Kashef Chowdhury, A Glass Labyrinth in Venice, With essays by Robert McCarter and Alejandro Aravena, Photographs by Eric Chenal and Hélène Binet, Park Books, Zürich, 2018. Designed by Bruno Margreth, Martina Brassel
The life of Marcel Breuer (1902-81) isn’t exactly poor in twists, turns and stages: born in Hungary Breuer in 1920 enrolled at the Vienna Art Academy only to quit after a few weeks. Instead „Lajos“, as friends called him, moved to Weimar to start his education at the Bauhaus where he graduated in 1924 and subsequently became „Jungmeister“ at the school. In the meantime Breuer had worked in the office of Bauhaus headmaster Walter Gropius and devoted himself to both architecture and furniture. In 1925, at the age of only 23, he designed the iconic „Wassili/B3“ chair which in the long-run cemented his reputation as furniture designer, a circumstance that for decades overshadowed his considerably larger architectural work. Due to the ascent of the Nazis in Germany Breuer in 1933 left for Hungary but in 1935 settled in England, again a stopover since in 1937 Breuer emigrated to the United States, the last stage of his checkered journey. After a brief collaboration with his mentor Walter Gropius Breuer in 1941 founded his independent office and in the following four decades established himself as one of the most significant architects in the US who built for major institutions.
Although quite a number of books have been published about Breuer, his design work and his architecture none of them blends work and biography quite as naturally as Robert McCarter’s in his tome „Breuer“, published in 2016 by Phaidon. In nine chapters McCarter chronologically follows and elaborates Breuer’s life and work while in between the chapters he presents the architect’s major works in excellent contemporaneous illustrations. As is most often the case with Robert McCarter the narration is lucid and to the point, blending both biographical events and Breuer’s professional development from white modernism to Brutalism.
Unfortunately the book has been out of print for quite a while and is thus expensive second-hand, a drop of bitterness as the book otherwise is a highly recommended read…
Books ordered this week: Space Framed: Richard Gluckman Architect; The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture by Robert McCarter; The Richard Burton Diaries; and Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First-Century City by Anna Minton. Palate cleansers while I wait: Acting Class by Nick Drnaso and Bliss Montage by Ling Ma. But what I really feel like reading is a pile of women’s fashion magazines, flipped through with a mule sandal dangling off my foot and an Arnold Palmer sipped through a straw. I don’t want Vogue, though - I want Glamour.
A Fort Bend County grand jury returned indictments against nine individuals for a variety of felony offenses.
Indictments are not an indication of guilt, only that the grand jury believed a jury of the defendant’s peers should determine if a crime had been committed.
Due to space limitations, here is a partial list of those individuals indicted, the charges and the punishments they face, along with the date of the alleged offense and judge assigned to hear their cases, are:
Sijin Thomas Kurian, soliciting prostitution, third-degree felony, April 15, 2022, Judge Robert L. Rolnick.
Adam Scott Hunt, evading arrest/detention with a vehicle, a state-jail felony, April 20, 2022, Judge Frank J. Fraley.
Adam Scott Hunt, unauthorized use of a vehicle, a state-jail felony, April 20, 2022, Judge Frank J. Fraley.
Cynthia C. Eufracio, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony, April 23, 2022, Judge Frank J. Fraley.
Chikamgbolu Ofili, robbery, a second-degree felony, April 27, 2022, Judge Frank J. Fraley.
Princess McCarter, injury to a child/elderly person or injured person with intent to cause bodily harm, a second-degree felony, April 27, 2022, Judge J. Christian Becerra.
Vanessa Prado, fraudulent use of or possession of identifying information, items numbering less than five, a state-jail felony, April 28, 2022, Judge Robert L. Rolnick.
Vanessa Prado, fraudulent use of or possession of identifying information, items numbering between five and 10, a third-degree felony, April 28, 2022, Judge Robert L. Rolnick.
Diana Nicole Nabeel Arafat, assaulting a peace officer or judge, a second-degree felony, April 28, 2022, Judge J. Christian Becerra.
Diana Nicole Nabeel Arafat, assaulting a peace officer or judge, a second-degree felony, April 28, 2022, Judge J. Christian Becerra.
A Fort Bend County grand jury returned indictments against nine individuals for a variety of felony offenses.
Indictments are not an indication of guilt, only that the grand jury believed a jury of the defendant’s peers should determine if a crime had been committed.
Due to space limitations, here is a partial list of those individuals indicted, the charges and the punishments they face, along with the date of the alleged offense and judge assigned to hear their cases, are:
Sijin Thomas Kurian, soliciting prostitution, third-degree felony, April 15, 2022, Judge Robert L. Rolnick.
