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Following a hearty dinner served to perfection by Mrs P, Horace suggested we all retire to the snug and talk about days gone by over a few double strength Port and Brandy’s. 🔥🍷🍷
Hoof sat in his Rocking chair while Mrs P and I listened to Horace reminiscing about his days at University. Oh yes ever since he was a piglet and watched the first moon landings, aeronautics has been his chosen career path and therefore pursued a masters degree in the advanced science of rocket engine technology. 🐎💨🌝🚀
Horace went on to tell us of quite an interesting evening while he was quietly studying in the corner of the bar at his university, when he noticed a lady walk in and order a drink.📖💃
The lady was in the course of ordering her drink when she let go one almighty sneeze, with that her glass eye flew out, well quick as a flash Horace dived to his right and caught the glass eye. As you know Horace was the university first team wicket keeper so to him this was like taking a snick off a batsman’s fine edge.
Horace in his very gentlemanly manner took the glass eye over to the lady at the bar who was trying to hide her embarrassment. Horace introduced himself and handed over the eye, (he always was a good pupil)🐷👔
The lady asked Horace if he would like a drink, well in a millisecond back came the answer “that would be very kind of you, five pints of lager and a couple of whisky chasers to begin with please”.🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍷🍷
Horace went on to tell us that in fact they had much in common (yea right, there is another squadron flying over) and they continued chatting away, with that the lady asked Horace if he would like to join her for dinner, he duly accepted, they were getting on like a house on fire. 🍕
Following a few after dinner drinks, she asked Horace to her room for the night, (come on its not what you think) she had a big scalextric track with tight curves she wanted to show Horace.
Well next morning they had breakfast together before they went their separate ways, Horace said to the lady, “do you mind me asking but do you treat all strangers as well as you treated me” no she responded it was just that you caught my eye.🍳🍳💃🐷
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Your banter and comments are so appreciated, have a good weekend.
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Blackthorn Hare is the first person ever to receive a Master's degree in SL sculpture and he did it with this sim which will be wiped clean on March 11th: npirl.blogspot.com/2008/03/whereupon-blackthorn-hare-crea...
So...those are my Professors, my friend Barbara who had a Master's Degree Exam with me, and me :)
Quite a joyfull moment ...so now, I have Master's of Arts title in Architectural Design ;)
I'm happy...
Oh btw - since I prize myself so much ;) as I told you before my thesis (A+!!! A+!!! ;)) became a book, so now, since about the subject I have written is so little materials all around the world, University in Jerusalem asked me to send it to their Libraries, I feel quite humble but proud same time :) It's fantastic to be such a specialist in some subject yay ;) :D
Photo by Anna...or Tom...or Magdalena...I seriously can't remember since my baby was wandering from hands to hands that day...
(flickr EXPLORE: 23 August 2005, #32 - Photographer: a.golden, eyewash design, NYC: c.2005 --->
Staten Island landmark birthplace home of NYC's first opera singer.)
After years of freelance work to "pay the bills", I've decided to go back to university. That's right! I'm going for a MPS in Art Therapy. I'm shooting for Pratt Institute. For more information on the program: www.pratt.edu/creative_arts_therapy
My concentration will be on children. More specifically, those most in need. Those who've suffered the most terribly ---> in other words, the socio & economically disadvantaged, those sexually, emotionally and/or physically abused, the neglected & the abandoned children, as well as children diagnosed with Autism.
Let me know what you think --->
Any constructive criticism is also most welcome! I'm trying to earn my Master's in Art Therapy. BUT, I MUST FIRST take 19 additional undergraduate courses which will qualify my eligibility to apply. I WILL get in!
I firmly believe that together we CAN make a difference.
Thanks, in advance!
My daughter graduated yesterday with her Master's Degree Summa Cum Laude from Duquesne University here in Pittsburgh, Pa.
She may look like her mother, but there is so much of me in her.
Alyssa, .. may you never forget just how much you truly mean to me as I love you as big as 80 worlds and you will always be my angel.
Thank you for looking and please do NOT use my images WITHOUT my written permission.
Scott Betz 2017 - © All Rights Reserved
HQ: "Helloooooo! C'mon Drury! Don't play ga-"
She sees me and Huntress and Killer Moth lying on the ground.
HQ: "Awh shuts... Really? Still no fun without you idiots runnin' around?"
Hntrs: "Says the loonie in the house."
HQ: "Touché crossbow girl."
Hntrs: "The name's Huntress."
HQ: "Ohw I know who you are. I'm not stupid. I have a mastersdegree in psychology."
Hntrs: "Really? You're actually smart?"
HQ: "Okay, that's it! BOYS! GET YA ASSES OVER HERE!"
I grab one of my batons and I see 4 heavily armed guys running down the coredor. While Huntress and I make ourselves ready for the fight, Harley is climbing on a catwalk so she probably can enjoy the fun and film it for her 'puddin'.
That relationship is just sick...
I do actually feel bad for Harley. She is one of the smartest people who worked in Arkham. Now she has to play a dumb girl who does everything for her mista J. Just manipulated by a patient, someone she tried to help. Well she did get something in return that first night in Arkham. Cops still try to figure out how she turned off the camera's and how he got a con-...
AWH no, too sick of a thought, too sick of a thought!
Well it has already been a few years, and that same, smart Harleen is still in that brain of her. She has to be. Harley just stands on the catwalk, laughing. She knows we easily pummel her guys, but she still finds it hilarious. Joker really got a hold on her.
Karen: Eva, do you have to nap in my office?
Eva: I don't have to. I could also nap on your bed. But, since you're being boring in here I might as well nap in here.
Karen: I apologize if you don't find me constantly entertaining.
Eva: That's Okay. I need my naps too. What are you even doing spending so much time on your little tappy tap tap thing?
Karen: I've been working on my master's.
Eva: Ah, I see. The student is becoming the master.
Karen: I thought I was always the master in our relationship.
Eva: It's so cute that you think that. If you're the master why do you feed me, pet me in the perfect spots, drive me places, and pick up my poop?
Karen: Eva, this is not a class about human canine interactions. It's a series of online classes so I can get a master's degree and be better taking care of people at my job.
Eva: Well, that's a relief. I was afraid that you might get all uppity and try to pretend that you're my master.
Karen: Dude, why do I put up with you?
Eva: Because I'm more adorable than annoying. It's a fine line but I walk it perfectly. Now if you'll do me a favour and get back to the whole tappy tap tap thing I can get back to my nappy nap nap. Your fingers on the keyboard are like the best sleep meditation sound ever.
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In addition to her regular job, my wife has been working on her on-line Master's degree for over a year now. The other day I was surprised to find Eva napping on the couch in her office while she worked. Apparently this happens all of the time, but when I'm home Eva is usually glued to my side so I never see it. It is mighty charitable of Eva to keep her company while she is studying.
My gorgeous nephew Jordan in the wilds of Yorkshire.
He is just finishing up his Master's in Architecture at Sheffield Uni and Aunty Amanda is so proud of him.
He will be 26 in July, still single, but I warn you now girls, you have to get through me first. LOL
He doesn't know I have twiddled and tweaked his photo yet!!!
since yesterday was commencement at Sonoma State, I'm celebrating Mothers Day by posting one of my mom Alice on HER graduation with a Masters in teaching from Yale, 1966 -- and artfully concealing that she was pregnant, with me!
Happy mothers day, Mom!
BLOGGED: 27 Nov. 2008: www.counterspinyc.blogspot.com/
- a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2008.
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THE SKINNY:
The Flag of The Jatibonicu Taino Tribal Nation of Borikén (Puerto Rico) designed by Cacike Pedro Guanikeyu Torres, Principal Chief; execution: A. golden, eyewash design, 2007
HERE'S THE HISTORY PEOPLE!! (as told to Dr. Peter Orenski)
HINT: Christopher Columbus & mounTAINOus regions...
The Jatibonicu Taino of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico is "Borikén" in the Taino language and means "Land of the Valiant and Noble Lord", that refers also to the Great Spirit or Creator) are descendants of the original 24 tribal bands that settled in Puerto Rico. Their ancestors are the Central American Indians and the Arawak Indians of South America, who had migrated north in the early centuries of the second millennium and colonized the islands of the Caribbean where Tainos can be found today in Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo/Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas and Florida (some 15 bands are in Florida) (see Jatibonicu Taino of New Jersey).
Jatibonicu means "The Great People of the Sacred High Waters" (waterfalls), whereas "Taino" is a name first used by the Spanish invaders. It derives from the answer tribesmen gave the Spanish when the latter asked the Indigenous people, "Who are you?" The Natives simply answered "Taino" meaning "Good and Noble People" in order to distinguish themselves from some of the more warlike southeastern tribes, such as the feared Caribs or Waib.
