Quote for Today: Elizabeth Harrower
For five days the city had wilted under a hard sky, sweltering in a temperature that stayed fixed in the middle nineties. Even at night there was no relief from …
Quote for Today: Sadegh Hedayat
The sun, like a golden knife, was steadily paring away the edge of the shade beside the walls. The streets were enclosed between old, whitewashed walls. Everywhere were peace and …
Quote for Today: Henry Miller
Here there is buried legend after legend of youth and melancholy, of savage nights and mysterious bosoms dancing on the wet mirror of the pavement, of women chuckling softly as they …
Quote for Today: Lena Dunham
You are mad to be spending the summer in the country, where the days are too quiet and you have so much time to think. In the city you live …
Traveling by Touch: Experiencing São Paulo in Samparkour
Most of us navigate the world principally by our sense of sight. What if we expanded our sense of touch? This remarkable video, directed by Wiland Pinsdorf, is an exploration of …
Obstacles from Within: Mind is a Jungle by BRZZVLL
All over the world, people migrate from rural areas to the city for new opportunities. What is needed for success? People leave family farms and traditional local businesses to venture into …
Quote for Today: Roman Payne
Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or …
Quote for Today: Marshall McLuhan
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. —Marshall McLuhan
Quote for Today: Chuck Jones
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress; smog …
Animated Construction: MEGALOMANIA by Jonathan Gales
Jonathan Gales is a film maker and designer specializing in architectural subjects. He is also a founding member of Factory Fifteen, “a creative studio that works in film direction, production …