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CURRENT TOWN parlance, Carder is a "shed boy," a catchy term applied to a non-catchy lifestyle. It refers to people, mostly single men, who live off the grid and low-on-the-hog. Many of the homes aren't exactly sheds. They are boats moored on land, trailers, buses, vans, somebody's spare bedroom, a shipping container. For many, being a shedder is more attitude or necessity than address.

Some residents say the shed-boy buzz, started by the local newspaper, The Leader, is a joke, much ado about a few uninspired men. Others, though, say it captured a Port Townsend archetype and highlighted the city's lack of affordable housing and decent wages.

The Leader articles, written by freelance reporter Rebecca Mizhir, who once was part of a writers' group known as the "trailer poets," captured community attention and sold a lot of newspapers. There was talk of a novel ("The Shed Boy Murders") and jokes of a shed tour. Merchants on tourist-friendly Water Street advertised shed-boy fashion statements.

Many of the people who best meet the definition won't talk about it. They live far off the curb for a reason, and fear the code-enforcement officer. One man, who is devising technology that apparently has interested a major company but lives in a school bus, wanted nothing to do with me. I was escorted to a mini-village of sheds and trailers by one of its residents, but a guy who claims to be a shaman sent word I best not go near him or his trailer.

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This is not all to say that the building should have been left as an untouched, decaying memorial to some episodic, bygone aesthetic rebellion of the 1960s. I do support the new Museum's ambition to establish itself in a new and prominent location, and I wish it luck. But I think the architects could have come up with a more creative way to address and engage the storied and tortuous past of this structure and this site. Cloepfil heralds the preservation of the iconic lollipop columns at the building's base as some kind of concessionary offering to the Sterns of this world. But this is nothing more than petty lip-service to preservationists, and Cloepfil should be ashamed for his brazen contextual ignorance. His project ends up so anodyne, so plain, and so gutless that it fails to make any statement at all about anything other than the 2-foot wide light slots that wind around the facade. (And which, by the way, are completely out of scale and exhibit the innovative capacity of a 1st-year graduate school project.)

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YACHT ROCK

J. D. Ryznar and Hunter D. Stair devised the series after noticing the incestuous recording careers of such bands as Steely Dan, Toto, and The Doobie Brothers and the singer-songwriters Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald. For example, McDonald co-wrote Loggins' "This Is It" and The Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes" and also performed backing vocals for several other 'yacht rock' artists, including Steely Dan and Christopher Cross. Yacht Rock's episodes were "hosted" by "Hollywood" Steve Huey, a legitimate music critic for Allmusic.

Ryznar admits to having a fascination with the music of the period. Ryznar explains, "Getting into Steely Dan really started this for me. As did the ability to buy dollar records at Amoeba and put them on tapes for my car. Kenny Loggins has made his way into all the pilots I've been involved with except [one]."[1] As Ryznar told Reuters contributor Andy Sullivan, "I'm making fun of the songwriting process, but the music is generally treated pretty lovingly."[2]

The series depicted some realistic aspects of the music, but builds exaggerated storylines around them. For example, the series' presentation of Hall & Oates, in which John Oates, a clear junior partner given his paucity of lead vocals or songwriting credits, rules over partner Daryl Hall in quasi-abusive fashion, is unrealistic. Michael Jackson is depicted as a hard-rock enthusiast who believes his partnership with guitarist Eddie Van Halen will lead to an endless parade of female sexual conquests. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, the Doobie Brothers' lead guitarist, is often seen pressuring central figure Michael McDonald to write the Doobies another hit. The real Baxter did bring McDonald into the band but he quit himself after achieving their greatest commercial success because of his displeasure with their new commercial attitude. The Eagles and Steely Dan really did insert lyrical references to each other in their music, as depicted in the show, but these were actually friendly in nature, not part of a longtime grudge involving baseball bats and lunch-money shakedowns.[3]

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Ike, the hurricane, missed New Orleans and ravaged parts of Texas instead. While one might think the Crescent City would breathe easier — it’s really not the case . people there are asking themselves just how many times they can evacuate. it is difficult and expensive to have to haul ass for every potential hurricane. There are those who think that at some point New Orleans should just factor the water in and make itself some liquid thoroughfares like Amsterdam or Venice– have the city adapt… and there might be a lot of sense in that point of view — neighborhoods like the lower 9th and east Lakeview were built ON wetlands, and , it seems, nature is trying to reclaim them. The neighborhoods on higher ground — what the locals refer to as the ’sliver by the river’ are part of New Orleans original charter and were built specifically because they were on higher ground — the rest of these communities came much later……
read the rest of tony fitzpatricks NO diary

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I love this Scopitone clip of Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks.Yes, the big eared blond on drums is Levon Helm. Not their best tune (for that, try this one-- their version of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love from 1960 (Roullette). It was a huge hit in Canada whose radio stations blasted it into Detroit at the time, evidently it was a big influence on the Stooges' James Wiliamson whose solo on Search & Destroy would echo it twenty two years later. - the hound

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The notion of "leftover space" has always been of great interest to architects, but in the context of global urbanization it conjures a particularly visceral response.Leftover space in the sense of being ghettoized and depicting a sort of bare essentiality of being in architecture is not always easy to look at much less understand, especially for a profession whose responsibility is designing the structures that people will inhabit. For the most part, the issue of global poverty is translated through viral images of shanties infecting the landscape, peripheral slums leaching off the urban core, and pictures that instill fear of an assailant rise of diseased squatter cities. This not only demonizes the third world, it painfully reminds us of our own failures to address the infrastructural necessities of millions. However, these images narrate only part of the story for those who go on sifting through the remains of an urban evolution which has long since abandoned them

