Rooftop Racetrack: 1928 via Retronaut
“The Lingotto building, Turin, Italy, once housed a Fiat factory. Built between 1916 and 1923, the design had five floors, raw materials going in at the ground floor, and cars built on a line that went up through the building. Finished cars emerged at rooftop level, where there was a rooftop test track. It was the largest car factory in the world at the time. Le Corbusier called it “one of the most impressive sights in industry”, and “a guideline for town planning”.”
I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
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| — | Stephen Jay Gould (via modestesouris) |
Leaflets
what do you notice about that smile
it’s a moment off of the ground
the kind of flight that’s just falling
the face around it defies modern beauty
those features don’t lend themselves to gloss
yet for centuries they have been treasured
in the chest of a golden frame
a watery eye of some depth like mine
can see those features still on living creatures
how far we’ve come from the time when genius
was a flower that grew in soot
we were born into building the tower we stand on
they were born clawing their way out of the ground
seeds of human achievement breaking the surface
Great, I’m so tired but if I sleep now I’ll be stuck in a pattern of waking up in the middle of the afternoon.
God damned post-exam blues.
Car Crash
flying golden glowing sin
in the belly of a whale
the sunlight in the wind
as it glides beneath our sails
the blood drained from her face
the water from her eyes
in the cold dead empty space
the sin was a just a lie
A: Riddle
What rhymes without reason, and yet serves a sideways point? What gives clues to answers sound by swerving at its joint?
