Stars Wheel in Purple

Stars wheel in purple, yours is not so rare

as Hesperus, nor yet so great a star

as bright Aldeboran or Sirius,

nor yet the stained and brilliant one of War;

stars turn in purple, glorious to the sight;

yours is not gracious as the Pleiads are

nor as Orion's sapphires, luminous;

yet disenchanted, cold, imperious face,

when all the others blighted, reel and fall,

your star, steel-set, keeps lone and frigid tryst

to freighted ships, baffled in wind and blast.

H. D.(born Hilda Doolittle)

Kleroterion

Fragment of allotment device (kleroterion) used for random jury selection, Greece, third century BCE. A number of black and white balls were dropped into a funnel and the order in which they exited an attached tube determined which horizontal row of potential jurors would serve in a given trial. Courtesy the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/46/allen_smith.php

The great middle-class identity crisis

‘Fewer stay in the same profession for life. We are ceasing to be our jobs’

By Simon Kuper

November 8, 2013

http://www.ft.com 

Untitled

Paul Joostens, Untitled, 1920

Assemblage of an engraving, painted wood, cord, felt, an iron lock and chain in a wooden box

Διαδικασία από το φτιάξιμο της κλωστής μέχρι την ύφανση

Διαδικασία από το φτιάξιμο της κλωστής μέχρι την ύφανση, σαρακατσάνικα υφαντά

http://www.sarakatsani-folk-museum.gr/index.php?page=4

A farmer's house locked between three major highways

 A farmer's house locked between three major highways, China, 2009.

http://news.sina.com.cn/s/2009-02-24/040017274052.shtml