Archives for May 2012
продавать жизнь
18 May 2012 | Comix, Personal | No Comments
если уж и в самом деле работать.
любителям деталей посвящается
17 May 2012 | Art | 3 Comments
города Маурица для Франца нарисовал Мэтью Боррет.
структуры
16 May 2012 | Art | No Comments
His text works on canvas and on paper were based on systems of cryptography.
кругозор
15 May 2012 | Geography, Literature | 1 Comment
перечитываю “Барочный цикл”, кстати[1]. не уверен, что меня хватит на все 4 тома подряд (т.е., плюс “Криптономикон”), но все же.
так вот, у Стивенсона (в очередной раз) на самом деле просто удивительное количество чудесного между строк. например, здесь:
— Всё же рассматривать виды пусть даже и воображаемого города в определенном смысле полезно, — сказал Лейбниц. — В конкретный момент времени художник видит город только с одной точки и потому перемещается: пишет сперва с холма на одной его стороне, затем с башни на другой и с перекрёстка в центре, всё на одном холсте. Значит, глядя на полотно, мы в некой малой степени постигаем, как Господь видит Вселенную, ибо Он зрит её со всех точек зрения одновременно. Населив мир столькими мыслящими созданиями, каждое из которых смотрит с собственной точки зрения, Он дает нам понять, что значит быть вездесущим.
вы же понимаете, что он говорит о Google Street View, etc, да? Бог суть их чудесный акционер.
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[1] — параллельно читаю биографию Лондона Питера Акройда. и все опять становится на свои места куда очевидней, чем можно было бы подумать.
о понимании
15 May 2012 | Sport | No Comments
ничуть не удивлен:
Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville has joined Roy Hodgson’s coaching staff as England finalise preparations for Euro 2012.
и комментарий собственно Роя Ходжсона:
[H]e’s been someone I have been very impressed with since he has joined Sky in terms of his tactical and analytical ability and his knowledge of players.
широкий размах
14 May 2012 | Apple, Technology | No Comments
это клиника:
Between 2004 and 2007 — the years leading to Apple’s first iPhone launch — Nokia’s total research and development spend was €17.1 billion ($22.2 billion at today’s exchange rate), against Apple’s $2.5 billion in the same period.
don’t want to be a snob
14 May 2012 | Literature | No Comments
но вот очередная “читательская” перепись.
кварталы
14 May 2012 | Architecture, Lifeform | 5 Comments
снова поселок городского типа:
Kowloon Walled City was a densely populated, largely ungoverned settlement in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Originally a Chinese military fort, the Walled City became an enclave after the New Territories were leased to Britain in 1898. Its population increased dramatically following the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. In 1987, the Walled City contained 33,000 residents within its 6.5-acre (0.03 km2; 0.01 sq mi) borders. From the 1950s to the 1970s, it was controlled by Triads <...>.
картинка завораживающая. как и другие.
плюс, так же в “Идору”:
“[T]he people who founded Hak Nam were angry, because the net had been very free, you could do what you wanted, but then the governments and the companies, they had different ideas of what you could, what you couldn’t do. So these people, they found a way to unravel something. A little place, a piece, like cloth. They made something like a killfile of everything, everything they didn’t like, and they turned that inside out.” Zona’s hands moved like a conjurer’s. “And they pushed it through, to the other side…”
“The other side of what?”
“This is not how they did it,” Zona said impatiently, “this is the story. How they did it, I don’t know. But that is the story, how they tell it. They went there to get away from the laws. To have no laws, like when the net was new.”
“But why’d they make it look like that?”
“That I know,” Zona said. “The woman who came to help me build my country, she told me. There was a place near an airport, Kowloon, when Hong Kong wasn’t China, but there had been a mistake, a long time ago, and that place, very small, many people, it still belonged to China. So there was no law there. An outlaw place. And more and more people crowded in; they built it up, higher. No rules, just building, just people living. Police wouldn’t go there. Drugs and whores and gambling. But people living, too. Factories, restaurants. A city. No laws.”
“Is it still there?”
“No,” Zona said, “they tore it down before it all became China again. They made a park with concrete. But these people, the ones they say made a hole in the net, they found the data. The history of it. Maps. Pictures. They built it again.”
“Why?”
в темпе вальса
13 May 2012 | Comix, Culturology | 5 Comments
кстати, замечательные комиксы, оказывается. чудовищно правдивые.
в Аркадии
12 May 2012 | Culturology, Literature, Metaphysics | No Comments
между прочим, благополучная “Утопия” Томаса Мора выглядит страшнее иных с приставкой “анти-“. искренне не желал бы встретить людей, почитающих ее за ориентир.