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you know i don’t love anyone but i love you

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to go missing

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Lanouaille, Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

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Eadweard Muybridge

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notice how nobody’s alive anymore

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great day for the color brown today

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dolly.. bred and buttered

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Reed Gold Mine

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Buckminster Fuller & Shoji Sadao, Megastructures, (1960’s)

In the sixties, Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao proposed several large scale projects in tune with the megastructures of that decade of technological optimism, applying the principles of the “design science” advocated by the unflagging engineer, who’s ambition reached new heights, driven by the economic and popular success of the geodesic domes. The “Dome Over Manhattan”, which would crystallize in a canonical image, was based on the notion  of tensegrity which had guided the construction in 1959 of a large scale sphere at the University of Oregon, and another that year that was shown at New York’s MoMA. The greater efficiency of tension over compression inspired an oneiric proposal that he took further with the “Floating Cloud Structures”, tensegrity spheres measuring more than one kilometer wide and held aloft as balloons by the interior air, heated by the sun. Furthermore, the “Floating Tetrahedral City” in San Francisco Bay contained 5,000 dwellings in a 2.5 kilometer high pyramid, clearing a path for other projects of floating or underground cities that also remained on the drawing board, and the “Proposal For Harlem” house 11,000  families in fifteen hollow towers of 100 floors, hanging from a central mast.

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Buckminster Fuller, Proposal for a Geodesic Hangar, (1951)

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the piano teacher (2001) dir. by michael haneke