Posted by: astrodominie on: September 5, 2009
Ganesh Chaturthi is finally over, with an outburst of drumbeats, middle-aged dancing and a flurry of orange flags. A parade of trucks meandered their way through the city, old and new, to confluence at one point and proceed to Hussain Sagar, where they are tipped-slipped-slid into the stormy grey water with the help of cranes.
Now [...]
Posted by: astrodominie on: August 19, 2009
http://xkcd.com/617/
Posted by: astrodominie on: March 22, 2009
Sometimes, especially when it’s after 5 p.m. on a Sunday and I’m home, all I want to do is cover myself in bubble-wrap, from head to toe, and just lie there popping all the bubbles one by one. Mechanical and soothing escapism until all the bubbles are gone.
Today is one of those days.
Title Source: Piano [...]
Posted by: astrodominie on: December 24, 2008
The words flow slowly. Fingers skim over grey keys. Black lines and curves filling up white space.
Building and deconstructing language and feeling. Streams of consciousness that nobody wants to share. Struggling with songs that your untutored tongue can’t quite sing.
Obstruction and inability. Shining metal on purpling veins.
Posted by: astrodominie on: November 27, 2008
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.
- Keeping Quiet, Pablo Neruda
Posted by: astrodominie on: October 8, 2008
Since I’m bored, I’m listening to SG and lifting this you’re-tagged post off her blog.
Type your answers to each of the questions below in Flickr Search.
Using only the first page, pick an image.
Copy and paste each of the image URLs into fd’s mosaic maker.
Questions:
What is your first name? Jayashree
What is your favourite food right now? [...]