Sweetsland: I Want to Go to There

    While we have always had a soft spot for badly translated Japanese stationary

    and various other amusing grammatical errors...

     Filosofia is super jazzed to report that our submission to Engrish.com
     turns out to be one of the most popular photos on the site!

    So please make sure to go rate it so it can advance to publication!

    **** and special thanks to our dear friend shirley for pointing out 
    that porn-sak (while undoubtedly hilarious in english) 
    is in fact a fairly common name in thai!***

My Favorite Mistakes

    I have been thinking a lot about mistakes today...
    their values and their stigmas.

    So much about the nature of mistakes implies an element of
    negativity and failure, and in many cases such a critique
    may be deserved....

    Like in the cases of most architectural mistakes:

    Or mistakes against ideas of sustainability and humanism.

    And maybe even in certain cases we can include culinary mistakes...

    But some mistakes, make life better.
    Some mistakes add spontaneity, surprise, and color to our
    rules and rigid structure.
    Some mistakes are worth smiling about.

    So here's to the great fashion mistakes

 
    and the sincere but failed attempts to tame wild animals mistakes.

 
    Heres to the technological mistakes

    and of course, my favorite...

    the ever-poetic translation mistakes.

 
    What are your favorite mistakes?

Ode to Juxtaposing

    Arguably the most beautiful architectural relic in Grunewald
    is currently undergoing a mysterious facelift.

    In what I hope is just some kind of foundation restoration or yard work,
    a 4 story modernist mega-tower has been added to the grounds
    to compliment the various turrets of this 17th century-ish masterpiece.

    So in homage to this perplexing juxtaposition, let's go through some of my
    other favorites from the not so distance past...

    Beans three ways

    Pumpkins three ways

 
    A house and a monster

    A zombie and a mayor

    A bear in a forest

    Or some fruit in the snow

    Something big and something small

    Something old and something new

                    And for the oddest musical juxtaposition I can think of....
                    Tom Jones and the Cardigans covering the Talking Heads!!

         
   
   Thumbs up!

Now That is an Excellent Question.

 Ai Wei Wei's show opened in Berlin last night without him.
 Any thoughts on that, China?

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