The National Diet Building, the legislature of Japan's parliamentary democracy, is located just south of the Imperial Palace in Tōkyō. Completed in 1936, its unusual architecture reflects elements of German, East Asian, and ancient Mideastern monumental architecture. From the outside it was surprisingly difficult to get a good photo of it, but I edited this one to get a closer view.
In central Tōkyō to help our younger son, security was very tight at the U.S. Embassy, and rather light around the Diet. The building is not gray like it usually appears in photos, but more like sandstone.
Traveling east from Palermo along the north coast of #Sicily, the cathedral of Cefalù appears at the foot of an imposing promontory known simply as "La Rocca," where the Greeks had built a temple to the goddess Diana.
📷🇮🇹https://flic.kr/p/2hQfyZR
Am 'Tag des Meeres'#FotoVorschlag
darf ein häufig anzutreffender Küstenbewohner nicht fehlen!
Der Kormoran
K. sind knapp gänsegroß, sie haben eine Körperlänge von 77 bis 94 cm und eine Flügelspannweite von 121 bis 149 cm. Männchen sind etwas größer und schwerer als Weibchen. Das Verbreitungsgebiet umfasst große Teile von Europa, Mittel- und Südasien, Ostafrika, Australien, Neuseeland sowie die Ostküste Nordamerikas und die Westküsten Nordafrikas und Grönlands. Kormorane sind an Wasser gebunden, die Brutkolonien liegen sowohl an Meeresküsten als auch an den Ufern größerer Flüsse und Seen. Textauszug: Wikipedia
Detail of the dome of Palermo's Capella Palatina. The 12th c. chapel was constructed under the Norman king Roger II and probably employed artists from the Greek east.
An inscription in the confessio of the basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura in #Rome marks the burial place of St Stephen, St Justin Martyr and St Lawrence
Tremor, by Teju Cole.
You are a photographer and academic (or maybe you are the reader? Hard to tell) from Africa, but also of the West in some ways, who is wondering if art is an artifact or alive (or both? Maybe neither?).
3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈. @bookstodon#bookstodon#reading#art#photography#race