Archive for November, 2006
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
The Bar-B-Q Inn
View of photographs of forgotten places in Alabama and throughout the South. In the history of photography, Hale County, Alabama, has become nearly as well known - through over four decades of photographs by William Christenberrry - as the Brown Sisters are through Nicholas Nixon’s annual series. Working with a large-format camera and informed [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Amazing Artists, Strange Places by Marlow Harris
Monday, November 20th, 2006
Dingbats I have loved
Built primarily in the ’50s and ’60s, the dingbats are usually simple two- to four-story wood and stucco structures which are balanced on small beams or poles to accommodate parking spaces on the first level. They are found throughout the country, but primarily in California and the West.
Most dingbats are remarkable only in their [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Outrageous Architecture, Unusual Homes by Marlow Harris
Monday, November 6th, 2006
Virtual Air Conditioners
Via Grow-a-Brain: Architects in the Eastern European country of Albania have solved the problem of ugly air contioners ruining the look of their buildings. By placing white blocks of color randomly over the exterior of their buildings, they’ve masked and blended the random existence of the real air conditioners and created an icon in [...]
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Sunday, November 5th, 2006
Free Spirit Spheres
Via Sellsius, we’re introduced to Tom Chudleigh, creator and builder of Free Spirit Spheres, unconventional wooden balls that can be used for healing, meditation, photography, canopy research or leisure.
The wood spheres are made of two laminations of wood strips over laminated wood frames. The outside is then finished and covered with clear fiberglass. The result [...]
