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Need some curb appeal help for brick house
Hi - we are moving to this house and it desperately needs some charm. Any ideas - shutter/ front door colors? Any landscaping ideas? Here is the house.
Thanks so much everyone. I love this site and all the ideas.
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Well your house isn't totally lacking in charm now. A different front door color would make the door stand out more.
Some type of tree or taller shrub foundation planting on the left to disguise the slope. Having a symetrical facade really calls out the slope. Try to balance things out with the foundation plantings and then put in the rest of your garden.
The house columns seem rather diminuitve compared to the rest of the house.
Okay... that's just me rambling on but just tossing out some ideas.
P.S. I have a feeling your new house was modeled after Thomas Jefferson's house at Monticello. See link below. On that house, the shutters are black, but the door frame is white.
The house at Monticello is an example of American adaption of the neoclassical architecture of the Italian Renaissance.
Technically, there are porticos on the east and west fronts of the Monticello estate house, not porches. A true portico wouldn't have railings since there are commonly steps leading up to a portico.
There are also many historic brick houses in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. that have porches without porch railings, even if there are no steps leading up to the porch.
As you can see in the link below, there is no railing on the west portico of the Monticello house, but since you have a porch, rather than a portico, a railing might work.
If you want to go with a railing for your porch, the railings on the roof of the Monticello house could be a good reference point as far as railing design.
The Monticello estate also has amazing gardens, which may be an inspiration for your future landscape plantings. Copy and paste link below into your browser:
Gardens and Grounds of the Jefferson Monticello estate:
Here is a link that might be useful: The Jefferson Monticello house
ooooh i love your house! How about some window boxes? I think they add instant charm. ( to an already charming house!)Large urns also would look great. Also, a weeping tree would look great as well, maybe a spring flowering one. Please update us on your beautiful house!
PPS: For porch furniture, the Monticello estate also has an online store that carries outdoor furniture, etc. You'll find the outdoor furniture mostly in the "Garden Accessories" section under "Outdoor Decorative". They carry several benches that might be nice for the porch depending on your budget, or they are just good to look at for inspiration. Anything in the "neoclassical" style would probably look good with your new house if you decide the keep the shutters black, and stay with a more formal look.
But for a more "country-ish" look, you could go with white wicker porch furniture, and maybe hang some hanging planter baskets (white wrought iron baskets maybe?) between the columns on the porch. If you want a more "country-ish" and less formal look, I would definitely paint the shutters white, and I agree with lilyfinch that window boxes could really work, especially with a more "country-ish" theme.
In the photo, it looks like there are five little Japanese barberry shrubs (Berberis thunbergii) growing just below the porch area. I'm personally not fond of this shrub, but that's just my opinion. If these shrubs are Japanese barberry (hard to tell for sure from the photo) you may want to look into an alternative shrub depending on the sun and soil conditions of this spot, unless you're not opposed to Japanese barberry. I just have a problem with it for ecological reasons. The sale of Japanese barberry is banned in Massachusetts, but I don't think it's banned yet in Virginia, although it is on the "Moderately Invasive Species" list published by the Virginia Department of Conservation.
You might also want to think about getting some kind of container to disguise the garden hose.
Here is a link that might be useful: Monticello Store online
Re. porch railings, in case anyone may not have noticed, the walk/stairs up to the porch does have a railing, but extremely understated.
So, pro-railing people, should the porch have the same type of railing as the walk/stairs? Or if the porch has a white railing, should the existing railing be painted white to match?
I tend to think there should be something at the front of the porch, if only because the porch is three feet above the lawn and the existing shrubs are well below the porch level. Hopefully there are no children or klutzy people using the porch who might fall off....
One option might be to put low planting boxes along the front edge of the porch.
I like the idea of painting the front door a lighter/brighter color. I don't know about Photoshop or other fancy software, but you can always play with changing colors in the Paint software that's probably part of your Windows OS.
I don't think there's enough room for windowboxes. The porch windows are quite low, and that space is already in use for chairs (we don't know how shallow or deep the porch is; putting the chairs in front of windowboxes might not be an option). Windowboxes below the windows above the walk/stairs would interfere with people using that approach to the porch (the windows are 3-4' above the walkway, and we don't know how wide the walkway is). The windows on the other side of the house already have shrubs at that height.
I'm not a house design person so I didn't mention it earlier, but one thing I think detracts from the charm of this house is the whiteness of the peaked overhang above the porch. As it already protrudes, it is made all the more prominent by its light colour relative to the brick. I think I would paint that a different colour, along with the spindly posts. And yes, I did notice the railing on the steps, which is what made me wonder why there is none on the ... porch? portico?
Windowboxes may look charming from a distance but I'm willing to bet they're a nightmare to keep watered and looking spiffy, as well as bringing untold opportunities for bugs, mold, and damage to the house. I like my plants, and the water they need, kept in the ground.
Looking forward to hearing from the OP again.
First I love the house. I like the layout and the porch.