The first contact with Europeans -- which signaled, as it later did for other Native Americans throughout the Hemisphere, the beginning of the end for an estimated 3-8 million Tainos who had spread throughout the Caribbean Islands and Florida -- was on October 12, 1492, when Columbus landed on the island of Guanahani (today, San Salvador in the Bahamas). He later departed for Spain with onboard six Borikén Taino women and one 13-year-old boy named Gueycan (Center of the Sun), whom happenstance had placed in San Salvador, and whom Columbus paraded before the royal court of Ferdinand and Isabella in Madrid, Spain.
When Columbus returned on his second voyage in 1493, he brought the six women and the young Taino boy with him. On seeing the outlines of Puerto Rico on November 18th, 1493, the overjoyed women shouted "Borikén" and jumped overboard and swam for shore. On the 19th day of November, a Sunday morning, Columbus and his men landed on the shores of the island of Borikén (today, Puerto Rico).
The flag of the Jatibonicu Taino Tribal Nation of Borikén (Tribal motto "Like A Mountain We Stand Alone") derives from the prophecy of a Great Three-Colored Rainbow and a later vision, which a Jatibonicu Tribal Elder had in the late 60's while he stood in the ceremonial center during a vision quest in Caguana (named after the Fertility Mother of the Taino tribes), in Puerto Rico. The vision contained all the elements currently shown in the central charge of the flag, and it also contained a field of yellow. The green and red were added later, red standing for tribal blood spilled during the tragic years following European contact, as reflected by "maga", a red flower indigenous to the region. Green signifies Bibi Atabey or Mother Earth. Yellow is for Baba Guey (Father Sun) and indicates the reflection of the rays of the sun a symbol of great illumination and wisdom upon the wings of the Colibri, the hummingbird that is the totem of the Jatibonicu Taino tribe.
Relative stripe ratios and detailed specifications for the central charge were worked out during March and April 2001 by Chief Guanikeyu (Noble Bird of the White Earth) Torres, whom the author assisted with computer graphics. The outer ring of the central charge symbolizes the men's sun circle, and hence Baba Guey, while the inner circle is the women's moon circle, or Atabeira, Grandmother Moon. The outer ring is surrounded by 24 leaves of the sacred Cohobana Tree, the seeds of which are essential for tribal sacred ceremonies. The number of leaves stand for the Nation's 24 original clans or tribal bands in Puerto Rico.
Contrary to first impression, the elements inside the moon circle do not represent a human face, just as the outer leaves do not represent sun rays. Rather, the three circled dots inside the moon circle are a reflection on water of the Sacred Mountain (note tribal motto) hence the top of the mountain appears at the bottom in the reflection. The three elements that denote the Cemi (Totem) of the Sacred Mountain symbolize three Spirits. Yaya, at the summit, is the Spirit of Spirits, or Great Spirit, or Creator. The right circled dot, from the viewer's perspective, symbolizes the Spirit of the Living People, or Goiz, while the circled dot on the left is the Spirit of the Ancestors, or Hupia. It is important to avoid calling Hupia "spirit of the dead" because the Jatibonicu Taino people do not believe in death. The curved lines of the central symbol of the charge symbolize the sacred Snuff Pipe in which crushed seeds from the Cohobana Tree are snuffed during sacred Cohoba visionary ceremonies.
The motto of the new flag is "One People, One Nation, One Destiny" because the flag also represents the three confederated Taino tribal bands in Puerto Rico (The Jatibonicu Taino Tribe of Borikén), Florida (The Tekesta Taino Tribal Band of Bimini Florida), and New Jersey (Jatibonicu Taino Tribal Band of New Jersey). These three confederated Taino tribal bands form the central Grand Council of the Government of The Jatibonicu Taino Tribal Nation.
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- a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2008
After years of freelance work to "pay the bills", I've decided to go back to university. That's right! I'm going for a MPS in Art Therapy. I'm shooting for Pratt Institute. For more information on the program: www.pratt.edu/creative_arts_therapy
My concentration will be on children. More specifically, those most in need. Those who've suffered the most terribly ---> in other words, the socio & economically disadvantaged, those sexually, emotionally and/or physically abused, the neglected & the abandoned children, as well as children diagnosed with Autism.
Let me know what you think --->
Any constructive criticism is also most welcome! I'm trying to earn my Master's in Art Therapy. BUT, I MUST FIRST take 19 additional undergraduate courses which will qualify my eligibility to apply. I WILL get in!
I firmly believe that together we CAN make a difference.
Thanks, in advance!
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For those in the know, you'll immediately recognise Little Leon (Freeney ---> left).
This crew hails from Staten Island. They hang in SoHo & can be found doing various 80's dances in Times Square, most weekends. Check 'em out if you happen to be there ---> they're fairly easy to spot - even amongst the glaring adverts & swarming tourists.
This image just makes me smile...
SoHo, NYC, 2007.
this guy had flair! SoHo, NYC - July, 2006 - a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2008
After years of freelance work to "pay the bills", I've decided to go back to university. That's right! I'm going for a MPS in Art Therapy. I'm shooting for Pratt Institute. For more information on the program: www.pratt.edu/creative_arts_therapy
My concentration will be on children. More specifically, those most in need. Those who've suffered the most terribly ---> in other words, the socio & economically disadvantaged, those sexually, emotionally and/or physically abused, the neglected & the abandoned children, as well as children diagnosed with Autism.
Let me know what you think --->
Any constructive criticism is also most welcome! I'm trying to earn my Master's in Art Therapy. BUT, I MUST FIRST take 19 additional undergraduate courses which will qualify my eligibility to apply. I WILL get in!
I firmly believe that together we CAN make a difference.
Thanks, in advance!
This is the cropped version. Is it more interesting? I think I like it better because it makes you focus more on the pen than the writing on the side of the page.
February 2, 2008
At least that's what it feels like... I have an academic book review due tonight. I started out reading my book at least fifteen minutes a day. Then I took my seventh graders on a weeklong trip, and that happen disappeared. Let's just say I haven't yet finished the book.
All I've done today is read the book and make notes. I haven't even changed out of my jammies! I'm really cutting it close on this one. I've been trying to make notes of intelligent thoughts so that when I finally finish the book I can write the review without too much trouble. I hope it works...
_08_05, NYC - a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2008
After years of freelance work to "pay the bills", I've decided to go back to university. That's right! I'm going for a MPS in Art Therapy. I'm shooting for Pratt Institute. For more information on the program: www.pratt.edu/creative_arts_therapy
My concentration will be on children. More specifically, those most in need. Those who've suffered the most terribly ---> in other words, the socio & economically disadvantaged, those sexually, emotionally and/or physically abused, the neglected & the abandoned children, as well as children diagnosed with Autism.
Let me know what you think --->
Any constructive criticism is also most welcome! I'm trying to earn my Master's in Art Therapy. BUT, I MUST FIRST take 19 additional undergraduate courses which will qualify my eligibility to apply. I WILL get in!
I firmly believe that together we CAN make a difference.
Thanks, in advance!
The Eisenhower Leader Development Program graduated its 14th Cohort at the U.S. Military Academy’s Thayer Award Room, May 17. The 24 graduates participated in the year-long master’s degree program, jointly administered by USMA’s Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership and Columbia University’s Teachers College. (U.S. Army photo by Matthew Moeller)
BLOGGED: 09 Nov. 2008: www.counterspinyc.blogspot.com/
UPDATE ---> Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, the dictator who reinvented himself as a U.S. ally against terrorism, resigned to avoid facing impeachment charges for illegally seizing power and mishandling the economy. YAH!
MORE HERE ------------>
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=awEtGvHL...
Graphic Design: - a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2008
After years of freelance work to "pay the bills", I've decided to go back to university. That's right! I'm going for a MPS in Art Therapy. I'm shooting for Pratt Institute. For more information on the program: www.pratt.edu/creative_arts_therapy
My concentration will be on children. More specifically, those most in need. Those who've suffered the most terribly ---> in other words, the socio & economically disadvantaged, those sexually, emotionally and/or physically abused, the neglected & the abandoned children, as well as children diagnosed with Autism.
Let me know what you think --->
Any constructive criticism is also most welcome! I'm trying to earn my Master's in Art Therapy. BUT, I MUST FIRST take 19 additional undergraduate courses which will qualify my eligibility to apply. I WILL get in!
I firmly believe that together we CAN make a difference.
Thanks, in advance!
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Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States (US), with the first usage of the term dating from the War of 1812 and the first illustration dating from 1852. He is often depicted as a serious elderly white man with white hair and a goatee, with an obvious resemblance to Presidents Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, and dressed in clothing that recalls the design elements of the flag of the United States—for example, typically a top hat with red and white stripes and white stars on a blue band, and red and white striped trousers.
Common folklore holds origins trace back to soldiers stationed in upstate New York, who would receive barrels of meat stamped with the initials U.S. The soldiers jokingly referred these initials as to naming the troops' meat supplier, (Uncle) Samuel Wilson of Troy, New York.
