Bootleg House

A short article and a gallery of photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright's Bootleg House.

Frank Lloyd Wright 'Bootleg' House

Tribute to Food on Film

Feast, a Thanksgiving tribute to images of food on film by Matt Zoller Seitz. This video comes from this Post on Moving Image Source.

Goodnight iPad

Over at Brain Pickings blog there is a post of The Best Children’s and Picture Books of 2011. Here is a video version of one of them—Goodnight iPad.

The Crystal Cathedral

This week the Crystal Cathedral was sold in bankruptcy to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. The main sanctuary—designed by Philip Johnson—consists of over 10.000 panes of glass, and contains one of the worlds largest pipe organs. It is designed to withstand to an 8.0 magnitude earthquake.

Here is a video that focuses on the organ, but you can also see a good bit of the architecture it.

Nat Geo's Photo Contest

A selection of entries in this year's National Geographic Photo Contest.

National Geographic Photo Contest 2011

The Swerve

Last night the National Book Award for non-fiction was awarded to Stephen Greenblatt for his book, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. The book is about the poem "On the Nature of Things", written by Lucretius over two thousand years ago. It was then lost for 1,000 years, and then rediscovered by Poggio Bracciolini in 1417.

I read the book last month, and am skeptical of Greenblatt's thesis that the rediscovery of this poem sparked the renaissance, but it is an incredibly interesting story all the same.

Here is an interview with Greenblatt where he discusses the book.

The Greater Journey

An interview with David McCullough discussing his most recent book, The Greater Journey. I am reading this book about Americans who went to Paris in the 1800's. The books covers a lot of interesting people, and since I didn't know hardly anything about French history between the downfall of Napoleon and the beginning of WW I, I am learning a lot.

The Monuments at Night

A set of photographs I took last night. The moon and Jupiter have gone there separate ways since earlier in the week, so I was not able to get them.


Monuments at Night - 11/12/11

Route 66 Remembered

From the Denver Post's Plog, a collection of photographs marking the 85th anniversary of U.S. Route 66.

Captured: The 85th Anniversary of U.S. Route 66

Under the Moon

The Moon and and Jupiter over the Washington Monument. I just had my iPhone tonight. I might try to go back later this week with a real camera, and see if I can get a better photograph. If I find the right angle I might get both the monument and the moon reflected in the Tidal Basin.

Yesterday on the Canal

A photograph from yesterday on the Canal in Georgetown.


Canal/River - 2011

Nashville Concert Hall Transformed

I knew that some concert halls used to put a floor over the seats in order to hold dances, but I never heard of moving the seats under the floor like they do in this video of the Nashville Concert Hall.

Floor Flip from Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Vimeo.