Next-- I agree that your front door and shutters are too dark and the white is too white for the dark brick. The sidewalk railing is too dark too.
The white might not stand our so much though if the shutters and door were a lighter color. They have computer programs in some stores now that let you take your photo in and make changes in color, and that's what I would do first, and then decide on other changes
As for planting. Right now all the plants are lined up along the foundation. Red is not really a color you want next to the red brick like the ones along the porch. I would have a bed shaped somewhat like a question mark from the corner to in front of the porch and along it to the sidewalk. If you want to keep the plants that are in front of the porch move them elsewhere or sprinkle them around the the big part of the bed. Keep lighter flowers or leaves next to the brick
When you have your picture on the computer try the railing in white too. I think the white stands out because it is all alone on the porch.
If you don't go where they have a computer program for choosing colors then check out this site
A large flowering tree off to the right or weeping tree would look good, placement would depend on whether you wanted some shade on house at that end. Down to left a small growing tree, we call them specimen trees- 1 that is eye catching- maybe with lovely umbrella shape. Center of yard needs an irregular border flower garden, you can pick easy to grow things like lavender,should have at least 3 colors & 3-5 small shrubs, couple of them toward left end, others 1 in back about where porch ends on right & finally 2 more towards street at that end. Right now it's "house" & "grass" needs personal touch. Shutters are way too dark, I agree with others that if they were white would tone down white overhang, make pillars seem larger, porch railing in white would make it more interesting also. The plantings in front of porch should be tall enough to come up to floor of porch(it shouldn't be seen from street. Hope someone with right computer program comes & makes there changes on here so you can see them before you do anything. It's a nice house & you want to show it off to advantage!!
Try adding maybe a white railing to the porch? That would certainly do something. Maybe take out the thin black (metal?) railing for the steps and replace with matching white wooden rails. Paint the door! (and the shudders)
You could get some hooks to hang on those posts, or hang hooks from the top of the lookout on the porch, for some lovely hanging baskets (petunias, or million bells would look very nice and add a nice punch of color). Or if you make a railing, you can get one of those things that lets you hang planting boxes off the side of the railing.
Get 2 big pots for each side of the door. A good shade plant will be very nice. Get some cute chairs, maybe wicker? Or a nice rocking chair or two. Put them in the corners.
I think the A-frame atop the porch needs some dressing up. It's awful stark! I'm just not exactly sure WHAT to put there. But it needs something ! :)
You need some flowering trees! Focus on shrubbery/trees, the basics, and then get some perennial flowers in there for some color. How about a pretty cherry tree or a pear tree? Pear trees are BEAUTIFUL in the spring, with all the white flowers. Maybe somewhere off to the right of the house? Just make sure you don't plant it too close--they will get BIG. Magnolia trees are also a very nice choice. I'd suggest a japanese maple, but I think it would blend in a little too much with the bricks.
For some spring color, now would be a good time to order some daffodil bulbs :) You can plant them once and never have to worry about them again. They come back every year in numbers, and they're very hardy. Deer won't eat them. You don't have to dig them up or anything. You can worry about next summer's plants next spring. But for now, focus on the big foundation type plants. Try some hostas, they are nice (however I find whenever we've put them in our front yard, deer munch on them! But I don't know if deer are an issue in your area)
Pretty house. I would add trees and your yard looks big enough to support one or two large shade trees and some understory trees like Appalachian Spring dogwoods (they are disease resistant and the dogwood IS our VA state tree!) or some other flowering trees-can you tell I love trees? I just planted a Vitex (Chaste tree) which flowers in the summer and is oh-so-pretty.
I agree that the columns could use some beefing up. You can do this easily by nailing up boards around the existing posts to form a larger box and then paint. To soften that huge expanse of white, maybe leave the edges white (you may want to add a wide trim piece across the bottom) and paint the center of the triangle a softer hue such a taupe or sage that is not a sharp contrast. I would also paint the door. Pick your favorite color! Then, after you live with that for a bit, choose your shutter color.
I agree that window boxes are pretty, but they are difficult to maintain and I'm not sure they would really add to your house.
One of the best things you can do is take your time. A lot of creative staring can help you decide what you would really like. It can also help you avoid impulsive mistakes and, believe me, I've made my share of those!!! Always remember, it's an adventure and you can go back and change anything. Have fun and enjoy your new place.
Looks like you'ver received a lot of great advice.
Here's a little something...and it is a quick fix.
Three very large ceramic planters on the porch floor, one between each of the four pillars. Plant very colorful flowers and tall spikes as well as cascading vines or flowers. You could also add two hanging baskets above the two end planters and/or a door wreath.
Happy home-making.
Goodness! Thank you for all the ideas! What a tremendous help! Our compt has been down, sorry for the slow reply.
I liked all the discussion on the railings, shutters, and plants. I never would have connected the Monticello inspiration and look forward to exploring that site. Also, couldn't quite pinpoint the "big triangle" as an issue. Thanks. The shutters giving a formal or country feel is right on. I will try to "paint " my pic.
