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Urban Paradoxes

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The City Is Living Narrative

The City Is Living Narrative

The City is a dynamic, living narrative, an unfolding autobiography, a melding of countless invisible stories; raveling not in words but in movement, fear, desire, need, coupling— the daily of living.

The city seen is a narrative painted upon the canvas of the city invisible; meaning — definition — is found not in the narrative, but in the illegible depths of the unseen city. To think that the 'painting' is the narrative is delusional. For what is seen is but an incomplete snapshot in time, one fragment of the ever-unfolding narrative. Incomplete because it cannot capture the full dynamic of that moment, limited to the immediate perspective and surround.

Yet we delude ourselves into believing that we can arrange the narratives of 'captured city' in a collage called 'The City.' Deluded, we seek to manage that which has been captured; convincing ourselves the fiction that we write is The City.

And The City ceases to exist.

© Frank A. Mills, Urban Paradoxes, 2007

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You are invited ...

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww! — Jack Kerouac, 'On the Road'

— Mad, creative people to share in exploring the living narrative we call The City

— 'Creatives' whose work, in any genre (including the written word and performance) intersects the urban experience in a way that causes us to challenge our perceptions.

If this fits,invite Urban Paradoxes to be your friend, but please, also, send us a brief message about why you are doing so.

P.S. Urban Paradoxes conducts urban behavioral assessments, assists in the creation of shared neighborhood vision, creates urban art experiences and events, creates high-tech visual experiences to frame districts (temporary and permanent), and conceptualizes unique urban venues (including retail).

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Musings of a Wanderer

I have decided to refocus my direction 100% to documenting the urban experience through photography and videography. More about my new direction at www.urbanparadoxes.com/citytalk.html.
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Link to 'Flaneur' ( and Photo Essays)

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originally published at Flaneur
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It's always time for divergent thinking!

 
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