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Day One Journal Prompt: I always like to start my new journals with two things; a Welcome page/Intro page and then a goal page (which we will do tomorrow). I love a fresh start. Today I want you to create a Welcome page for your journal. Welcoming the new season, welcoming your readers, welcoming the idea of journaling :)
I doodled the welcome in wood grain style! Fall 2010 in a tree stump and me...lil deer style! I have a big love of doodling leaves too....
Natty's prompt was to base a journal page on summer movies that are looking forward to coming out soon in the cinema. I'm not a big follower of movies though; I tend to stick to what I know or watch everything 6 months later when its out on DVD (of course with a few exceptions). So I decided to do it on my favourite movies instead :)
So my main favourite movies are:
-The Nightmare Before Christmas
-Corpse Bride
-Coraline
Can you tell that there is a Tim Burton/Stop Motion theme going on here haha.
I wanted to create a journal spread without using paint for once so this was an experiment. I'm on the fence with the turn out though. I like it and I don't.
**Oh and did anyone notice that I forgot the first rule of image transfers? The images are all back to front hehe
Built in 1935-1939, this Modern house, an example of Organic Architecture, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the family of department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr. to serve as a weekend retreat. The house was a catalyst for the revitalization of Frank Lloyd Wrightโs career, who was in his mid-60s at the time, along with two other commissions around the same time, the Johnson Wax Headquarters and the Jacobs House I, which were critically acclaimed and explored a bold new direction of organic architecture that was heavily inspired from their natural surroundings, and were streamlined, dropping most of the ornamental pretenses of his earlier work. The house was built for department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr., his wife, Liliane Kaufmann, and their only son, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., to serve as the familyโs weekend retreat, with room to accommodate a small staff and guests alongside the family. The Kaufmann family became acquainted with the work of Wright through Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., who read Frank Lloyd Wrightโs autobiography in 1934, and was so impressed that he decided to intern at the Taliesin Fellowship, where Edgar, Sr. and Liliane first met Wright while visiting Edgar, Jr. The family, at the time, resided in a traditional-style mansion in Fox Chapel, near Pittsburgh, and had a small rustic cabin overlooking the waterfall at the Fallingwater site. The cabins were falling into disrepair in the mid-1930s, which prompted the Kaufmann family to contact Wright to design a replacement structure. Wright visited and surveyed the area around Bear Run in 1934, but shelved the project while pursuing other work for the next few months, thinking through the design, before being surprised by a visit from Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr. in September 1935, which prompted Wright to quickly draw a concept for a house at Bear Run, producing the initial design drawings in two hours. Edgar, Sr., upon seeing the plans, was surprised to see the house soaring above the waterfall, as he had expected it to sit below the falls in order to view them from a distance, but Wrightโs charisma convinced a skeptical Kaufmann to buy into the concept.
The house was designed by Wright with input from structural engineers Mendel Glickman and William Wesley Peters to feature large cantilevers, which allowed it to embrace the waterfall and topography below, while providing ample outdoor space and the desired number of bedrooms and living spaces within. A second wing was constructed above the main house, linked to it via a covered breezeway, which houses a carport, servants quarters, and a guest suite. The stone utilized in the houseโs construction was quarried on the site, and it utilized reinforced concrete in its construction, a building technique with which Wright was inexperienced, but which the design would be impossible to implement without utilizing. Kaufmann was skeptical of Wrightโs experience with the technique, as well as the cantilevered forms of the structure, and commissioned an engineering report, compiled by an engineering firm, which caused Wright to threaten to walk away from the incomplete project. Kaufmann relented in the face of Wrightโs ultimatum, and had the documents buried. However, the contractor, feeling uneasy about the strength of Wrightโs design, added extra reinforcement in secret, which was revealed during the buildingโs restoration. Other changes were made due to skepticism of the cantilevered design, but many of these were reversed, which proved the resiliency and strength of the design. The house came in far over budget, but despite these cost overruns and complications with the design, the Kaufmann family enjoyed it as a weekend retreat between 1937 and 1963. Liliane Kaufmann died in 1952, and Edgar Kaufmann, Sr. died in 1955, leaving the house to their son, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., who continued to utilize the house as a weekend retreat, with his life partner, Paul Mayรฉn, becoming a regular visitor to the house as well. In 1963, Edgar, Jr. donated the property to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, along with the surrounding property, which was converted into a nature reserve, and the house was opened for public tours.
The house features multiple reinforced concrete cantilevers, wrap-around windows facing the falls and Bear Run, open, transparent corners on the side of the building facing the creek, stone cladding on the more opaque portions of the facade, large terraces on the cantilevered portions of the building, open tread staircases inside and outside the building, red metal trim, a suspended concrete canopy over the breezeway connecting the guest wing and carport with the main house, a swimming pool on the terrace outside the guest wing, rocks embedded into the floors of the interior of the house, a staircase from the living room down to Bear Run below, and red concrete floors inside. A driveway, following Bear Run, crosses a bridge next to the main wing of the house before following a narrow corridor between the main wing and an adjacent stone outcropping, before turning and arriving at the upper wing, which originally housed a four-bay carport on the lower floor. The interior of the house is very open to the exterior, with low furnishings that allow for maximization of the views out of the windows, and is home to art that was collected by Liliane, books collected by Edgar, Jr. and Paul, and furnishings collected by Edgar, Sr. The houseโs kitchen features yellow-painted metal cabinets and appliances, and chrome handles, the living room features a fireplace with a spherical beverage warmer that is designed to swing over to the fireplace from its storage location next to the fireplace and coffered ceilings, and horizontal bands of trim, and various portions of the house feature built-in desks, cabinets, wooden slat screens, and bookshelves, simple beds featuring wooden headboards and nightstands in the bedrooms, and bathrooms with cork tiles, sunken bathtubs, ceiling-mounted shower heads, and toilets with wall-embedded tanks. The upper wing of the house has a carport and guest suite on the lower floor, with servants quarters above, and the main house features a living room, dining room, kitchen, terraces and lounge on the first floor, a primary suite and secondary bedroom and bathroom with large terraces on the second floor, and a suite intended for Edgar, Jr. on the third floor, which was later partially converted into an office. The house is very broad in the direction parallel to Bear Run and has a living room that cantilevers over the creek, but it is very thin, being rather thin, with primary interior spaces featuring windows that look out onto Bear Run below. The house, despite its size appearing massive due to its spatial arrangement, has only a small interior square footage, but the space is efficiently designed to offer maximum utility to the occupants, and allow a close connection with nature.