The house faces southwest so shade could be good. I liked hearing what plants people suggested and why. You all are great!!
If you are looking for other landscaping ideas, I have found a website from Google that might help you. Thanks.
Here is a link that might be useful: Landscape designs
Actually, at one point I was thinking of suggesting a fake window, louver, or vent in the gable, but decided I didn't know enough. The gable seems a bit on the short side for a window -- but then there are plenty of houses with low attic rooms which are in use. When I was house-hunting a few years ago, I saw an old place (which turned out to have been the childhood home of a friend of my mother's); there were two big rooms in the attic, but the ceiling was too low for them to be counted in the square footage -- however, I'm short and would have been quite happy using that floor for my bedroom.
Why don't you play with the photo in Paint or Photoshop -- or even on paper -- and see how it looks?
I've seen round, rectangular, triangular, rectangle-with-domed-top, and rectangle-with-triangular-top gable windows and vents.
I wonder if it would work to take it a step at a time. My hesitation in putting up such a window would be that it would have to be very small to avoid contributing to the problem, that is, if it dwarfs the house windows it will only exacerbate the weight of the overhang.
Maybe do a few other things that are cheaper and that you might want to do anyhow - paint the shutters a lighter colour, beef up columns and/or railings.. maybe even paint the overhanging triangle to match whatever softer colour you put on the shutters (or darker so it maybe recedes relative to the shutters)... and then see whether such a window is needed?
I'm SO not a house design person, so take that with a lick of salt. But my years of living in an in-process reno tell me that sometimes deferring a decision makes it clearer what to do.
Trying, maybe, to add to and ask a few related questions.... it has been some time since the original post and a bit of time for me to reflect on all these ideas.
Now - how do I know how big to make the columns? People definitely agree they need beefing up.
Two - Topie identified this style as neo classical - Would it be odd then, to add some "cottagey" type elements - like a victoriany screen door or porch supports? What about a picket fence or arbor some where? Am I off my rocker?:)
Three - I may need to ask this in another post, but what type tree do you see on the left of the picture?
Thank you again for all the wonderful ideas! You guys are such a help
I agree that the house has definite neoclassical architecture. If you prefer more of a cottage look, you might consider taking down the pediment.
However, if you want to go with the neoclassical/Greek revival theme, then you should play up the portico. Beef it up with moldings (dental molding is especially prominent in this style, bigger round columns would be good. I believe you can get hollow fiberglass columns that can fit over the existing support posts.
I like the photo with the red door. A big door knocker would look great too.
The landscape should be very structured with clean lines. If you want an arbor, you might consider one like P. Allen Smith has in his book Garden Home. His home in this book has a greek revival cottage look to it, which works really well, but his home is not quite as formal and symmetrical as yours.
I think some large trees in the front would help enclose your landscape and home. Not sure what is hardy in your zone, but a big oak is always pretty.
Courtesy P Allen Smith, Garden Home.


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One bedroom apartment 3m from the sea. The brand new apartment is situated in a NEW house 3 m from the sea in a little quite place Muo near Kotor (1.5km) . It is 10 minutes by walk from the picturesque Old town of Kotor.
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Apartment of 35 m2 consists of a 1 bedroom , bath and sea view living room with kitchen and terrace . The apartment can host up to 4 ( bedroom double bed for 2 persons , living room flip bed for 2 persons) and perfectly fits both for families or company of friends. The house has a terraces and small garden, which is the perfect place for having rest under the shady palm tree.
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Останавливался в данных апартаментах на 4 суток. Мне все очень понравилось! Буквально в 2-х минутах езда есть отличный супермаркет Roda. В апартаментах есть все необходимое, что может понадобиться во время пребывания. Понравилось отличное отношение хозяина и желание всегда прийти на помощь. Так, например, когда я сказал, что не спал всю предыдущую ночь, Sava любезно предложил, чтобы он сам перегнал автомобиль на парковку прямо перед входом в апартаменты! =) Крайне рекомендую эти апартаменты для чудесного отдыха в Черногории. Бронируйте - не пожалеете =)
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After a little difficulty locating the apartment, everything was excellent (not every house in the street has a number and so #44 was not at all adjacent to #45). The apartment was clean, well appointed, offered excellent views, and was within walking distance to old town Kotor. Also, near enough to Tivat to experience some of its amenities such as access to Montenegro+ outdoor tour guide and equipment rental service. Sava was incredibly friendly and helpful. The wifi signal in apartment 1 was mostly okay but occasionally was limiting. Hot water tended to not last very long but having a washing machine was a big help.
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Gift for 80th. Birthday
We're invited to a restaurant for an 80th birthday for my cousin's husband's birthday. Any gift suggestions would be appreciated
What is he interested in? All we know is he is 80 and male. That's not much to go on.
But maybe for some reason you don't know him well enough to know what he would enjoy. I know that some posters don't like charitable contributions as gifts, but in my experience, a contribution to someone's favorite charity is often what is most appreciated, especially for people who are at a stage of life when they are trying to downsize, not accumulate stuff.
