#city of culture

[arc-hus]

Towers in Galicia, Spain - John Hejduk - Peter Eisenman

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#Peter Eisenman #John Hejduk #modernist #modernist architecture #post modernism #glass #steel #towers #cool architecture #design #architecture #building #art #art gallery #culture #city of culture #galicia #spain #american architecture #light

[ageingslacker]

The Specials.

Their influence cannot be overstated.

#the specials #terry hall #jerry dammers #neville staple #roddy radiation #rico rodriguez #john bradbury #dick cuthell #2 tone #two tone #ska #punk rock #reggae #rocksteady #ghost town #coventry #city of culture #70s style #nelson mandela #the special aka

[lotusinjadewell]

Saigon, Vietnam. Credit to laphanblog (Instagram).

#vietnam #vietnamese #culture #travel destinations #travel #saigon #ho chi minh #ho chi minh city #cafe #after the rain #green #greenery #urbanscape #urban landscape #urban photography #urban nature #urban life

[jaffababe]

Gaza City, Gaza Strip. 20th Apr, 2016. Palestinians in Gaza city celebrate World Heritage Day by wearing traditional Palestinian dress and showing hand-made traditional products.

#palestine #west asia #middle east #asia #levant #palestinian culture #traditional jewelry #traditional clothing #world heritage day #Gaza #gaza city #gaza strip

[zylev-blog]

Danny and Sam were enjoying a date out in Metropolis when it happened. Superman had been mind controlled again, and was taking hostages. Neither Danny or Sam were worried, and were amongst the only people not running for their lives. They just sat outside the cafe, sipping their coffee and eating their food. As the ground began to rumble, they simply picked their coffee cups and held them in their hands to not spill the coffee within.

“So then Tucker says, ‘not my pda!’” Danny finishes, laughing along with Sam.

“I swear, he loves that thing more than life!” Sam laughs.

That’s when they heard it. The sunlight outside got a shade darker, and Sam and Danny turned to see the outline of Superman hovering in front of them. They both glanced at him, then at each other.

With a loud sigh, Danny out down his coffee. “Can you move a little to the left, Superman? You’re blocking the sunlight.”

Without warning, Superman reached out and grabbed Sam, who was closer to him. Sam grunted out in surprise as she was lifted into the air by her neck. Danny looked unconcerned.

“Seriously?” Sam asked, gesturing at Superman. “You’re going to ruin my necklace.”

“I don’t think he’s worried about your necklace, babe.” Danny leaned against the table, watching the encounter.

“Well, he should be!” Sam exclaimed. “I paid good money for it!”

He rolled his eyes. “You’re impossible. We can just buy you another one once he stops choking you.”

“It’s not really like he’s going to get anywhere.” Sam agreed.

Superman seemed to take offense to this. His grip on her neck tightened, and while Sam’s face did flush red, she wasn’t gasping for breath or having her neck snapped.

“You remember the other day when I said Black Canary could strangle me and I’d be happy about it?” Sam asked, her voice a little breathless.

“Yeah?” He raised an eyebrow, wondering where she as going with this.

“I like Superman choking me better. He would probably be better at it than a human.” Sam grinned at the Kryptonian.

“Shouldn’t he at least buy you dinner first?” He asked.

“You know, most boyfriends don’t talk so freely about their girlfriends being choked by other guys.” Sam pointed out.

“You’re right.” He agreed.

“But this is getting kinda weird. Superman, do you mind letting me go? This isn’t really working for me anymore.” Sam pointed to the ground.

A large crowd had started to gather around them. Some looked horrified, while others looked curious. Curious at Sam, who hadn’t died yet. Superman made no moves to remove his hand from her neck.

“Hey babe?” Sam asked.

“Yeah?” He took another sip of his coffee, completely calm.

“Can you record me beating up Superman so we can send it to your sister?”

“Why her?” He tilted his head.

“Little sister.” Sam clarified.

“Ohh. Yeah, sure, she’d love that.” He took a second and pulled his phone out—a latest WayneTech model. “Go for it.”

Sam wrapped her hand around Superman’s, and with an audible snap, broke his hand and pulled it off of her neck. Superman gasped in pain, but Sam wasn’t done yet. She proceeded to judo flip him and send him crashing to the Earth while she continued to hover in the air. She clapped her hands together and cracked her knuckles.

“This is going to be fun.” Sam grinned wickedly.

“You know, I could just touch his temple and cure him of the mind control.” He offered, but continued to record Sam.

“Don’t spoil my fun.” Sam flipped him off, then dove towards the ground. She kicked Superman in the nuts, then kneed him in the face hard enough to draw blood. She punched him a few more times until he fell unconscious.

