An artisan works for money. An artist works for love. The minister governs for civic duty or illicit bribes. The minstrel plays for the laughter of god above. An artisan makes the same piece every day. An artist never does the same thing twice. The minister ignores the cries and cheers of the people. The …
The water had waited many years for its opportunity. It lulled us into complacency, courted us into dependency. We thought of water as a necessity. We could not live without it. In this way, we would be unprepared when the water attacked. Luckily for all of us, one boy was ready. He had trained his …
cool |ko ol| fashionably attractive or impressive: I always wear sunglasses to look cool. • excellent: [ as exclamation ] : A computer you didn’t even have to plug in. Cool! • used to express acceptance or agreement: If people want to freak out at our clubs, that’s cool. This work by @thebeautythatstillremains is licensed …
The thing about circles is they multiply faster than tribbles on a starship. First they start out as portholes in boats, then they move on to John Lennon glasses, and before you know it, they are absolutely everywhere. The only solace is they don’t eat humans. Yet. But they do consume oxygen, and soon we’ll …
The giant air conditioners of the future will not cool a room or a building but the entire planet. This will be humanity’s solution to global warming, and it will actually work. Of course, the cooling of the planet will be preceded by the largest extinction event in history. But hey, that’s what zoos are …
Sometimes it’s possible to travel back in time, even if you don’t have a time machine. This is probably what Beijing looked like several decades ago. Even today, it’s still not hard to find the old Beijing. This work by @thebeautythatstillremains is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 China Mainland License.
The Jeepneys are the most popular form of transportation in the Philippines. They own the streets, parading up and down at all hours of the night, trolling for customers. The people pack themselves inside, forming miniature communities for as long as their commutes last. The Jeepneys are chaotic and dangerous. They are awesome. They command …
Every season has a color associated with it. Winter is white. Spring is green. Summer is yellow. But autumn can’t be encapsulated in just one color. Autumn is the explosion of color jumbled together in disarray. Autumn is red and brown and yellow and orange, with a hint of the blue that’s to come. Autumn …
The Great Wall is magnificent, but it’s easy to overlook the high cost of constructing it. Laborers and slaves hauled up every brick of the wall on their backs. Just one of those stones weighs an average of 70 kilos. So when you are standing on the Great Wall, looking out at the fantastic landscape, …
The building did not start as a building. It previously enjoyed a long life as a submarine before retiring late in the last century. The building still longs for it’s ambulant past. It watches as the boats drift by, or the wind carries the birds up into the sky, and it remembers a time when …
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