The 87th United States Congress adopted the following resolution on September 15, 1961: "Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives that the Congress salutes Uncle Sam Wilson of Troy, New York, as the progenitor of America's National symbol of Uncle Sam." Monuments mark his birthplace in Arlington, Massachusetts, and site of burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, New York. Another sign marks "The boyhood home of Uncle Sam" outside his second home in Mason, NH. The first use of the term in literature is seen in an 1816 allegorical book, The Adventures of Uncle Sam in Search After His Lost Honor by Frederick Augustus Fidfaddy, Esq., also in reference to the aforementioned Samuel Wilson.
Earlier representative figures of the United States included such beings as "Brother Jonathan," used by Punch magazine. These were overtaken by Uncle Sam somewhere around the time of the Civil War. The female personification "Columbia" has seldom been seen since the 1920s.
Originally published as the cover for the July 6, 1916, issue of Leslie's Weekly with the title "What Are You Doing for Preparedness?" this portrait of "Uncle Sam" went on to become--according to its creator, James Montgomery Flagg--"the most famous poster in the world." Over four million copies were printed between 1917 and 1918, as the United States entered World War I and began sending troops and matériel into war zones.
Flagg (1877-1960) contributed forty-six works to support the war effort. He was a member of the first Civilian Preparedness Committee organized in New York in 1917 and chaired by Grosvenor Clarkson. He also served as a member of Charles Dana Gibson's Committee of Pictorial Publicity, which was organized under the federal government's Committee on Public Information, headed by George Creel.
Because of its overwhelming popularity, the image was later adapted for use in World War II. Upon presenting President Franklin Delano Roosevelt a copy of the poster, Flagg remarked that he had been his own model for Uncle Sam to save the modeling fee. Roosevelt was impressed and replied: "I congratulate you on your resourcefulness in saving model hire. Your method suggests Yankee forebears."
Uncle Sam is one of the most popular personifications of the United States. However, the term "Uncle Sam" is of somewhat obscure derivation. Historical sources attribute the name to a meat packer who supplied meat to the army during the War of 1812--Samuel (Uncle Sam) Wilson (1766-1854). "Uncle Sam" Wilson was a man of great fairness, reliability, and honesty, who was devoted to his country--qualities now associated with "our" Uncle Sam. James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960)
modern furniture series: "red cross semae" sticker / tee logo / card, des. #8
the semae represents the Eames Low Side Chair by Charles and Ray Eames, 1946
- a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2008
After years of freelance work to "pay the bills", I've decided to go back to university. That's right! I'm going for a MPS in Art Therapy. I'm shooting for Pratt Institute. For more information on the program: www.pratt.edu/creative_arts_therapy
My concentration will be on children. More specifically, those most in need. Those who've suffered the most terribly ---> in other words, the socio & economically disadvantaged, those sexually, emotionally and/or physically abused, the neglected & the abandoned children, as well as children diagnosed with Autism.
Let me know what you think --->
Any constructive criticism is also most welcome! I'm trying to earn my Master's in Art Therapy. BUT, I MUST FIRST take 19 additional undergraduate courses which will qualify my eligibility to apply. I WILL get in!
I firmly believe that together we CAN make a difference.
Thanks, in advance!
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It is hard to imagine now, but the use of plywood and chrome-plated steel in residential furniture was considered edgy, risky, and thoroughly new when this chair made its 1946 debut. It is modern, lightweight, strong, sculptural, and a complete departure from what furniture was.
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr was born in 1907 in Saint Louis, Missouri. By the time he was 14 years old, while attending high school, Charles worked at the Laclede Steel Company as a part-time laborer, where he learned about engineering, drawing, and architecture (and also first entertained the idea of one day becoming an architect).
Charles briefly studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis on an architectural scholarship. He proposed studying Frank Lloyd Wright to his professors, and when he would not cease his interest in modern architects, he was dismissed from the university. In the report describing why he was dismissed from the university, a professor wrote the comment "His views were too modern." While at Washington University, he met his first wife, Catherine Woermann, whom he married in 1929. A year later, they had a daughter, Lucia.
After he left school and was married, Charles began his own architectural practice, with partners Charles Gray and later Walter Pauley.
One great influence on him was the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen (whose son Eero, also an architect, would become a partner and friend). At the elder Saarinen's invitation, he moved in 1938 with his wife Catherine and daughter Lucia to Michigan, to further study architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he would become a teacher and head of the industrial design department. One of the requirements of the Architecture and Urban Planning Program, at the time Eames applied, was for the student to have decided upon his project and gathered as much pertinent information in advance – Eames' interest was in the St. Louis waterfront. Together with Eero Saarinen he designed prize-winning furniture for New York's Museum of Modern Art "Organic Design" competition. Their work displayed the new technique of wood moulding (originally developed by Alvar Aalto), that Eames would further develop in many moulded plywood products, including, beside chairs and other furniture, splints and stretchers for the U.S. Navy during World War II.
In 1941, Charles and Catherine divorced, and he married his Cranbrook colleague Ray Kaiser, who was born in Sacramento, California. He then moved with her to Los Angeles, California, where they would work and live for the rest of their lives. In the late 1940s, as part of the Arts & Architecture magazine "Case Study" program, Ray and Charles designed and built the groundbreaking Eames House, Case Study House #8, as their home. Located upon a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and constructed entirely of pre-fabricated steel parts intended for industrial construction, it remains a milestone of modern architecture.
In the 1950s, the Eameses would continue their work in architecture and modern furniture design, often (like in the earlier moulded plywood work) pioneering innovative technologies, such as the fiberglass and plastic resin chairs and the wire mesh chairs designed for Herman Miller. Besides this work, Charles would soon channel his interest in photography into the production of short films. From their first one, the unfinished Traveling Boy (1950), to the extraordinary Powers of Ten (1977), their cinematic work was an outlet for ideas, a vehicle for experimentation and education.
The Eameses also conceived and designed a number of landmark exhibitions. The first of these, Mathematica: a world of numbers...and beyond (1961), was sponsored by IBM, and is the only one of their exhibitions still existant. The original was created for a new wing of the (currently named) California Science Center; it is now owned by and on display at the New York Hall of Science. In late 1961 a duplicate was created for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago; in 1980 it moved to the Museum of Science, Boston. Another version was created for the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair IBM exhibit. After the World's Fair it was moved to the Pacific Science Center in Seattle where it stayed until 1980. The Mathematica Exhibition is still considered a model for scientific popularization exhibitions. It was followed by "A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age" (1971) and "The World of Franklin and Jefferson" (1975-1977), among others.
The office of Charles and Ray Eames, which functioned for more than four decades (1943-88) at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, California, included in its staff, at one time of another, a number of remarkable designers, like Don Albinson, Deborah Sussman, Richard Foy and Henry Beer.
Among the many important designs originating there are the molded-plywood DCW (Dining Chair Wood) and DCM (Dining Chair Metal with a plywood seat) (1945), Eames Lounge Chair (1956), the Aluminum Group furniture (1958) and as well as the Eames Chaise (1968), designed for Charles's friend, film director Billy Wilder, the playful Do-Nothing Machine (1957), an early solar energy experiment, and a number of toys.
Short films produced by the couple often document their interests in collecting toys and cultural artifacts on their travels. The films also record the process of hanging their exhibits or producing classic furniture designs, to the purposefully mundane topic of filming soap suds moving over the pavement of a parking lot. Perhaps their most popular movie, "Powers of 10", gives a dramatic demonstration of orders of magnitude by visually zooming away from the earth to the edge of the universe, and then microscopically zooming into the nucleus of a carbon atom. Charles was a prolific photographer as well with thousands of images of their furniture, exhibits and collections, and now a part of the Library of Congress.
Charles Eames died of a heart attack on August 21, 1978 while on a consulting trip in his native Saint Louis, and now has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Ray died 10 years later to the exact day.
At the time of his death they were working on what became their last production, the Eames Sofa which went into production in 1984.
graphics: a.golden, eyewash design c. 2007
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modern furniture series: "orangena semae" sticker / tee logo / card, des. #10
the semae represents the Eames Low Side Chair by Charles and Ray Eames, 1946
- a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2008
After years of freelance work to "pay the bills", I've decided to go back to university. That's right! I'm going for a MPS in Art Therapy. I'm shooting for Pratt Institute. For more information on the program: www.pratt.edu/creative_arts_therapy
My concentration will be on children. More specifically, those most in need. Those who've suffered the most terribly ---> in other words, the socio & economically disadvantaged, those sexually, emotionally and/or physically abused, the neglected & the abandoned children, as well as children diagnosed with Autism.
Let me know what you think --->
Any constructive criticism is also most welcome! I'm trying to earn my Master's in Art Therapy. BUT, I MUST FIRST take 19 additional undergraduate courses which will qualify my eligibility to apply. I WILL get in!
