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HAVING PERIKURAS TAKEN WAS SOMETHING ALL OF US, EXCHANGE STUDENTS HAD TO DO WITH OUR JAPANESE HOST SISTERS AND FRIENDS. PERIKURAS ARE TINY STICKER PICTURES WHICH YOU CAN DECORATE BEFORE PRINTING OUT. THEY’RE PICTURES ON PICTURES. HERE IT’S PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING – LIKE A GIANT PERIKURA. EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS VIBRANT, FUN, PLAYFUL AND INFECTIOUSLY HAPPY - IN SHORT, JAPANESE. THIS WAS ALSO MY “COLOR EPIPHANY” – THAT DAY I DISCOVERED IT WAS OKAY TO BE GENEROUS WITH COLOR.

THIS IS ONE OF THE MANY TREE HOUSES DESIGNED BY THE GERMAN COMPANY BAUMRAUM . GROWING UP, TREE HOUSES WERE BIG FANTASIES OF MINE. ASIDE FROM MAKING ME NOSTALGIC, THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR REMINDS ME OF A FEW THINGS - TO BROADEN MY VIEW AND DEFINITION OF ARCHITECTURE, TO NEVER UNDERESTIMATE SEEMINGLY SIMPLE IDEAS, AND THAT INNOVATION IS A DAILY OCCURRENCE AND A HABIT I SHOULD PRACTICE.

THIS IS WHAT THE SETTING SUN WOULD LOOK LIKE IF YOU WERE SITTING ON A CLOUD…OR THE WINDOW SEAT OF AN AIRPLANE. LOOKING AT A VIEW LIKE THIS MAKES ME QUESTION HOW ANYONE COULD EVER THINK THERE WAS NO GOD, OR WONDER WHAT GENIUS IT REQUIRED FOR MANKIND TO DISCOVER THAT THE WORLD IS ROUND AFTER ALL.

PHOTO CREDITS: the coolhunter, rosly noxley9 gallery