Tatooine! I knew this Vancouver Island house reminded me of something.
December 12, 2009
Tatooine! I knew this Vancouver Island house reminded me of something.

I guess this is ruining the surprise but I’m buying this album for quite a few people for Christmas. It’s ridiculously good, very catchy, it topped fancy local charts, it features internationally known art and music stars, and it’s published by Vancouver’s Or Gallery, one of Vancouver’s best non-profit art centres.
December 11, 2009
These midcentury modern houses are by the famed Los Angeles architectural firm Palmer & Krisel, which has built a phenomenal number of iconic houses in this style in California and Nevada.
December 10, 2009
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who came by the sale! We still have lots of great items/Christmas presents, and are open by appointment until December 21, including evenings. The fire’s on – come by!
I’m developing a taste for these. There are lots of dinky suburban tract versions of these perforated walls, but when the scale and placement are well thought out, they can be the building’s most arresting feature.
December 9, 2009
Concrete block and perforated screen fetishists should visit this Flickr pool. The wall above and below is at the abandoned Besser Vibrapac office, a building that served as a display of the company’s own concrete blocks.
December 8, 2009
William Cody, Architect, 1952. From the standpoint of the rainy temperate rainforest, desert landscaping is so seductive, so distant, so taunting. Red cactus soil, and an agave growing through the roof, and a boulder.
The Parker Hotel as photographed by Chimay Bleue, who has produced one of my favourite collections of photos of modernist architecture on Flickr. I’ll do a series of posts using his photos if he will let me.
December 7, 2009
This falls into the expanding geek category for this blog, I suppose, but to follow upon the recent Rube-Goldberg-Machine-at-home and marble run theme, this homemade marble-run machine makes cocktails. It’s by Joseph Herscher, filmed by Rewa Wright.:
“This is a machine that makes a cocktail called a Falling Water.
December 6, 2009

A man with a dry sense of humour and great stationery. Via swissmiss and thanks to blprnt for finding it.