I firmly believe that together we CAN make a difference.
Thanks, in advance!
THE SKINNY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
It is hard to imagine now, but the use of plywood and chrome-plated steel in residential furniture was considered edgy, risky, and thoroughly new when this chair made its 1946 debut. It is modern, lightweight, strong, sculptural, and a complete departure from what furniture was.
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr was born in 1907 in Saint Louis, Missouri. By the time he was 14 years old, while attending high school, Charles worked at the Laclede Steel Company as a part-time laborer, where he learned about engineering, drawing, and architecture (and also first entertained the idea of one day becoming an architect).
Charles briefly studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis on an architectural scholarship. He proposed studying Frank Lloyd Wright to his professors, and when he would not cease his interest in modern architects, he was dismissed from the university. In the report describing why he was dismissed from the university, a professor wrote the comment "His views were too modern." While at Washington University, he met his first wife, Catherine Woermann, whom he married in 1929. A year later, they had a daughter, Lucia.
After he left school and was married, Charles began his own architectural practice, with partners Charles Gray and later Walter Pauley.
One great influence on him was the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen (whose son Eero, also an architect, would become a partner and friend). At the elder Saarinen's invitation, he moved in 1938 with his wife Catherine and daughter Lucia to Michigan, to further study architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he would become a teacher and head of the industrial design department. One of the requirements of the Architecture and Urban Planning Program, at the time Eames applied, was for the student to have decided upon his project and gathered as much pertinent information in advance – Eames' interest was in the St. Louis waterfront. Together with Eero Saarinen he designed prize-winning furniture for New York's Museum of Modern Art "Organic Design" competition. Their work displayed the new technique of wood moulding (originally developed by Alvar Aalto), that Eames would further develop in many moulded plywood products, including, beside chairs and other furniture, splints and stretchers for the U.S. Navy during World War II.
In 1941, Charles and Catherine divorced, and he married his Cranbrook colleague Ray Kaiser, who was born in Sacramento, California. He then moved with her to Los Angeles, California, where they would work and live for the rest of their lives. In the late 1940s, as part of the Arts & Architecture magazine "Case Study" program, Ray and Charles designed and built the groundbreaking Eames House, Case Study House #8, as their home. Located upon a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and constructed entirely of pre-fabricated steel parts intended for industrial construction, it remains a milestone of modern architecture.
In the 1950s, the Eameses would continue their work in architecture and modern furniture design, often (like in the earlier moulded plywood work) pioneering innovative technologies, such as the fiberglass and plastic resin chairs and the wire mesh chairs designed for Herman Miller. Besides this work, Charles would soon channel his interest in photography into the production of short films. From their first one, the unfinished Traveling Boy (1950), to the extraordinary Powers of Ten (1977), their cinematic work was an outlet for ideas, a vehicle for experimentation and education.
The Eameses also conceived and designed a number of landmark exhibitions. The first of these, Mathematica: a world of numbers...and beyond (1961), was sponsored by IBM, and is the only one of their exhibitions still existant. The original was created for a new wing of the (currently named) California Science Center; it is now owned by and on display at the New York Hall of Science. In late 1961 a duplicate was created for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago; in 1980 it moved to the Museum of Science, Boston. Another version was created for the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair IBM exhibit. After the World's Fair it was moved to the Pacific Science Center in Seattle where it stayed until 1980. The Mathematica Exhibition is still considered a model for scientific popularization exhibitions. It was followed by "A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age" (1971) and "The World of Franklin and Jefferson" (1975-1977), among others.
The office of Charles and Ray Eames, which functioned for more than four decades (1943-88) at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, California, included in its staff, at one time of another, a number of remarkable designers, like Don Albinson, Deborah Sussman, Richard Foy and Henry Beer.
Among the many important designs originating there are the molded-plywood DCW (Dining Chair Wood) and DCM (Dining Chair Metal with a plywood seat) (1945), Eames Lounge Chair (1956), the Aluminum Group furniture (1958) and as well as the Eames Chaise (1968), designed for Charles's friend, film director Billy Wilder, the playful Do-Nothing Machine (1957), an early solar energy experiment, and a number of toys.
Short films produced by the couple often document their interests in collecting toys and cultural artifacts on their travels. The films also record the process of hanging their exhibits or producing classic furniture designs, to the purposefully mundane topic of filming soap suds moving over the pavement of a parking lot. Perhaps their most popular movie, "Powers of 10", gives a dramatic demonstration of orders of magnitude by visually zooming away from the earth to the edge of the universe, and then microscopically zooming into the nucleus of a carbon atom. Charles was a prolific photographer as well with thousands of images of their furniture, exhibits and collections, and now a part of the Library of Congress.
Charles Eames died of a heart attack on August 21, 1978 while on a consulting trip in his native Saint Louis, and now has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Ray died 10 years later to the exact day.
At the time of his death they were working on what became their last production, the Eames Sofa which went into production in 1984.
graphics: a.golden, eyewash design c. 2007
the "yellow fever" semae represents the Eames Low Side Chair by Charles and Ray Eames, 1946
the semae represents the Eames Low Side Chair by Charles and Ray Eames, 1946
- a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2008
After years of freelance work to "pay the bills", I've decided to go back to university. That's right! I'm going for a MPS in Art Therapy. I'm shooting for Pratt Institute. For more information on the program: www.pratt.edu/creative_arts_therapy
My concentration will be on children. More specifically, those most in need. Those who've suffered the most terribly ---> in other words, the socio & economically disadvantaged, those sexually, emotionally and/or physically abused, the neglected & the abandoned children, as well as children diagnosed with Autism.
Let me know what you think --->
Any constructive criticism is also most welcome! I'm trying to earn my Master's in Art Therapy. BUT, I MUST FIRST take 19 additional undergraduate courses which will qualify my eligibility to apply. I WILL get in!
I firmly believe that together we CAN make a difference.
Thanks, in advance!
THE SKINNY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
It is hard to imagine now, but the use of plywood and chrome-plated steel in residential furniture was considered edgy, risky, and thoroughly new when this chair made its 1946 debut. It is modern, lightweight, strong, sculptural, and a complete departure from what furniture was.
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr was born in 1907 in Saint Louis, Missouri. By the time he was 14 years old, while attending high school, Charles worked at the Laclede Steel Company as a part-time laborer, where he learned about engineering, drawing, and architecture (and also first entertained the idea of one day becoming an architect).
Charles briefly studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis on an architectural scholarship. He proposed studying Frank Lloyd Wright to his professors, and when he would not cease his interest in modern architects, he was dismissed from the university. In the report describing why he was dismissed from the university, a professor wrote the comment "His views were too modern." While at Washington University, he met his first wife, Catherine Woermann, whom he married in 1929. A year later, they had a daughter, Lucia.
After he left school and was married, Charles began his own architectural practice, with partners Charles Gray and later Walter Pauley.
One great influence on him was the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen (whose son Eero, also an architect, would become a partner and friend). At the elder Saarinen's invitation, he moved in 1938 with his wife Catherine and daughter Lucia to Michigan, to further study architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he would become a teacher and head of the industrial design department. One of the requirements of the Architecture and Urban Planning Program, at the time Eames applied, was for the student to have decided upon his project and gathered as much pertinent information in advance – Eames' interest was in the St. Louis waterfront. Together with Eero Saarinen he designed prize-winning furniture for New York's Museum of Modern Art "Organic Design" competition. Their work displayed the new technique of wood moulding (originally developed by Alvar Aalto), that Eames would further develop in many moulded plywood products, including, beside chairs and other furniture, splints and stretchers for the U.S. Navy during World War II.
In 1941, Charles and Catherine divorced, and he married his Cranbrook colleague Ray Kaiser, who was born in Sacramento, California. He then moved with her to Los Angeles, California, where they would work and live for the rest of their lives. In the late 1940s, as part of the Arts & Architecture magazine "Case Study" program, Ray and Charles designed and built the groundbreaking Eames House, Case Study House #8, as their home. Located upon a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and constructed entirely of pre-fabricated steel parts intended for industrial construction, it remains a milestone of modern architecture.
In the 1950s, the Eameses would continue their work in architecture and modern furniture design, often (like in the earlier moulded plywood work) pioneering innovative technologies, such as the fiberglass and plastic resin chairs and the wire mesh chairs designed for Herman Miller. Besides this work, Charles would soon channel his interest in photography into the production of short films. From their first one, the unfinished Traveling Boy (1950), to the extraordinary Powers of Ten (1977), their cinematic work was an outlet for ideas, a vehicle for experimentation and education.
