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Several mornings of late, I’ve been sleeping and I have come to realize that I’m being roused by a rooster crowing somewhere outside my window. Yes, as Webster’s defines it, crowing: to make the loud shrill sound characteristic of a cock.
The first time, I thought, Do my ears deceive me? But it seemed no. I had heard of a rooster siting, but I had not believed. Once I ran out the door when I heard him, but he was not there. But on this morning, last Thursday, he was in good form, loudly shrilling. I was leaving for a little holiday up the coast, and he was waiting for me to have his picture taken.
(Sometimes)
Documentary by the English architectural critic and writer.
Some highlights:
17.45 A comparison between Los Angeles and London and how both cities developed based on their inhabitants ability to move through space.
21.00 Quick overview of the California “Spanish Colonial or Mission Style.” Breynen calls it an unpretentious architecture combining domesticity with the fantasies of dreams. He says that it is not as much a style as it is a frame of mind. I think we’ve forgotten this.
23.15 The Gamble House.
25.00 Wonderful shots of the beautiful Case Study House #8 in the Pacific Palisades. Ray & Charles Eames.
I am going to have to read his 1971 book “Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.” My Google tells me that he categorized the Angelean experience into four ecological models :
Surfurbia
Foothills
The Plains of Id
Autopia
(Sometimes)
Documentary by the English architectural critic and writer.
Some highlights:
17.45 A comparison between Los Angeles and London and how both cities developed based on their inhabitants ability to move through space.
21.00 Quick overview of the California “Spanish Colonial or Mission Style.” Breynen calls it an unpretentious architecture combining domesticity with the fantasies of dreams. He says that it is not as much a style as it is a frame of mind. I think we’ve forgotten this.
23.15 The Gamble House.
25.00 Wonderful shots of the beautiful Case Study House #8 in the Pacific Palisades. Ray & Charles Eames.
I am going to have to read his 1971 book “Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.” My Google tells me that he categorized the Angelean experience into four ecological models :
Surfurbia
Foothills
The Plains of Id
Autopia
Gratuitous HP
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World of Interiors is particularly good this month. To start we have the minty arsenic of the cover story with a framed vintage scarf. I thought this light fixture dynamite–I’d been thinking of this exact thing for my deck if only I had learned to crack off.
Then, we have Bonnard and a new book which would certainly be on my must read list if I happened to read anymore. I have been going back to the books that I should have read at some point but have not. Last night I downloaded The Custom in the Country as I’ve almost finished up with Moby Dick. Okay they are on tape, but how I do wish wish Librivox would do Swann’s Way in English because then I would feel all caught up. Having someone read Proust to me while in bed embroidering pillow fronts seems like it would be quite fun even though I do not have cork lined walls.
World of Interiors is particularly good this month. To start we have the minty arsenic of the cover story with a framed vintage scarf. I thought this light fixture dynamite–I’d been thinking of this exact thing for my deck if only I had learned to crack off.
Then, we have Bonnard and a new book which would certainly be on my must read list if I happened to read anymore. I have been going back to the books that I should have read at some point but have not. Last night I downloaded The Custom in the Country as I’ve almost finished up with Moby Dick. Okay they are on tape, but how I do wish wish Librivox would do Swann’s Way in English because then I would feel all caught up. Having someone read Proust to me while in bed embroidering pillow fronts seems like it would be quite fun even though I do not have cork lined walls.
