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प्रिय लिखकर

priya likhkar

after writing "beloved"

मैं नीचे लिख दूँ नाम तुम्हारा

main niche likh doon naam tumhara

I'll write down your name

कुछ जगह बीच में छोड़ दूँ

kuchh jagah beech mein chhod doon

I'll leave some space in between

नीचे लिख दूँ

neeche likh doon

ill write down

‘सदा तुम्हारा’

'sada tumhara'

always yours

लिखा बीच में क्या यह तुमको पढ़ना है

likha beech mein kya yeh tumko padhna hai

what I've written in the middle that you'll have to read

कागज़ पर मन की परिभाषा का अर्थ समझना है

kaagaz par man ki paribhasha ka arth samjhna hai

you'll have to understand the definition of my heart written on the paper

जो भी अर्थ निकालोगी तुम वह मुझको स्वीकार है

jo bhi arth nikaalogi tum woh mujhko swikaar hai

whatever meaning you'll decipher is welcomed by me

झुके नयन, मौन अधर या कोरा कागज़

jhuke nayan,maun adhar ya kora kagaz

bowed eyes,silent lips or blank paper

अर्थ सभी का प्यार है

arth sabhi ka pyar hai

everything's meaning is love

– Ashutosh Rana

what is even more heartwarming is that he(poet) courted his now wife using this poem

the hopeless romantic in me couldn't resist making a post about it when i saw it

Physical aspects of memories

Color has been disappearing from the world.

A new research group used machine learning to track color changes in common materials and items, below is their findings for all color changes over time, they used 7000+ items from the 1800s to now to determine color changes in the most common items.

Below are the colors of cars by year, notice how the majority of cars are grey, white, or black compared to twenty years ago.

These aren't data points, but they are comparisons between the 'modern' homes of the 70s and 80s compared to the modern homes of today.

Carpets have equally had the same treatment of grey added to them! The most common color of carpet is now grey or beige.

Even locations that used to scream with color for decades have now modernized to becoming boring minimalist (and I love minimalism) personality-less locations.

The world is becoming colorless, why?

source paper

The first simulated image of a black hole was calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.

Rinaldy A. Yunardi  Jakarta Fashion Week 2016

Sumerian cuneiform tablet (c. 3100 – 2900 BC).  Administrative account recording the distribution of barley and emmer wheat. Probably from Uruk (Warka, Iraq).

The first system of writing in the world was developed by the Sumerians, beginning c. 3500 – 3000 BC.  It was the most significant of Sumer’s cultural contributions, and much of this development happened in the city of Uruk.

A stylus was used to creat wedge-like impresssions in soft clay, and the clay was fired afterwards.  The word “cuneiform” comes from the Latin cuneus, meaning “wedge”.

These wedge-like impressions were first pictographs, and later on phonograms (symbols representing vocal sounds) and “word-concepts” – closer to a modern-day understanding of words and writing.  All the great Mesopotamian civilizations used cuneiform, including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hatti, Hittites, Assyrians and Hurrians.  Around 100 BC, it was abandoned in favour of the alphabetic script.

The earliest texts used proto-cuneiform, and were pictorial. Writing was a technique for noting down things, items and objects (e.g. Two Sheep Temple God Inanna).  This system worked well for concrete, visible subjects, but could give little in the way of details.  As subject matter became more intangible (e.g. the will of the gods, the quest for immortality), cuneiform developed in complexity to represent this.

By 3000 BC, the representations were more simplified.  The stylus’ impressions conveyed word-concepts rather than word-signs – for example, the scribe could write about the more abstract concept of “honour”, rather than having to specifically depict “an honourable man”.

The “rebus” principle was used to isolate the phonetic (sound) value of a particular sign.  Rebus is a device that combines pictures (or pictographs) with individual letters to depict words and/or phrases.  For example, the picture of a bumblebee followed by the letter “n” would represent the word “been”.  With the rebus principle, scribes could express grammatical relationships and syntax to clarify meaning and be more precise.

There are only a few examples of the use of rebus in the earliest stages of cuneiform (c. 3200 – 3000 BC).  Consistent usage of rebus became apparent only after c. 2600 BC.  This was the beginning of a true writing system, characterized by a complex combination of word signs and phonograms (signs for vowels and syllables).

By c. 2500 BC, cuneiform (written mostly on clay tablets) was used for a wide variety of religious, political, literary, scholarly and economic documents.

Now the reader of the tablet didn’t have to struggle with the meaning of a pictograph – they could read word-concepts that more clearly conveyed the scribe’s meaning.  The number of characters used in writing was reduced from 1000 to 600, to make it simpler.

By the time of the famous priestess-poet Enheduanna (c. 2285 – 2250 BC), cuneiform had become sophisticated enough to convey not only emotional states such as love or betrayal, but also the reasons behind the writer’s experience of these states.  Enheduanna wrote a collection of hymns to Inanna in the Sumerian city of Ur, and she is the first author in the world known by name.

955. Adam Caruso & Peter St John /// Studio House /// Highbury, London, UK /// 1993-94

OfHouses presents Houses of the 90′s, part VII: SuperBritish. (Photos: © Hélène Binet. Source: Gennaro Postiglione, ’100: One Hundred Houses for One Hundred European Architects of the Twentieth Century’, Köln: Taschen, 2004.)

Fala Atelier, House Along a Wall, Porto, 2018

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"The feeling that she was not alone took possession of her." The whisper on the stair. 1924. Frontispiece.

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