The Eameses also conceived and designed a number of landmark exhibitions. The first of these, Mathematica: a world of numbers...and beyond (1961), was sponsored by IBM, and is the only one of their exhibitions still existant. The original was created for a new wing of the (currently named) California Science Center; it is now owned by and on display at the New York Hall of Science. In late 1961 a duplicate was created for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago; in 1980 it moved to the Museum of Science, Boston. Another version was created for the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair IBM exhibit. After the World's Fair it was moved to the Pacific Science Center in Seattle where it stayed until 1980. The Mathematica Exhibition is still considered a model for scientific popularization exhibitions. It was followed by "A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age" (1971) and "The World of Franklin and Jefferson" (1975-1977), among others.
The office of Charles and Ray Eames, which functioned for more than four decades (1943-88) at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, California, included in its staff, at one time of another, a number of remarkable designers, like Don Albinson, Deborah Sussman, Richard Foy and Henry Beer.
Among the many important designs originating there are the molded-plywood DCW (Dining Chair Wood) and DCM (Dining Chair Metal with a plywood seat) (1945), Eames Lounge Chair (1956), the Aluminum Group furniture (1958) and as well as the Eames Chaise (1968), designed for Charles's friend, film director Billy Wilder, the playful Do-Nothing Machine (1957), an early solar energy experiment, and a number of toys.
Short films produced by the couple often document their interests in collecting toys and cultural artifacts on their travels. The films also record the process of hanging their exhibits or producing classic furniture designs, to the purposefully mundane topic of filming soap suds moving over the pavement of a parking lot. Perhaps their most popular movie, "Powers of 10", gives a dramatic demonstration of orders of magnitude by visually zooming away from the earth to the edge of the universe, and then microscopically zooming into the nucleus of a carbon atom. Charles was a prolific photographer as well with thousands of images of their furniture, exhibits and collections, and now a part of the Library of Congress.
Charles Eames died of a heart attack on August 21, 1978 while on a consulting trip in his native Saint Louis, and now has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Ray died 10 years later to the exact day.
At the time of his death they were working on what became their last production, the Eames Sofa which went into production in 1984.
graphics: a.golden, eyewash design c. 2007
modern furniture series: "burned semae" sticker / tee logo / card, des. #1
the semae represents the Eames Low Side Chair by Charles and Ray Eames, 1946
- a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2008
After years of freelance work to "pay the bills", I've decided to go back to university. That's right! I'm going for a MPS in Art Therapy. I'm shooting for Pratt Institute. For more information on the program: www.pratt.edu/creative_arts_therapy
My concentration will be on children. More specifically, those most in need. Those who've suffered the most terribly ---> in other words, the socio & economically disadvantaged, those sexually, emotionally and/or physically abused, the neglected & the abandoned children, as well as children diagnosed with Autism.
Let me know what you think --->
Any constructive criticism is also most welcome! I'm trying to earn my Master's in Art Therapy. BUT, I MUST FIRST take 19 additional undergraduate courses which will qualify my eligibility to apply. I WILL get in!
I firmly believe that together we CAN make a difference.
Thanks, in advance!
THE SKINNY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
It is hard to imagine now, but the use of plywood and chrome-plated steel in residential furniture was considered edgy, risky, and thoroughly new when this chair made its 1946 debut. It is modern, lightweight, strong, sculptural, and a complete departure from what furniture was.
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr was born in 1907 in Saint Louis, Missouri. By the time he was 14 years old, while attending high school, Charles worked at the Laclede Steel Company as a part-time laborer, where he learned about engineering, drawing, and architecture (and also first entertained the idea of one day becoming an architect).
Charles briefly studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis on an architectural scholarship. He proposed studying Frank Lloyd Wright to his professors, and when he would not cease his interest in modern architects, he was dismissed from the university. In the report describing why he was dismissed from the university, a professor wrote the comment "His views were too modern." While at Washington University, he met his first wife, Catherine Woermann, whom he married in 1929. A year later, they had a daughter, Lucia.
After he left school and was married, Charles began his own architectural practice, with partners Charles Gray and later Walter Pauley.
One great influence on him was the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen (whose son Eero, also an architect, would become a partner and friend). At the elder Saarinen's invitation, he moved in 1938 with his wife Catherine and daughter Lucia to Michigan, to further study architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he would become a teacher and head of the industrial design department. One of the requirements of the Architecture and Urban Planning Program, at the time Eames applied, was for the student to have decided upon his project and gathered as much pertinent information in advance – Eames' interest was in the St. Louis waterfront. Together with Eero Saarinen he designed prize-winning furniture for New York's Museum of Modern Art "Organic Design" competition. Their work displayed the new technique of wood moulding (originally developed by Alvar Aalto), that Eames would further develop in many moulded plywood products, including, beside chairs and other furniture, splints and stretchers for the U.S. Navy during World War II.
In 1941, Charles and Catherine divorced, and he married his Cranbrook colleague Ray Kaiser, who was born in Sacramento, California. He then moved with her to Los Angeles, California, where they would work and live for the rest of their lives. In the late 1940s, as part of the Arts & Architecture magazine "Case Study" program, Ray and Charles designed and built the groundbreaking Eames House, Case Study House #8, as their home. Located upon a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and constructed entirely of pre-fabricated steel parts intended for industrial construction, it remains a milestone of modern architecture.
In the 1950s, the Eameses would continue their work in architecture and modern furniture design, often (like in the earlier moulded plywood work) pioneering innovative technologies, such as the fiberglass and plastic resin chairs and the wire mesh chairs designed for Herman Miller. Besides this work, Charles would soon channel his interest in photography into the production of short films. From their first one, the unfinished Traveling Boy (1950), to the extraordinary Powers of Ten (1977), their cinematic work was an outlet for ideas, a vehicle for experimentation and education.
The Eameses also conceived and designed a number of landmark exhibitions. The first of these, Mathematica: a world of numbers...and beyond (1961), was sponsored by IBM, and is the only one of their exhibitions still existant. The original was created for a new wing of the (currently named) California Science Center; it is now owned by and on display at the New York Hall of Science. In late 1961 a duplicate was created for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago; in 1980 it moved to the Museum of Science, Boston. Another version was created for the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair IBM exhibit. After the World's Fair it was moved to the Pacific Science Center in Seattle where it stayed until 1980. The Mathematica Exhibition is still considered a model for scientific popularization exhibitions. It was followed by "A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age" (1971) and "The World of Franklin and Jefferson" (1975-1977), among others.
The office of Charles and Ray Eames, which functioned for more than four decades (1943-88) at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, California, included in its staff, at one time of another, a number of remarkable designers, like Don Albinson, Deborah Sussman, Richard Foy and Henry Beer.
Among the many important designs originating there are the molded-plywood DCW (Dining Chair Wood) and DCM (Dining Chair Metal with a plywood seat) (1945), Eames Lounge Chair (1956), the Aluminum Group furniture (1958) and as well as the Eames Chaise (1968), designed for Charles's friend, film director Billy Wilder, the playful Do-Nothing Machine (1957), an early solar energy experiment, and a number of toys.
Short films produced by the couple often document their interests in collecting toys and cultural artifacts on their travels. The films also record the process of hanging their exhibits or producing classic furniture designs, to the purposefully mundane topic of filming soap suds moving over the pavement of a parking lot. Perhaps their most popular movie, "Powers of 10", gives a dramatic demonstration of orders of magnitude by visually zooming away from the earth to the edge of the universe, and then microscopically zooming into the nucleus of a carbon atom. Charles was a prolific photographer as well with thousands of images of their furniture, exhibits and collections, and now a part of the Library of Congress.
Charles Eames died of a heart attack on August 21, 1978 while on a consulting trip in his native Saint Louis, and now has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Ray died 10 years later to the exact day.
At the time of his death they were working on what became their last production, the Eames Sofa which went into production in 1984.
graphics: a.golden, eyewash design c. 2007
modern furniture series: "grassy knoll semae" sticker / tee logo / card, des. #4
the semae represents the Eames Low Side Chair by Charles and Ray Eames, 1946
- a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2008
After years of freelance work to "pay the bills", I've decided to go back to university. That's right! I'm going for a MPS in Art Therapy. I'm shooting for Pratt Institute. For more information on the program: www.pratt.edu/creative_arts_therapy
My concentration will be on children. More specifically, those most in need. Those who've suffered the most terribly ---> in other words, the socio & economically disadvantaged, those sexually, emotionally and/or physically abused, the neglected & the abandoned children, as well as children diagnosed with Autism.
Let me know what you think --->
Any constructive criticism is also most welcome! I'm trying to earn my Master's in Art Therapy. BUT, I MUST FIRST take 19 additional undergraduate courses which will qualify my eligibility to apply. I WILL get in!
I firmly believe that together we CAN make a difference.
Thanks, in advance!
THE SKINNY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
It is hard to imagine now, but the use of plywood and chrome-plated steel in residential furniture was considered edgy, risky, and thoroughly new when this chair made its 1946 debut. It is modern, lightweight, strong, sculptural, and a complete departure from what furniture was.
