Who says you can't get anything for free? Take this banana for instance. This morning it was sitting on a discarded display table at the corner of Spring and Wooster in New York City innocently waiting for some hunger soul to eat it - nutritional goodness in convenient packaging free of charge.
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TEA HOUSE PANEL (10.27.06) |
This is a hand-painted ceramic panel on the south wall of Boulder's Dushanbe Tea House. The tea house was made by 40 artisans in Dushanbe, Tajikistan from 1987-1990 and then sent as a gift to it's sister city, Boulder. In return, Boulder pledged to send Dushanbe a cybercafe. Dushanbe is still waiting. In the meantime, it's worth visit the tea house website because it really is an amazing and beautiful structure. The food and tea they serve are pretty damn good too.
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Snow Dogs Haiku
no future, no past
in the playground of snowballs
and brittle, white air
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Red tides in the ocean are caused by microscopic, single-cell algae that "bloom" under the right conditions. The "red tide" pictured here is the result of glucose left over in the leaves after photosynthesis stops in preparation for winter. The autumn sunlight and cooler nights turn the glucose red. Here's more information on why leaves turn certain colors.
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3:33 Haiku
at 3:33
each with a steaming coffee
they watched the day leave
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First opened in 1975, the Fiske Planetarium at CU-Boulder and its aluminum geodesic dome have the stated purpose of being a teaching aid for astronomy. And it does teach up to 4000 students from CU and the community each year. But it's real bread and butter are of course laser light shows. The Planetarium does the obligatory Pink Floyd, but also mixes things up with everything from the Beastie Boys to Korn to Radiohead to U2 to Mozart. It's BYOMAS (Bring Your Own Mind-Altering Substances).
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Cold Poem
By Mary Oliver, from American Primitive
Cold now.
Close to the edge. Almost
unbearable. Clouds
bunch up and boil down
from the north of the white bear.
This tree-splitting morning
I dream of his fat tracks,
the lifesaving suet.
I think of summer with its luminous fruit,
blossoms rounding to berries, leaves,
handfuls of grain.
Maybe what cold is, is the time
we measure the love we have always had, secretly,
for our own bones, the hard knife-edged love
for the warm river of the I, beyond all else; maybe
that is what it means the beauty
of the blue shark cruising toward the tumbling seals.
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In 2003, the University of Colorado at Boulder was ranked as the nation's top party school by the Princeton Review. "Sadly," it didn't even make the top 10 in this year's list. Obviously, the CU-student owner of this car, as indicated by the various school stickers on the bumper, is bemoaning this fall, hopes some crafty advertising will encourage more drinking and thus return the school to it's rightful place at the top of the drunk heap. Aim high. (Yes, those white things are snow flakes.)
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...it's cold outside, snowing in fact.
So Dizzy settles down for his long winter nap.
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No, it's a chandelier at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver. The auditorium, originally opened in 1907 as an ice rink but now a concert venue, hosted The Killers last night, who, in my opinion, did not kill. Maimed, perhaps, but definitely not kill.
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Situated on the city limits of Berkeley and Oakland, California, "HERE" resides on the Berkeley side. "THERE" resides on the Oakland side. It caused a bit of "stink" when it was first proposed but apparently the smell faded because here it is. Artists: Steve Gillman and Katherine Keefer.
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WASHINGTOWN COIN WASH (10.11.06) |
Romeo and Juliet
If you will die for me,
I will die for you
and our graves will be like two lovers washing
their clothes together
in a laundromat
If you will bring the soap
I will bring the bleach.
Richard Brautigan
(photo taken at Washingtown Coin Wash, corner of Adeline and Fairview, Berkelery, CA. 7:50 last night.)
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From the raised platform of the West Oakland BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station. Discussions about building BART began in 1942. It finally opened for passengers in 1972
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GOLDEN GATE ELECTRIC POLE (10.9.06) |
They call it the Golden Gate Bridge, but isn't it really more a rusty red? Actually, the proper name for its color is orange vermilion, which also goes by "international orange," and the name Golden Gate does not refer to the bridge's color. It is named after Golden Gate Strait , the three-mile long, one-mile wide span of water it crosses.
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DEER LEG HAIKU
Not there yesterday
I think, "Mountain lion? Bear?"
and where is the rest?
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OK, this photo really isn't all THAT, until you compare it this one taken from the same corner in Boulder in the mid-1880s. (Location: Looking north towards Pearl Street from the corner of Broadway and Walnut). Interesting: notice that the blurred car in foreground of this photo appears to moving at about the same rate of speed as the blurred man walking in the foreground of the old photo.
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TOP FLOOR CONDO? (10.4.06) |
For $1.2 million (actual list price) you too can have this very organic, dirt lot condo in Boulder, Colorado where the top floor is also the bottom floor.
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It sits two and a half miles west downtown Boulder in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. All of the house's architecture is based on the circle and each roof peak contains a chimmey. It's an ode to modern architecture that would have Austin Powers feeling right at home (take the Austin Power's Personality Test).
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During the day this pop-jet fountain on the Pearl Street Mall in downtown Boulder soaks squealing rugrats adroned in sagging underwear and malfitting bathing suits. At night it is usually turned off. Last night someone forgot to flip the switch to "off" and pick up the trash.
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