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Brilliant response to that idiot’s wall by Indigenous Psychologists in the U.S.

LB — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 20:48:41 +0000

Border following the Rio Grande. Image from CNN video

The Society of Indian Psychologists (SIP) Statement on the Proposal to Build a Wall between what is Known as the US and what is Known as México:

Approved by the SIP EC January 27, 2017

The Society of Indian Psychologists strongly opposes President Trump’s proposal to build a wall between what is known as the United States of America and what is known as México.

Nothing happens in good weather

LB — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:23:33 +0000

Great Vancouver public art work titled “Nothing Happens in Good Weather” by the Instant Coffee collective, curated by Barbara Cole of Other Sights. Photos by Kate Armstrong and Kelly Lycan via the Goethe Institut’s Goethe Satellite.

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Geometric mural in the basement of Vancouver City Hall

LB — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:05:42 +0000

[UPDATE: I was just informed by the artist’s son Guy that this mural is now threatened, after gracing the lowest floor of City Hall for over 40 years! It’s odd that the City now says it will demolish or paint over the mural, having recently asked Guy and his sister for a bio of their father, suggesting that City Hall had intended to preserve his work.

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The Brick House

LB — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:27:20 +0000

Often the “before” shot is better than the “after,” but not here. Above is a nice use of nearly black paint on an old plaster wall in this Hemet, California midcentury cinderblock house.

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Erwin Hauer, patterned concrete

LB — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:15:19 +0000

Patterned concrete walls by the firm Erwin Hauer. Top three photos show a loadbearing cast stone wall in a church in Erdberg, Vienna, Austria.

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Patterned concrete screens

LB — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:15:39 +0000

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.

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Patterned concrete blocks, on Flickr

LB — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:58:07 +0000

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.

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The Parker Hotel in Palm Springs

LB — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:11:35 +0000

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.

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It’s Spring, Let’s Go Outside!

LB — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:45:04 +0000

These are all, as usual, from The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement, Greystone Press, 1970. I love the photo of the little garden house with the abstract geometric painting, above, and the book actually includes plans for it (click at bottom).

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Brick screen wall, New Delhi, by Anagram Architects

LB — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:30:55 +0000

This brick screening wall by Anagram Architects, New Delhi, is a reminder of how imaginatively brick can be used. I’m not a fan of brick, and that’s an understatement, but context is everything.

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