But I stress that this means HIS favorite charity, NOT yours. Find out what it is from your cousin.
How about a gift card for a round of golf if he plays. Many elderly people still play well into their 80's. Does he have a favorite diner or restaurant that he likes to go to with his buddies? Get him a gift card from there. If he is into games/cards (dominoes, poker,etc.)many come in large print so it is easier to read. The possibilities are endless. NancyLouise


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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park - Tamarisk Grove Campground
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In Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Not actually in Borrego Springs but only about a beautiful 15 minute drive away. Two hiking trails located right outside the gate with some wonderful desert scenery. 27 sites on 10 acres within a grove of Tamarisk trees. Hot showers which you need quarters to use. Restrooms/showers were very clean. Rangers were very friendly. There is a table, shade ramada and a fire pit/grill at each site. Sites are asphalt with dirt surround for tent use. We camped at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park - Tamarisk Grove Campground in a Travel Trailer.Undo
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Are the sources to this tuned kernel available somewhere? I quickly glanced at your website and couldn't find it. Thanks!
I would suggest staying with Windows for the time being. Why becuase it works for you, why fix something that isn't broken.
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First Thing I would suggest you to do is read up on how to use Linux, and get used to it. Try out one of the bootable distro and use that for awhile, make sure you can use everything. If everything works(hardware and software), and you have the time go ahead and (Backup)install Linu
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"Let Wisconsin be the test case. Let us lead the way."
It is all about pushing back because of the massive increases in SNAP since 2008
Yep. What they want is a large body of people who are very, very poor - barely able to feed themselves - and they also want these people to have as little access to any form of state benefit as possible. Emotionally, it's because it's fun and reassuring to hate and punish the poor; strategically, it's about producing a beaten-down, disenfranchised lumpenproletariat who… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 12:18 PM on May 8, 2013
And they want the poor to be subject to as much social discipline as possible - as many things should be illegal as possible, as this provides a mechanism for interfering with any poor person at any time, plus feeds people into the prisons and gets them kicked off of such benefits as there are. These are people who make the capitalists of the gilded age look like mere amateurs, because they have all the resources of a modern state at their disposal.
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"THERE ARE NO WINDOWS. the room has great lighting. it's beautiful."
So these rooms, are they all you get? Like, you literally pay $1200 for one room with no windows? Or is there a lurking kitchen attached?
You may sign me "my entire mortgage is less than that even after the huge jump in property taxes this year".
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 7:54 AM on May 8, 2013
Why I Despise The Great Gatsby
1. I found it fascinating that the book's ubiquity stems - in part - from its distribution to servicemen during WWII. What led to that particular decision, I wonder? Classy enough not to offend, yet debauched enough to interest? Upholding standard American values but still containing sex? Or was it just short and fairly simply written?
2. There are a lot of short, simple-ish books that get given to high school students on the theory that if something is short and… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 9:47 AM on May 7, 2013
There are a lot of short, simple-ish books that get given to high school students on the theory that if something is short and simple-ish, high school students can experience it fully (in class, no less!) and get the best out of it.
By which I was trying to say that plenty of short, simple-seeming books actually require some life and literary experience to read and really get the best out of, and they're not best approached in a high school classroom anyway.
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 9:49 AM on May 7, 2013
I actually think that this is exactly the reason that the book should be taught to every high schooler.
I don't. I mean, I remember quite clearly being in high school - I was a good kid, tell me to contemplate the futility of ambition and I would go right ahead and do it. I read all the assignments, I wrote papers that I ran by my dad the English PhD, I did my very best to like and understand the stuff we read.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 10:08 AM on May 7, 2013
Oh yeah, and people automatically assume that I had to read TGG in high school and they'll go off at length on how high schoolers can't appreciate classics. I read TGG because I wanted to, when I was 21.
See, I don't think it is - or at least, that it should be - a question of "high schoolers can't appreciate the classics". It's much more that, on average, certain books speak more strongly to people at certain times or when they've had… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 12:59 PM on May 7, 2013
the modern man
In the sense that affluent Americans love pretending to be "hard working joes" I can maybe grant they are classic. But they are also pretentious.
Wait, in what way are regular boring jeans (we're not talking some kind of ringspun selvidge denim here) pretentious? I am pretentious, and until I happened across my recent pair of consciously retro eighties/nineties floral ones, I have not even owned a pair… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 6:39 PM on May 5, 2013
'Round here, Carhartts are what the smelly kind of slightly older green anarchist is wearing out, since they were trendy up through a few years ago and they never really die - inasumuch as anything is trendy when worn by green anarchists. I mean, they're great pants, but I associate them with maybe the late nineties, early 2000s, wiry-skinny bearded guys who don't bathe and spend a lot of time on their bikes and in the woods, wintery-feeling punk houses where nothing is that clean but they have… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 7:13 PM on May 5, 2013
Oh, Frowner, I am so not the right person to be wearing these jeans, then.
