The latest time-series panography of the newly-finished plaza in Columbia Heights at 14th and Park Rd. NW. Shots were taken on July 31st, 2010 from 12:05 – 12:07 PM (Noon), 8:45 – 8:48 PM (Sunset), 11:43 – 11:48 PM (Night), and again on August 1st, 2010, 6:47 – 6:51 AM (Sunrise). View it larger, and on a black background – it looks much cooler.
If you look at them the right way (or is it the wrong way?), the domed ceilings in the arcade at Union Station can start to look quite trippy. Kind of like this.
Shark Week at Discovery HQ is at the beginning of August this year, so the giant inflatable predator known as Chompie is up! He has a few weeks to spend on the building (through the building?) overlooking the Silver Spring metro entrances until he comes back down. Until then, it’s funny to watch the reactions of passersby when they realize there is a giant killer floating overhead. Also until then, there are probably a few Discovery employees missing sunlight in their office windows…
Well, while we are still playing the movie quote game, as in yesterday’s comments, here is the caption for today’s photo: “You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.” Shouldn’t be that hard to guess…
It’s a topic that Matt and I have discussed at length before, and one of my favorites, because it’s sometimes hard to pick a side… Do you think people everywhere are mostly the same, or mostly different? In other words, is there even such a thing as being unique? Basic needs for water, food and shelter aside (although some might argue you don’t need food or shelter (and some of us prefer to just eat, ahem, roses)), I like to think we are all mostly different. Perhaps this is a romanticized view of the world, or maybe that’s just my public school education lingering on, thankyouverymuch Bushy Park Elementary. I think many kids are taught from a young age to believe that they are different, special, one-of-a-kind. There is no one else quite like you!
But then there are cases against this, like the power of the internet for example, when you find someone else on Facebook that loves the smell of skunks , collects elephants, thinks “Little Giants” is the best movie ever, and can sing every lyric of every Old 97’s album… wait! I thought that was just me……..
In the end though, I think we are all different because of the way we think. Even if you took the most seemingly similar two people, their thought processes would always be different, even on the same topics. You can’t account for the human mind and the way it works when you compare people. Some may say, “great minds think alike,” but I think this falls to into the category of coincidence. In other words, there are some of us who, yes, may be considered decaying organic matter (have you ever ridden the metro in the summer???), but I don’t think we’re all part of the same compost pile.
Happy Thursday to you, our very special Juxtaexposed reader.
…Our alleyway bay window pop-outs. Also, that looks like a puddle that Bowser would probably enjoy trouncing through.
A subtle little painting of a mountain range and river valley below, spotted on a wall in Dupont Circle. Reminds me a bit of an Alaskan landscape…
Lots of backyard greenery going on here… I love this little oasis! Especially the flower boxes on the very upper railing. Good place to sit and have a cup of morning tea.
Last night we finally made it to the Keegan Theater on Church Street to see a production of The Graduate . Neither of us are big theater buffs, so I won’t pretend to write an actual review, except to say that we enjoyed the show, even though it felt quite different from the movie — though not without using several of the more memorable lines. Maybe the hardest part for me was the omission of the Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack, which I still have an amazing urge to listen to this morning…
…brought to you by a brick wall.
It’s just one of those days. Your wagon tips over and you just don’t have the energy to set it upright. Poor wagon. Probably should have checked to make sure there wasn’t a puppy or kitteh or something toppled over on the other side…