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Showing posts with label decatur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decatur. Show all posts
10' WILL NOT CLEAR, the great arched bridge on Ponce
It's not quite as grand (or pink) as the Red Bridge Over Ormewood Avenue in Grant Park Atlanta. It makes for a grand entrance to Decatur to the east or to Druid Hills to the west. Don't drive your tall truck in the outside lanes. "10' WILL NOT CLEAR"
Ashley Anderson @ACAC with @ybgb, at Corrina's, and @maigh
I spiffed up the house before the ladies arrived for book club then bolted for ACAC, then Phoenix Metal Works, then Maigh's birthday tweet-up.
First, ACAC: the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and Young Blood Gallery had a little Christmas Shop with eggnog. EGGNOG. Twitter fans: @ACAC @ybgb @TerryKearns
Know Ashley Anderson? He's one of the many super-friendly bearded artists around here. I asked to see his sketchbook. Turns out he'd designed the latest ACAC mug..
Is that cool or what? You can buy one from ACAC they'd sure appreciate it.
Did you heard the good news about Young Blood Gallery and Mint Gallery?
Short version: Young Blood was going to close after 10 years. Good News: The Young Blood store will remain open under new management, Mint will move to the gallery space, Young Blood founders Kelly Teasley and Maggie White will move on to other things including popup shows. Win, win, win. @ybgb and @mintatl.
Before I left I got a little preview of ACAC's next event: featuring Alix Pearlstein.
Next Stop, The Goat Farm. @GoatFarmArtsCtr
The Goat Farm is the site of Phoenix Metal Works, home of artist / metal worker Corrina Sephora Mensof.
This is my favorite Corriana picture, in profile with crown. I'm the one with chins.
You've probably seen her "Sun Moon Nautilus Passage" gate at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Above is a study for it. The word "awesome" was invented folks like Corrina.
Corrina had a Christmas ornament DIY table.
She's always working on commissions. Here is a rendering for one. This art has to fit and it has to work.
She's built some of it already - stunning.
Corrina has a thing for boats these days; sometimes boats with wings and wheels.
Last stop was @maigh 's birthday tweet-up at The Marlay House, @themarlay,
This is how much they love Maigh, a real Twitter tag tag.
They invented "awesome" for Maigh so we're keeping her identity secret.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Holidays, Happy Birthday to Maigh.
First, ACAC: the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and Young Blood Gallery had a little Christmas Shop with eggnog. EGGNOG. Twitter fans: @ACAC @ybgb @TerryKearns
Know Ashley Anderson? He's one of the many super-friendly bearded artists around here. I asked to see his sketchbook. Turns out he'd designed the latest ACAC mug..
Is that cool or what? You can buy one from ACAC they'd sure appreciate it.
Did you heard the good news about Young Blood Gallery and Mint Gallery?
Short version: Young Blood was going to close after 10 years. Good News: The Young Blood store will remain open under new management, Mint will move to the gallery space, Young Blood founders Kelly Teasley and Maggie White will move on to other things including popup shows. Win, win, win. @ybgb and @mintatl.
Before I left I got a little preview of ACAC's next event: featuring Alix Pearlstein.
Next Stop, The Goat Farm. @GoatFarmArtsCtr
The Goat Farm is the site of Phoenix Metal Works, home of artist / metal worker Corrina Sephora Mensof.
This is my favorite Corriana picture, in profile with crown. I'm the one with chins.
You've probably seen her "Sun Moon Nautilus Passage" gate at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Above is a study for it. The word "awesome" was invented folks like Corrina.
Corrina had a Christmas ornament DIY table.
She's always working on commissions. Here is a rendering for one. This art has to fit and it has to work.
She's built some of it already - stunning.
Corrina has a thing for boats these days; sometimes boats with wings and wheels.
Last stop was @maigh 's birthday tweet-up at The Marlay House, @themarlay,
This is how much they love Maigh, a real Twitter tag tag.
They invented "awesome" for Maigh so we're keeping her identity secret.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Holidays, Happy Birthday to Maigh.
What is that double-pen saddlebag building in Decatur?
In 2001 the Decatur (Georgia) Preservation Alliance moved this "two-room circa 1870s servant's quarters tenement structure." I think this means two mirror image rooms / apartments on either side of a central chimney.
It's at the corner of Church and Bell, at the entrance to Decatur Cemetery.
It's a bit out of place a few blocks north the the Dekalb County Courthouse.
This particular shape is irresistible to me: gable end front and center, narrow and deep with a modest side porch. It risked wasting away a few blocks from the present site. I can't figure out exactly where it was.
It's a familiar sight all over the south. It looks as if it's companion buildings have wasted away. We've mostly moved on from places like this.
I enjoy more new constriction in this style. Georgia architects Historical Concepts does vernacular very well as seen here.
It was time to stop and look.
