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I was just scanning old magazines of Frank Lloyd Wright (soon to be posted hopefully) wow was the old fellah full of it! (several interviews, essays that sort of thing)
I love love love the design work, but he spread a lot of blarney in the name of art, that's for sure. But who knows, maybe it made someone feel good somewhere, or maybe someone learned something useful or pleasing. People who bring beauty into the world are excused many flaws.........
"Not to be taken too seriously" J. Hayward, CNN Aug 2, 1991
My badski. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, that was what we called it. I wondered back then what we would call "contemporary" and "modern" a few years down the road. I think we've already passed out of "post-modern." I'm not a student of architecture, just a dork. Sorry for the blunder, thanks for the correction. Speaking like an amateur, I like the stone, angles, textures, and kind of geometric chiseled effects of Wright. The colored circles can take a leap.
I love everything about Justin. Even I'm not so far gone as to think/feel/do otherwise. What kind of monster do you think I am?
Heheeh..... I blame the pseudo intellectuals who "run the arts business"............ they just HAVE to slap a label on everything! "Contemporary" and "Progressive" are two words I absolutely LOATH I do mean, I wish Gutfeld would put them at the top of his banned words, and lambast them at every opportunity. I do.
Wright was polite about it because he wanted business coming in, but he didn't like that sort of thing either. He brought in Babylonian influence, or Mayan or whatever. I think he was looking for Atlantis architecture, myself. The Old Man was a real spook.
He was one of the first to use circles in his structures. I think the idea was gleaned from Native American "tipi" you know, their lodge tents mostly used by the plains people. He really liked hexagons too. Bucky Fuller took it even further with Geodesics, and I don't want to bore you................. but the triangle is the most stable architectural form (much more than a square, which collapses in an earthquake) and if you put them together right, you get geodesics and hexagons.
Round also resists hurricane forces better. Modern architecture should pay more attention. And since hobbits were using round doors and windows back in 1937 (when *The Hobbit* came out) I have no idea who stole from whom.... I'd have to look into the dates.
As to the ART,,,,,,,,,,,, the circles and tootsie fruitsie stuff got imitated (badly) beginning in the early 60s and some of that IS pretty putrid, gotta agree. I still remember the first time I saw pink and orange circles in decorating somewhere. Dad shrugged, laughed and said something about "our crazy interior decorator".............
We lived in "early modern junk" at our house, so architects have little regard for design genres. If you walked in on FLW "at home" he was the same.... this magazine is a little shocking, obviously they cleaned up for the photo shoot. I remember Taliesin West as a very dusty, scrungy place, dust hanging in the Roman blinds overhead. Architects are slobs, and it's usually a construction zone at any given time in their living quarters. I've also uncovered I think photos of the inside of the Price home in Oklahoma (they didn't let their name be used in the magazine) when we visited, the nice old lady was "in her cups" and the place was a wreck. You'll see what I mean when I post the photos.
Crossing wires because that is what is like between my ears, somewhere we were talking about archaeology. P.J. O'Rourke says, ""They'' dig up SUVs obviously too big ever to have moved. They must have been for ceremonial purposes. The ubiquitous remains of swimming pools, the countless types and kinds of sneakers, and the ruins of more fast-food outlets than any estimate of twenty-first-century population can account for will convince thirty-first-century scholars that we were semiaquatic, six-egged creatures who worshiped fat in cars."
OH Howard Roark. yeah him. They're gonna get a real eyeful when they dig up Strider, parts of him are held together by bailing wire. BTW I have a scan of Ayn Rand's house FLW designed.... I suspect the bird sang (cheep cheep) 'cause it never got done. Pretty rendering tho. I'll letcha know when I put it up.
I want to follow Justin around the countryside. Every day, all the time. My boss wants me to work all the time. I request time off, and he suddenly gets another idea. Nobody wants to sub for me. I am drowning in deadlines and return to work immediately. I'll check in when I need a break. Thanks.
You need a life change.
Make a list of all the things you CAN do to make money. Then on the other side of the paper, make a list of all the things you enjoy doing (and don't cheat and just say "Follow Justin around").... DIG DEEP.
Find what is in common.
My friend Jackie (who will be on the OTB cruise with us) is a head hunter, and with your German skills, she might find you a job in Germany. Why don't you make up a resume based on the two lists you just made?
First thing I'd do is charge for the writing you're doing, or don't do it. No volunteer work. You are not superwoman.
OK I just solved your problems (sarcastic hilarious laughter) moving on. *
In the immortal words of my brother who was actually a successful manager and father, and who has more money than I do (I'm wondering if he'll manage to blow it all before he dies) "Self inflicted wounds don't count"
*Not meant in a mean way. Man is the only creature who laughs because he HAS to.
It is enough to follow Justin around. If I digged any deeper, I would get arrested for stalking.
For now, it's deadlines, deadlines, deadlines.
As wicked as it seems, I actually like this mayhem of getting bombarded by 5 Justin tours in short succession and could accept it as the new normal.
This is my German:
(1) Google English German.
(2) Type or paste English phrase in box.
(3) Cut and paste German translation here.
But thanks. I'm flattered somebody thought I could do something.
OK. Off to the stupid report ...........................
But first! I must see if there are other unanswered posts of interest here.
Google and Bablefish aren't efficient translators, take my word for it. I've taken some stuff in Spanish and plugged it in, and it comes out all warped. There is more to translations than what a machine can do. WITH Babelfish and my own borderline knowledge I can usually get the gist across in Spanish and kinda in German. French, I'm lost.
I've been reading Outlander and the Gaelic is kinda fun in there. Sometimes if you say it out loud (spelled phonetically) you understand it. Wish I had time to study Gaelic. If I got my dream and moved to Ireland, I would study it.
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