sense of place LAB - laurie halsey brown

Marin Headlands, CA
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picture postcard. film / set. a calming perfect / grassy knoll got lost.

The small house attached to the greenhouse was constructed out of elm trees peeled of their bark.
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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/11/04/garden/20091105-tree-slideshow_index.html

ROALD GUNDERSEN, an architect who may revolutionize the building industry, shinnied up a slender white ash near his house here on a recent afternoon, hoisting himself higher and higher until the limber trunk began to bend slowly toward the forest floor….the read the rest of the article, click link above.

Sustanence for the Departed - Zen Center, San Francisco
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Tempt them with donuts. / Seijiki ceremony. / Food for hungry ghosts.

‘Sense of Place’ in Cyberspace
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/technology/internet/19foursquare.html?_r=2

A fast-growing social networking service called Foursquare is becoming the tool of choice. A combination of friend-finder, city guide and competitive bar game, Foursquare lets users “check in” with a cellphone at a bar, restaurant or art gallery. That alerts their friends to their current location so they can drop by and say hello.

“It’s planned serendipity,” said Emily Woolf, 24, a strategic planner living in Brooklyn who checks in on Foursquare when she wants to grab coffee or a drink with friends. “At this point, I don’t even bother texting or calling my friends. I just check Foursquare to see if they’re nearby and go meet them.”

Just seven months old with about 60,000 users so far, Foursquare is still getting off the ground — especially when compared with supersize services like Facebook and Twitter, which have millions of members. But that underground status is part of Foursquare’s appeal, its fans say. It is not yet cluttered with celebrities, nosy mothers-in-law or annoying co-workers…

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1433 Montague Dr. Vienna, Va
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The house was in a / recent dream. Locus, vortex / of dysfunctionality.

‘Sense of place’ in Comic Book Form - Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
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http://eddiecampbell.blogspot.com/2009/10/t-his-one-took-me-while-to-get-hold-of.html

The thing that always impressed me about David Mazzucchelli back when he was doing the regular comic book stuff, was his sense of place. No other artist came near him in this. He gave you all the details that make one street different from every other street.

The atmospheric qualities that make an exterior different from an interior:

And each room different from every other room. I’m just going with what I can round up on the internet, but handily, here’s a picture in which he manages to get the whole room into the frame except only for the ceiling.

I was pleased to see this interest is still with him in his new work, the masterly Asterios Polyp, particularly in the way this set piece undergoes a number of variations and transformations through the book.

Just about everything else that needs to be said about this much lauded masterpiece has been said elsewhere. (There are 7,208 words of annotations for after you’ve read the book)

-Eddie Campbell