or herself an Art Deco architect, but many have been gathered under this convenient umbrella.” — Malcolm Millais, 2009 https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c55717f5fb7692d476138e6293827494d180046e6e6f76fca7c713aee4a3abc1.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1ca6b3836a8e7fbc2b80c0301ec56fdfdcea11a3f3ebb5cee14e1dbc04042a65.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5685a9d62af98c88ef46229e4eaa4ae490608b4ebc796998632b3fd6f51cbe2d.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f321d7bc95cfeeb4138367ae91f34bd261b81178a2053e7c15a5890b421ecc04.file
RT @GrayConnolly@twitter.com: Good morning all & OTD in 1793, Queen Marie Antoinette of France was murdered by the Jacobins, after a campaign of calumny and lies, and an abhorrent show trial, in which one of the witnesses propped up against her was her son-who had been tortured. The age of chivalry was dead https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a447c14f1df21e1ea90692e7ac7790f37c77262f9e12d9a5069d991a1eea2b5c.file
RT @AustinTunnell@twitter.com: Load bearing masonry—you have to bring up plumb, level & square freestanding. No wood structure behind it to “lay to” We do this with leads, strings & form work. Those metal poles at the corners are the guides. We start every build placing them on the corners at the foundation https://hell.twtr.plus/media/befef2d484c6a25f68ff449dd3ee4be8832231d4c3d7265fa05e00afb33452bb.file
“I am saying then, that literacy—the mastery of language and the knowledge of books—is not an ornament, but a necessity. It is impractical only by the standards of quick profit and easy power. Longer perspective will show that it alone can preserve in us the possibility of an accurate judgement of ourselves and the possibilities of correction and renewal. Without it, we are adrift in the present, in the wreckage of yesterday, in the nightmare of tomorrow.” — In Defense of Literacy, Wendell Berry
Memoria Press: Classical Education
In Defense of Literacy - Memoria Press: Classical Education
literacy—the mastery of language and the knowledge of books—is not an ornament, but a necessity. It is impractical only...
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Living fences. Kamakura, Japan. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e92e00b3e8a6641270728b174d7795d585cff9328bf7cc043331e79a17258d39.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/940fd5b4a5945444344bf9f0378e6307ada5222f87f1b4aa8c4024eded55537b.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e6fb00cad7f67f7fdf370dcd4435a9949bde6d0e1f6c319ab1ced4cb8040dc95.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/70f7fdbb0a4062a9aa51b54639be479302876ab563f05710e153a3260562f9dc.file
You can go to any antiquarian or used book faire and with some looking around and a bit of luck you can find some old Victorian "boy's reader" or "girl's reader" and compare with what your own ten year old is reading in school. Or indeed what your college majors are reading.
My neighbor was trimming her Laurel tree yesterday and I asked for some of the trimmings for use in cooking and now she came over with enough laurel leaf to last me the next 10 years. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e0d52e4093a51e7a646e1b9825fe8424c28226061466af992120a91e74b0b96f.file
Ok now let's answer the people who angrily replied and DM'd me about "why doesn't the Japanese government allow free trade on rice? American rice is half price for example!" American agricultural produce is cheap for three main reasons, it is highly subsidized by their government, it is seriously abusing the local ecology by overuse of scarce water resources while also polluting entire regions due to overuse of fertilizers and pesticides, and lastly, it relies hugely on illegal and undocumented labour who should be in their own countries helping to build their own economies. It is absolutely absurd that American taxpayers should subsidize Japanese rice consumers while destroying their own irreplaceable ecological balance and at the same time wrecking the rural Japanese economy and most of Latin America's, at the same time. So let's not do that ok?