Danny got up and stopped the recording. He walked over to his girlfriend and looked at the unconscious Superman. He bent over the man and pressed a finger to the man’s temple. Blue power briefly illuminated Superman’s skin, but it was gone as quickly as it came.

“You’re going to cause trouble for us.” He chastised her.

“But you love it.” Sam took his hand. “Let’s go home.”

She flew into the air first, but Danny took another second to dig into his wallet, leaving a $20 bill on the table they were sitting at. He then flew into the air after Sam, chasing her all the way to Amity Park.

—————

Six months later, and Danny and Sam were on another outing in Gotham when they were interrupted by Batman. They pulled a chair up for him, and eventually the man took it. They ordered him a coffee and a bagel.

“So, what brings you here?” Danny asked casually.

“How did you defeat Superman?” Batman asked, straight to the point.

“Huh?” Sam asked. “When did we do that?”

“Six months ago.” Batman responded.

“Ohh, wait— remember the day we went to Metropolis?” He hummed.

“Oh. I already forgot about that. Superman’s not pressing charges, is he?” Sam asked. “I do have a good lawyer, he’s just an asshole to deal with.”

“No, he is not pressing charges.” Batman grunted.

“Then what’s this about?” He asked, tilting his head.

Without answering, Batman opened a box on his lap. At once, the kryptonite took effect of both Sam and Danny, making their skin turn green and to writhe in pain. Just as Danny was about to take the box from Batman by force, the man had closed the lid and tucked it away.

“I had my suspicions.” Batman said, as if that explained everything. “So how did two more Kryptonians land on Earth when the planet was destroyed thirty years ago?”

#Amity park is a city of Krypton #Kryptonian scientists settled on Earth generations ago and created Amity Park #Kryptonian culture still exists #Amity Park is secluded from the world and Batman couldn’t find them #kryptonian danny fenton #Kryptonian Sam Manson #Superman gets his ass kicked #mind controlled Superman #dp x dc au #dp x dc writing prompt #dp x dc #dp x dc fanfic #dp x dc prompt #dp dc crossover #danny phantom crossover #dp x dc crossover #danny phantom #dp crossover #dpxdc prompts #dpxdc #dcxdp

[fromitakototakon]

Life and Work of Frida Kahlo

#frida kahlo #reels gallery #coventry #city of culture #diego rivera #art painting #art #culture #integrative immersion #reels

[mexican-postcards]

The Aztec sun stone (Piedra del Sol), when it was located next to the Cathedral in Mexico City, 1886

#mexican postcards #mexico #photography #cdmx #mexico city #1886 #aztec culture #aztec

[cybergus]

June Nocturnal Walks (Mexico City 2023), by Abelardo Ojeda.

My Street Photoblog

#street photography #photographers on tumblr #original photographers #artists on tumblr #mexican photographers #fotografos mexicanos #fotografos en tumblr #cdmx #ciudad de méxico #mexico city #lowlight #night photography #mexican culture #traveling #fotografia de calle #fotografía urbana #fotografía callejera #contemporary photography #fine art prints

[kafkasapartment]

'Wild Concrete #58' Hong Kong, 2013. Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze. Chromogenic print. (however long I’ve been posting here, that’s how long every spell checker says ‘chromogenic’ is either not a real word or it’s spelled incorrectly).

#photography #hong kong #ASIA #color #Architecture #culture #ruins #urban landscape #city scenes #photographie #foto

[hedgehog-moss]

When I’m an old lady I’ll still be informing young people that Halloween never existed in this country until the 90s /early 00s when people who sell us stuff realised they could use it to sell us more stuff, and Halloween-themed stuff suddenly appeared in shopping centres without warning and was relentlessly marketed to children, and adults saw right through it and disliked it (“what’s this American sh*t, why are there pumpkins and witches in shop windows this never used to be a thing”) until they got used to it and young generations grew up thinking Halloween had always been a thing here even though kids born just a decade earlier had to be taught about it by the TV or school. Also it trampled over our pre-existing Fun Cultural Event When Kids Get Dressed-Up which had never needed to be marketed so aggressively and therefore became less relevant

I don’t mind at all if you love Halloween but it’s so weird to see my younger cousins convinced that it was always a thing in France when I remember being taught at school what trick or treating was, like “let’s learn about cultural traditions that are exotic and fun and different from ours!!” and I’m not old. Millennials literally saw Halloween get astroturfed into our culture with no explanation when shopping centres just went “from now on this is something we’ve always done” and we had no choice but to be like well OK I guess 🤷‍♀️

#i took the bus to the Big City and there's halloween stuff everywhere and i'm like old woman yells at cloud #it's not a Bad cultural import it's just... the calculated cynicism of it all. and having watched it happen live #and the homogenisation of cultures #when i tell my cousins how recent it is it kind of blows their minds #if an older cousin had told me when i was 10 that she had to be taught what christmas was in school i would have been befuddled too

