Ivan Himanen is an architect, urbanist, and researcher based in New York City.
Our elders say that youthful Hope and ever-ageless Trust, Created the blushing western sunset and pensive eastern dusk Upon discovering their precious earth was but a stiffened trail And their sky would never bear the rains nor sprinkle icy hail— That they, in fact, were leading lives too focused on some goal— Some two-dimensioned peaks […]
On the way home, heaven lover you’ll encounter a juvenile flower do not hold it, for it will crumble just behold it and it will double. Next thing you know a field will grow repeating mirror images ablossom, infinite beauty, sown in the abyss of your deceasing eyes.
Pick up, fear. Pick up and come here. Pick the pace up a gear, clearly I’m in it but uncommitted, long as you live I fear for thee, commit my suicide for me. For I can’t unrationalize thy passionate cries, and fore the knife takes arms against life, against the harm I had, my mind […]
Two things– a quotation from Andy Warhol (unexpected) and the death of my grandfather– have given me course to re-examine the definition of “event”. From AW, it comes quite simply: “Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.” I propose the following definition: […]
My very first mashup! ENJOY
The Parrish Art Museum is doing a fantastic job of delineating a history of art specific to Southhampton. On display are artists, native and migrant, who have contributed to the area’s now-iconic imagery of nature, building, and lifestyle since 1900 with their work. Included in that roster are William Merritt Chase, Esteban Vicente, Eric Fischl, […]
A city is a place Where one can’t scream in peace.
Browsing Book Court’s New York Review Books shelf, one of my favorite publishers of late, I encountered its edition of The Unknown Masterpiece from Honoré de Balzac. Though he kept it short and sweet and I enjoyed it very much, none of the story has stayed with me closer than the epigraph (such is the curse of excellent […]
Dr Teresa Belton has released an insipid article which advocates a need for more boredom in our generation. While the article is itself boring and meek, I tend to agree with its closing statement. But it is a state to be approached gingerly. The history of boredomology (thaasophobia is supposedly the fear of boredom, so […]
Be it all in my head or in fact actually widespread, I need to share this mini exposé on the meaning of potential energy, and its implications. I can thank Konstantinos Alexakos for tuning my brain to these frequencies. As taught in high school, potential energy is maybe misconstrued as ACTUAL energy, something substantive, a FORM of […]