Well, I mean, anyone can wear them! Although if you grind enough dirt into them and yourself, you could perhaps pass as a green anarchist...Honestly, Carhartts are classic because they are cultural/subcultural in so many ways. Lots of people wear Carhartts to do actual physical work in, for instance.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 7:38 PM on May 5, 2013
It's the middle class folks that have to care about that sort of thing.
And then everyone comes down on us/them for it - "you're too conformist!" "no, wait, you think you're special, stop wearing that hairstyle, it's pretentious!" "no, actually you are conforming by pretending to be individualistic, stop that too!" Et patati et patata.
As a broad generality, people's clothes… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 7:48 AM on May 6, 2013
Saving the planet, one bag of Doritos at a time.
I don't know. I have some concerns about how this would really play out.
We're a carless household of single/childless people who live near several (admittedly inner city and thus high prices, bad produce) grocery stores, so we wouldn't use a delivery service if one was available anyway. I add that while I could probably do a week of shopping for a family using a bike cart, that would add a level of difficulty even for someone who bikes a lot and lives close to the… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 7:04 AM on May 4, 2013
We will create and destroy ten art movements in ten years
Janelle Monae is pretty amazing. I feel like there's maybe also some response to Santigold in this, in terms of her costuming and some some the general aesthetic royalty/nobility stuff? Also I suppose Michael Jackson, what with the jacket and all.
She is just so sharp. And whoever her aesthetic allies are in bringing all of it together, also very sharp.
In this video and the one for Tightrope, I really love the group… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 8:15 AM on May 3, 2013
The music is nice and all, but could someone explain what makes her work "groundbreaking"?
Oh, dude, I'm sorry that you don't see it.
For me, her work is groundbreaking because:
1. The density of images and references and the way they are interwoven and used. I have not done a close reading of this one yet, so I can't really unpick too much, and honestly I have, like, not enough familiarity… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 8:31 AM on May 3, 2013
I love all y'all. I do. But can we please stop with the vaguely anti-R&B, anti-hip-hop qualifiers? Because as much as you're saying "I dig this and I wouldn't usually," that kind of statement has a tinge of "this genre is beneath me" to it.
I will say that because I personally grew up in a very white town during the "moral panic" about rap music (anyone even remember that? Mid-nineties?) and thus… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 8:45 AM on May 3, 2013
She's really good at deflecting the queer question in interviews "I'm not gay, I'm an android."
And that's so exciting! I mean, heck, I would feel very sad if it's really "I can't come out because I will lose audience, family, etc" but at the same time, speaking as someone whose sexuality and gender are both a bit weird and hard to really explain even for a queer person, it's cool to be able to depict non-standard genders and… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 8:49 AM on May 3, 2013
How did I miss the George Clinton post? I totally did not see it!
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 9:42 AM on May 3, 2013
She is such a good dancer. It's like she's actually floating on, like, 3mm of air above the floor. I mean, everyone in that video is a really good dancer....It's so amazing the way she is doing different but related things with her arms/shoulders and legs/feet.
Also, someone could sell me a hell of expensive pair of those black and white shoes from the video - I would break out the credit card in a red hot minute.
Okay,… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 12:13 PM on May 3, 2013
But inasmuch as it becomes --- "I know you don't enjoy her actual artistic output, but you should, because you'd admire and agree with her avant-garde politics!"
I think that in Janelle Monae's case it's strange to think that you can separate her aesthetic politics from her performance - I mean, you can't take someone who is working constructivism, afrofuturism, mod and about ten zillion different other things and just say "well, I… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 12:27 PM on May 3, 2013
(I pulled a Beyonce! But it was more of a "let's talk about how I used to dismiss Beyonce because I was too ignorant to appreciate what she was doing while assuming that Janelle Monae, by virtue of her particular way of engaging with the avant garde, was all, like "smart"" - honestly, I kind of went on this tumblr-fueled "I Frowner do not value the world of black women musicians who produce dance music enough because I am ignorant" kick a couple of years ago, so I… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 1:39 PM on May 3, 2013
I promise there's a pith helmet involved.
(I just want to pop in to say that I myself (late thirties, learned Palmer script) found the close-up script shots pretty easy to read - I was actually reading the titles of the book catalog to try to figure out what books they had in their library. Indeed, it's really interesting to me that people can't read that - it's like reading type, the physical text is so transparent that you aren't really conscious of "oh the letters look like this now here is the meaning".… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 9:31 PM on May 2, 2013
In a City of Hipstercrites
God, that is a terrible article. I mean, it gets at some interesting stuff, a little - the whole situation of being middle aged and how that changes your relationship to youth culture. I am very aware of this myself in my late thirties. You get used to being part of "youth culture" because you are young first, after all, and then you realize over time that the zeitgeist has changed and you have not, or that you've changed but not in sync with the zeitgeist. It's… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 7:31 AM on May 2, 2013
The NYT is always good at keeping us in touch with what the young people are up to.
