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I just received several emails with comments or replies that had been posted three weeks ago! The mysteries of LJ...
I'm through with NaNoWriMo, at last, having added my own private extension (yes, I cheat...) and now can go on to the fun part of the holidays--cleaning house so I can decorate, seeing Harry Potter and maybe soon Brokeback Mountain, shopping, reading Genji, putting the lights on the outside tree...
I've been meaning to post about a wonderful trip we took (no pictures, camera is dead) to a Frank Lloyd Wright house near Beaufort--it's been restored and decorated by Joel Silver, who produced The Matrix and Die Hard and others (at least some of them). It was built in the thirties and forties, and is a complex of long, low buildings in a gorgeous setting, very different from other places where he's built. This is an old plantation and is many acres of open, flat grassland, dotted with huge moss-hung oaks with low spreading limbs--most of them must be at least two hundred years old. Instead of the traditional huge columned southern mansion, FLW has these low, rustic, buildings, with copper roofs, spread out under the trees. Asymetrical, with few right angles and many oddly slanted walls, windows with wooden dividers at odd angles, polished cement floors (we had to take off shoes or wear hospital booties). Silver's done a magnificent job of restoration, working with FLW's son and going back to the original plans. He also has delightful things of his own (I'd never seen a real Oscar before, and he has four on one shelf), including large "toy" futuristic from the thirties cars, planes, and trains, marvelous Chinese sculptures and paintings, and animals on the grounds, including zebra, minature hippos, and some wonderful antelope with horns that curve clear back to their tails. The place is called Auldbrass, and it is open to the public--for a good-sized fee--for one weekend every two years. You can see pictures someone took two years ago at http://www.peterbeers.net/interests/flw_rt/South_Carolina/Auldbrass/auldbrass.htm We've seen several of his other things, but mostly around Chicago he was working much earlier, more in the class Prairie tradition (Robie House, Oak Park, etc.) My dream is to see Falling Water.
But today is the last day of my dream/collage workshop. More on that, another time.
I'm through with NaNoWriMo, at last, having added my own private extension (yes, I cheat...) and now can go on to the fun part of the holidays--cleaning house so I can decorate, seeing Harry Potter and maybe soon Brokeback Mountain, shopping, reading Genji, putting the lights on the outside tree...
I've been meaning to post about a wonderful trip we took (no pictures, camera is dead) to a Frank Lloyd Wright house near Beaufort--it's been restored and decorated by Joel Silver, who produced The Matrix and Die Hard and others (at least some of them). It was built in the thirties and forties, and is a complex of long, low buildings in a gorgeous setting, very different from other places where he's built. This is an old plantation and is many acres of open, flat grassland, dotted with huge moss-hung oaks with low spreading limbs--most of them must be at least two hundred years old. Instead of the traditional huge columned southern mansion, FLW has these low, rustic, buildings, with copper roofs, spread out under the trees. Asymetrical, with few right angles and many oddly slanted walls, windows with wooden dividers at odd angles, polished cement floors (we had to take off shoes or wear hospital booties). Silver's done a magnificent job of restoration, working with FLW's son and going back to the original plans. He also has delightful things of his own (I'd never seen a real Oscar before, and he has four on one shelf), including large "toy" futuristic from the thirties cars, planes, and trains, marvelous Chinese sculptures and paintings, and animals on the grounds, including zebra, minature hippos, and some wonderful antelope with horns that curve clear back to their tails. The place is called Auldbrass, and it is open to the public--for a good-sized fee--for one weekend every two years. You can see pictures someone took two years ago at http://www.peterbeers.net/interests/flw_rt/South_Carolina/Auldbrass/auldbrass.htm We've seen several of his other things, but mostly around Chicago he was working much earlier, more in the class Prairie tradition (Robie House, Oak Park, etc.) My dream is to see Falling Water.
But today is the last day of my dream/collage workshop. More on that, another time.