The Cloisters I

Head. Strasbourg. 1280-1300

The Angel of Annunciation. Northeastern Italy 1430-40.

The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, was assembled from architectural elements, both domestic and religious, that date from the twelfth through the fifteenth century.

The building and its cloistered gardens—located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan—are treasures in themselves, effectively part of the collection housed there. The Cloisters' collection comprises approximately three thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from about the ninth to the sixteenth century.

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Inside

“Dip him in the river who loves water.”

"Sumerge en el río a aquel que ama el agua."

~William Blake

This week's challenge:
'Inside'

PhotoFriday

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Flying

" The only journey is the one within. "

~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Bored

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Any Given Sunday / Un Domingo Cualquiera

 Street Performers in Mexico Park. La Condesa. Mexico City

"When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. 

But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!"

Ted Grant

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Lost

William Blake’s

Exuberance is beauty.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man, as it is, infinite.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

One thought fills immensity.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts traveled to heaven is no artist.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.

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Borda Garden

The Borda Garden is located near the cathedral of Cuernavaca. Originally, this was a house bought by José de la Borda, the mining magnate of Taxco in the mid-eighteenth century. Later, his son, Manuel de Borda y Verdugo, transformed the grounds of the house into gardens filled with flower and fruit trees to satisfy his passion for botany. These gardens also contain a number of fountains and an artificial lake that were completed in 1783. 

The complex also contains lodgings, offices, a restaurant, and a nightclub. In 1865, this was the summer home of Emperor Maximilian I and his wife Carlota Amalia. It hosted major political soirees in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as those sponsored by Porfirio Díaz and Emiliano Zapata.

Today the area is a public park where the gardens have been maintained and it is possible to take a short boat ride on the lake. The house has been converted into a museum. Six of its halls are dedicated to temporary exhibits while the other seven are devoted to recreating the characteristics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (Wiki)

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Whispering

When you realize how perfect everything is,

you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

~Buddha

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Leaves

There  Is  another  world  and  it  is  in  this  one.

~Paul Éluard

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Vanishing Colors

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire,

you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

~George Bernard Shaw

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21st. Century Skyscraper

New York by Gehry at Eight Spruce Street
From the mind of Chicago’s Pritzker Pavilion architect, a sensuous first skyscraper

Frank Gehry’s new 8 Spruce Street apartment tower may be the most delicious piece of eye candy to hit the Manhattan skyline since the Chrysler Building. It is also a very expensive place to live. A 450-square-foot studio rents for at least $2,600 a month, and the asking price for a three-bedroom penthouse apartment is expected to be somewhere around $25,000 a month.

The 76-story high-rise, Gehry’s first skyscraper, is wrapped in a sensuous exterior of stainless steel that ripples like folds of drapery and brilliantly catches the light. There is nothing else quite like it, though the building bears similarities to Jeanne Gang’s spectacularly undulating, 81-story Aqua residential and hotel tower in Chicago.

At 870 feet tall, New York by Gehry is the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere and a singular addition to the iconic Manhattan skyline. For his first residential commission in New York City, master architect Frank Gehry has reinterpreted the design language of the classic Manhattan high-rise with undulating waves of stainless steel that reflect the changing light, transforming the appearance of the building throughout the day.

Gehry's distinctive aesthetic is carried across the interior residential and amenity spaces with custom furnishings and installations.

Last 2 images by Forest City Ratner Companies

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The Flautist

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Crash

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Sunday Wheels

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time”.

William Blake

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Transition

Fort Tryon Park Gardens. Manhattan. NYC
-Homage to Vasarely-

From Carlos Castaneda's Journey to Ixtlan

People tell us from the time we are born that the world is such and such

and so and so, and naturally we have no choice but to see the world

the way people have been telling us it is.

Seeing happens only when one sneaks between the worlds;

the world of ordinary people and the world of sorcerers.

The real thing is when the body realizes that it can see.

Only then is one capable of knowing that the world we look at every day

is only a description.

My intent has been to show you that.

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge,

because the art of a warrior is to balance the terror of being a man

with the wonder of being a man.

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Sweet Light

“The future is always beginning now”

~Mark Strand


"El futuro siempre esta empezando ahora"

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September 2011 Theme Day : Perspective

The Cloisters—described by Germain Bazin, former director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, as "the crowning achievement of American museology"—is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Located on four acres overlooking the Hudson River in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, the building incorporates elements from five medieval French cloisters—quadrangles enclosed by a roofed or vaulted passageway, or arcade—and from other monastic sites in southern France. Three of the cloisters reconstructed at the branch museum feature gardens planted according to horticultural information found in medieval treatises and poetry, garden documents and herbals, and medieval works of art, such as tapestries, stained-glass windows, and column capitals. Approximately three thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from the ninth to the sixteenth century, are exhibited in this unique and sympathetic context.

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Cymbaline

The path you tread is narrow

And the drop is shear and very high

The ravens all are watching

From a vantage point nearby

Apprehension creeping

Like a tube-train up your spine

Will the tightrope reach the end

Will the final couplet rhyme

And it's high time

Cymbaline

It's high time

Cymbaline

Please wake me

A butterfly with broken wings

Is falling by your side

The ravens all are closing in

And there's nowhere you can hide

Your manager and agent

Are both busy on the phone

Selling coloured photographs

To magazines back home

And it's high time

Cymbaline

It's high time

Cymbaline

Please wake me

The lines converging where you stand

They must have moved the picture plane

The leaves are heavy around your feet

You feel the thunder of the train

And suddenly it strikes you

That they're moving into range

Doctor Strange is always changing size

And it's high time

Cymbaline

It's high time

Cymbaline

Please wake me

And it's high time

Cymbaline

It's high time

Cymbaline

Please wake me

Pink Floyd

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