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actually i think i might be wrong, i think that guy is castle and not the same bloke,,,Europe would know..

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Originally posted by beardo

bump

 

i've always had a fascination with treehouses. check out this book, it should be at your local borders/barnes/etc.

http://www.treehouseworkshop.com/images/amazon/thetreehousebook.jpg'>

 

dont have time to search for a bunch of pics, sorry.

 

 

that is an amazing book

 

Some friends of mine built a treehouse last summer. the city made them take it down because it interfered with a powerline. Thats was nuts.

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From the NY Times:

 

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"Pastrycook" (1928) by August Sander, at the Metropolitan Museum.

 

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"Young Farmers" (1914)

 

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"Circus Workers" (1926 to 1932)

 

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"Working Students" (1926)

 

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"Secretary at West German Radio, Cologne" (1931)

 

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"Painter (Anton Räderscheidt)"

 

 

 

The last man looks incredibly intense.

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The Problem we all live with

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I'm sure the times heads all caught this. but there was a good little blurb about rockwell, and the impact the civil rights struggle had on his work. They made a good point. We all think of rockwell as the painter of all those sentement laden records of "americana", but his driving motivation was an unwavering belief in the core ideals that the usa was founded on, and the whole "american dream" package. but, much like the general population, you can see his understanding of race relations in the country changing. in the 40s he did those "4 freedoms" paintings, trumpeting the core rights that americans believe in, but still had some unecessarily happy depictions of a very un-equal state of affairs. take for example:

Boy in a Dining Car

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The sentiment is obviously supposed to be "aww, look at that kid pretending to be all grown up" , but it makes no notice of the degree of subservience most blacks stil had to live with. Like the porter, who is probably a grandfather, being reduced to waiting on some snot nosed kid, cause its one of the few jobs blacks are "allowed" to have at the time. But, at the same time, its completely understandable that no comment is made, because the public is still largely unconcerned about the way things were, and rockwell's work reflects that. So its quite intresting to see that changed played out in his work.

 

the gist of the article was more of a "look how much impact this forced desegregation had on rockwell" but it made me think of how accurate a reflection of public opinion his work is when looked at chronoligcally.

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what the hell

 

hey i don't know if its just me, but everyone should scroll up look at the robot with the blues balls(haha not supposed to be funny) and look at the picture and scroll slowly, tell me if it looks like it gets fatter or pulses or something, if not i'm just plain trippin lol....

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The Babble: Don't hate. Participate

 

Originally posted by break north

posting random things is so artsy and therefore hip and cool, I hope you all die a slow death for posting these dumb pictures.

 

peace.

:confused:

...what the hell is this kat talkin' about.

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Originally posted by break north

posting random things is so artsy and therefore hip and cool, I hope you all die a slow death for posting these dumb pictures.

 

peace.

 

yes sir.

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Originally posted by wiseguy

whoever designed and built this building rocks...

 

I remember that from Art history ... all the images of it did no justice !!

 

the top image here shows it the fuck off.

more beautiful than i could have thought.

 

cant recall whos design it was though.

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