Kate the Great

HUMSS x Archi 5 | Mover @kateofdavao

[GINGERPOTTER ||0_0|| @Gingerpotter_21]

What is #happiness?

Through this animations, you can explore different aspects of life and emotions and find the key to maintaining happiness deep down.

While you may have started to understand what it might look like, your journey and search for happiness have just started but on the right path this time probably.

It always starts with YOU.

#art #animation #illustration #transformation #firefly #happiness #time #meaningoflife #wisdom

[☔ @Whotfismick]

we went from March 1 to March 10 in just 3 minutes

[Kate the Great @k8gutz]

@serilown_hanli When ba available months mo? Haha

[Kate the Great @k8gutz]

@serilown_hanli Lahat po yan

[Kate the Great @k8gutz]

Well, hello, Twitter

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto, Japan, was originally built 600 years ago. But it has been burned down and rebuilt twice.

So how old is it? And is it still the same building?

Here's what Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, said about it:

'I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was first built in the fourteenth century. I was told it hadn’t weathered well at all, and had in fact been burnt to the ground twice in this century. “So it isn’t the original building?” I had asked my Japanese guide.

“But yes, of course it is,” he insisted, rather surprised at my question.

“But it’s burnt down?”

“Yes.”

“Twice.”

“Many times.”

“And rebuilt.”

“Of course. It is an important and historic building.”

“With completely new materials.”

“But of course. It was burnt down.”

“So how can it be the same building?”

“It is always the same building.”

I had to admit to myself that this was in fact a perfectly rational point of view, it merely started from an unexpected premise. The idea of the building, the intention of it, its design, are all immutable and are the essence of the building. The intention of the original builders is what survives. The wood of which the design is constructed decays and is replaced when necessary. To be overly concerned with the original materials, which are merely sentimental souvenirs of the past, is to fail to see the living building itself.'

So that was Douglas Adams' view — that whether a building is "original" really has nothing to do with the actual age of its materials and when they were put together, but is defined by the form they take and when it was decided to arrange them in that way, regardless of how recently they have been made and installed.

So even if we reconstruct an old building with new materials — as happened at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion after it was burned down in the 1950s — it is still an authentically old building.

It is surprising to learn how many "old" buildings have, indeed, been rebuilt in this way. Some examples include the Frauenkirche in Dresden, St Mark's Campanile in Venice, the old towns of Warsaw and Frankfurt, the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, and even the Great Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq.

This is essentially an architectural version of the Ancient Greek conundrum of the Ship of Theseus. Imagine an old ship in a harbour. If all its separate parts were replaced, one by one, over the course of one hundred years, would it still be the same ship? If not, when did it become a different ship? And, in either case, how old would the ship be after one hundred years had passed?

We generally think that an old building, once destroyed, is surely lost forever — and that to rebuild it would be somehow inauthentic or artificial. Perhaps this isn't the case. Perhaps we can rebuild, brick for beam and gable for window, any old and important structure which has been lost to war and catastrophe without losing its age or authenticity.

So, was the Temple of the Golden Pavilion built in 1397 or 1955... or both?

[JR Santiago @oslecjunior]

It is not government’s job to tell the public what they should or should not eat.

Their job is to help build a just economy where the poor can afford the price of basic goods like rice.

Uulitin ko. Hindi ipinanganak ang Pilipino para mag-tiis.

#KamiNaNamanAngMagAadjust

[Brian Collins @briancollins1]

The life of a meme.

[Manila Bulletin News @manilabulletin]

MAYON VOLCANO COVERED WITH CLOUDS ☁️🌋

LOOK: A photographer shares a mesmerizing photo of Mayon Volcano covered with stunning cloud formation around the majestic volcano as seen from Albay Provincial Sports Complex.

📸Djorhiz Ruel Bartolome/Facebook

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Arcades have been used for thousands of years to shield pedestrians from the elements... but then we just stopped building them.

This is why we stopped – and why we should start building them again...

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

The Las Vegas Council unanimously approved the Boring Company's plan to build 68 miles of Tesla's tunnel (unproven technology) in 15.5 minutes. In the same meeting, they spent 52 minutes discussing whether a homeowner should be allowed to build a vestibule...

[Tabby🌿🌊 @mat_taby]

Basically what's happening right now in Bulacan

The mangroves in the province were deforested just to make the new airport.

The neighboring coastal barangays are now theatened from coastal flooding because the mangroves used to be their buffer zones against floods and typhoons

[Kate the Great @k8gutz]

This summer term has not been healthy

[Thomas thee Tankengine @goodkidbikecity]

People are often surprised to hear that Seoul's bus system was just as disorganized, congestive and chaotic as the Philippines - as recently as 2003.

One of the first reforms they implemented was a congestion-free median bus lane, similar to the EDSA Carousel.

[The Sad Ghost Club @thesadghostclub]

maybe I can't see them yet but I know they're coming 💙💙💙

[Migs Caldeo (Akachi) @AkachiYousoro]

Got bored, so I rode all of Manila's LRT/MRT lines (passing through all the stations in both directions) in one go. The result:

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

‘Nighthawks at the Library’. My cartoon for yesterday’s @GuardianBooks / @GdnSaturday