The Magic of the Cities.

Zen promotes the rediscovery of the obvious, which is so often lost in its familiarity and simplicity. It sees the miraculous in the common and magic in our everyday surroundings. When we are not rushed, and our minds are unclouded by conceptualizations, a veil will sometimes drop, introducing the viewer to a world unseen since childhood. ~ John Greer

Showing posts with label Alvaro Obregon Avenue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alvaro Obregon Avenue. Show all posts

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Alvaro Obregon Ave




“Hace mucho que el mundo puso en duda los valores, las creencias y las verdades que en otros tiempos sostuviera. Ahora más que nunca, en la historia humana, necesitamos preguntarnos –todos nosotros, santos, pecadores, mendigos, legisladores, militares– adónde vamos. ¿Podemos detenernos? ¿Podemos, de algún modo, hacer frente? ¿O ya es muy tarde?”
“Es muy alto el precio que debe pagarse por las comodidades aparentes y los adelantos que ofrece el mundo occidental. Dicho precio es la muerte, pero no en pequeña escala, sino al mayoreo…”

"The world has long questioned the values​​, beliefs and truths that once hold. Now more than ever, in human history, we need to ask-all, saints, sinners, beggars, legislators, military-where we're going. Can we stop? Can we somehow cope? Or it's too late? "

"It's a very high price to be paid by the apparent comforts and advances offered by the Western world. This price is death, but not on a small scale, but wholesale."
Henry Miller.

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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Venus

Art and Science
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.  ~Isaac Asimov



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Monday, April 12, 2010

Stone Man


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New York City and Washington series continue in Sketches of Cities.
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Monday, February 8, 2010

The Balmori building


The heart of the Roma district is found where the Alvaro Obregon and Orizaba avenues meet; located in this corner is the Lamm House, an outstanding eclectic mansion in which the family García Collantes once resided and is considered one of the most beautiful houses in the area. Today, this space is occupied by an important cultural centre that has interesting temporary exhibitions, a library and a restaurant. The Balmori building is located in front of this mansion, was constructed in 1922, it’s an elegant stone building that possesses a beautiful patio with a slender fountain. The ground floor contains several shops specializing in luxury items.

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New York City and Washington series continue in Sketches of Cities.
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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Mercury and Argos


In Argos lived Inachus' most famous daughter Io, a beautiful girl who became a priestess of Hera and attracted the amorous attention of Zeus himself. Zeus lay with her, but Hera, seeing them in each others arms, flew into a rage with Io and turned her into a cow. Then she tied the cow to an olive-tree in the sacred grove of Mycenae and set Argus the All-seeing, of the line of Phoroneus - a beast with eyes all over his body and tremendous strength - to keep watch on it. But Zeus set Hermes to steal Io, which he did by lulling Argus to sleep with the music of his pipes. But no sooner was this done than Hera sent a gadfly to persecute the unfortunate Io whom it caused to run madly from one country to another. After crossing the Ionian sea, Io wandered through Illyria, Aenus, the Bosporus (= "ox-crossing" ), the Crimea and Asia, coming ultimately to Egypt and resuming human form. There she maried king Telegonus and, after her death, was worshipped as a goddess under the name Isis.

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