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Er Qiao, He Mei, He Qi and Xing Mei at the Chengdu Panda Base in China on November 13, 2011.

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.”

S’s Guide to London

Lloyd’s of London Building Richard Rogers

I have not heard the term hyper functionalism used in this manner. I have heard High-tech Architecture and Bowellism to describe it. Both rely in the idea of expressing elements of building systems (structural, mechanical, electrical, etc) and technology instead of hiding them. The degree to which they express these element varies with Bowellism being the most extreme version, where you show the building’s guts (bowels) to the world.

Pompidou Centre Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano

Central Library of Rotterdam Jaap Bakema

Internationales Congress Centrum BerlinUrsulina Schüler-Witte + Ralf Schüler

The Man Who Laughs is a 1928 American silent film directed by the German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni. It’s about a man named Gwynplaine. His father was a nobleman. Orphaned as a child, he is captured by outlaws who use a knife to carve his face into a hideous grin. It’s considered a melodrama with roots in horror. You can watch it here

自分の痛みには敏感なのに、他人の痛みには鈍感になっちゃうね。そういうの気づくと切ないなあって。