The Significance of “Significant Objects”

Yes, again, a slight hiccup in the Italian adventure to call your attention to a very cool blog that is out in the ethersphere for your pondering pleasure.
This week marks the final installment of the “Significant Objects” project—a fabulous experiment that involved about $120 worth of thirft store items and a whole lot of creative [...]

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B25 Research Adventure Part 1

Flying high in a B25!

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Object Poetry

Hey All,
I came across this poem while reading Laura Purdie Salas’s children’s poetry book AND THEN THERE WERE EIGHT: Poems about Space. It’s about a very cool THING.
 
Aiming High
Silver arrow to the skies, you’re my mighty mirrored eyes
Finding stars and Saturn’s bands, you place them gently in my hands.
 
Okay, so what’s that thing? 
Think about it. [...]

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The Gloria

A Tall Ship Extraordinare
I had seen the massive Columbian flag billowing from her stern. At night, as I drove down Tacoma’s Dock Street, I had seen the lights strung amidst her masts and yardarms. They beckoned, as sailing ships and the sea do. She was the tallest Tall Ship I’d ever seen and there was [...]

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Morning on the Murray Morgan

Second in a set of essays about one of Tacoma, Washington’s abandoned bridges.
Ramps to Nowhere
by S.T. Lile
 
In an apparently continuing effort to gentrify Dock Street and the Thea Foss Waterway, they’ve improved the sidewalks all the way to the base of the 11th Street/Murray Morgan Bridge. They’re wider. There are bolt-studded concrete stumps where streetlights [...]

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Morning on the Murray Morgan

First in a set of essays about one of Tacoma, Washington’s abandoned bridges.
Snow and Wings: Mystery on the 11th Street Bridge
by S.T. Lile
 
Finally, it was the wings—wing after torn wing—that made me look up. When I walk, I usually look down. Down at the new paving in front of my apartment building, down at the [...]

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Egyptian Tombs as Objects: The Thebian Mapping Project

Have you ever wondered what the inside of an ancient Egyptian tomb looks like? If so, you need you check out the Thebian Mapping Project web site at http://www.thebanmappingproject.com.
Thebes is the ancient name for modern-day Luxor (Al Uqsur in local and Google terms) which sits on the east bank of the Nile River far south of [...]

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