La vie aquatique, Strasbourg, January 2013.
umbrella stories by diyosa on Flickr.
I miss Berkeley in the rain. Hundreds of umbrellas moving gracefully through campus. Poetic, I know.
The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. by diyosa on Flickr.
BERKELEY! I will recognize AC Transit buses anywhere, even out of focus.
You know me, I had plans but they just disappeared
I was supposed to go to someone’s (I say someone because saying ‘friend’ doesn’t seem quite right anymore since she hasn’t said a word to me in two months) birthday party tonight, but I couldn’t find a parking spot within a block of her house and it was raining and I didn’t want to walk in the rain and I just decided Maybe I’ll drive to Kansas and so I started driving west and I just kept thinking that if I kept driving west, eventually I would get to California, right?
Generally, people don’t look forward to getting caught in the rain or stuck in a snowstorm, but photographer Christophe Jacrot makes it seem like an incredibly beautiful experience. The French photographer’s body of work features several images of huddled pedestrians walking along soaked streets and ivory coated paths trying to withstand the weather. Jacrot romanticizes the rain, turning the soggy into the stunning. Some of his shots depicting reflective puddles are even reminiscent of Gavin Hammond’s London in Puddles.
The photographer says, “In my opinion, there are two ways of capturing the world for a photographer; on the one hand grasping its horror, and on the other sublimating it. I have chosen the second. More specifically, I like the way rain, snow and ‘bad weather’ awaken a feeling of romantic fiction within me.
Thunderstorms tonight
Perfect night out. (Seriously though, it started with some middle-aged lady who I guess was trying to feel young buying us shots and only got better.) Now it’s raining and thundering and I hope tomorrow’s soccer game is canceled and I can just curl up with some Mexican hot chocolate and Skype with my old roommates and catch up on grading shit (because the first quarter ended this week! can you believe it! only three more to go!).
(Source: embroiderie, via cornersoftheworld)
nice
You know what Owen Wilson’s character said in Midnight in Paris about rain being charming? Yeah, that.
(via cornersoftheworld)
