“Liebe ist nicht alles im Leben; aber ohne Liebe ist alles nichts” meinte der Philosoph R.D. Precht.
Liebe bedeutet für den anderen da zu sein, auch und gerade wenn es ihm schlecht geht, und nicht nur wenn es “Spass macht”. Liebe bedeutet geben auch wenn man niemals etwas dafür zurückbekommt.
Es scheint (nach ökonomischen Denkmuster…) leider geht es in der Liebe heutzutage nicht mehr darum zu geben, einfach weil man gerne gibt, sondern darum, zu geben nur wenn man etwas bekommt (!?) Es scheint Liebe wird nun zum Tauschgeschäft: Wenn einer der Partner nicht mehr “genug” geben, liefern kann, wird die Geschäftsbeziehung beendet. Der Markt ist ja so gross, es gibt ja unbegrenzte Möglichkeiten…
Oberflächlichkeit nimmt stetig zu, Tiefe in der Beziehungen ab. Die Tiefe der Gefühle, vor allem aber das Gefühl der Verbundenheit zwischen zwei freie Menschen, wird zunehmend vermeiden. Make up, Spass, Sexperfomance, mehr Schein als Sein ist angesagt… es bleibt nur die Selbstdarstellung. Die Freiheit “umsonst”, ohne Zweck, lieben zu dürfen und sich Liebe zu gönnen, wird einfach lieber für kosmetische, oberflächliche Maßnahmen, wie z.B Spass, Kurzlebigkeit (das berühmte “nur der Moment zählt”), Distanzierung und Ich-Bezogenheit umgetauscht und ausgetauscht.
Und dann fragen sich dennoch fast alle: “Wer liebt mich ?” statt “Wen liebe ich… darf ich lieben, kann ich lieben?“
Herzlich willkommen: Wir sind in Absurdistan❗️😎
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Update
This shot is from October 2014 and the heart was a present of my daughter Marta. I wrote this text long ago ( 2012 ) and posted it here in Tumblr in 2016.
Today ( 2020 ) this lines are more relevant than ever to me…
Love never ends, will never be destroyed, but it will be transformed.
Love has the capacity to unite us all and fight for a common cause. Love drives out fear and hate and doubt. It has the power to change, to transform people’s minds and to transform environments, communication, knowledge, sciences…
Love is stronger than anything and can achieve everything… it is pure ENERGY, an indomitable energy to which we have no other choice but to surrender… an unstoppable energy from heart to heart mixed with dreams and accomplishments.
Love is our greatest tool and the only cure for the disease of greed and selfishness that have befallen our beautiful planet.
Askhole: A person who constantly ask for your advice, yet always does the opposite of what you told them.
Nonversation: A completely worthless conversation, wherein nothing is illuminated, explained or otherwise elaborated upon. Typically occurs at parties, bars or other events .
Destinesia: When you get to where you were intending to go, you forget why you were going there in the first place. Not to be confused with being stoned.
Textpectation: The anticipation one feels when waiting for a response to a text message.
Carcolepsy: The inability to stay awake and alert when in a car, or any other thing that moves, such as trains, planes, and busses.
Hiberdating: Someone who ignores all their other friends when they are dating a boyfriend/girlfriend.
“The future of Architecture is the future of the human race.The two are one: if humanity has a future, it is Architecture”.
A beautiful house, Wright thought, would inspire its residents to eat better, dress better, listen to better music, and be better people. A house could work with the nature around it if it was made with local materials, had big windows, and was oriented for just the right amount of sunlight. All of these components are part of an overarching concept Frank Lloyd Wright called “organic architecture.”
Wright believed that the buildings we living in affect the kinds of people we become, the taste we have and the comforts we seek. One could change a nation by changing its architecture.
“There was a time during the middle ages when it was the only source of culture. There was no way of acquiring this thing we call culture except by direct contact, see.”
But now that people had cars, radios and telephones, there was no need to congregate in dense urban clusters. Simple, affordable and beautiful homes, custom-designed homes for middle and working class americans, designed to exist in harmony with the nature landscape around them. The fist one was built in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1937, for $ 5000 ( $85.000 today’s dollars). It’s name Usonia 1 ( or also Jacobs 1, the name of the owners).
