Listen: On this night, the house is an organ, an orchestra, a bellowing storm. The stream roars under a bridge and balconies, channeling into rapids, leaping and crashing onto boulders below. Nothing is silent this night—forested as dusk without sun, cloaked by rain that thunders as if to announce water is coming to find the path of least resistance, to find her way home. This is a home of water, falling water, falling everywhere: over flat roofs and cantilevered terraces, sculpted balcon...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Tokyo and surrounding areas had unseasonable snow yesterday: snowing in the central Tokyo at the end of March was the first time in ten years and in 32 years more than one centimetre snow accumulation. The scene of blooming cherry blossoms in a snow fall was very atmospheric. Unfortunately, however, I have no cherry blossom … Continue reading Tokyo Day Out 2019: Cherry Blossoms, Frank Lloyd Wright, Afternoon Tea| The Door into Promised Lands
In 1979, construction concluded on the Awhatukee House of the Future, a $1.2m model home in the new Phoenix suburb of Ahwatukee Village, co-built with input from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Associated Architects and equipped with 10 networked Motorola processors that retailed for $30,000.| Cory Doctorow's MEMEX