THE STRVNG ARCHITECT

*There will be no miracles here*

[thesilicontribesman]

The Lewis Chess Pieces, 12th Century CE, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

[communicants]

Le franc (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1994)

[tvneon]

[obsessedbyneon]

Shaping nature

[teenagedirtstache]

[thestarvingarchitect]

Gay dad's with their 7 adopted children

[purplecyborgnewt]

Alice in Wondeland (1981)

[pennyroyald]

[fugengulsen]

Paul Klee

Suffering fruit

1933

[pngblog]

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan “love all animals and protect the environment” mindset is the fact that things need to die in real-life ecology all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings and carp culls aren’t cottagecore

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

The vegan “any animal death ever is morally wrong” mindset doesn’t hold up when:

We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.

It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.

An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.

I don’t know how to end this except. Sometimes things just gotta die and acting otherwise just isn’t a realistic expectation.

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

Highlights from the notes over the past 6 months include a lot of angry vegans saying “you’re blowing things out of proportion, no vegans actually think like this!” and a lot of people who work in conservation and education saying “Every day. I have to fight people who think like this.”

As a bonus this post was originally inspired by the vegan who called me racist for saying we should kill invasive species

[sugareimon-deactivated20260217]

Mainstream veganism annoys me to no end. It’s a personal choice, not some kind of moral obligation.

The livestock industry has many environmental problems, yes, but death and meat are not inherently evil.

[dosbox]

The King in Yellow - Multimedia Interactive (1996, Win95 CD-ROM)

[deathcomequickly]

The Drowned Halls

[roseillest]

AFRIQUE, JE TE PLUMERAI // AFRICA, I WILL FLEECE YOU (1992) dir. JEAN-MARIE TENO

[thesaurushouseofdesign]

715 Brooktree Rd. Los Angeles, CA 90272, California,

Mr Ray Kappe Residence in Pacific Palisades built in 1967,

The home that influential architect Ray Kappe built for himself and his family is one of the most magnificent houses in Los Angeles and a true icon of Modern residential architecture.

Situated on a steep hillside lot in Pacific Palisades, the house faced a challenge beyond that of slope: active underground springs saturate the ground, rendering it unstable for normal building.

Mr Kappe solved these problems head-on by placing his design on six massive concrete footings driven deep into the ground and allowing the springs to flow freely underneath.

The house itself sits on massive laminated fir beams that stretch from concrete tower to concrete tower atop the footings, situating it high above the ground like a treehouse.

Everything else about the design reinforces this feeling: massive windows open the interior to the natural landscape outside, while most of the finishes are warm natural wood and numerous redwood decks and trellises surround the exterior.

The house's rooms are staggered to adapt to the site's slope and, with a few exceptions, are completely open to each other, separated only by their varying elevations. The concrete towers supporting the structure are hollow and contain skylights to illuminate the spaces within them.

The Kappe House is a tremendous blending of the natural materials favored by the Arts and Crafts movement and the strong, simple innovations introduced by Los Angeles' modernists. As such, it may be one of the purest examples of regional architecture in Los Angeles.

[mr-e-gallery]

[thestarvingarchitect]

Such a let down of a movie but masterful art direction and photography!

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

Snoqualmie Falls, 1950s

Bruce Thomas