These are fine paneled doors with nice trim, original?
The windows are trimmed out the same way. I doubt the sashes are 100 years old.
Eave, soffit, return, and facia are pretty fancy.
Contrasting frieze boards and coner-boards with a tiny cornice are a good look. It looks fine with dark trim but I'd prefer all white or less contrast.
The detailing and dark paint make it quite a bit fancier and heavier looking that the Browning Courthouse, in Tucker above.
When you get close it looks massive.
What's inside a double-pen saddlebag?
Looks like they took the chimney down before they moved the house.
...in 1893, the old church was donated to(sic) house the Donald Fraser School for Boys."
If you've got a few minutes, why not stop and have a look for yourself.
Leslie at the Dekalb History Center thinks they will move it a to nearby community garden. I hope they'll put it back in service. Thanks to Leslie for helping out on this post.
It nice when you can save one.
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It's at the corner of Church and Bell, at the entrance to Decatur Cemetery.
It's a bit out of place a few blocks north the the Dekalb County Courthouse.
This particular shape is irresistible to me: gable end front and center, narrow and deep with a modest side porch. It risked wasting away a few blocks from the present site. I can't figure out exactly where it was.
It's a familiar sight all over the south. It looks as if it's companion buildings have wasted away. We've mostly moved on from places like this.
I enjoy more new constriction in this style. Georgia architects Historical Concepts does vernacular very well as seen here.
It was time to stop and look.
These are fine paneled doors with nice trim, original?
The windows are trimmed out the same way. I doubt the sashes are 100 years old.
Eave, soffit, return, and facia are pretty fancy.
Contrasting frieze boards and coner-boards with a tiny cornice are a good look. It looks fine with dark trim but I'd prefer all white or less contrast.
The detailing and dark paint make it quite a bit fancier and heavier looking that the Browning Courthouse, in Tucker above.
When you get close it looks massive.
What's inside a double-pen saddlebag?
Looks like they took the chimney down before they moved the house.
...in 1893, the old church was donated to(sic) house the Donald Fraser School for Boys."
If you've got a few minutes, why not stop and have a look for yourself.
Leslie at the Dekalb History Center thinks they will move it a to nearby community garden. I hope they'll put it back in service. Thanks to Leslie for helping out on this post.
It nice when you can save one.
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Folk traffic signs in Decatur
These folk art traffic signs sure make me slow down. They live on one of the many "Ponce de Leon" streets. This is a quiet one just northeast of downtown Decatur. There are almost as many Ponce streets as there are Peachtree streets but there aren't many signs like these.
House with swags in Decatur
High style for a little house in Decatur.
It's not just the swags. The corner symmetry, proportions, and details make this elegant and welcoming. Three cheers.
It's not just the swags. The corner symmetry, proportions, and details make this elegant and welcoming. Three cheers.
Curbside Screen
I found and rescued this 3-panel screen yesterday from a Decatur curb. It's 88 inches tall, 60+ inches wide. It's a little beat up. The family unit is mocking me.
What to do with it?
Thanks,
Terry
What to do with it?
- Back to the curb?
- Headboard?
- Indoor thing tasked as yard structure?
- Art project? What if son gives it an avant-garde paint job?
Thanks,
Terry
North Kirkwood at the tracks and Kirkwood Lofts
Drive west on College Avenue in Decatur. One block past Kirkwood Road, College Avenue turns left and becomes Howard Street. The reward is here:
Build as a track-side commercial building the details are modest but classic. This will look great in another 100 years.
Howard Street has some great houses but I'll save it for another day. Find Kirkwood Lofts, one block east of Howard. This is one of many beautiful recycled school buildings in Atlanta. It sits on it's own hill across the street from a park. You've probably never seen it.
Build as a track-side commercial building the details are modest but classic. This will look great in another 100 years.
Howard Street has some great houses but I'll save it for another day. Find Kirkwood Lofts, one block east of Howard. This is one of many beautiful recycled school buildings in Atlanta. It sits on it's own hill across the street from a park. You've probably never seen it.
A Decatur chruch you'd probably never see
The Christ Covenant Chuch is on Hibernia Avenue in Decatur. It's tucked into it's own green space. The through the eave windows are an unusual touch.
The steeple is modest. The windows are French and gothic
The steeple is modest. The windows are French and gothic
Asteria soundchecks Château de Germolles
They sang, partly in whispers, and everyone in the Château could hear them.
Asteria Musica is Sylvia Rhyne, soprano, and Eric Redlinger, tenor and lute. They research and perform love songs from medieval France, 500 year old love songs. On Saturday night they lectured and sang at Agnes Scott for the SouthEastern Medieval Association.
The Architecture Tourist early music/chateau committee was there.
