On rewatching "Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead:" I gasped and paused the movie when catching these flowers in the background of one of the final scenes.
Part of the satisfaction for me watching the movie the first time around was not only that some kid was able to pull a full-time job out of nowhere and try her hand at running the house in the absence of adult supervision, but also that she excelled at it. In fact, when the mom character returns to the house from her 2-month stint in Australia, she basically clams up in light of the fact that her underage daughter seems to do everything she struggled to do better.
That over-sized basket of flowers on the kitchen table must really have been the final twist of the knife.
Image of Innermost House, located somewhere in Northern California and inhabited by Diana & Michael Lorence. Via Tiny House Blog.
Image of a "housing development" by Frode Svane. Taken at an adventure playground in Rødovre, Copenhagen.
Part of the exhibit PLACES for PLAY. Found at blue milk.
New game I just thought of: Inside-Outside. The premise is that one pulls two images of different places that, when put together, constitute an ideal place.
Here, I'll start.
"Outside" image by Nich Hance. "Inside" image from Marie Claire Maison. Both found conveniently at Man Make Home.
Fun! Right?
Here, I'll start.
"Outside" image by Nich Hance. "Inside" image from Marie Claire Maison. Both found conveniently at Man Make Home.
Fun! Right?
While researching the architect of our tiny house (it's a thing I casually do, but not often) I stumbled across the above. Simply fantastic.
Image (through Google Translate) is Sketch of the arbor, by VM Vasnetsov, 1882. Caption reads "'Fairytale' hut, gazebo was built in Abramtsevo Park in 1883."
Here's where I found it. Below is an image of the gazebo completed.
These photos (from a piece put online this summer) are making the rounds again. Finding them a second time coincides with our latest repeat screening of Frontier House.
Both images by Russell Lee from the Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Top image, Garden adjacent to the dugout home of Jack Whinery, homesteader. Pie Town, New Mexico, September 1940. Bottom image, Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940.
Found in the gallery Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 at The Denver Post.
Image of a workspace circa 1970, from Australian Home Decorating by Babette Hayes.
Found at Abracadabra Department.
An interior of the dwarfs' cottage from Snow White, captured and put together by Rob Richards of Animation Backgrounds (worth a look).
Image of the Samuel Hart Room, part of the American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, found at you have been here sometime.
Additionally, photos of the installation and restoration of the Museum's period rooms are posted as a set at the Met's Flikr stream.
'Beetle's House' by Terunobu Fujimori, sold for £9,375 by Phillips de Pury & Company.
Found at Dinosaurs and Robots.
Fantastic weathervane by Edward Gorey. Reminds me of the metalwork at the Ghibli Museum (which I saw in the catalog a friend brought back from Japan, unfortunately not in person).
Top image captured by Morbid Anatomy in the Edward Gorey House, via Boing Boing.
Bottom image from capndesign's flickr.
Tsuta House by SPEAC. Image taken by Takeshi Yamagishi. More at WHAT WE DO IS SECRET.
I, in agreement with the author, feel that "the house captured my heart instantly" too.
Please go to Monocle and watch the news report on Prinzessinnengarten.
Choice quote from Jonathan, Urban Gardener:
"Nobody's an expert. I think that's the best thing about it, really. You learn so much in a sort of slower way that you don't learn in any kind of area of life, when you're doing gardening. And, you make so many mistakes that you don't forget them."
Direct download here.
Thinking a lot about Sister Corita lately. Something about how purpose converges creativity and productivity and, simultaneously, can create a sense of both self and community.
I stumbled into a Corita exhibit last year at a gallery (no longer here!) in my own neighborhood.
Not to over-romanticize it, but we could all do worse for role models than a pro-social-justice, prolific poster-producing nun.
Such a fantastic mess.
From Calder At Home: The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder, by Pedro Guerrero. More images at MONDOBLOGO.
Above image by George Logan via boingboing, from his soon-to-release book, Translocation. More images and a brief explanation can be found at National Geographic.
Image of one of the many, many beautiful objects belonging to the always-on-point Ready for the House.
Were truer words spoken:
"Could you leave me some cash if you're coming back for it, just so I know- it's just that things happen... now that you've picked it up you've transferred your energy onto it, now other people are gonna be drawn to it, that's what always happens."
As we live in Southern California and are relatively "outdoorsy", we have a lot of items that are drug into and out of the house as needed. This means that cherished items, such as a soft-yet-durable blanket, are sometimes used in a rougher-than-is-wise way and, as a result, are damaged.
In this instance, a blanket was burnt in several places while camping (short story: I'd thought it be more romantic if we slept closer to the fire) and needed some sort of repair. Random vintage patches were pressed into service and the result is pictured above.
I love a blanket with character.
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