Adam Scott Hunt, evading arrest/detention with a vehicle, a state-jail felony, April 20, 2022, Judge Frank J. Fraley.
Adam Scott Hunt, unauthorized use of a vehicle, a state-jail felony, April 20, 2022, Judge Frank J. Fraley.
Cynthia C. Eufracio, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony, April 23, 2022, Judge Frank J. Fraley.
Chikamgbolu Ofili, robbery, a second-degree felony, April 27, 2022, Judge Frank J. Fraley.
Princess McCarter, injury to a child/elderly person or injured person with intent to cause bodily harm, a second-degree felony, April 27, 2022, Judge J. Christian Becerra.
Vanessa Prado, fraudulent use of or possession of identifying information, items numbering less than five, a state-jail felony, April 28, 2022, Judge Robert L. Rolnick.
Vanessa Prado, fraudulent use of or possession of identifying information, items numbering between five and 10, a third-degree felony, April 28, 2022, Judge Robert L. Rolnick.
Diana Nicole Nabeel Arafat, assaulting a peace officer or judge, a second-degree felony, April 28, 2022, Judge J. Christian Becerra.
Diana Nicole Nabeel Arafat, assaulting a peace officer or judge, a second-degree felony, April 28, 2022, Judge J. Christian Becerra.
I have already written reviews on some of them (not seen in this post), that you can already read here. So make sure to also do that.
I’m completely laid out in bed extremely sick, I thought between the delusional fevers, bomb exploding headaches, and literally feeling like I’m dying, I’d share the other films I’ve absolutely enjoyed watching this year.
I started up a separate account via Instagram to just post film, but having multiples is beginning to be too much, so from now on any other film content aside from the blog here will be on @ starrymayx.
So to start off the list here we go…
These 90s “Noir” films started my whole new movie Escapades, and I’m so glad they did -
Bad Influence, Guilty As Sin, Pacific Heights, Whispers in The Dark, Dream Lover, Untamed Heart, White Palace
Here are the others…
Thrashin - 1986
Starring: Josh Brolin, Pamela Gidley
Brooke McCarter (RIP homie), Sherilyn Fenn, Robert Rusler, & Josh Richman
Anthony Kiedis + RHCP
Tony Hawk, Kevin Staab, Mike McGill, Jimmy Star
What I liked: There was so much awesomeness in this film and a feel good story of triumph. Basically it’s about two skateboarding gangs, having beef, mix in lots of skating, graffiti, punk rock aesthetics, and a love story, and you have yourself a pretty badass film. Plus they overcome their rivalry in the LA Massacre challenge, and there’s even several rat tails. 🤣 Definitely worth a watch!
I really wish I could skateboard. I would have been so rad. To all my skater friends and Bo’s over the years, mad respect. 🤘🏻
The House on Sorority Row - 1983
Director: Mark Rosman
I swear Scream Queens was influenced by this film.
I really liked it. Loved the lighting, still had a seventies type feel, storyline was really good. Definitely a film to check out if you like really good horror, without all the super special effects.
*For any strobe light sensitive people* like myself out there, there is a scene where it’s wild,
Pump Up The Volume ✊🏻 1990
Director Allan Moyle
This movie is 🔥 Definitely a pioneer for all things talk radio but from a non-narrative perspective. Films like this and indie radio programs paved the way for our now podcasts. I loved the way it was written, the development of the characters personal selves, and breaking the rules.
I love me some Christian Slater 💓
The soundtrack is also amazing!
From Richard Hell, Leonard Cohen, Beastie Boys, Ice T, & more! I’ll link the soundtrack in my stories.
*trigger warning: there is a scene that deals with suicide and those scenes always get me. So I wanted to mention that.
Out of Bounds - 1986
Director- Richard Tuggle
Cinematography - Bruce Surtees
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall
Siouxsie and the Banshees 🤘🏻💓
& Meatloaf (in like 3 scenes)
What I liked: The cinematography of downtown LA & Venice Beach California, (actually the whole film is beautifully done). The 80’s colors, Dizz’s home, her style. The fact that Anthony Michael Hall was a badass hero, taking down a heroin drug man with his knife throwing skills. Really good film.
2 Days in The Valley - 1996
Written and Directed by: John Herzfeld.
Starring: James Spader, Eric Stolz & Charlize Theron
Synopsis: 48 hours of intersecting lives and crimes in The Valley of Los Angeles.
