colorful language

Morocco was a French territory until independence came in 1956. 

The region is ideal for goats and sheep, so wool and leather for rugs and fabrics is in natural abundance.

Today, tourists support these traditional, beautiful handcrafts.

The Neolithic Berbers employed a coiling technique to make early pottery.

http://living-morocco-online.com/moroccan-pottery-ceramics.htm

Moroccan fabric is still made with dyes and techniques hundreds of years old.

The good stuff never changes!

http://www.moroccodesigns.com/moroccan-fabrics/moroccan-fabrics-index.htm

All photos by selinaar@gmail.com

is this guy getting rusty?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/

how the feeling goes

photos from MetroNorth

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? 

You’ve been out ridin' fences for so long now.

The ClockTower

Oh, you're a hard one 

But I know that you got your reasons 

These things that are pleasin' you 

Can hurt you somehow.

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy 

She'll beat you if she's able 

You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet 

Now it seems to me, some fine things 

Have been laid upon your table 

But you only want the ones that you can't get.

Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger 

Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home 

And freedom, oh freedom, 
well that's just some people talkin' 

Your prison is walking through this world all alone. 

ClockTower in the slot

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time? 

The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine 

It's hard to tell the night time from the day 

You're losin' all your highs and lows 

Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? 

Come down from your fences, open the gate 

It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you 

You better let somebody love you, let somebody love you,

You better let somebody love you,

before it's too late. 

http://clocktowertenants.com/2010/09/fire-broke-out.html

three years after the Jetson’s

See the ClockTower?

Oscar Wilde wrote in 1889 that "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life" about three years after our Bronx ClockTower.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imitating_art

This is in Chicago. Find the tall buildings in the center that look like corncobs.

Chicago’s Marina City Complex is right across the river from Wacker Drive.

The lower floors are parking garage.

Architect Bertrand Goldberg completed their design in 1959 and the buildings themselves in 1964. At the time they were the tallest concrete structures in the world.

The upper floors are private homes with scalloped outdoor terraces.

By 1965, our New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects had given a prize for design innovation.

But the Jetson’s got there first, in ’62.

The Jetsons, 1962

©Hanna-Barbera

root 1. sidewalk 0.

middle eastern homies

http://www.whattodoinistanbul.net/nightlife/livemusic/bronx-pi-sahne/

This just in from Istanbul from a neighborhood called Beyoğlu.

Established in 2009, BRONX pi sahne is a live music venue in Istanbul, Turkey. 

http://elit-tr.com/YENILIKLER/bronx-pi-sahne-elit-urunlerle-canli-muzigin-kalbi.aspx?dil=1

It features locals trying to make it big and established acts on tour.

This Bronx-styled club is known for its nightlife, “funky cocktails” and “loud rock music.”

The Bronx is huge. It’s the world that’s actually small.

graffiti photos by Selina

like writing on the wall

now we can see.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thermals