The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It was designated as part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, in 2019. A visitor center was constructed on the property in 1977-1979, designed by Paul Mayen. The most visible modification to the house since it was opened to the public were the enclosure of three carport bays to house a museum and presentation space for visitors. The house underwent major alterations to its structural systems in 1995-2002, involving analyzing the performance of the cantilevers over time since the houseโs construction, as the bold cantilevered forms had insufficient reinforcement and had deflected substantially, nearing their failure points. Additional steel supports and post-tensioning in the form of steel cables were added to the building to support the cantilevers, which has halted the progression of the deflection of the structure, though it is monitored by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in order to detect any further movement of the structure. The house today sees over one-hundred thousand visitors annually, and is one of the most well-known works of Wright, as well as being one of the best-known houses in the United States.
A bit of new(ish) public art for you, harking back to Barking's fishy past as home of the Short Blue Fleet. The boats are long gone, as is much of the industry that used to keep the town alive and much of the council housing the workers lived in - sold off under Thatcher to the tenants who then promptly sold it again and moved to greener pastures as soon as they could. New people have moved in, immigrants from all over the place, who provide the cheap and not so cheap labour for the 'new' economy of sales weasels and burger flippers, builders and bus drivers. One thing that's not changed about the town, it's still full of (relatively) poor people who work hard for a living. I wonder if any of them were asked if they wanted this collection of tin fish hanging from artfully bent lamp posts? Probably not, they might have said something silly like 'spend the money on books for the local schools' or something equally daft. No one sees little things like a few new books or an extra bed in a hospital, Art like this though, it makes a visible statement about regeneration and new growth in the town, it shows we're moving forward and attracting new exciting people and businesses, it makes a visible statement to the people who live here, the poor, hard working people, it says 'you're not worth wasting our money on, we'd rather have some tin fish instead'.
For this prompt I didnโt want to do the usually two people or two things together that I was see everywhere when looking for ideas. So instead I went with more of a self love and things that I loved/love to do. I like the sun, plants, hot chocolate, and reading.
I chose a plant with the most vines so it would have lots of interesting shadows and light refection's. I went with a while cup because I didnโt want to bring in or take away from the colors that were already there, I do like the texture design on it and that brings some texture to the photo. For the book I used a poem book that has poems all about different parts of life and I thought that went well with the self love/help vibe I was going for. Then lastly I put all the subjects on a tray table and put a simple place mate on it to add a little more color with the subjects.
For the lighting it was direct sun from the left side from a window, I wanted there to be hard light because I love to sit in the sun and read or relax.
I had my camera on a tripod for this that way I could move the subjects around and not have to worry about the framing or anything, I was also using a slower shutter speed.
I edited it in Lightroom to lighten up the darker spots and make the detail more defined.
I really like this photo and how it almost had a "dreamy" look to it. My favorite part to look at is the shadows on the book cover from the plant, I think thatโs really neat.
As soon as I heard iMyke mention Mario on episode 31 of The Prompt as I was driving to pick Hamish up from school, I paused it because I knew he'd enjoy it as he did with the Incomparable #177. He's a 7-year-old Mario addict! Thanks to @5by5 for keeping things clean so Hamish can enjoy these shows with me on the school run!
love this prompt, so soothing to complete!
blogged here:
llaurenb.blogspot.com/2013/09/another-super-sized-art-jou...
i had a lot of fun with this prompt. but it also brought up some intense emotions and memories for me.
Nautical Photos of the trip to Hamburg with the Museum Tug ELBE for the "Hamburger Hafengeburtstag" celebration. and a short visit to the Isle HELGOLAND from may 02 till 09-2017.
Looking for a cheap place to eat, we venture into
Centro Habana, a rougher version of Old Havana.
During my meal I wander off to the ladies and say
hello to the Cuban woman outside, who I assume is the
toilet attendant. I tip her as is normal but she looks
at me quizzically. 'Don't you want it?' I ask thinking
that maybe I've offended her. 'Well, ok' she replies
taking the money and hugging me. I realise my mistake.
She's not the toilet attendant after all and I've
given money to a random person.
Mumbling something about a disco down the road, she
tries to drag me out of the restaurant. I tell her I'm
with my friend and she promptly walks over to the
table and sits down. Shortly afterwards her boyfriend
joins us and tries to persuade us to go to a club down
the road. When we decline, she leans over and asks
slightly aggressively if we'll buy them both a drink
but not here as the mojitos are apparently bad.
Feeling I'm getting in deeper into something I don't
feel good about (Al has no clue as to what's going on
and is blissfully unaware of my toilet encounter) I
agree to buy them a drink at the bar we're in. They
insist on going elsewhere but I'm feeling
uncomfortable at this stage and refuse. After a few
minutes of unpleasant wrangling, they order beers and
as soon as they arrive take off into the night.
Later I discover from others that this is not such an
unusual situation. Quite often Cubans 'befriend'
tourists. It's difficult to know whether they're just
being friendly or out for the free drinks.
(Photo - Plaza de San Fransico, Havana)