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr was born in 1907 in Saint Louis, Missouri. By the time he was 14 years old, while attending high school, Charles worked at the Laclede Steel Company as a part-time laborer, where he learned about engineering, drawing, and architecture (and also first entertained the idea of one day becoming an architect).
Charles briefly studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis on an architectural scholarship. He proposed studying Frank Lloyd Wright to his professors, and when he would not cease his interest in modern architects, he was dismissed from the university. In the report describing why he was dismissed from the university, a professor wrote the comment "His views were too modern." While at Washington University, he met his first wife, Catherine Woermann, whom he married in 1929. A year later, they had a daughter, Lucia.
After he left school and was married, Charles began his own architectural practice, with partners Charles Gray and later Walter Pauley.
One great influence on him was the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen (whose son Eero, also an architect, would become a partner and friend). At the elder Saarinen's invitation, he moved in 1938 with his wife Catherine and daughter Lucia to Michigan, to further study architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he would become a teacher and head of the industrial design department. One of the requirements of the Architecture and Urban Planning Program, at the time Eames applied, was for the student to have decided upon his project and gathered as much pertinent information in advance – Eames' interest was in the St. Louis waterfront. Together with Eero Saarinen he designed prize-winning furniture for New York's Museum of Modern Art "Organic Design" competition. Their work displayed the new technique of wood moulding (originally developed by Alvar Aalto), that Eames would further develop in many moulded plywood products, including, beside chairs and other furniture, splints and stretchers for the U.S. Navy during World War II.
In 1941, Charles and Catherine divorced, and he married his Cranbrook colleague Ray Kaiser, who was born in Sacramento, California. He then moved with her to Los Angeles, California, where they would work and live for the rest of their lives. In the late 1940s, as part of the Arts & Architecture magazine "Case Study" program, Ray and Charles designed and built the groundbreaking Eames House, Case Study House #8, as their home. Located upon a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and constructed entirely of pre-fabricated steel parts intended for industrial construction, it remains a milestone of modern architecture.
In the 1950s, the Eameses would continue their work in architecture and modern furniture design, often (like in the earlier moulded plywood work) pioneering innovative technologies, such as the fiberglass and plastic resin chairs and the wire mesh chairs designed for Herman Miller. Besides this work, Charles would soon channel his interest in photography into the production of short films. From their first one, the unfinished Traveling Boy (1950), to the extraordinary Powers of Ten (1977), their cinematic work was an outlet for ideas, a vehicle for experimentation and education.
The Eameses also conceived and designed a number of landmark exhibitions. The first of these, Mathematica: a world of numbers...and beyond (1961), was sponsored by IBM, and is the only one of their exhibitions still existant. The original was created for a new wing of the (currently named) California Science Center; it is now owned by and on display at the New York Hall of Science. In late 1961 a duplicate was created for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago; in 1980 it moved to the Museum of Science, Boston. Another version was created for the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair IBM exhibit. After the World's Fair it was moved to the Pacific Science Center in Seattle where it stayed until 1980. The Mathematica Exhibition is still considered a model for scientific popularization exhibitions. It was followed by "A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age" (1971) and "The World of Franklin and Jefferson" (1975-1977), among others.
The office of Charles and Ray Eames, which functioned for more than four decades (1943-88) at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, California, included in its staff, at one time of another, a number of remarkable designers, like Don Albinson, Deborah Sussman, Richard Foy and Henry Beer.
Among the many important designs originating there are the molded-plywood DCW (Dining Chair Wood) and DCM (Dining Chair Metal with a plywood seat) (1945), Eames Lounge Chair (1956), the Aluminum Group furniture (1958) and as well as the Eames Chaise (1968), designed for Charles's friend, film director Billy Wilder, the playful Do-Nothing Machine (1957), an early solar energy experiment, and a number of toys.
Short films produced by the couple often document their interests in collecting toys and cultural artifacts on their travels. The films also record the process of hanging their exhibits or producing classic furniture designs, to the purposefully mundane topic of filming soap suds moving over the pavement of a parking lot. Perhaps their most popular movie, "Powers of 10", gives a dramatic demonstration of orders of magnitude by visually zooming away from the earth to the edge of the universe, and then microscopically zooming into the nucleus of a carbon atom. Charles was a prolific photographer as well with thousands of images of their furniture, exhibits and collections, and now a part of the Library of Congress.
Charles Eames died of a heart attack on August 21, 1978 while on a consulting trip in his native Saint Louis, and now has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Ray died 10 years later to the exact day.
At the time of his death they were working on what became their last production, the Eames Sofa which went into production in 1984.
graphics: a.golden, eyewash design c. 2007
Year 5 of 365: Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness
I am tired. It was actually a really good day at work, but I am ready to take a weekend for myself- a long weekend at that.
I am back in school now- five classes remain: 171 days or 4,104 hours. I have really been thinking if I want to continue on for my Master’s Degree. It’s something I’ve always thought that I wanted, but I keep thinking of how many more hours, years, and time it will take- weighing if it’s really something I need.
When I’m in school, I’ve been told I get distant because in the back of my mind I am always thinking of the things I have to work on and complete. I do that enough with work, but adding school on top of it just makes it worse. Lot to think on, but at least I don’t have to decide right now!
modern furniture series: "semae sings the blues" sticker / tee logo / card, des. #9
the semae represents the Eames Low Side Chair by Charles and Ray Eames, 1946
- a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2008
After years of freelance work to "pay the bills", I've decided to go back to university. That's right! I'm going for a MPS in Art Therapy. I'm shooting for Pratt Institute. For more information on the program: www.pratt.edu/creative_arts_therapy
My concentration will be on children. More specifically, those most in need. Those who've suffered the most terribly ---> in other words, the socio & economically disadvantaged, those sexually, emotionally and/or physically abused, the neglected & the abandoned children, as well as children diagnosed with Autism.
Let me know what you think --->
Any constructive criticism is also most welcome! I'm trying to earn my Master's in Art Therapy. BUT, I MUST FIRST take 19 additional undergraduate courses which will qualify my eligibility to apply. I WILL get in!
I firmly believe that together we CAN make a difference.
Thanks, in advance!
THE SKINNY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
It is hard to imagine now, but the use of plywood and chrome-plated steel in residential furniture was considered edgy, risky, and thoroughly new when this chair made its 1946 debut. It is modern, lightweight, strong, sculptural, and a complete departure from what furniture was.
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr was born in 1907 in Saint Louis, Missouri. By the time he was 14 years old, while attending high school, Charles worked at the Laclede Steel Company as a part-time laborer, where he learned about engineering, drawing, and architecture (and also first entertained the idea of one day becoming an architect).
Charles briefly studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis on an architectural scholarship. He proposed studying Frank Lloyd Wright to his professors, and when he would not cease his interest in modern architects, he was dismissed from the university. In the report describing why he was dismissed from the university, a professor wrote the comment "His views were too modern." While at Washington University, he met his first wife, Catherine Woermann, whom he married in 1929. A year later, they had a daughter, Lucia.
After he left school and was married, Charles began his own architectural practice, with partners Charles Gray and later Walter Pauley.
One great influence on him was the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen (whose son Eero, also an architect, would become a partner and friend). At the elder Saarinen's invitation, he moved in 1938 with his wife Catherine and daughter Lucia to Michigan, to further study architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he would become a teacher and head of the industrial design department. One of the requirements of the Architecture and Urban Planning Program, at the time Eames applied, was for the student to have decided upon his project and gathered as much pertinent information in advance – Eames' interest was in the St. Louis waterfront. Together with Eero Saarinen he designed prize-winning furniture for New York's Museum of Modern Art "Organic Design" competition. Their work displayed the new technique of wood moulding (originally developed by Alvar Aalto), that Eames would further develop in many moulded plywood products, including, beside chairs and other furniture, splints and stretchers for the U.S. Navy during World War II.
In 1941, Charles and Catherine divorced, and he married his Cranbrook colleague Ray Kaiser, who was born in Sacramento, California. He then moved with her to Los Angeles, California, where they would work and live for the rest of their lives. In the late 1940s, as part of the Arts & Architecture magazine "Case Study" program, Ray and Charles designed and built the groundbreaking Eames House, Case Study House #8, as their home. Located upon a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and constructed entirely of pre-fabricated steel parts intended for industrial construction, it remains a milestone of modern architecture.
In the 1950s, the Eameses would continue their work in architecture and modern furniture design, often (like in the earlier moulded plywood work) pioneering innovative technologies, such as the fiberglass and plastic resin chairs and the wire mesh chairs designed for Herman Miller. Besides this work, Charles would soon channel his interest in photography into the production of short films. From their first one, the unfinished Traveling Boy (1950), to the extraordinary Powers of Ten (1977), their cinematic work was an outlet for ideas, a vehicle for experimentation and education.