[crashbangprophet]

@ ALL CRASHQUEENS AND KILLJOYS!

i've been in this fandom since 2016, so i've seen headcanons and zone culture and terminology of all kinds.

with that said , i'd like to present the official (unofficial) danger days dictionary. includes everything from zone culture, slang, battery city locations, phoenix witch, even down to bad luck beads and the dust bowl.

for the nitpickers out there, the comics are mainly discarded in this— due to how overwhelming it would be to throw in even MORE overlapping terms and such. some comic characters have been slipped into the regular timeline / universe, just for funsies and a honorary mention. don't come at me, thanks!

REBLOGS RECOMMENDED.

#danger days the true lives of the fabulous killjoys #danger days #zone culture #zone words #party poison #fun ghoul #kobra kid #jet star #mcr #my chemical romance #zone dictionary #phoenix witch #words from the zones #battery city #better living industries #korse #dr death defying #fabulous killjoys #the true lives of the fabulous killjoys #kjrp #danger days headcanons #danger days dictionary #ttlotfk

[comet-knight]

I am so very excited. I am going for a trip to the city of joy, kolkata. Truth be told, I have visited kolkata countless times. Yet, none were dedicated to leisure. After hours of research and internet browsing, I am coming to the state of culture and mystery, the city where the old coexists with modern world.

#thoughts #travel #kolkata #city of culture #cityofjoy

[twixnmix]

Keith Haring photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi in the New York City subway, circa 1983-84.

#keith haring #pop culture #graffiti #nyc #subway #new york city #1980s #1980s fashion #1980s art #photography

[hussyknee]

Al-Ajaweed Band is a group made up of Black/Afro-Palestinians from the Baq'a Refugee Camp in Jordan. They’re known for being some of the best at dabka!

(linked because the tunnel of quote tweets has more dance videos)

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Please give their page the views they deserve.

#to use an aave term: gag city #dabke #someone do a video description please #palestinian dance #palestinian culture #people of palestine #afro-palestinians #black power #palestinian refugees #free palestine #palestinian resistance #jordan #knee of huss #arab culture #arab dance

[todayontumblr]

Thursday, December 7.

There are apples, and then there are apples.

And this would be the latter. In fact, apples really don't come much bigger. If this particularly large apple were a nation-state, it would have the tenth-largest economy in the world. Which is pretty good, for an apple.

But this is New York City, after all, and its reputation precedes it. Sometimes described as the world's most important city, sometimes as the capital of the world, it truly is all things at once. It is defined by its fevered, electric pace of life. A global city in which 800 languages are spoken, it is a cultural, historical, sporting, and political superpower. It is, famously, The City That Never Sleeps. Better still, it enforces a right-to-shelter law ensuring, in the legislature, a bed and roof for anyone who needs one, regardless of immigration status.

Today it transpires that #new york is trending. A lot is going on, so take your time. Enjoy it.

@semioticapocalypse

#today on tumblr #new york #new york city #nyc #nyc aesthetic #nyc subway #nyc street photography #manhattan #brooklyn #nyc girl #new york city subways #nyclife #travel #travel destinations #explore #city life #culture

[leroibobo]

really do not think people understand the extent to which palestinian sites/landmarks (especially muslim ones) were destroyed, beginning in 1948 until now, even in cities. the oldest extant mosque in jaffa (al-bahr mosque) was built in 1675, even though islam came there in the 7th century

#not to mention that many mosques that /were/ restored but are in 'jewish areas' r heavily guarded & prayer is hardly if ever allowed #to anyone thinking ''you can say the same thing abt jewish sites in mena countries''. you can't have one repaired w/o the other #and ultimately the root of the problem is both the colonization of palestine + antisemitism. advocating for palestine + against #antisemitism are far from mutually exclusive #(and for the love of god please stop using mena jews as a political gotcha i swear to god #and it's not like a regime that forced everyone to integrate into the ''new jewish'' culture is any less genocidal) #as someone who comes from one of the jewish groups who was affected by that to arguably one of the highest degrees & who's also a staunch #antizionist even i know that. politics re: cultural site preservation are stupid but that doesn't make it any less stomach-wrenching #it really is just Luck. al-bahr mosque just so Happens to be in a ''mixed city'' so destroying it'd be a ''bad look'' #the tomb of nahum just so Happens to be in an autonomous kurdish territory so restoring it isnt as big a deal #and then people have the gall to wonder how i could ever ever ever sympathize with those ''savage arabs''. seriously?? #btw im muting notificaions on this post so if you have a problem with me just dm me or block me whatever idc