April 21, 2010
Kusari toi (sometimes translitered “doi”)—the Japanese characters are 鎖樋 which translates literally as “chain gutters”—are known in English as rain chains. They are used in Japan as downspouts to direct rain from a gutter to the ground, where it either flows into a gravel or pebble bed or into some sort of catchment.
April 19, 2010
Before I start, I’m asking on behalf of the owners of this house that nobody reposts or reproduces any of these images anywhere without my permission. Like a lot of people who have built their own houses in the woods, the owners, who are relatives of mine, appreciate their privacy and feel a bit negative about seeing their house all over the internet.
April 18, 2010
Alastair Heseltine, sculptor, Hornby Island, British Columbia.
This is one of the few instances when I actually hit the “Approve” button on a spam comment. (See original post here.)
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The other godlike pleasure in owning a blog is deleting comments even when they’re not spam.
April 15, 2010
“Tim’s books will fall one day and kill one of his friends.” Click on image to see the photo’s Flickr tags. Courtesy my friends Jonathan and Tim.
April 14, 2010
Commercial Drive, Vancouver. I hope this category of sign isn’t a thing of the past, but I expect it probably is. Who makes hand drawn signs on this continent anymore?
April 12, 2010
The geodesic dome redux. The Pavilion is a public art project by Vancouver artist Holly Ward on the grounds of Langara College in Vancouver. The dome is only up for another month, in case you’d like to go see it.
While at art school in Halifax, Nova Scotia, my American friends Paul and Eugene and I lived in a rented seaside house in a nearby fishing village. The day we moved in to our house in Shad Bay we found a framed map of our cove, and it showed a little island across the water from us marked ‘Treasure Island.’ For the next year we tried to get hold of a boat to get over there.
April 9, 2010
How did the decision to hang the gongs in the window come about? “Without eyes, our house is just a faceless shed?” Cool 70s modern house near the river, North Vancouver.
April 7, 2010
This house decoration looks like an upmarket version of a dingbat. Either way it’s a nice retro fashion accessory that harks back to the postwar period. The house was built in La Jolla, California by architect Jonathan Segal in 2004 for his own family.