This is Château de Germolles: "It is the best preserved residence of the Dukes of Burgundy. Built during the second part of the 14th century... a rare example of such a well preserved residence in France in the 14th and the beginning of the 15th centuries, when most of the princely palaces of that period have almost entirely disappeared...(it) evokes court life in France on the eve of the Renaissance."
So what does a 500 old love song sound like anyway? Eric and Sylvia's research includes singing at Château de Germolles.
Maybe a the songs sound a bit like this, the first song they performed at Agnes Scott. They taped this video in the Château.
I didn't understand a word of it. "It's like they (the French) have a different word for everything" -Steve Martin. But of course we did understand.
Did Philip the Bold and Margaret of Flanders hear these songs in this very room?
Who knows, but now I have the strongest urge to paint T's and J's on our bedroom walls. "J," JoAnn, is - of course - my loved one. Thanks to Maureen Nolan for the suggestion.
Sylvia and Eric start with a manuscript, perhaps the only one in existence. They use every means of scholarship to puzzle it out.
Has this song been heard in 500 years? Maybe not.
They visited the very places where the song might have been performed, where the Dukes of Burgundy could employ the finest composers and performers of the day.
Sylvia and Eric sang in these places themselves.
The hard surfaces and high ceilings bounced sound throughout the chateau. The whole court could would have heard a performance. Imagine the shushing.
They learned that they didn't need to sing in full voice. They could sing with dynamics, even in a whisper. Sound engineers and producers compress the dynamics out of music today so we can hear it on a car radio or on an iPod while we are jogging.
Nothing commands attention or evokes emotion like a whisper. They wouldn't have known if they hadn't sung in the Château.
An extraordinary evening, it's another case of wonderful blog serendipity.
See all the smiles? We'd seen and heard something special.
Thanks to Asteria Musica: Sylvia Rhyne, and Eric Redlinger, and to Donna Sadler, (right) Professor of Art at Agnes Scott College for putting the event together and allowing me to be there. Thanks to Marueen who made the connection 15 months ago in my post, "Quant la doulce jouvencelle - medieval letters and love songs."
One more song? "Le corps s'en va et le cuer vous demeure" ("The body departs and the heart remains with you") .
Asteria Musica is Sylvia Rhyne, soprano, and Eric Redlinger, tenor and lute. They research and perform love songs from medieval France, 500 year old love songs. On Saturday night they lectured and sang at Agnes Scott for the SouthEastern Medieval Association.
The Architecture Tourist early music/chateau committee was there.
This is Château de Germolles: "It is the best preserved residence of the Dukes of Burgundy. Built during the second part of the 14th century... a rare example of such a well preserved residence in France in the 14th and the beginning of the 15th centuries, when most of the princely palaces of that period have almost entirely disappeared...(it) evokes court life in France on the eve of the Renaissance."
So what does a 500 old love song sound like anyway? Eric and Sylvia's research includes singing at Château de Germolles.
Maybe a the songs sound a bit like this, the first song they performed at Agnes Scott. They taped this video in the Château.
I didn't understand a word of it. "It's like they (the French) have a different word for everything" -Steve Martin. But of course we did understand.
Did Philip the Bold and Margaret of Flanders hear these songs in this very room?
Who knows, but now I have the strongest urge to paint T's and J's on our bedroom walls. "J," JoAnn, is - of course - my loved one. Thanks to Maureen Nolan for the suggestion.
Sylvia and Eric start with a manuscript, perhaps the only one in existence. They use every means of scholarship to puzzle it out.
Has this song been heard in 500 years? Maybe not.
They visited the very places where the song might have been performed, where the Dukes of Burgundy could employ the finest composers and performers of the day.
Sylvia and Eric sang in these places themselves.
The hard surfaces and high ceilings bounced sound throughout the chateau. The whole court could would have heard a performance. Imagine the shushing.
They learned that they didn't need to sing in full voice. They could sing with dynamics, even in a whisper. Sound engineers and producers compress the dynamics out of music today so we can hear it on a car radio or on an iPod while we are jogging.
Nothing commands attention or evokes emotion like a whisper. They wouldn't have known if they hadn't sung in the Château.
An extraordinary evening, it's another case of wonderful blog serendipity.
See all the smiles? We'd seen and heard something special.
Thanks to Asteria Musica: Sylvia Rhyne, and Eric Redlinger, and to Donna Sadler, (right) Professor of Art at Agnes Scott College for putting the event together and allowing me to be there. Thanks to Marueen who made the connection 15 months ago in my post, "Quant la doulce jouvencelle - medieval letters and love songs."
One more song? "Le corps s'en va et le cuer vous demeure" ("The body departs and the heart remains with you") .
A Decatur Georgia corner
One Decatur corner servers up two versions of charm. This one put it right out there for all to see:
This one, right across the street is discreet and only allows a Zen view.
This one, right across the street is discreet and only allows a Zen view.
