A Paraglider’s Breathtaking Views - George Steinmetz
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A Paraglider’s Breathtaking Views - George Steinmetz

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The other day, while walking down Brixton’s Coldharbour Lane (a road frequently referred to as Crackharbour Lane) I happened upon a scene which not only restored my faith in humanity but also made me grin uncontrollably. Picture the scene: on the stoop of a tenement building stand three men. Perhaps in another less savoury Coldharbour Lane situation these men might be considered intimidating; however, here on the stoop they have an air of innocence about them. You see, these three men are concentrating intently on a brightly coloured Slinky cascading down the steps. The Slinky reaches the bottom and comes to a halt. One of the men picks it up reverently, places it on the top step and sets it off once more. They are utterly engrossed. I stop for a moment; I am equally transfixed with their antics as they are with the Slinky. This is one of those sublime moments where you forget about the bad things and feel that everything is alright in the world.

Currently reading.
This book is amazing. I love it.

Currently reading.

This book is amazing. I love it.

Progress, or something...


A list for 2009:

This is list of books I drew up, which I definitely want to read this year - as part of letusread. I keep reading lots of other stuff in between though. Distractions!

In bold, are the ones I have started reading but then stopped for whatever reason. (I tend to read many books at the same time, as you can see…)
The struck out are those I have finished. At the bottom are other, non-list books which I’ve finished reading.

A list of books I plan to read in 2009:

  1. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
  2. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
  3. Status Anxiety - Alain de Botton
  4. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
  5. The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus (About a quarter of the way through this. It’s taking me ages to read because I am finding it hard to understand parts and therefore having to re-read. Plus I get too frustrated with reading it so slowly that I start / finish reading other books instead. I’ll finish one day though…)
  6. The Plague - Albert Camus
  7. Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
  8. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  9. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
  10. The Collector - John Fowles
  11. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
  12. Deep Simplicity - John Gribbin
  13. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
  14. Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  15. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  16. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
  17. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  18. Ascent - Jed Mercurio
  19. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
  20. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  21. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
  22. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  23. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  24. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  25. Old School - Tobias Wolff
  26. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates

Random other books (not on the list) which I have finished reading:

  1. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
  2. Slumberland - Paul Beatty
  3. Metropole - Ferenc Karinthy
  4. Fup - Jim Dodge
  5. Cards on the Table - Agatha Christie
  6. Pastoralia - George Saunders
  7. The Moving Toyshop - Edmund Crispin
  8. Why Are You Doing This? - Jason
  9. Charlotte’s Web - E. B. White
  10. The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie
  11. After the Funeral - Agatha Christie
  12. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
  13. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

As you can see, I am quite rubbish at reading what is actually on the list. Working in a bookshop is kinda distracting though… too many books!

drrr:

roseann:

bauldoff:

QLOCKTWO is a typographic wall clock from Biegert & Funk that tells time in words. It is available in a variety of colors and languages.
It has a quadratic matrix of letters, where some of the letters are illuminated. The time is displayed as text in five minute intervals. If you need to have a more exact time, look in the corner at the illuminated dots. QLOCKTWO has a brightness sensor; with its help the illuminating power of the letters is automatically adjusted.
There is also a QLOCKTWO iPhone app.
(via @Typophile)

this is beautiful.


Love.

drrr:

roseann:

bauldoff:


QLOCKTWO is a typographic wall clock from Biegert & Funk that tells time in words. It is available in a variety of colors and languages.

It has a quadratic matrix of letters, where some of the letters are illuminated. The time is displayed as text in five minute intervals. If you need to have a more exact time, look in the corner at the illuminated dots. QLOCKTWO has a brightness sensor; with its help the illuminating power of the letters is automatically adjusted.

There is also a QLOCKTWO iPhone app.

(via @Typophile)

this is beautiful.

Love.

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