Cats and Halloween
A few cat themed Halloween cartoon shorts (.gif’s).
There is just something so funny, to me at least, about cats. Maybe it’s the way they go from king to clown with no embarrassment, or awareness.
Hope you have a fun, cat filled Halloween.
Boo!
An old favorite, revisited and rediscovered
I have always liked the Harris House, or at least what I knew of it. That was limited to the Julius Shulman photographs of the front and the living room (Figs 1 & 2). I wanted to learn more about it, and was delighted to discover what a wonderful design it is and how much I didn’t know.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Sarah Sherman, Reference Librarian and the Getty Research Institute for letting me use Julius Shulman’s Harris House photos. Photos 1,2,5, 6 & 8 are copyright J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library st the Getty Research Institute (204.R.10). Figure 7 is used by permission, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
Introduction
A good place to start is Schindler’s description of the house, from the January, 1943 issue of arts & architecture magazine 1. Typically for Schindler, he wrote the description all in capital letters.
From model to garden
I had a lot of fun building this. Its a good feeling when you put that third bolt in to form a triangle, and the floppy collection of pieces transforms into a rigid frame.
We added an arc of blue awning material at the top (see collage), to give a little shade and to repeat the material and color from our deck and shades.
Top through fifth trellis completed, but no plants or awning
Sixth to bottom trellis with plants and awning
