Category: architecture
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portals #5 (Arles)
1 entrance to Channel Tunnel, Kent 2 Eurostar 3-4 Arles All other photos shot in Arles, September 2014
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portals #3
Seville, May 2018 1 Singapore 2–5 Johor Bahru 6 Penang June 2022 Madrid, May 2018 Penang, June 2022 Seville, May 2018 Penang, June 2022 Madrid, May 2018
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portals #2
Mexico City, May 2025 Singapore, June 2022 Mexico City, May 2025 Penang, June 2022 Mexico City, May 2025
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portals #1
These photos were all taken on a first-generation Sony digital camera with a resolution of 1 megapixel in New Zealand in October-December 2000. Auckland 1 unknown (rural NZ) 2-5 Hastings 1 Houhora 2 Kawakawa 3-4 Kaeo 5-6 Kohukohu 1 Mangonui 2-5 Napier 6 Paeroa 1 Paihia 2-6 Tarradale 1-2 Te Aroha 3-5 Wellington 1-2 Wellington…
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unexpected encounters #14: alt.modern
The angel — three years we waited for him, attention riveted, closely scanning the pines the shore the stars. One with the blade of the plough or the ship’s keel we were searching to find once more the first seed so that the age-old drama could begin again. We returned to our homes broken, limbs…
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unexpected encounters #12: road trip journal
The truth is that in this house with its four walls of glass I feel … always on alert. I am always restless. Even in the evening. I feel like a sentinel on guard day and night. I can rarely stretch out and relax … Edith Farnsworth, quoted on panel at Farnsworth House [Sally] Hemings’…
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unexpected encounters #11: in the zone
War is beautiful because it inaugurates the dreamed-of metallization of the human body … War is beautiful because it combines gunfire, barrages, cease-fires, scents, and the fragrance of putrefaction into a symphony. War is beautiful because it creates new architectures, like those of armored tanks, geometric squadrons of aircraft, spirals of smoke from burning villages.…
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unexpected encounters #10: the arrival of modernity
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalized the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. Karl Marx, Capital,…
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unexpected encounters #8: phantasmagorias
The world dominated by its phantasmagorias—this, to make use of Baudelaire’s term, is “modernity.” Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project He who has once begun to open the fan of memory never comes to the end of its segments. No image satisfies him, for he has seen that it can be unfolded, and only in its folds…
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