the second late friday night eclectic buffet

this friday evening finds the golden fish blog posting its two hundredth entry! the second late friday night eclectic buffet. what better way to celebrate and acknowledge the divergence and diversity of postings that appear here every day! i'm actually pretty happy with how it is turning out. eight hundred people have dropped by here at some point since its birth on august 29th, 2007 and that's very very surprising to me.

so onwards with the eclectic buffet.

nothing new to automobile afficionados but worth sharing all the same. the gm skateboard concept blew apart the expectations attached to almost every feature of automobile design. it’s impossible to know whether or not this will move beyond a statement and actually arrive in some practical mass-produced form. but like so many of the ideas shared on this blog, it’s very comforting and even exciting to know that the possibility exists.



let's move on now to the work of an origami master - eric joisel.



this video and other images and information can be seen here on eric's homepage

moving right on to some music with roots extending at least as far back as sixties soul, and from there back into the blues, righteous word and sound emanates here from the massive attack - hailing from bristol, this collective reshaped music with their melding and melting of musical forms and genres . . . . . .

words:

"unfinished sympathy" sung by the incomparable shara nelson with the boys of massive attack . . . .

i know that i've imagined love before
and how it could be with you
really hurt me baby, really cut me baby
how can you have a day without a night
you're the book that i have opened
and now i've got to know much more

the curiousness of your potential kiss
has got my mind and body aching
really hurt me baby, really cut me baby
how can you have a day without a night
you're the book that i have opened
and now i've got to know much more

like a soul without a mind
in a body without a heart
i'm missing every part . . . . .

"unfinished sympathy" from their first album “blue lines”:


emerging amaryllis. i bought this as a bulb and it has begun to emerge. each day it has very slowly unfurled and this is where it is at today.


when vancouver ali and my bruvver david visited at christmas, one of the many gifts they brought with them was this exquisite geode.


i took my class for a little walk a few days ago and we came across this fence - an ordinary fence but covered with frost crystals. we all got as close as possible without shaking the crystals off or melting them with our breath and looked at this little wonder.


thankyou to all my visitors and especially thanks to the ones who return!