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flame
Designer Monica Förster
May this flame remain alive in our hearts in our happy times, in our struggling times and immpossible times throughout the year!
May this year bring all our wishes somewhere near to fulfillment!
Happy, Happy, A very Happy new year to each one of you.
nothing and now here
Graphic designer Ravi Hampole
This is creation of New York based graphic designer Ravi Hampole - a book - Nothing and Now here.
Go through the pages of the book to override fine line between real world and illusion, erase the line between interior and exterior spaces and feel lost between spaces.
Interior imagery is cut and juxtaposed with exterior imagery. Book is developed from an excerpt in the Tao of Pooh.
Beautiful and meditative! nah?
More of his interesting work here.
I couldn’t write on saturday because of scary situation rains had posed which had Mumbai under floods. My daughters were held up for hours in school. No buses or local trains were running to their school’s suburb. Finally we could fetch them with the help of a taxiwallah who at every flooded point threatened us to leave us there only.
In our previous flat my husband had installed balcony window glass all coloured. That was his favourite nook for he enjoyed drizzle of rains with a book in hand. Now I wonder in Mumbai how many people are not able to enjoy rains and instead get scared.
First it was mangroves and wetlands which were reclaimed by builders and city planners ignoring the ecology. Now it is the turn of salt-pans area of Mumbai. The builders and city planners are running to grab and develope this area.
With hundreds of active citizens I am also scared to think how Mumbai would choke in coming years.
And how it changes interiors of low lying or ground floor homes. People this year have switched from wood to stone. They even have got marble beds made. A few have their rooms elevated by 1 to 2 feet. Traders have got 3 to 4 feet high wooden planks installed at the entrance of their shops as their check-dams.
And Mumbai fire brigade has acquired latest gadgets like these rocket launchers:
Which when fired give an inflated tube to target area to save people caught in floods.
Only if we stop tempering with ecology so much!
