Vitro Nasu

Nuclear bunker for sale in Arizona

US Nuclear Bunkers, Washington, VA. Pennsylvania

Paul Virilio Philosopher of Bunker Archeology

History Place – Child Labor

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(Italian Family in the baggage room Ellis Island 1905.)

March 1937 Scott’s Run, West Virginia Johnson Family. is a photograph by Lewis Hine

Lewis Hine

Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing child labor laws in the United States.

Bread And Puppet Theater presents: A celebration of the Occupy Wall Street movement. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

We are (still) the 99 percent

Occupy Wall Street was seen as a failure when it ended in 2011. But it’s helped transform the American left.

Vox –

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Merrill Lynch Wall Street Waltz (Digital photo collage by Fung Lin Hall)

Wall street waltz

Alvaro Enciso

Meet Alvaro Enciso, the Artist Placing Crosses in Sonoran Desert to Memorialize Migrant Deaths

Quilt
via (see his art here)

The Constant Presence of Absence Art by Alvaro Enciso

The Art of Alvaro Enciso is often overshadowed by his Crosses In the Desert project, “Where Dreams Die”. Where Alvaro places Art Crosses in honor of migrants who have died in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. His Art isn’t separate from it, rather just another extension of the creative process in channeling the concepts of “The American Dream” through various bodies of work.

(João Gilberto plays his guitar to João Marcelo & Astrud.)

Father of Bossa nova died

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Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars

The Girl from Ipanema (youtube)

Chega De Saudade

Megan Rapino accepts the invitation

Megan Rapinoe and the rest of the United States Women’s National Team have been invited to visit the House of Representatives by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after publicly stating they wouldn’t visit the White House.

Read Brian’s story – (Brian is Megan’s brother)

Megan Rapinoes’ greatest heartbreak and hope.

Happy birthday Megan Rapinoe! (July 5)

How Lebanon transformed Anthony Bourdain

In 2006, he found himself in a country falling into war—an experience that forever altered how he would understand people, culture, history, and conflict.

Remembering Anthony Bourdain trips to Beirut

In 2006, Bourdain and his crew were caught in the crossfire of the 2006 Lebanon war. The crew was planning to shoot an episode of his “No Reservations” show when the war broke out.

They had to leave Lebanon, but it didn’t stop them from coming back.

(Anthony Bourdain with Palestinian children)
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Henry Moore and I M Pei
RIP I M Pei at 102

Obit from Phaidon-2019

Jefferson Hall, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii This 1963 building was one of a handful commissioned from Pei by the US government, who viewed the East-West Center, in the centre of the Pacific as “a meeting place for the intellectuals of the East and the West,”

“Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei was tapped to design the core buildings of the new campus on the eastern edge of the university grounds,” Bradley writes. “Pei was already coming into his own as a brilliant architect, after designing a number of buildings in Atlanta, Denver, and was also designing the new L’Enfant Plaza in DC at the time. Of course, the symbolism of having a Chinese-American architect design the buildings of the East-West Center was probably not lost on anybody.”

The residential blocks were heavily influenced by Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation designs; (Pei was such a Corbu fan he even wore glasses similar to those favoured by the Swiss-French architect). However, the Hawaiian climate allowed Pei a little more freedom, prompting him to include outdoor communal kitchens for Honolulu students, offering them good ventilation, and even better views of the surrounding hills.

I M Pei best buildings

Jane Goodall with one of her research subjects in the Gombe National Park in northern Tanzania.

Happy birthday Jane Goodall

Young Jane Goodall loved animals, books, and books about animals. (Courtesy of Jane Goodall Institute )

30th Century Man, Pola X (Previous post)

Scott Walker 30 Century Man

Obit (Perfetly)

Scott Walker dead at 76

Guardian Obit

Two stars from Pola X have departed early.

Yekaterina Golubeva (9 October 1966 – 14 August 2011)

(29 Palms, Pola X, I Can’t Sleep – Claire Denis )

Guillaume Depardieu(7 April 1971 – 13 October 2008)
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(Soundtrack from Pola X)

Marie Curie’s
Sex scandal?
(photo by Fung Lin Hall from the supermarket rack).

Stephen Hawking (previous post)

See more March 14 birthdays here.

(Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer – photo by Alfred Eisenstaed)

Einstein and Tagore

On July 14, 1930, Albert Einstein welcomed into his home on the outskirts of Berlin the Indian philosopher, musician, and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The two proceeded to have one of the most stimulating, intellectually riveting conversations in history.

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Photo by Fung Lin Hall (Scottsdale, Arizona)

The Dolls – (Directed by Takeshi Kitano, Poland gave this the best film award – costume design by Yoji Yamamoto)

Name these girls – Happy Hinamatsuri album

Google Hinamatsuri

The custom of displaying dolls began during the Heian period. Formerly, people believed the dolls possessed the power to contain bad spirits. Hinamatsuri traces its origins to an ancient Japanese custom called hina-nagashi (雛流し, lit. “doll floating”), in which straw hina dolls are set afloat on a boat and sent down a river to the sea, supposedly taking troubles or bad spirits with them.(via wiki)