Oh, yeah, I remember when that happened. I still have that issue of the Baffler, actually, although the Baffler itself shows what happens when you were once right on the money, zeitgeist-wise, and now are not but don't really realize this fact.
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 8:16 AM on May 2, 2013
I think a lot of these questions of class and cultural appropriation are case-by-case, and this gets obscured in larger, more general pieces.
And I also think that these questions point to systemic issues of inequality - that's why they are felt so deeply.
Yes, it's pretty creepy when some obnoxious rich person is wearing a trucker cap because he thinks working class people are hiLARious and not actually really real like he is… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 9:20 AM on May 2, 2013
I actually know lots of people who practice "ironic" fashion - I mean, the punks I grew up with sure did. "Wear the ugliest shirt you can find at the thrift store" isn't that uncommon, and the "ugliness" of the shirt is usually predicated on some kind of contempt for the shirt's "natural" owner - the shirt is the type of thing that the ironic wearer associates with a middle-aged secretary, or grandma, or someone working at a gas station, or someone who… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 12:16 PM on May 2, 2013
While being a lot less offensive.
In some ways yes, in some ways no. I mean, it's certainly a lot harder to pinpoint - if I show up in native regalia, it's unquestionably wrong, but if 1992-Frowner showed up in a mother-of-the-bride dress (I had one I thought was really pretty), it's rather difficult to tell to what degree I was wearing it because it seemed funny to wear a MOB dress since I was not a middle-aged woman, to what… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 1:23 PM on May 2, 2013
Obviously, if the point of dressing—how should we say it—in "working class attire" or "beneath one's economic status" is to mock the very idea of these people, then, yes, that falls somewhere on a spectrum between merely juvenile and actually hateful, but is to do so necessarily unsavory? I have a hard time believing that it is because if it is, then that suggests that "appropriate dress" isn't judged by time and place only, but by economic status also.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 2:16 PM on May 2, 2013
Let's unpack this a bit- I have a couple of friends who wear thrift-shop "secretary sweatshirts". The kind with kittens and sparkles and such. They wear them for two reasons: one, they usually get them at thrift shops because they have no money; two, the genuinely like kittens and sparkles and things. As far as I can tell, they have always liked kittens and sparkles and things. In fact, I think a big part of the reason they wear sweatshirts like this, is that for years they… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 2:34 PM on May 2, 2013
And to continue: I think it's really easy to feel that we're doing things because we're special snowflakes who make individual intelligent choices rather than because we're immersed in larger cultural currents. Every hipster is a hipster because they are "really interested" in beekeeping and beards and whatever else is fashionable; I wore fifties dresses and plastic barrettes and carried a lunch box as a handbag in 1994 because I "really" liked those things, just as now I… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 2:48 PM on May 2, 2013
Man, white people really hate being generalized about.
And yeah, I think there is a race angle on this, in that as a group white people in the US are encouraged to imagine ourselves as deracinated individuals unconstrained by the past. Being a "hipster" is troubling only if you really, really worry about being an extremely self-regulating individual type of individual; otherwise, why worry about the mere fact that your cultural preferences… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 2:54 PM on May 2, 2013
The question is, who cares? What does it matter? Why is this a problem? Should I be excising any trend that enters into my consciousness like a vile cancer?
It matters because a lot of people respond to any critique or any label by saying "but it's just me!!!! I'm doing my unique individual thing because I just really like it!!!! You are insulting the empowerful choices available to me under capitalism!!… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 3:25 PM on May 2, 2013
the history of Taco Bell's disruptive faux cheese-dusted taco
Wait, what do you mean subsist? As a single dude, $100/week is roughly double my budget for purchasing a shitload of food and wild-raised, etc etc meat, cheese, etc. Are you saying you spend double my monthly budget eating fast-food? The mind boggles.
I assumed that Daily Alice meant "$400 for everything including some kind of ultra-cheap rent". This must have been in the nineties, right? You could back then get a whole fairly adequate… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 6:45 PM on May 1, 2013
Snitches get stitches, fool *BLEAT*
Yeah, basically this is people leveraging racism and misogyny (seriously, what possible non-misogynist rationale is there for battered-woman humor?) to make money and get more famous. Obviously, people know this stuff is racist, they know it's misogynist, and they do it because it's racist and misogynist.
I think that's what makes it the "most racist" commercial - the regular old racist ones advertising chocolate or soap or whatever with… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 12:03 PM on May 1, 2013
Lamar Smith Chairs House Science Committee
That's awful!
I mean, first off they want projects to be "groundbreaking" but they don't want actual scientists to peer review them, so "groundbreaking" is presumably subject to all kinds of political hackery.
Second, what the fuck with the "groundbreaking"? I work with researchers. Most of them are not doing "groundbreaking" research - just research that is… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 8:57 AM on May 1, 2013
Posthumous Papers
If the novel was originally to be the misadventures of a "cockney sporting club", wouldn't a lot of the humor rest on their class failure? Ie, gentlemen hunting aren't especially hilarious, but proles hunting is comic gold? IIRC my Orwell correctly, in the UK hunting is not - as it was in Russia or is in the US - a sport widely accessible to working class people.
