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Some Friday Sends
#climatechangers #climatechange #desertcities #palmsprings #arizona #onmyway #windmills #windmillsofmymind https://www.instagram.com/p/CU1MxziF8Lz/?utm_medium=tumblr
The Los Angeles of California
Do more of you exist?
These meaningless sub-wonders.
The sheer impracticality of it, it's absurd, to build a city in the middle of a desert. To put such dangerous room for growth on the driest part of the map.
‘As Los Angeles expanded during the late 19th century, it began outgrowing its water supply. Fred Eaton, mayor of Los Angeles, realized that water could flow from Owens Valley to Los Angeles via an aqueduct. The aqueduct construction was overseen by William Mulholland and was finished in 1913.’
‘Today the beauty of Los Angeles is dramatically symbolic of the ancient prophecy the desert shall "blossom like a rose." This blossoming was made possible by the birth of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. The opening of the aqueduct might as well have been the birth of the modern West and the image of the city as a Garden of Eden. The vast quantities of water the aqueduct moved made Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix and other cities across the region possible. The project fulfilled the vision of William Mulholland, then L.A.'s chief water engineer. As he stood in front of 40,000 spectators on the day it opened, Mulholland gestured toward the water cascade charging down the hillside and declared, "There it is. Take it. But as with all things, the aqueduct also came at a price."’
As with all great inventors, that Pontious-Pilot-tone as he washed his hands of the terrible price we pay for this aqueduct, the great losses in water via evaporation by pushing it through one of the hottest places on the planet - 'Death Valley'.
Is this what it means to live in a city, that we will waste tremendously in order to cling to an ideal. Commit great crimes against nature in order to satisfy a shallow want. I don't really understand it, and more than that, I don't know who to blame, or when to blame even started.
https://www.wbur.org/npr/242819699/how-an-aqueduct-turned-los-angeles-into-a-garden-of-eden
I’ve a new record with these @baystationband cats, Other Desert Cities, available everywhere today. Link in bio. Take a listen then come to Sunday’s show! #repost @baystationband Other Desert Cities by Bay Station. A product of desert sand + bay water + time + space + music! Celebrate the new record this weekend 4/29 4-7pm at @starryploughberkeley a Double #recordrelease show w/ @swhosteve & bandmates @kwamecopeland #chrisveenstra @mikeygoodtime #fullband #allages #newmusic #americana #songs #songwriters #sfbay #sailing #songwriting #video #baystationband #alameda #berkeley #desertcities #sandsoftime
CA's #desertcities are a hike fir us " #Coasters " but what they lack in #beach #scenery , they more than make up for in the #windswept #crepuscular #beauty of their #sunsets and #twilights .#inlandempire #Indio #prettysunset #sunsetmystique #skymystique (at Indio, California)
#SouthernCalifornia 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 So... #Mecca to close to home #PalmSprings to not acknowledge... #ClimateChange #Hoax #NotFunny This is about 2hrs from Mexicali so.... not a lot of people know of it.... #SoSad #Asthma in #CHILDREN has now increased... this is what we are leaving behind... #SaltonSea #California #DesertCities #ValleyDesert #Fish can't even live in the water. #Amazed #Incredible how we have let this happen💔
La semana pasada fui a ver “Me estas matando, Susana”, basada en el libro de Ciudades Desiertas de mi escritor mexicano predilecto José Agustín.
El libro me gusta mucho y me gusto la adaptación e incluso que hubieran escogido a Gael para el papel de Eligio, creo que pudo capturar su agudeza graciosa y descontrolada.
Es por eso que dedique mi primer GIF a esta adaptación.
“En ese momento Susana tomó un cigarro y vio que Eligio sacaba su cajetilla de Delicados y fumaba con intensidad. Susana sonrió levemente al ver los cigarros y comprendió que quizás en parte Eligio tenía razón, se hallaban atados por mil pequeños pedazos invisibles, imperceptibles incluso a ellos mismos; se conocán muy bien o, al menos, pensó, conocían muy bien ciertos aspectos del otro: era tan fácil adivinar que haría Eligio, era tan fácil la comunicación y a veces, no habia duda, se integraban de una manera portentosa por lo fácil y natural...”
José Agustín, Ciudades Desiertas.