Why I liked it: Artsy Cinematography, James Spader obviously, and the correlation of numerous parties all being connected, going through individual stuff but being thrown into the mix of chaos. Plus sunglasses just seem to add viable cred to it. Why are sunglasses so cool yet mysterious?
I throughly enjoyed this film mainly due to the Jim Morrison/Sharon Tate style vibes it gave off throughout, and all the stylish decor/fashion. The Morrison looking guy played by (Warren Beatty) is basically a lover to many of his women hair clients (he does hair).
I really appreciate the 70’s swank and aesthetic appeal in this film. I’m also obsessed with Julie Christie’s glam Tate starlet look and I wish I could pull off bangs! Goldie Hawn is also in here and a younger Carrie Fisher.
From the 70s eye shadow, purple outfit I want, the main girls style, glamorous hair, river grotto, la house party with body paint and strobe lights (which that part I had to turn away - sensitive), it still rocked.
Based in the LA canyon/hills it’s definitely worth a watch to see the web of desire and aesthetic unfold. Keep your eye out for the creepy art in one of the scenes that just didn’t quite belong. 😳
Additionally there was some dialogue between two parties in the kitchen about questioning the lead male’s (hairstylist) orientation, and the f word was used a couple times. Didn’t like that part.
Really glad we’ve evolved on how we should identify people and what’s right to say and not to. A person can be gay or even not, but using derogatory terminology to hurt them is very low par. If you still do that. Stop.
Chopping Mall - 1986
Director: Jim Wynorski
Mall Location: Sherman Oaks Galleria
I loved this film. For reals.
Nothing better than a mall unleashing new technology security robots, only to go horribly wrong. Which I already knew where it was going as soon as it started 😂
Anyways a group of mall employee friends and two others throw a party in a bedding home store and get freaky - typical 80s horror, which I love. Then basically the robots go crazy and savage, hunting down all of them in a terminator/stranger things vibe kind of way. The aesthetic, 80s style, and scenery are very appealing, all the way down to even the playboy underwear from Miss Virgina Slims herself. Camel ciggs just won’t cut it. 😂
Lots of greats here, and I hope you check them out if you haven’t seen them.
" Blues for an Alabama Sky " at the McCarter Theatre at the Berlind Theatre is a well acted, very well directed play. Written by Pearl Cleage, the story takes us to Harlem, New York City during the depression years.
The story never leaves Guy's apartment nor his neighbors, Delia ( Maya Jackson). In Lawrence E. Moten lll scenic design, some is left to the imagination, but most of it is laid out for us. Supported by excellent lighting (Sherrice Mojgani), the story unfolds and it is as complex as it is entertaining.
Nicole A. Watson is masterful in that her direction locks the characters in tight; especially the main three... Angel (Crystal A. Dickinson); Guy, ( Kevin R. Free) and Delia.
While it seems that the characters don’t have a care in the world, the second act of this two hour- forty five minute show brings to light the many and vast problems that confront each of them.
In Angel we get a woman who wants the easy way in life. It turns out her world is anything but that. She sacrifices herself for a better life, she uses any means to secure her wants and needs.
Guy is a flamboyant homosexual who designs dresses. Both confident and tough, he Dreams about designing cloths in Paris for Josephine Baker.
Delia is a twenty-five year old virgin who wants Adam Powell, her preacher to help her start a Planned Parenthood facility.
In Dr, Sam, the OGBYN, He relishes bring newborns into the world. He loves to drink and go to the many Blues and Jazz clubs around Harlem. He loves Delia and wants to marry her even though he is fifteen years older than her.
The story gets deep when Alabama Leland (Brandon St. Clair shows up. A proper religious Southern man, he doesn’t believe in drinking during prohibition, homosexuality, nor a woman's right to choose. So Cleage has us taking sides and the sides are volatile.
From the costumes ( Sarita P. Fellows) to the concept of time, "Blues for an Alabama Sky " touches the senses. It is an old school play in that it touches on race, the way that the people who live in Harlem behave. She dabbles in each characters wants and dreams and yet their failures and successes are not the product of society, but as a result of hard work, or lack of.
While " Alabama" is a somewhat political play, it never is in your face radical. While the writer brings out some obstacles, she brings in a real life story that deals in real life.
Where many plays today that deal in political overtones are just to uneven, too filled with hatred, Cleage keeps it more balanced. The characters are likeable even with their faults.
A spread from Robert McCarter's monograph on Louis I. Kahn, second edition. Image source.
