SEVENTY FIVE HUNDRED assembled rambling obsessions

...a disparate collection of the everyday Magpie-like musings of an Architecture student with interests ranging from Industrial Design to Urban Planning and all things in between...
Paper Cranes - I thought they were pretty cool. In fact, If I knew how to make them, the pipes and beams to hang them from, or the patience and the time to do so I would…But some people thought they were LAME. In fact, in a full moment of disclosure: This photo had intended to be posted on Memorial Day evening under the tagline “there will be hanging white paper cranes”…Which when you think about it works perfectly. The Cranes themselves are a memorial honoring Sadako Sasaki and the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In fact it tempers the unquestioningly pro-american manifest-destiny mindset which so often reveals itself during our patriotic holidays. And on a superficial level I thought of posting this because I loved this photo. Overhead hanging miniature things make me happy. This, combined with the lighting in this space made me think of an entire loft set up under the canopy of thousands of lightly swaying paper cranes ready for a small, yet meaningful, Memorial Day get-together…

Paper Cranes - I thought they were pretty cool. In fact, If I knew how to make them, the pipes and beams to hang them from, or the patience and the time to do so I would…But some people thought they were LAME.

In fact, in a full moment of disclosure: This photo had intended to be posted on Memorial Day evening under the tagline “there will be hanging white paper cranes”…Which when you think about it works perfectly. The Cranes themselves are a memorial honoring Sadako Sasaki and the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In fact it tempers the unquestioningly pro-american manifest-destiny mindset which so often reveals itself during our patriotic holidays. And on a superficial level I thought of posting this because I loved this photo. Overhead hanging miniature things make me happy. This, combined with the lighting in this space made me think of an entire loft set up under the canopy of thousands of lightly swaying paper cranes ready for a small, yet meaningful, Memorial Day get-together…

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