The Eameses also conceived and designed a number of landmark exhibitions. The first of these, Mathematica: a world of numbers...and beyond (1961), was sponsored by IBM, and is the only one of their exhibitions still existant. The original was created for a new wing of the (currently named) California Science Center; it is now owned by and on display at the New York Hall of Science. In late 1961 a duplicate was created for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago; in 1980 it moved to the Museum of Science, Boston. Another version was created for the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair IBM exhibit. After the World's Fair it was moved to the Pacific Science Center in Seattle where it stayed until 1980. The Mathematica Exhibition is still considered a model for scientific popularization exhibitions. It was followed by "A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age" (1971) and "The World of Franklin and Jefferson" (1975-1977), among others.
The office of Charles and Ray Eames, which functioned for more than four decades (1943-88) at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, California, included in its staff, at one time of another, a number of remarkable designers, like Don Albinson, Deborah Sussman, Richard Foy and Henry Beer.
Among the many important designs originating there are the molded-plywood DCW (Dining Chair Wood) and DCM (Dining Chair Metal with a plywood seat) (1945), Eames Lounge Chair (1956), the Aluminum Group furniture (1958) and as well as the Eames Chaise (1968), designed for Charles's friend, film director Billy Wilder, the playful Do-Nothing Machine (1957), an early solar energy experiment, and a number of toys.
Short films produced by the couple often document their interests in collecting toys and cultural artifacts on their travels. The films also record the process of hanging their exhibits or producing classic furniture designs, to the purposefully mundane topic of filming soap suds moving over the pavement of a parking lot. Perhaps their most popular movie, "Powers of 10", gives a dramatic demonstration of orders of magnitude by visually zooming away from the earth to the edge of the universe, and then microscopically zooming into the nucleus of a carbon atom. Charles was a prolific photographer as well with thousands of images of their furniture, exhibits and collections, and now a part of the Library of Congress.
Charles Eames died of a heart attack on August 21, 1978 while on a consulting trip in his native Saint Louis, and now has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Ray died 10 years later to the exact day.
At the time of his death they were working on what became their last production, the Eames Sofa which went into production in 1984.
graphics: a.golden, eyewash design c. 2007
the semae represents the Eames Low Side Chair by Charles and Ray Eames, 1946
- a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2008
After years of freelance work to "pay the bills", I've decided to go back to university. That's right! I'm going for a MPS in Art Therapy. I'm shooting for Pratt Institute. For more information on the program: www.pratt.edu/creative_arts_therapy
My concentration will be on children. More specifically, those most in need. Those who've suffered the most terribly ---> in other words, the socio & economically disadvantaged, those sexually, emotionally and/or physically abused, the neglected & the abandoned children, as well as children diagnosed with Autism.
Let me know what you think --->
Any constructive criticism is also most welcome! I'm trying to earn my Master's in Art Therapy. BUT, I MUST FIRST take 19 additional undergraduate courses which will qualify my eligibility to apply. I WILL get in!
I firmly believe that together we CAN make a difference.
Thanks, in advance!
THE SKINNY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
It is hard to imagine now, but the use of plywood and chrome-plated steel in residential furniture was considered edgy, risky, and thoroughly new when this chair made its 1946 debut. It is modern, lightweight, strong, sculptural, and a complete departure from what furniture was.
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr was born in 1907 in Saint Louis, Missouri. By the time he was 14 years old, while attending high school, Charles worked at the Laclede Steel Company as a part-time laborer, where he learned about engineering, drawing, and architecture (and also first entertained the idea of one day becoming an architect).
Charles briefly studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis on an architectural scholarship. He proposed studying Frank Lloyd Wright to his professors, and when he would not cease his interest in modern architects, he was dismissed from the university. In the report describing why he was dismissed from the university, a professor wrote the comment "His views were too modern." While at Washington University, he met his first wife, Catherine Woermann, whom he married in 1929. A year later, they had a daughter, Lucia.
After he left school and was married, Charles began his own architectural practice, with partners Charles Gray and later Walter Pauley.
One great influence on him was the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen (whose son Eero, also an architect, would become a partner and friend). At the elder Saarinen's invitation, he moved in 1938 with his wife Catherine and daughter Lucia to Michigan, to further study architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he would become a teacher and head of the industrial design department. One of the requirements of the Architecture and Urban Planning Program, at the time Eames applied, was for the student to have decided upon his project and gathered as much pertinent information in advance – Eames' interest was in the St. Louis waterfront. Together with Eero Saarinen he designed prize-winning furniture for New York's Museum of Modern Art "Organic Design" competition. Their work displayed the new technique of wood moulding (originally developed by Alvar Aalto), that Eames would further develop in many moulded plywood products, including, beside chairs and other furniture, splints and stretchers for the U.S. Navy during World War II.
In 1941, Charles and Catherine divorced, and he married his Cranbrook colleague Ray Kaiser, who was born in Sacramento, California. He then moved with her to Los Angeles, California, where they would work and live for the rest of their lives. In the late 1940s, as part of the Arts & Architecture magazine "Case Study" program, Ray and Charles designed and built the groundbreaking Eames House, Case Study House #8, as their home. Located upon a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and constructed entirely of pre-fabricated steel parts intended for industrial construction, it remains a milestone of modern architecture.
In the 1950s, the Eameses would continue their work in architecture and modern furniture design, often (like in the earlier moulded plywood work) pioneering innovative technologies, such as the fiberglass and plastic resin chairs and the wire mesh chairs designed for Herman Miller. Besides this work, Charles would soon channel his interest in photography into the production of short films. From their first one, the unfinished Traveling Boy (1950), to the extraordinary Powers of Ten (1977), their cinematic work was an outlet for ideas, a vehicle for experimentation and education.
The Eameses also conceived and designed a number of landmark exhibitions. The first of these, Mathematica: a world of numbers...and beyond (1961), was sponsored by IBM, and is the only one of their exhibitions still existant. The original was created for a new wing of the (currently named) California Science Center; it is now owned by and on display at the New York Hall of Science. In late 1961 a duplicate was created for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago; in 1980 it moved to the Museum of Science, Boston. Another version was created for the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair IBM exhibit. After the World's Fair it was moved to the Pacific Science Center in Seattle where it stayed until 1980. The Mathematica Exhibition is still considered a model for scientific popularization exhibitions. It was followed by "A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age" (1971) and "The World of Franklin and Jefferson" (1975-1977), among others.
The office of Charles and Ray Eames, which functioned for more than four decades (1943-88) at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, California, included in its staff, at one time of another, a number of remarkable designers, like Don Albinson, Deborah Sussman, Richard Foy and Henry Beer.
Among the many important designs originating there are the molded-plywood DCW (Dining Chair Wood) and DCM (Dining Chair Metal with a plywood seat) (1945), Eames Lounge Chair (1956), the Aluminum Group furniture (1958) and as well as the Eames Chaise (1968), designed for Charles's friend, film director Billy Wilder, the playful Do-Nothing Machine (1957), an early solar energy experiment, and a number of toys.
Short films produced by the couple often document their interests in collecting toys and cultural artifacts on their travels. The films also record the process of hanging their exhibits or producing classic furniture designs, to the purposefully mundane topic of filming soap suds moving over the pavement of a parking lot. Perhaps their most popular movie, "Powers of 10", gives a dramatic demonstration of orders of magnitude by visually zooming away from the earth to the edge of the universe, and then microscopically zooming into the nucleus of a carbon atom. Charles was a prolific photographer as well with thousands of images of their furniture, exhibits and collections, and now a part of the Library of Congress.
Charles Eames died of a heart attack on August 21, 1978 while on a consulting trip in his native Saint Louis, and now has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Ray died 10 years later to the exact day.
At the time of his death they were working on what became their last production, the Eames Sofa which went into production in 1984.
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My husband and I at his Physician Assistant graduation. It's been a 7 year journey...but WE DID IT!
On September 11th of 2001 we watched as a plane hit the second tower of the World Trade Center. This event transformed a lot of lives that day in very sad ways, but for us it was the impetus to a transformed life for our family as well.
My husband was a mortgage loan officer, and on 9/11 all financial trading stopped...including the funding of loans. It was already a very unstable income stream for us, and now it was even more unstable so we started to look for something else John could do as a career. At 36, this would be no small feat...but we set out to find a better life for ourselves and our 8 children...the youngest just having been born in March of '01 and the oldest two (twins) were 16. We needed something that could be done in any city, that was stable, that my husband could see himself doing well and succeeding at.
We looked at statistics online to see what the top jobs in demand in the country were and tried to find which one would be a good match for John. Out of all of them, physician assistant was the one that seemed like the best fit, and one that John could achieve in the shortest time (not as short as we would have liked!) to get us on the road to actually making a living from this job. We found that the Army had a program available that was a 2 year school called IPAP. This would work well for us because they not only paid for your school, but they paid you a salary while going to school. This would help us to take care of our family while going to school...but John was not in the Army at the time. In fact, he had been out of the Marine Corps for about 12 years by this time and we weren't sure he could even get back into the military. So we researched more and talked and called a few people and the next thing we knew John was going into the Alabama National Guard to try to get in as a combat medic...the first step in our plan. We had seen that the highest percentage of accepted applicants to the program were combat medics...so that was how we were going to start. He still had lots of prerequisite classes to take in college and the Army would pay for those too.