During the long cold winter nights, we're all looking for an interesting book to curl up with. If you're an architecture geek like me, then you'll want to read these reviews of two books published in 2022 about the work of Louis Kahn. The first is the expanded second edition of Robert McCarter's monograph on Kahn; the other is a reissue of The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn edited by Richard Saul Wurman and Eugene Feldman.
A big thanks to John Hill of A Daily Dose of Architecture for posting.
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She is the youngest of four siblings; Shingai and Choni are her sisters and Tare, her brother, is a chiropractor. She lived in Grinnell until December 1983, when at age five she and her family moved back to Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, after Robert Mugabe rose to power in 1979.
She attended high school at Dominican Convent High School. Afterward, she returned to the United States to study at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. She also earned a Master of Fine Arts in acting from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
In 2009, She made her acting debut on Broadway in August Wilson's play Joe Turner's Come and Gone playing Martha Pentecost.
2012 play The Convert was premiered as a co-production between the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and the McCarter Theatre in New Jersey. Later that year, She received the Whiting Award for an emerging playwright.
In January 2015, Familiar, a play written by Her and directed by Rebecca Taichman, opened at Yale Repertory Theatre. It later premiered Off-Broadway in New York at Playwrights Horizons. The play is about family, cultural identity, and the experience of life as a first-generation American, and She has said that it was inspired in part by her family and friends.
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DESCRIPTION BOOK : A thoroughly updated and redesigned edition of McCarter?s esteemed monograph on the globally-revered modern master ? includes Roosevelt Island, Four Freedoms Park, which was completed after Kahn's deathThe significance of the work of Louis I Kahn, one of the greatest influences on post-WWII world architecture, has skyrocketed in the twenty-first century. Robert McCarter?s bestselling and critically-acclaimed monograph explains how Kahn redefined Modern architecture and why his work remains a fundamental source for architects and designers today. Now thoughtfully updated, this comprehensive and extensively illustrated overview features both built and unbuilt projects, including Yale University Art Gallery, Kimbell Art Museum, and the Salk Institute, along with his work in India and Bangladesh, as well as a project realized forty years after Kahn?s death ? New York City?s Four Freedoms Park.?
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Castelvecchio, the museum inside a 14th century castle, without doubt is Carlo Scarpa’s magnum opus: for almost two decades he worked on its transformation in a continuous process guided by the building’s history. Exploring it Scarpa frequently discovered new aspects and historical layers to which he reacted in his designs, a modus operandi pivotal to the understanding of his architecture. In line with the Castelvecchio’s importance it also takes up considerable space in Robert McCarter’s Scarpa monograph, first published in 2013 by Phaidon: along some 20 projects the author chronologically explores Scarpa’s oeuvre in a remarkably atmospheric manner, i.e. by describing his experiences of the buildings which are then supplemented with biographical and historical information. In so doing McCarter effectively brings the reader close to the first-hand experience of Scarpa’s architecture, experiences he seems to be very fond of as he (rightly) describes them as transformative.
Another well-known aspect of Scarpa’s work that bears repeating is his focus on craft and his ingenious ability to make the most of it: already in his introduction, tellingly captioned „verum ipsum factum“, McCarter emphasizes Scarpa’s infallible attention to detail that eventually made him a regular presence at each building site, a fact that is further underscored by his practice of drawing and sketching on site instead of handing working drawings to his craftsmen and workers. Unfortunately of these drawings there aren’t that many included in the book, a bearable flaw in view of the excellent photos and the numerous other publications on Scarpa’s work. Robert McCarter’s monograph surely is both a perfect introduction to Carlo Scarpa and an insightful read for those already familiar with his fascinating work and thus a highly recommended read!
I watched Thrashin' last night and oh my god, it was so cheesy but also so beautiful at the same time. I visibly cringed and laughed my ass off. It’s surprising not that bad, I’m gonna give it another watch tonight while I work.
And dear lord, Tyler played by Brooke McCarter, A BABY BOY!!! Literally just Paul but in colorful clothing and not a vampire, but the personalities are so similar and it’s so god damn cute.
Corey Webster played by Josh Brolin, woof. I had the biggest crush on him in Goonies and it has not stopped in this movie. Wow. Again, a feel like it was just a lightly toned down version of his character Brand in The Goonies.
Tommy Hook played by Robert Rusler…. A PUNK BOY!!! And I knew I recognized him from somewhere and that was Weird Science…. My heart!!! And his girlfriend Velvet played by Sherilyn Fenn, AH MY GAY HEART! Just place me in between them and I can die happy.
Seriously all the characters are great, these of course are the ones that stood out the most for me, (and I’ll admit I only watched it cause Brooke was in it) but it was a good movie full of actors that I did not expect. Highly recommend!