useful or beautiful
swissmiss (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” - William Morris (via mnmlst.com/quotes)
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The Grandparents Are Here
Casey in London (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Grammy arrived on Tuesday and hung out with me at the Tyke's school while I had a meeting about the Nativity play with the reception teachers. She made friends with the cleaning staff (lovely, lovely women) who took very good care of her and brought her tea and chocolate cake. I'm afraid I have been walking her very hard as we then took my usual walk home which is probably over a mile. Possibly over...
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Speakers' Corner No. 1
Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
I find "Quote of the Day" or "Post of the Day" blogposts intensely annoying, especially if there is in fact more than one on the same day, as happens occasionally . I thought of perhaps starting a "Thought for the day" thing, for when I come across a particularly good quote or fact or perhaps even a poem or suchlike. However, I might have more than one a day, so it can't...
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October 20, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Will be working 'til midnight due to the company's concert so I might not be up tomorrow... In the meantime, Jonathan Strahan tweeted the formula (thanks!) to estimating word count when you don't have a computer: "Count 1 page. 6 chars (inc spaces) = word. No of words per line X lines per page." (I was inquiring how to determine if a story was a novelette.) Here are some valid criticisms...
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Gensler's Big Blue Beverly Hills Building: Here Come the Lawyers!
Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Via Brigham Yen Reader Brigham Yen passes on the latest construction shots of the Gensler-designed building in Beverly Hills, the office space that William Morris Endeavor (WME) reportedly wants out of . And last week, the Beverly Hills Courier reported that "legal proceedings " regarding WME's attempt to wiggle out of its lease are commencing. Whether "legal proceedings" means...
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Book review :: V&A Pattern Series
freshly{blended} (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
continuing the patterny goodness from last weeks book review, here is the awesome box set of pocket sized books including Patterns from the fifties, william morris, digital pioneers, and indian florals. All patterns are from The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, hence the title, V&A pattern sourcebooks . the best part is that they include a disk of the prints for your personal use! super cool...
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V&A Pattern series
How About Orange (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
I'm enjoying a review copy of the V&A Pattern Set , a beautiful little series of picture books with patterns from different eras and artists: William Morris, Indian Florals, Digital Pioneers, and The Fifties, all from The Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The best part: each book comes with a CD of all the images. The digital files are about 6" x 8" at 300 dpi. (Images are for personal...
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Inspiration Monday: Twentieth Century Pattern Design
Hatch: The Design Public ® Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
The book I laid out on my coffee table this week is Twentieth Century Pattern Design by Lesley Jackson. Many of these prints have been making a huge comeback over the past ten years, as we’ve seen them everywhere from Josef Frank Anthropologie sofas to William Morris Prada pumps. An array of Art Noveau prints designed [...]
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Shit We're Diggin': The Art of Tory Wright
Wooster Collective (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
"I explore the intersection of fashion and consumerism, using collage as a drawing tool. I collect, reclaim, and reuse Duratrans (the ever present light box advertisements) and fragrance campaign posters seen within department stores as a source material. Employing a reductive language, I flirt with the viewer’s gaze by altering the material’s surface. By cutting away imagery pulled...
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Gensler Brings the Blue to Beverly Hills, But Where's Ari?
Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
"> " style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;"> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Say what you will about Gensler, but the firm is consistent. And the design of their new building on Beverly Hills---the one that was slated to hold the offices of William Morris Endeavor (WME) Entertainment--has that blue look of the nearly completed Ritz-Carlton Tower...
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Morris & Co.
Entartete Musik (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
A short drive away from our new home sits one of the gems of Victorian domestic architecture. Red House, formerly the home of William Morris and his family and built for Morris by Philip Webb, is a predecessor to the riot of creativity that was the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain. Seen in a larger context, it prefigures the designs of Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow or the Viennese
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RentChopper: Mid-Century Modern In Brentwood
Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
This five-bedroom, four-bath house in Brentwood was designed by Googie architect Douglas Honnold . Honnold , who also designed the forever-under-construction Sunset-Vine Tower and the recently sold former home of the William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills, was also John Lautner's boss for some time. Until, it seems, Lautner married his ex-wife. The house was first available for rent in July for $10,500...
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Rumination of Utopias
urban floop (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
As Ian Macleod one of the speakers during the Thrilling Wonder Stories syposium had pointed out, that in the present context there are no trajectories left of a future that can promise designs of utopia. With strong global authoritarian systems in place it allows very little flexibility to imagine either the utopias of social hierarchy or technological revolutions to purge problems, on the contrary...
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Wanna Join My Class?
Nothing Elegant (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
...W ell, virtually-speaking anyway. I am teaching a class this semester on the 1890's, and I'm very excited, because the fin de siecle is one of my absolute favorite time periods in art and literature! The reading list includes: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Time Machine by H.G. Wells Mrs. Warren's Profession by G.B. Shaw In addition, we will be reading...
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Cornwall
urban floop (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
(Padstow fishing town port) If you are around UK (or are privileged enough to travel here from anywhere else) and are looking to rejuvenate your nature-mana and reinstate faith in sustainability then Cornwall is the place to be. Thanks to Sarathi and Neha (the nature-loving couple) who invited me and Nora along on a road trip, we had the opportunity to explore the country side of Cornwall . (Meva gissey...