Holidaze

If you're checking this blog for new updates, don't dispair; I'll eventually get back to posting things. I've been busy with the holidays, and I've got a lot of work to do.

Scenes from a mall

The bottom photo is of what I think is the most distinctive store window I've ever seen in an indoor shopping mall. The photo's not great, but I hope you get the idea. It's a fake brick exterior facade. Didn't go in the store, but now think I should've.

I wanted to take more photos at the mall, but had a hard time getting over the funny looks I was getting.

Great Lecture Titles

Here are two titles for lectures that were actually given:

"A Plea for Cannibalism", given by Thorstein Veblen while he was an undergraduate at Carleton College

"How Can People Expect to Have Good Architecture When They Wear Such Clothes?", given by Bernard Rudofsky at Black Mountain College in 1944

Please submit your own contenders for best lecture title (must be for a lecture that was actually given to an audience).

Philosopher World Theme Park

Drawn by a student named Tyler in an Ethics class Nat and I taught many years ago.

Like Most Maps

The map above is taken from a book titled "Japan: Book Design Yesterday", by Bernard Rudofsky. (Rudofsky is also the author of many other books, all of which I highly recommend, including "The Unfashionable Human Body" and "Now I Lay Me Down to Eat").

About this map, Rudofsky says the following:

"Like most maps, this page reads from the center outward. The distinction between plan and elevation is blurred; rivers seem to climb mountain passes on their way to the sea; hills mimic Mt. Fuji." (p. 31)

Charles P. Everitt

Quotation Marks

Check out the use of quotation marks above. Better, check out the question mark at the end of the second sentence. What is it doing there? Please tell me!

Quotation Marks

In response to my previous post about quotation marks, Nat claimed that when not used to quote someone, he thinks that they are used for emphasis. I'm not so sure it's that simple. Consider the use above, for instance. The words in quotation marks are already emphasized by the use of a large bold font. The quotation marks could just be more emphasis, but I doubt it. I think they are being used as something like "command marks", telling you to order from Horder.