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mexcontainer

It was a side trip through a destitute, ramshackle neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, that detoured Brian McCarthy from building houses in Albuquerque to an idea to offer the very poor a chance to own a home. His answer lies in a humble steel shipping container 40 feet long, 8 feet wide and 8½ feet tall.
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hello down there

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musical mirages


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how to speak hip


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a look back in history with color photography

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My fellow day campers and I used to swim here every summer. A 20 minute walk to the bus stop, wait for the bus, bus ride to ferry, wait for ferry, ferry ride, walk to pool, a nice hike and worth every minute. The Lyons pool was glorious!!!! Huge and gorgeous. I am so happy it won't be torn down now for the "luxury condos". They have 3 pools: a kiddie pool, a diving pool & a normal 4 ft pool. I used to do forward somersaults off the high diving board. So many happy memories. - lisa

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new yorker stories


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Miami Marine Stadium Wins Historic Designation

a marine stadium thats completely obsolete because speed boats run too fast now to stay on the track. then used as a rock venue and then abandoned after hurricane damage. saved anyway because its a cool purpose built highly exotic one of a kind aqua-building.


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nice fuckin' calders from an art collection that name checks biggie friends and business connection from the 20c modernist cannon

Why isn’t Eliot Noyes (like his house) as famous as his friends? He attracted fellow members of the Harvard Five—Breuer, Johnson, Landis Gores, and John Johansen—to New Canaan by building a house there in 1947. He launched the careers of Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen when, as curator of industrial design at the Museum of Modern Art, he awarded them first prize in the 1940 Organic Design in Home Furnishings competition. He revolutionized the partnership of design and the corporation at IBM, where, backed by chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr., he organized every aspect of the company’s appearance, redesigning the product line from the Selectric typewriter to the System/360 computer and hiring Paul Rand for graphics, the Eameses for films and exhibitions, and an all-star cast of architects (Breuer, Gordon Bunshaft, Mies, Paul Rudolph, Saarinen, and many more) for buildings. Noyes went on to provide similar services for Mobil and Westinghouse. “His real project was not to design objects and buildings but to create a system by which a corporation could administer design programs,” says John Harwood, who just completed a dissertation on Noyes and IBM. “He wasn’t out to make exciting architecture. He was interested in the pragmatic, and then he occasionally came out with really amazing designs—like his own house. He does the same kind of project at the scale of the corporate family with his architecture for IBM.” Contemporary articles on Noyes emphasize his charm, stability, and conservatism to explain why even then he was not better known, as well as how he achieved so much power in the corporate hierarchy. Architect Jane Thompson remembers analyzing Noyes with Walter McQuade, who wrote many architects’ profiles: “Walter said to me, ‘Eliot seems so perfect. I can’t find anything wrong with him.’ isn’t Eliot Noyes (like his house) as famous as his friends? He attracted fellow members of the Harvard Five—Breuer, Johnson, Landis Gores, and John Johansen—to New Canaan by building a house there in 1947. He launched the careers of Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen when, as curator of industrial design at the Museum of Modern Art, he awarded them first prize in the 1940 Organic Design in Home Furnishings competition. He revolutionized the partnership of design and the corporation at IBM, where, backed by chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr., he organized every aspect of the company’s appearance, redesigning the product line from the Selectric typewriter to the System/360 computer and hiring Paul Rand for graphics, the Eameses for films and exhibitions, and an all-star cast of architects (Breuer, Gordon Bunshaft, Mies, Paul Rudolph, Saarinen, and many more) for buildings. Noyes went on to provide similar services for Mobil and Westinghouse.

“His real project was not to design objects and buildings but to create a system by which a corporation could administer design programs,” says John Harwood, who just completed a dissertation on Noyes and IBM. “He wasn’t out to make exciting architecture. He was interested in the pragmatic, and then he occasionally came out with really amazing designs—like his own house. He does the same kind of project at the scale of the corporate family with his architecture for IBM.” Contemporary articles on Noyes emphasize his charm, stability, and conservatism to explain why even then he was not better known, as well as how he achieved so much power in the corporate hierarchy. Architect Jane Thompson remembers analyzing Noyes with Walter McQuade, who wrote many architects’ profiles: “Walter said to me, ‘Eliot seems so perfect. I can’t find anything wrong with him.’”
more images from a new canaan modern house tour picassa album

justin found this one
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painted out graffiti
painted over graffiti


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anti-theft sandwich bag

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balinese

sad to report that the balinese was destroyed. here is their home site with historic info and interior exterior photos.

A historic Galveston, Texas, nightclub that once attracted some of the world's top entertainers was washed away by the storm surge of Hurricane Ike. The 79-year-old Balinese Room was once a popular dance and gambling hall. It hosted performances by Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, George Burns and the Marx Brothers in the 1940s and '50s. Howard Hughes was a patron. The structure along Galveston's sea wall had extended 600 feet out into the Gulf of Mexico. The building was added to the Natoinal Register of Historic Places in 1997. It had survived Hurricane Carla in 1961 and Hurricane Alicia in 1983, but Ike was too much for it as the storm's surge ripped the building apart early Saturday.


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Some 7,000 documented historic buildings are located on Galveston, an island that served as a gateway to Texas in the state's early days. Of those, it is estimated as many as 1,500 of the structures sustained serious damage during Hurricane Ike.
An early assessment by the Galveston Historical Foundation shows the following conditions at historic sites.

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Employees at the Farnsworth House used boats to reach the home on Saturday and lift the designer furniture away from the water. Some pieces, including a custom-designed wardrobe bound to the floor, could not be saved. Officials could not yet estimate the cost of damages.

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c3 corvette price guide


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guess im dumb


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never my love color promo


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speaking of wichita

witness: lester "road hog" moran and his cadillac cowboys. featuring wesley, red and wichita ~ also know as the statler brothers


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