“The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.” PeopleWholeFeelingsAgeStarsTakenAirEffectsBuildingHollywoodTownsCrowdsTricksGhostFakeSunsetDisappointedArtificialPatheticTornadoesBoulevardObsolescenceSumptuousGhost Town Book:Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard Source: Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard
“A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars.” HeavenStarsBuildingOrnamentation Author:George Sandys
“A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.” ChildrenTwoGovernmentStarsStepsBuildingSlaveryProtectionHypocrisyOver ItCapturedCapitolStripes Author:Jane Swisshelm
“When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor. So I went to architecture school in NYC, because I was crazy about buildings. Then I began to realize that I got more excited about Vogue coming out each month than I was about my projects.” WantedSchoolYoungActorsStarsRealizingCrazyBuildingMonthsProjectsExcitedArchitectureI RealizedComing OutMovie StarVogueNycEach MonthArchitecture School Author:Tom Ford
“There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city, building more recreation centers, fixing more streets. We had national events, the Super Bowl, the (Major League Baseball) All-Star game, Final Four. We built seven hotels. The city hadn't built a hotel in 20 or more years.” YearsGamesStarsCitiesFourStreetsEventsBuildingMajorsBuiltBaseballSevenFinalsLeagueParksHotelBowlsRecreationFixingSuper BowlMajor LeagueAll StarsMajor League Baseball Author:Kwame Kilpatrick
“Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject.” MatterStarsSubjectsBuildingSourceElementsCoreBlockChemistryChemicalsBuilding Blocks Author:Peter Atkins
“About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an act as careless and spontaneous as the curl of a stem or the kindling of a star.” YearsStoriesStarsFiveSawsFourBuildingYears AgoFive YearsRoofStemSpontaneousCarelessDescentCurlsGuttersVerticalKindlingMockingbird Book:The Abundance Source: The Abundance