So in 2002 John started back to college...the first time he had been on a college campus since he was 21. There were a LOT of younger people there, but at 37 he was determined. He worked full time for the Army Reserve (he switched from the National Guard to the Reserve because it would take too long to get his combat medic schooling in) during the day, and at night he took 12-18 credit hours of college. Class after class, test after test, semester after semester he got his prerequisites and was finally able to apply for physician assistant school.
He was accepted as an alternate the first year because he had one class he was finishing at the time the application had to be turned in, yet he was finished with it by the time the board actually met to pick the applicants. So, we had to wait to see if he would get to the top of the list. By the time the next application had to be turned in we hadn't heard anything from the program and they had changed a few of the prerequisites (which had happened along the way and prolonged our application many times)...the main one being that instead of just having an SAT test within 5 years and having a certain total score, now you had to have a minimum math score of 450; John's was 410. So, he went back and took the SAT 3 more times. 420, 440, and then finally a 460. However, his name would not be on the list for the next school year at all...not even on the alternate list. This got me quite upset, as we had worked so hard and the year before he could have been called at any time to come to school, so I did one of my normal things...I wrote a letter...to the program director. My husband was not happy with me either, I must say.
My e-mail must have touched a nerve of some sort, because the program director called me...to talk to me. He said that he would see what he could do about putting John's packet before the board...but he couldn't promise me anything. At least he heard me out, heard our story, and that made me feel much better! However our packet was sent back and we were going to have to wait another year to put one in.
Reservists were not ever allowed to be an officer and be chosen for the PA program so John always turned down offers to turn a direct commission packet in...and now he felt that he had to have an alternate plan since the PA school route looked hopeless. So in March of '07 John was commissioned as a Military Intelligence Officer and we started to think of a different path...maybe a military career instead.
Then, John said he wanted to take the family out for dinner that July. Little did I know that when John gave me a card it would tell me that I would make a great PA's wife. John had gotten a call that morning from the program manager and asked John if he was ready to go. He had a class seat open up and was giving John an opportunity to fill it. The class seat was for the August class but John felt that would be too soon for the family to get ready so we were slated to leave in December for a January '08 seat.
I had been remodeling our home in Gadsden and also doing what I could to sell that home AND the home John was using while he was in Birmingham. Since we homeschooled the children we were able to visit with John quite a bit in Birmingham while still having our home in Gadsden. When I would paint the house in Gadsden, or put down tile floors the kids would stay in Birmingham. However, this meant quite a lot to do to prepare to get to PA school in San Antonio, TX. We rolled out of Birmingham November 27th, the day we closed on the house there (Alabaster), and left the house in Gadsden to sell while we rolled out with 6 kids and our household goods.
The first year of PA school was so very hard. I liken it to getting a drink out of a fire hydrant for an entire year, with only a few occasions to take a breath. It was a daily challenge. But one I was ready to meet and I got up early every morning to make my husband breakfast so he could at least leave the house for school with a good breakfast in him and with a lunch and snack in a bag to take along as well. He got up at 4am each day and was at the school house by 7am. He was finished by 4pm or so and then went to study til 7pm when we would have family dinner. Then he went off to study til about 10 or 11 pm...and that's the way it went for the whole year pretty much.
Then we moved to Fort Benning for the second phase of training and John went through different rotations...sort of a residency time for PAs...but much faster paced than what a doctor goes through.
So, yesterday was the culmination of that 8 year journey. Now...we get to enjoy the fruits of our labor.
I write this while watching my 2 grandchildren play and sleep around me. Life, at this moment, is good.
I thank God for helping us through it...and I thank God for putting all sorts of people in our path...as we realize we are not without friends, family, and acquaintances that also played some part (large or small) in helping us along the way.
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Des. depicts Hans Wegner's Valet Chair, 1943.
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After years of freelance work to "pay the bills", I've decided to go back to university. That's right! I'm going for a MPS in Art Therapy. I'm shooting for Pratt Institute. For more information on the program: www.pratt.edu/creative_arts_therapy
My concentration will be on children. More specifically, those most in need. Those who've suffered the most terribly ---> in other words, the socio & economically disadvantaged, those sexually, emotionally and/or physically abused, the neglected & the abandoned children, as well as children diagnosed with Autism.
Let me know what you think --->
Any constructive criticism is also most welcome! I'm trying to earn my Master's in Art Therapy. BUT, I MUST FIRST take 19 additional undergraduate courses which will qualify my eligibility to apply. I WILL get in!
I firmly believe that together we CAN make a difference.
Thanks, in advance!
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Des. depicts Hans Wegner's Valet Chair, 1943.
Born in 1914, Hans Wegner is perhaps Denmark’s best-known furniture designer. Wegner began his long career at age 14, as a craftsman, namely as an apprentice to a local cabinet-maker. Within four years he had become a journeyman joiner, and in another four -- evidently not entirely happy making things to the designs of others -- he enrolled at the Institute of Technology in Copenhagen. Wegner's education continued at the prestigious School of Arts and Crafts, where he studied under Molgaard Nielsen. After graduating, Wegner served a brief stint at the design office of Arne Jacobsen. Finally, in 1943, he opened his own design office.
Though Wegner designed for series production, all of his work bears the unmistakable stamp of the traditionally-trained craftsman. It is, in fact, the reconciliation of craftsmanship with industry, and thus, necessarily, of tradition with modernity, which informs so many of the recurrent themes of Wegner’s work.
One such is that of the Windsor chair. This largely 18th century Anglo-American form, re-worked for 20th century taste as well as Danish mass-production, is the basis of Wegner’s famous “Peacock” chair of 1947, as well as (in much-modified form) his “Hoop” chair of 1965. Each of these designs perfectly transposes the “Windsor-ness” of its historical precedents into something wholly contemporary, as well as being suited for factory production.
Perhaps the most persistent Wegnerian theme is that of the Chinese chair. The gracefully-curved top rails and spare construction of the traditional Chinese chair, particularly those of the Ming dynasty, had long fascinated Wegner. The elegance of Ming chair design was achieved through simplicity, not ornament -- as was the case with most European furniture of the 17th century. Like the Windsor chair, the Ming chair is an example of a traditional design that in its “honesty” and reduction of form apparently anticipates modernity.
Like the Windsor chair, the Ming chair inspired Wegner to greatness: the “Chinese” chair of 1943, and the “Y-Chair” of 1950 are the most obvious examples, but the finest instance of Chinese influence can be found in a 1949 classic called simply “The Chair.” This iconic masterpiece has become emblematic of Scandinavian modernism, and ably demonstrates its designer’s patient search for perfection.
Wegner’s prolific output is legendary, and so is his versatility. While it is natural that a man trained as a joiner would most naturally be drawn to fine wood as a medium, Wegner’s genius in other materials is no less original than his work in wood. The steel and cord “Flagline” lounge chair of 1950 is not only an innovative (even futuristic) configuration for a chair; it is also one that owes nothing to the techniques of carpentry. It is as brilliant in its “steel-ness” as Wegner’s other designs are in their “wood-ness”. Its construction pays homage to the engineering qualities of steel while drawing visual dynamism from the use of steel. The soft bits; the cord, pillow, and optional sheepskin throw -- all contribute textures that accentuate the steel’s contours through contrast. In common with the best of Danish furniture, it succeeds as pure sculpture as fully as it succeeds as a useful domestic object.
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my great-uncle loaned me a big pile of old family photos this christmas, and i simply love this one -- it's my mom's graduation with her masters degree in teaching from Yale, in june 1966 -- so she's several months' pregnant with me!
both of my parents look so incredibly young -- mom was 24, and dad, 25, was a year away from finishing his phd -- and i don't seem to have many pictures of them together, so this image seems both wonderful and strange to me...
Indiana University Kokomo celebrated the hard work and dedication of its graduate students, honoring them at the annual master’s hooding ceremony Friday, May 5. (Photos by Mike Glassburn/IU Kokomo)
The entire class is invited to a special event at Bellaterra Campus (UAB). A Barcelona GSE tradition!
February 2, 2008
At least that's what it feels like... I have an academic book review due tonight. I started out reading my book at least fifteen minutes a day. Then I took my seventh graders on a weeklong trip, and that happen disappeared. Let's just say I haven't yet finished the book.
All I've done today is read the book and make notes. I haven't even changed out of my jammies! I'm really cutting it close on this one. I've been trying to make notes of intelligent thoughts so that when I finally finish the book I can write the review without too much trouble. I hope it works...