Organic architecture eschewed the dull emptiness of glass and steel boxes of the Bauhaus and Modernists. Wood, stone and concrete should be celebrated and shown off as they are. Even the layers in composite materials like plywood could become elements of architectural ornamentation. He broke from decorative traditions popular at that time like gold ornaments or Victorian details.
Usonia is a village near New York City where all 48 houses are like this. A group of Wright’s disciples would be the ones to push Wright’s vision forward, by establishing an entire community shaped by these ideals.
Would-be residents were drawn to the project by a combination of factors, including the promise of affordable housing, shared democratic ideals and (of course) the involvement of Frank Lloyd Wright, a famous architect.
The land for this new community was acquired in 1946 and Wright finalized its site plan in 1947. The plan was unusual: it featured space for dozens of houses situated not on rectilinear plots, but on circular lots. The idea, in part, was to let properties flow organically into one another, and discourage yard fencing, which would divide homes from their natural surroundings.
Participants and future residents in this experimental endeavor were optimistic and stuck with the project despite costs growing beyond initial projections: from the start, Usonia was a tight-knit group of young families who relied on each other and shared a vision for the future. Wright himself ended up designing three of the houses in Usonia.
Over time, when people decided to sell their homes, the land would remain communal but the houses would become individually owned (thus easier to sell).
The Last Original Frank Lloyd Wright Owners
Now just five of these homes remain in original hands. One resident, Roland Reisley, still lives in the house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed specifically for him.
“I came to realize after some years living here that there’d not been a day in my life when I didn’t see something beautiful. Even on the terrible days that occur in every life.”
If you were curious about what Roland Reisley’s house looked like (a delightful resident of Usonia, New York who is featured in episode 247 by 99% Invisible. org), some photos of his home are in this video… which is scored with music composed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s father.
Even though the 1950s are remembered as the era of cookie-cutter conformity, some young couples were bold enough to have the world’s most famous architect design houses specifically for them.
No one is quite sure how many Usonian homes even exist across the country. Estimates range from a few dozen to well over a hundred. It depends, in part, on how one defines a “Usonian” home. Today there are houses in Alabama, California, Massachussets, Virginia, Pensilvania… but not all of them were designed by F. L. Wright. His vision and ideas persist though: living in harmony with nature, using organic materials in a modern way, creating affordable, democratic housing influence architects until now. There is, for instance, a Usonian structure recently built by Florida Southern College that was designed by Wright in 1939 but built 74 years later.
Links
Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-last-original-frank-lloyd-wright-owners-1487182327
Create your own opera inspired song with Blob Opera - no music skills required ! A machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Art...
🎶 WE CAN SING OPERA! ❤️💚💙💜 Yes, all of us…  David Li has made possible for all of us to “sing” and create a piece of musical work… and most important: laughing and having F U N ! 🎼 Enjoy!🎵 Singing here: https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHWrq360NcGbw?cp=eyJyIjoiS2FjYzg4b3lWelBkIn0.
"Wright set himself two goals: to define or even create the 20th century and to redefine what we are as human beings."
Foto: Associated Press
The American architect was born in Wisconsin in 1867 and his work includes the celebrated Fallingwater House and the Guggenheim museum.
Fallingwater was built over a waterfall between 1936 and 1939 for the wealthy Kaufmann family. Today, it is used as a museum operated by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Director Emerita of Fallingwater Lynda Waggoner led the campaign for World Heritage Status.
"This was such a stunning building, a tour de force," says Waggoner. "It re-establishes him. He appears on the cover of Time magazine in 1938, this man who is thought to be dead by some, with Fallingwater in the background, and it just captured the imagination of the world."
Wright scholar John Lobell recalls the architect's words, saying, "Wright said, 'a great architect must be an interpreter of his time, his day, his age'...Wright set himself two goals: to define or even create the 20th century and to redefine what we are as human beings."
Lloyd did not live to see the completion of the Guggenheim, dying six months before the building was completed in 1959 at the age of 91.
The eight designs that have achieved UNESCO World Heritage Status are Fallingwater house, Taliesin West house, Frederick C. Robie House, Herbert and Katherine Jacobs house, Hollyhock house, Taliesin house, Unity Temple, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
She is an afro-soul musician from Uganda who uses her storytelling songs to create beautiful messages via her passionate vocal style. She writes all of her own music in her beautiful language, sometimes mixing it with English. No matter which language, her voice moves and can cause serious goose bumps…
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