I’m happy to announce sapphicliterature’s second giveaway! This time I’ll be giving away Snowball Earth, courtesy of the author @blueforthevirus. The book is also Sapphic Book Club’s December read so it’s the perfect time to join it if you haven’t yet! You have a chance to win one of 5 ebooks and 1 grand prize, a singed paperback copy and some goodies!
The giveaway ends on November 19th and I will randomly choose and contact the winners then (so make sure your asks/messages are working). You’ll have a few days to get back to me, otherwise I’ll pick someone else. Also make sure you’re comfortable sharing your email so I can get the ebook to you (and your address if you’re the grand prize winner)!
The ask is always open if you have any questions. Good luck to everyone! 🙂
I just read the links, and omg this is even better.
So I looked at it and knew it was using the open courtyard and the pools and fountains to do a lot of the work of cooling the house, but it’s also got drip irrigation for all of those plants (which adds more moisture to the air and also helps cool it in addition to being an effective and efficient way of watering the plants), it’s got a roof garden and other eco-conscious stuff. It combines modern construction techniques with classic Arabic art and architecture.
And his home is a cultural center.
He holds lectures, concerts and salons in his home, with guests and speakers from around the world. He’s founded multiple institutions to preserve Islamic history and architecture. He’s an activist against the extremist factions he says are trying to hijack Islam.
His home is going to be part of an international institute offering degrees in Islamic history and science, as his legacy, housing a collection of over one hundred thousands of his photos, drawings and writings about Islam and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
This is serious real-life Islamic solarpunk for real.
Tumblr likes the idea of solarpunk, even if there’s not a real body of work about it yet. Well, we’re missing that people are already doing this for real, and have been for a long time.
I am not generally an architecture fan. It’s nice and all, but it doesn’t do a lot for me, especially modern American stuff. But I am totally bowled over by this and must now go look at everything he’s ever designed.
In my humble opinion, Coraline is one of the best movie adaptations out there because it actually strays away from the book a lot and adds/changes several different things, but it does so all for the sake of a visual medium which is exactly what a movie adaptation should do!
There’s nothing showing the Beldam making the doll but darn it if that’s not the most aesthetically pleasing scene in stop motion animation:
The appearance of the tunnel is never described (other than it being musty and her feeling a force behind her) so they made a psychedelic tube:
In the book, she meets the three ghost children at a generic picnic but the movie, for reasons I will always love, decided to show them against an animated, interconnecting, version of the Starry Night:
The blue hair, the garden, the world falling apart—
Everything is tweaked to be more visually pleasing.
Which is the point of turning a book into a movie in the first place!
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