Endless day, in Norway. (endeløs tag)
1 December 2009, 5:47pm • photography things northerly language Comments (View)
language instruction adventures, three
excerpts from LanguageGuide’s French Grammar: Subjunctive
Elle veut que nous soyons à la fête.
She wants us to be at the party.
J’aimerais que vous m’appeliez demain.
I would like for you to call me tomorrow.
Nous voulons que tu réussisses.
We want you to succeed.
C’est vrai que Frank est né sur Mars.
It’s true that Frank was born on Mars.
Son ambition est que son fils devienne president.
His/her ambition is that his/her son becomes president.
Le roi exige que vous rentriez à Versailles.
The king demands that you return to Versailles.
Que le roi punisse les responsables!
May the king punish those responsible!
Que vos cheveux deviennent vert.
May your hair become green.
Je voulais que tu sois là, mais tu préfères être avec Henri.
I wanted you to be there, but you prefer being with Henri.
Il faut que tu sache la vérité!
You must know the truth!
Il est nécessaire que vous vous rappeliez ce qui est important dans la vie.
It is necessary that you remember what’s important in life.
Il est nécessaire que vous mangiez tous les jours.
It is necessary that you eat every day.
26 November 2009, 10:59pm • language Comments (View)
Tiny tiny terraria and succulents in seashells, by Tortoise on Etsy.
25 November 2009, 9:48pm • habitat natural history objects language Comments (View)
DIAGRAM, an electronic publication for (to pick some words from their submission guidelines) ‘representations, naming, indicating, schematics, the labelling and taxonomy of things… vivisection, urgency, risk, flamboyance… writing that demonstrates / interaction; the processes / of things, both inner and outer’; An Atlas of Radical Cartography, maps and essays ‘about social issues from globalization to garbage; surveillance to extraordinary rendition; statelessness to visibility; deportation to migration’; A Shoal of Mackerel, an aritsts’ book publishing house based in Glasgow and Göteborg.
26 October 2009, 1:04am • art everything else paper things northerly language Comments (View)
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Things I would love to ask Björk: if Anchor Song references Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 (Op. 132). It’s a mere moment, but I can imagine a seed (and as she says, she went through ‘ten…
20 October 2009, 7:54pmComments (View)
Gabriel Sierra
Proposal for making the mirrors of the world smaller, so the houses will seem to be bigger
Artefact for watching fruits ripening, or for eating them, instead
On Gabriel Sierra [ES] or read in Google’s translation [EN]
Photographs by (and discovery via) William Contreras Alfonso
14 October 2009, 5:14pm • art objects habitat Comments (View)
field-notes (shameless self-promotion; I’d like to find other odd corners of this beehive.)
13 October 2009, 3:54pmComments (View)
I have a unique name, and MIT’s ‘Personas’ toy draws an intriguing characterisation from the handful of places it appears across cyberspace.
(‘online’ - ‘books’ - ‘education’ - ‘domestic’ - ‘politics’ - ‘art’)
26 September 2009, 9:57pm • everything else Comments (View)
