[PHOTO] Seen through a window at St. George station

[PHOTO] On Look for a Moment

This afternoon, I shared a photo post from another WordPress blog. Only after I had shared it did it occur to me that I actually did not provide a context for this. So:

Look For A Moment, originally based here, is a global photo project organized by a kind woman in the Netherlands who gets people from around the world to share one photo from their environment. It goes on for a month. I joined it when it was going this April, and I was in from the start when it got going this month.

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Bad Astronomy notes the discovery of water vapour clouds in the atmosphere of nearby brown dwarf WISE 0855.


• blogTO notes the imminent arrival of winter weather.


• Centauri Dreams reports on a new theory of the Moon's origins suggesting the impact collision which create it was much more violent than we thought.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes how snowlines migrate across a system in the course of a star's life.


• The LRB Blog reports on the mind-numbing legal complexities of Brexit.


• The Map Room Blog reports on a new book of maps of New York City.


• The NYRB Daily explores the making of a documentary in 1970 on Thomas Bernhard.


• Seriously Science notes that kittens recognize the sounds of their mother.


• Towleroad reports on a South African imam promoting gay rights at a Cape Town mosque.


• Window on Eurasia argues Putin's annexation of Crimea made reform in Ukraine essential, and reports on budget cuts and their threat in the North Caucasus.

[MUSIC] Desireless, "Voyage, voyage"

I just discovered French singer Desireless and her 1986 international hit "Voyage, voyage".

"Desireless - Voyage Voyage" (Watch on YouTube)

I find myself entranced. It's a very 1980s song, dated by its production and by its video, but it lives up to its lyrics' description of a desire for escape, for the sort of transportation that leads to transformation.

Au dessus des vieux volcans,
Glisse des ailes sous les tapis du vent,
Voyage, voyage,
Eternellement.
De nuages en marécages,
De vent d'Espagne en pluie d'équateur,
Voyage, voyage,
Vole dans les hauteurs
Au dessus des capitales,
Des idées fatales
Regardent l'océan...

Desireless seems not to have had many hits after this, and she's still closely linked to the song. Below is a 2016 performance for German television, a reworking.

"Desireless - Voyage, Voyage 2016 - TV Show (ZDF-Fernsehgarten)" (Watch on YouTube)