Currently owned by Edward Norton, the Stevens House (1968) began as an impossible demand: a five bedroom luxury house on a 90’ by 30’ plot with no solid walls on two sides so that the ocean and mountains could be viewed. Six architects turned it down and then John Lautner- to whom crazy challenges were […]
Read more "The Stevens Residence"Came to the writers group tonight to find my friend Daniel Ribot had asked my fave author Ellen Kushner if she’d write me a postcard, given work had stopped me from going to Worldcon. She was more than happy too! It’s really made me week so it has. 😊
Read more "Well This Cheered Me Up…"THIS SATURDAY I ROCK MY HOMETOWN OF SYSTON! It’s a beer and literature festival in a pub!2pm-3pm this Saturday, Pharmacies Arms, Syston. A reading and a Q&A and a couple pints!
Read moreA thought came to me just earlier (see photo above). There’s paths and trails in forests right? Made by people wandering through but also by animals. So before people were around there must have been forest paths created by animals. So how old are some forest trails on planet Earth? Were they first trodden out […]
Read more "Boy that’s an olde path!"Oh, it’s all worthless, really. Life is committing fully to things and to people that you know will not repay you with any of the passion or respect you hope to receive. This is what I call Zen Nihilism, and you go right on doing it. There is no other way. You continue to work […]
Read more "Guest Post: ‘Art And Worthlessness’ by Marlon Brando"…with all these awesome authors… Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cynthia Pelayo, Stark Holborn, Ai Jiang, Paul Cornell, Bonnie Burton, David Quantick, Eugen Bacon, Peter McLean, Ren Hutchings, Renan Bernardo, Greg van Eekhout, Pedro Iniguez, Jonathan Maberry, Dennis K. Crosby, D.K. Stone, Sarah L. Miles, J.L. Worrad, KC Grifant, Antony Johnston, Mya Duong, Helen Glynn Jones, Alice James, […]
Read more "So I’m In An Upcoming Anthology…"A bit of sci-fi architecture (scichitecture?) for you: the Conservatoire de Montreuil, built in 1968. It’s very much in the ‘metabolist’ school, a movement hailing from post-war Japan where buildings are composed of many replaceable parts. Here it serves a very practical use; each music studio is insulated from the next because they’re all separated.
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J.L. Worrad 