Random Love (anti-rants)

[Seul]

Weather will allow me to wear my XHS'es straight into May… Best early birthday pressie ever?.. Ties with this piglet I got from Finn...

[Finn666]

ha, great to see you´re enjoying it…thought there´d be something like this missing in your collection

[Giles]

That's my little sister Lucy…..

Dates: 18 April 2013, 30 October 2013
Venue: Barlow Shed, St Pancras International London
Country: UK
Type: Public sculpture commission

A suspended meeting place, the sky is the agora of our imagination.

On April 18, 2013 Lucy + Jorge Orta unveil their monumental work Cloud | Metéoros at St Pancras International. As part of a new initiative titled Terrace Wires, the artists have been selected to create the very first public sculpture to be suspended in the Barlow Shed of the Eurostar terminal. The artwork will be a cardinal welcome to the nearly one million visitors to the station each week.

Floating amid the glass-vaulted architecture of the historic Barlow Shed, Cloud | Metéoros resembles vast cumuli populated with travellers, a ‘magic carpet’ taking passengers on an imaginary journey in the skies. It also carries a more political message. The cloud calls into question how mankind will share the vital resource of water on earth.

Meteoros is a word derived from ancient Greek, meaning raised from the ground, suspended, lofty or in the midst. Clouds have long been intercessors between reality and the imagination, between heaven and earth, lightness and gravity. They inhabit the skies of Renaissance fresco paintings, often depicted crowded with laymen and prophets, angels and deities. Throughout history, this celestial vault has been a site of conviviality, of learning and exchange.

Terrace Wires is an initiative by HS1 Limited. This ambitious project finds its home in London alongside other annual public art commissions, including the Fourth Plinth, Turbine Hall at Tate Modern and the summer pavilion at Serpentine Gallery.

[Sugar Mountain]

Nice. I'm using St Pancras tomorrow on my way to God's own city (that's right, Sheffield) and will check it out in person.

[Seul]

[Arabit]

Just gonna make 3 points about this forum
1. I might be biased, but I really love the marketplace, the items and the people who sell it are great. (Only a few bad apples but I don't think they spoiled the bunch)
2. Tight community and very inviting
3. Good customer service (Can't ask for anything else)

[Snowy]

@G, a writeup of your sister's work;

http://laughingsquid.com/cloud-meteoros-2-clouds-carrying-human-figures-suspended-in-london-train-station/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+laughingsquid+%28Laughing+Squid%29

[Giles]

Thanks Snowman

[natehate]

just in case you guys didnt already know davito and seanocono are two awesome people
dave checked numerous times at vmc for a item for me and sean for just being possible the nicest dude around
you guys are awesome!

[seanocono]

^Too kind, nate.  Thank you –

And not because I feel compelled to, but because it's the truth, nate is a boss!  He's helped me on more than one occasion, and I always enjoy his contributions in the Music thread, among others...

[Seul]

Status: clean 

[joesaintjohn]

Looking great Seul!

[Giles]

THANK YOU Tommy-san 

[Megatron1505]

Wow, that is actually fairly accurate.

[Seul]

Well it has two wheels…

[rocket]

super well done Tommy, kudos…

[Seul]

@Seul:

Weather will allow me to wear my XHS'es straight into May…

Now looking like I'll be wearing them til June… Loving 2013 so far 

[specmvl]

Just wanted to thank all people here who talked about their experiences with the Whole30 stuff.

Bought the book a week ago and while technically not being in a Whole30 I have already drastically reduced grains, sugar and dairy. Just getting started, feels great. Thank you for a new perspective on eating.

[Mild7]

I just wanted to publicly thank Paula for being so kind and patient.  A genuinely lovely lady, who always makes me feel like I'm the only customer she has, no matter how much shit is no doubt going on behind the scenes.

Thanks Paula.

[Chris]

She is rather wonderful, isn't she?