Posts tagged walls | Culture Making

29 January 2009

Pencil fence photo, origin unknown :: via FFFFOUND! and the style files

I assume this is Dutch, though I'm not quite sure why. I love how with its pointy crown it's actually a relatively high security barrier, but that the whole concept is so much fun that it seems entirely welcoming.

re: color, europe, gardens and cities, gates, horizons of the possible, security, walls

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31 December 2008

photo by SloganMurugan, from his blog Which Main? What Cross?, November 2008

An atypically abstract selection from my new favorite photo blog. Old bricks on new? New on old? And I'm not sure what exactly what's going on with the minimalist graffiti. The best explanation I can come up with is paint testing.

re: asia, bricks, color, cultural worlds, graffiti, india, photography, walls

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15 October 2008

"A Palestinian woman sorts olives during the harvest in a grove next to Israel's separation barrier near the West Bank village of Abu Dis, on the outskirts of Jerusalem," by Ashraf Abu Turk (AP), The Big Picture, 15 October 2008

I wish I knew more about the olive-sorting process. Perhaps the dried-out ones drift away? Or is she just rearranging the bowl's contents so she can do a visual inspection once things have settled?

re: agriculture, cultural worlds, food and drink, israel, middle east, palestine, walls

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9 October 2008

"the wall," by flickr user lo747, 13 March 2008 :: via Intelligent Travel Flickr Pool

I'm familiar (but none the less amazed) with the look of Cuzco's famous mortarless Incan masonry (talk about a well-disciplined cultural offering!), the seams between the blocks at once organic and artificial. But whenever I see another image like this, I wonder what the seams look like on the inside—do the joints just go straight back? Do things get even more complex?

re: craft, cultural worlds, horizons of the possible, indigenous, peru, south america, stone, walls

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