One thing Ghosts of Tsushima was good at dramatizing is that SE Asia is full of severe mountains going straight into the ocean, far more so than the west coast of the US which is itself far younger and more severe than the heavily eroded Appalachians of the East Coast
Like I cannot emphasize enough how much my historical sense turns on home architecture. Like, living in Philly-farm Pennsylvania you would basically see examples from the whole stretch back to colonial days driving around, by 8th grade I was proud of my ability to identify any local house’s date of construction by decade (back to the 1910s, and at least half-century before that), I honestly don’t know how I picked that up, I didn’t specifically study it until college (the influence of Cornell’s Architecture School – uniquely, 5-year undergrad and honestly kinda designy vs. just habitable buildings – did shine through, just like how the Human Ecology [formerly “Home Ec”] college also supported women’s and especially fashion history, technically part of the SUNY system had strong historical backing from their textiles program which had long ago left home production to be a Manhattan garment industry feeder)
Anyway I’ve realized that the broader multi-neighborhood area I’m now in very strongly evokes feelings of the parts of my hometown that were built between the 1950s and the 1970s and this is basically like a geomancer suddenly realizing he lives in the exact kind of terrain he specializes in
Pictures making me realize that before the culture totally digested how to stand before an arcade console, probably one of the closest precedents around was urinal stalls
When did Japan start doing sit-down arcade consoles? Or was it always and the big wood boxes were an us thing?
Posters for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
fact: to this day I cannot help but hear the sequence of notes with which the aliens try to introduce communication in this movie as “Gumby pee, mom-eee?”
There’s actually only one piece of “"Tumblr etiquette”“ that people need to know and it’s if you see a post that has thousands or tens of thousands of notes you should really check the replies to make sure ten billion other people haven’t already told op the thing you’re about to tell them so they don’t have to spend the rest of their day trying to blow you up with their mind
Pictures making me realize that before the culture totally digested how to stand before an arcade console, probably one of the closest precedents around was urinal stalls
Starting to suspect that the injunction against tree-base mulch piles being right against the trunk is really that the portion of trunk buried in mulch will stop acting like tree, with thick bark keeping outside out, and more like root, creating permeable interface, and that’s fine in its own right but when the mulch rots down and that’s exposed to the open again it invites disease
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