Life Of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012).

“You want a tea?

“No, I want romance. I want music. I want love and beauty.

“But not tea, eh? Amazing …”

Color has been disappearing from the world.

A new research group used machine learning to track color changes in common materials and items, below is their findings for all color changes over time, they used 7000+ items from the 1800s to now to determine color changes in the most common items.

Below are the colors of cars by year, notice how the majority of cars are grey, white, or black compared to twenty years ago.

These aren't data points, but they are comparisons between the 'modern' homes of the 70s and 80s compared to the modern homes of today.

Carpets have equally had the same treatment of grey added to them! The most common color of carpet is now grey or beige.

Even locations that used to scream with color for decades have now modernized to becoming boring minimalist (and I love minimalism) personality-less locations.

The world is becoming colorless, why?

source paper

René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967), Le retour [The Return], c.1950. Gouache on paper, 29.6 x 41.7 cm.

Rinaldy A. Yunardi  Jakarta Fashion Week 2016

Wo itefaq se rasty mai mil jaye kahi,

Bs isi shoq ne hume Awara bana dia hai.

~JAUN ELIYA

Repair Cafés

Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. On clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, et cetera. You’ll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.

Visitors bring their broken items from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table – by leafing through books on repairs and DIY.

There are over 1.500 Repair Cafés worldwide. Visit one in your area or start one yourself!

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United States, c. 1960: No. 8228

A split-level house with a roofline making it look more like a ranch. The L-shaped counter in the kitchen is of note.

Homes in Brick by L. F. Garlinghouse Co., c. 1960. (Topeka, KS, USA) —from my library

Shabdon ko adhro par rakhkar Mann ka bhedh na kholo,

Mein aankhon se sun sakta hoon, tum aankho se bolo.

Soulmate Psychic, Kayla Witt

Agnès Varda - Jane B. par Agnès V. (1987)