MELISSALAND

I want this print from Oddhero - large size (72 tall x 44 wide) - $800. Some other very cool graphic posters available - I also dig the Helvetica one and the Spotter one.

Mamihlapinatapai is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start. This could perhaps be translated more succinctly as “eye-contact implying ‘after you…’”. A more literal approximation is “ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about each other”.

(image: unknown film still)

Every human is a scale set to measure the pleasure or pain other humans inflict on us. Each act of pleasure or pain is a pebble placed on this scale. But the scale is out of balance. Most people need more pleasure than pain, others the reverse, to keep the scale in balance. Or perhaps it’s just that pain weighs more than pleasure for most people, and for a few, the reverse. When the scale is too far out of balance for too long, the pebbles are removed, and the scale reverts to neutral. Or rather, it attempts to, because the very act of measuring these weights distorts the calibration, and we constantly drift, never really knowing true measurement, but trying anyway.

(via: constant siege)

Casa di Giulietta in Verona.

Who doesn’t know about the love story between Juliet and Romeo? Immortalised by Shakespeare in the first line of his play, Verona holds the claim to having the houses of perhaps the greatest lovers in history. Of course, there is much debate as to whether the lovers existed or not. That hasn’t stopped hundreds of thousands of tourists from wanting to see the Casa di Giulietta, or Juliet’s House.

The dell Capello family owned the house on Via Capello for a many years. In fact, it is the similarity of their name that spurned the popular belief that this was the house of the Capulets in Shakespeare’s play. The dell Capello’s coat-of-arms can still be seen on the keystone of the inner archway in the courtyard. The house itself was built in the 13th century. A massive restoration effort to add the windows, gothic doors and the balcony was carried out in the 1930s. The late addition of the balcony is a point of contention, though.

From the courtyard you can see Juliet’s Balcony. This is supposedly the very same balcony where the tragic heroine cried out to her Romeo. These days, do not be surprised to see many a young girl standing on the balcony, probably dreaming her own dreams.

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(photo shows the years of ‘love’ graffiti from visitors)

Sorry for the silence lately. Lots happening such as: a.) I am not moving to London and b.) we are opening a second gallery (!) in Hudson, which I will run. Slated to cut the red ribbon sometime near the beginning of November and I promise that you will be well informed of all the details. I am super excited!!

I am also getting ready to move in a few days to a new apartment . In case, you know, you were looking to buy me any um, gifts to mark the occasion - I draw your attention to these fabulous finds:

Woofers

Tea Cups

A girl has to try, right