A mountain pass (also gap, notch, col, saddle, hause, bwlch (Welsh), brennig or bealach (Gaelic)) is a route through a mountain range or over a ridge. If following the lowest possible route, a pass is locally the highest point on that route. Since many of the world's mountain ranges have presented formidable barriers to travel, passes have been important since before recorded history, and have played a key role in trade, war, and migration.
Mountain passes are analogous to the mathematical concept of a saddle surface, with a saddle point marking the highest point between two valleys and the lowest point along a ridge. On a topographic map, passes are characterized by contour lines with an hourglass shape, which indicates a low spot between two higher points.
Passes are often found just above the source of a river, constituting a drainage divide. Passes may be very short, consisting of steep slopes to the top of the pass, or valleys of many kilometres, whose highest point is only identifiable by surveying.
PHASE 2 (aka Lonny Wood) is one of the most influential and well known New York City aerosol artists. Mostly active in the 1970s, Phase 2 is generally credited with originating the "bubble letter" style of aerosol writing, also known as "softies". He was also influential in the early hip-hop scene.
Phase 2 is from The Bronx, and attended DeWitt Clinton High School along with a number of other early graffiti artists. Many famous graffiti writers of the early 1970s would meet at a doughnut shop across from the school called the Coffee Shop before heading down to the subway station at 149th Street and Grand Concourse to watch tagged trains on the IRT line pass by. Phase 2 was mentored in graffiti by his friend and neighbor Thomas Lee aka Lee 163d!, one of the pioneers of graf writing in The Bronx.
He began writing in late 1971 under the name Phase 2, a moniker which had a rather mundane provenance. As Phase 2 would later recall, "the previous year we'd given this party. We were getting ready to give another one and I said, 'We'll call this one Phase Two.' I don't know why, but I was stuck on the name. It had meaning for me. I started writing 'Phase 2.'"
[music: Potasz, Konarska; lyrics: Potasz]
...uwielbiam, gdy
Opuszkami pokazujesz mi
Jak lekko jest zobaczy twj erotyzm...
(Teraz nie, pniej)
Gdy sami bdziemy
Poka Ci
Jak "wiat klka przede mn...
Jak giniemy i pojawiamy si...
W krtkich chwilach (odpoczynku)
...kiedy sami bdziemy poka ci.
Kiedy muskasz me pragnienia (to)
Kolorujesz je
W bkit nieba ubierasz to
O czym mwimy.
I love it when
you show me with your fingertips
how easy it is to see
your erotism
When we are alone I'll show you
how the world kneels down - we die
we appear again
in these few short moments
when we are alone
I will show you this
When you're stroking my desires
you colour them
what you're talking about
you make it light blue
Things have changed this time around
I'm on the rocks and looking down
And I can't see for all the darkness 'round here
You're in Spain and you're walking free
I'm inside without the key, yeah
Feeling sick and angry towards you
Locked away, I'm going mad
I'm a fool, I'm so sad
I'm a fool, I've been had
We planned a job and you let me down
You made a run, I hit the ground
Can't trust nobody, nobody no more, no more, no
You're in Spain and you're walking free
I'm inside without the key, yeah
Feeling sick, sick and angry
Locked away, I'm going mad
I'm a fool, I'm so sad
I'm a fool, I've been had
Things have changed this time around
I'm on the rocks and looking down