All Tomorrow's Parties by Recaba Surrealism
March 28th, 2008 10:28 PMNeighborhood one was the one near my house and there were RANCH style houses made in the mid 1950's. Ranch houses are both awesome and popular, not to mention useful! They usually have like, 3 bedrooms and just a kitchen and living room and some bathrooms maybe. These homes also are on big lots and have big backyards!They are friendly and family-oriented houses good for the 50's.
Neighborhood two was filled with mid 1960's "EICHLER" houses. They were named after Mr. Eichler, their inventor. These are the MOST cool because they have big windows and an atrium inside. They are fanciful and original, but lack a porch and thus are not as friendly.
Neighborhood three is a group of newly constructed TRADITIONAL homes built in the ever so present 2005. They are all two storied, but lack a friggin' backyard and are so close to eachother that you can see inside your neighbor's window. These houses are too friendly.
In conclusion, I learned that the houses in my area are different, but they all surve the same purpose, living. As my eighth grade math teacher, Mr. Schneider used to say, "A house is only as strong as the imagination of it's architect." I think we can all learn a lesson from Mr. Schneider and try to be better people, one day at a time.
This is my time map!
Neighborhood One
This is your standard house, called a ranch house.
Neighborhood One
This is your standard neighborhood, called a ranch neighborhood. (just kidding! maybe.)
Neighborhood Two
Eichlers were built with kitchens in the front of the house to in attempt to connect women to their neighbors. Unfortunately, the outside of the house sucks for socializing, there's not even a porch!
Neighborhood Two
Besides, women should be concentrating on cooking, not chatting all day.
Neighborhood Three
This house is boring. And traditional. The inside has a crazy family room upstairs though.
Neighborhood Three
These houses are so close that you could see your neighbor undressing. Hot.
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Well, I almost autovoted when I saw Sean posting a challenge/complaint about it, because it's great to see these explorations and I harbor a secret affection for ranch style homes. But now, I am hesitating: no time map?
"Besides, women should be concentrating on cooking, not chatting all day."
Word.
I'm going to agree with BU, I like the completion but I'm going to hold my vote for a while.
A time map or a compare/contrast.
If the neighborhoods are all so similar in style and function that the contrast part is too difficult, then a wider net should be thrown, the task does clearly say that "at least three neighborhoods" should be explored. There is nothing wrong with getting four or twelve neighborhoods in your praxiiesses to make a good strong compare/contrast. Because right now I have no idea where any of these photos were taken. and no conclusions can really be made about them. I see some good work went into this, and I really appreciate this, but I learned just as much from Sean's comment as I did from the prackses.
It wouldn't have been too much more difficult to really get into the guts of this subject and prove something or discover something rad about these neighborhoods, and this prasis doesn't give me that.
I think Jena is going to be an awesome player. And I can't wait for the time when she starts really shplanking, and I voted for her earlier tasks as encouragement and a show of support, but now I'm at a point where I want her to up the awesome. And I think perhaps others might feel similarly?
I don't think I'm ever going to warm up the modern Traditional houses. They're so cold. Still a nice bit of urban anthropology.
All of the modern houses (upwards of $1,000,000) that I light up 'round holiday time all have styrofoam accents and moulding. Styrofoam! Like Disneyland!
Also, clean your lens! Massive, great dirty smudge accross all the pictures.
Wait a minute, Lincoln.
Are you telling me that acetone filled water balloons might actually be able to *melt* rich people's houses?
That's some dangerous knowledge.
My lens is not dirty, all the neighborhoods I looked at were just really dirty.
Response to everyone else: I have made a time map for all my adoring fans.
Seriously, no votes? I have no idea what's going on with the tone of this completion, but come one: Eichler houses! Know what the car port part is for? So neighbors can see that you've got a sweet ride!