If that's the case, it renders Seymour a little less sympathetic, frankly.
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 7:51 PM on April 30, 2013
BBC: How to Eat Healthily on £1 a day
Here's a thing: I have a friend with a baby daughter. She's on food stamps. She can't afford childcare and does, basically, odd jobs while living with her [awful] parents because even with the odd jobs she can't make rent. She's out of food stamp money until the 8th. She has enough to eat until then, sort of. And I have lived with her and the baby - she is a meticulous cook who makes everything from scratch, no junk ever, not least because she has a lot of health… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 9:01 AM on April 30, 2013
This was a horrible idea. After a year of eating this way, I got to the point that I would start to gag if I even smelled turkey soup. I actually have a whole turkey still sitting in the freezer from those days that I haven't even bothered to cook.
See, this is why the whole "oh, just subsist on beans and rice it is so cheap and nutritious, you lazy whiny poor person, you can cook it in bulk for pennies" line of reasoning drives… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 11:24 AM on April 30, 2013
Gah, this is making me so angry. A la lanterne, you smug rich motherfuckers.
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 11:25 AM on April 30, 2013
Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out
Lambert vehemently disputes suggestions that he is motivated by sexism (or racism, as the case may be). He cites principles of Wikipedia categorization: arguing, for example, that huge categories should be broken up and "diffused" because they become useless for navigation. "This whole hullabaloo is really missing the point," he told me. "The people who are making a big deal about this are not being up-front about what happens if we do not diffuse categories." Others argued that… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 9:16 AM on April 30, 2013
So you don't have a different shelf in another part of the store for African-American History, you just stick a label to the part of the shelf that has African-American History within various other history sub-topics.
Strangely, this never occurred to anyone volunteering there, even though there were some very sharp-edged conflicts over shelving. I wonder if we could have prevented a lot of conflict and problems with… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 10:14 AM on April 30, 2013
A generous barrage of narcissism
She's the one with the gross Evelyn-Evelyn fake conjoined twins thing, right? And the vaguly "sex workers are gross and risible" song titles? And the snarking on fat people via Twitter?
I mean, I've never heard a good thing about her politics, ever, just a sort of fake feminism where being "empowered" to make money and get famous equals feminism because she's, like, a woman and stuff and talks about sex while being cute, young, white and well off.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 2:39 PM on April 29, 2013
Obviously there's a lot in play, though, and I expect that some of it is misogyny - woman judged harder and expected to be nicer; woman married to heartthrob [heartthrob to some, at least in my circles anyway] Neil Gaiman must be run down as "not good enough"; woman who is arrogant and entitled seen as much worse than man who is the same; male artists who create insanely twee women characters (as NG does) seen as quirky and charming, women who act twee seen as… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 2:49 PM on April 29, 2013
CO2 to hit 400 parts per million next month, highest since the Pliocene
I had the most depressing conversation with my father recently. My dad has always been sort of a climate optimist - "oh, global warming is happening, but I lived through predictions of Soylent-Green style overpopulation and followed by predictions of nuclear winter, so I tend not to believe in apocalyptic scenarios, plus there must be some kind of planetary homeostasis effect or we will figure out the technology" - but when we last talked, he said he felt like… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 11:59 PM on April 25, 2013
In the second week of May, (while I popped massive doses of aspirin to hopefully keep my temperature from rising again)
I know everyone makes choices in the moment that make sense to them - and that good choices made in the moment with full on-the-ground knowledge of the situation may not make sense to the uninformed - so please read the next paragraph in a sympathetic, friendly tone rather than a hostile one.
Did you ever… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 10:16 AM on April 25, 2013
"Oh my God, it's orcas attacking sperm whales."
I was kind of hoping that he jumped in on the side of the sperm whales. Not as some kind of neutral observer of nature's murderers attacking the gentle, hippie giants of the seas. Tsk.
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 6:09 AM on April 25, 2013
Sperm whales are hardly "gentle, hippie giants of the sea." We are talking about the world's largest predator, an animal with teeth the size of your hand that dives thousands of feet into the inky depths to do battle with giant squid, its primary food source. That they are outmaneuvered in this case does not mean they are some kind of benevolent, mild-mannered sea beastie.
Ah, you see, I was being silly. Although I do tend to like the big… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 7:19 AM on April 25, 2013
Jocasta Innes, 78, influential writer on decor, cooking
Oh my goodness, I have several of her books! Faux bois and other surface treatments like that actually have a long and honorable history and can look pretty cool.
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 6:13 PM on April 24, 2013
We've got a kotton krown, gonna keep it underground
Is this kind of idiocy really your best response to this kind of situation?
OmniWise, I've just realized that I tend to view "people in a less privileged position getting kind of depressed about that situation and speaking with some hyperbole in the moment" as a bit emotionally different from "person hostility directed at one individual", and that I assume we feel differently about that.
