CSelde's Profile

Display Name: CSelde
Member Since: 11/15/11

Latest Comments...

I loved it!!! Thanks for sharing!!! It's absolutely beautiful.


From Birth to 12 in Under 3 Minutes Frans Hofmeester
4/26/12 6:11 PM

I love the Lovell House, designed by Richard Neutra in 1929, that was featured as the villain's ultra-modern cliffside home in the 1997 film "L.A. Confidential," starring Kim Basinger, Kevin Spacey and Guy Pierce, among others. Here's a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell_House

There's also the Sherman Estate, where much of the 2007 thriller "Fracture," starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling was filmed. The producers of Fracture commented that they "particularly liked the reflections and double images that occurred when shooting through the house and its many layers of glass."


Extreme Modernism on the Big Screen
4/11/12 9:44 PM

Great post! It was very interesting to see the different styles of pots produced in different countries....The pots offered on the Australia site are fabricated in Afghanistan by traditional leather craftsmen, who had gone out of business due to the war and have now found a new way to use their skills...And the pots they make out of discarded tires are really quite beautiful....The video of Genaro plucking tires from the dump in Mexico City is quite moving....Reminds us of the enormity of the environmental/economic and above all social problem the world is facing.


Macetas Genaro: Recycled Tire Flowerpots
2/6/12 3:04 PM

This is fascinating....Really wish I lived close to NYC and could have attended the exhibition.


Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York Exhibit
2/6/12 2:56 PM

@planetclaire and suemey -- You're right. The fence is made of real cactus. It's very common to see cacti used as fences in fields in the Mexican countryside. The architect, Juan O'Gorman was inspired, I think, by those traditional rural cacti fences when he designed Diego and Frida's casa/estudio.


Visiting Casa Estudio Diego Rivera
11/16/11 9:39 PM