I mean honestly,… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 9:04 AM on April 23, 2013
But anyway! In retrospect, I recognize that I should not have turned this in the direction it's going! I will personally stop going this direction! And hope others will too, except it would of course be fair for OmniWise to reply.
On that note, boy, Goo was virtually the first really nineties-esque alternative album that was available in the regular record stores near me, and it sure was a revelation even though it's one of their lesser works. I still know all the songs by heart.
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 9:06 AM on April 23, 2013
As far as being an "aging hipster" (or an aging punk) - I think that a problem with certain kinds of hipster / punk /arts cultures (probably compounded by being famous) is that it is very difficult to figure out how to get old. I assume that when everyone around you is invested in telling you that you are basically not getting old, you still have it, you're still the same - and when you want to hear that, because you're in a subculture with no model for being old,… [more]
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Cleveland kidnappings: Suspect indicted on hundreds of new charges
Ariel Castro, accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for about a decade, was charged Friday with more than 600 additional counts for a total of 977.
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COLUMBUS, OHIO—A man accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for about a decade was charged Friday with more than 600 additional counts covering the entire time period of the alleged imprisonment.
The 977-count indictment against Ariel Castro includes charges of rape and kidnapping and two counts of aggravated murder related to the alleged termination of one of the women's pregnancies. The indictment does not include charges that could carry a death sentence, but Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty said he is still reserving that option.
Castro, 53, is charged with kidnapping the three women and keeping them — sometimes restrained in chains — along with a 6-year-old girl he fathered with one of them.
Castro pleaded not guilty to an earlier 329-count indictment.
The grand jury charged Castro with two counts of aggravated murder related to one act, saying he purposely caused the unlawful termination of one of the women's pregnancies. The indictment also charges him with 512 counts of kidnapping, 446 counts of rape, seven counts of gross sexual imposition, six counts of felonious assault, three counts of child endangerment and one count of possessing criminal tools.
The 576-page indictment covers the period from August 2002, when the first victim disappeared, to May, when the women were rescued.
"Today's indictment moves us closer to resolution of this gruesome case," McGinty said in a statement. "Our investigation continues, as does our preparation for trial."
News that the women had been found alive electrified the Cleveland area, where two of the victims were household names after years of searches, publicity and vigils. But elation soon turned to shock as allegations about their treatment began to emerge.
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Massachusetts School Rescinds Job Offer After Learning of Sexual Orientation, Gay Man Alleges
January 31, 2014 by Maureen McCarty, HRC Associate Director of Digital Media
Matthew Barrett is suing Boston-area Catholic girls' preparatory school for, as he alleges, rescinding a job offer after learning he was married to a man.
The Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders will represent Barrett in his lawsuit.
According to the Barrett, Fontbonne Academy withdrew the food services director offer after Barrett listed his husband as his emergency contact.
"She said the Catholic religion doesn't recognize same-sex marriage, and that was her excuse. She said, 'We cannot hire you,'" Barrett told the Boston Globe.
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Located in Dresden, Germany, kubit has been developing field-proven software products to enable and simplify the use of real world objects in CAD applications since 1999. Initially launched to link total stations directly to AutoCAD, today kubit is the industry leader in providing tools to integrate 3D laser scan data with CAD environments such as Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD. kubit's software is hardware independent, giving customers the flexibility to utilize any hardware offering, thus ensuring maximum productivity.
"The acquisition of kubit is an exciting step in FARO's strategy to develop integrated, disruptive 3D documentation product offerings for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction market," stated Jay Freeland, FARO's President and CEO. "By adding kubit's products to our portfolio, customers now have significantly enhanced software options to serve a vast array of point cloud modeling, analysis needs, and measurement capabilities with very high connectivity to the Autodesk suite of products."
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During the 3D Documentation Conference in Andechs the participants are given the opportunity to visit the 3D exhibition in an designated area at the Abbey and meet FARO's 3rd party partners, who showcase their latest 3D Documentation products.
During this webinar – November 21st – we will explain how you can use the FaroArm's touch enabled probe and laser line probe to improve your inspection process using Geomagic Control's intuitive inspection platform.
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Augmented Reality means to enrich and enhance the user's view of the real world with additional digital information, e.g. a virtual 3D-model that originates from CAD.
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metaio Engineer is software that brings Augmented Reality to the industrial field. And it is a perfect complement to an existing measuring arm. The best of both worlds is combined: a quick and direct visualization with the precision of a measuring arm.
With the new release of metaio Engineer 5.0, an interface to support FARO measuring arms is already built-in. All necessary features are integrated by default, from calibration to functions that support your daily tasks.
Previously, in case of quality control every relevant point had to be measured to discover deviations between the CAD model and the related assembly part. metaio Engineer and Augmented Reality accelerate this process by identifying errors and selectively measuring deviations.
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Tingling Lips After Protected Anal Sex Worried I Have HIV
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