Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️
@jgbollard.bsky.social
I am writing a book about the ways the founders of American urban planning experimented on the neighborhoods of Washington, DC before World War II. I am also a licensed architect.
Oh yeah right in front of our faces!
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Oh yeah right in front of our faces!
Interesting. Googling suggests Pan’s Labyrinth was inspired by Goya’s Saturn.
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Interesting. Googling suggests Pan’s Labyrinth was inspired by Goya’s Saturn.
Good question. Lots of paintings are referenced in films (Gainsborough’s Blue Boy in Django Unchained) but not sure about direct inspiration. Any idea @greg.org ?
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Good question. Lots of paintings are referenced in films (Gainsborough’s Blue Boy in Django Unchained) but not sure about direct inspiration. Any idea @greg.org ?
In the 1882 play it was based on, she doesn't die. She gets together with the romantic lead, because it turns out she was the out-of-wedlock child of the plantation owner's daughter with an Italian, scandalous enough, but actually white.
The playwright appears to have died of syphilis fwiw
The playwright appears to have died of syphilis fwiw
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
In the 1882 play it was based on, she doesn't die. She gets together with the romantic lead, because it turns out she was the out-of-wedlock child of the plantation owner's daughter with an Italian, scandalous enough, but actually white.
The playwright appears to have died of syphilis fwiw
The playwright appears to have died of syphilis fwiw
For example, in this film, released in 1913: three white men fall in love with a light-skinned free woman, a scandalous rivalry ensues, it turns out she's not free, and she dies a tragic mulatto before any race-mixing can happen. Doesn't require a degree in psychology get what the movie offers.
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
For example, in this film, released in 1913: three white men fall in love with a light-skinned free woman, a scandalous rivalry ensues, it turns out she's not free, and she dies a tragic mulatto before any race-mixing can happen. Doesn't require a degree in psychology get what the movie offers.
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The different lc "a" glyphs might be elegant variation—changing the form up for interest. As to the alphabet, possibly someone with training in lettering/drafting—see this sheet from the Olmsted firm's _Instructions to Draftsmen_, 1932.
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The different lc "a" glyphs might be elegant variation—changing the form up for interest. As to the alphabet, possibly someone with training in lettering/drafting—see this sheet from the Olmsted firm's _Instructions to Draftsmen_, 1932.
Do you have to be in Seattle?
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Do you have to be in Seattle?
What are you talking about? Which corporations? Which cities?
Office real estate has been stagnating or contracting in almost every downtown for 20 years.
Mixed use zoning has only been widespread for roughly the same time.
Office real estate has been stagnating or contracting in almost every downtown for 20 years.
Mixed use zoning has only been widespread for roughly the same time.
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
What are you talking about? Which corporations? Which cities?
Office real estate has been stagnating or contracting in almost every downtown for 20 years.
Mixed use zoning has only been widespread for roughly the same time.
Office real estate has been stagnating or contracting in almost every downtown for 20 years.
Mixed use zoning has only been widespread for roughly the same time.
Your son only left you because of the gas lighting.
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Your son only left you because of the gas lighting.
You sleep? Sounds gay.
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
You sleep? Sounds gay.
Interesting. I will look into that, thanks!
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Interesting. I will look into that, thanks!
Yes although uh I meant to specify the family of my roommate architecture school. Time for bed I guess.
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Yes although uh I meant to specify the family of my roommate architecture school. Time for bed I guess.
The sheer joy I felt when I learned the deconstructivist KFC in Ktown was a family institution. Explained so much about her.
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The sheer joy I felt when I learned the deconstructivist KFC in Ktown was a family institution. Explained so much about her.
Really? I follow a bunch of British masons and they seem to mostly do load bearing walls for SFR…
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Really? I follow a bunch of British masons and they seem to mostly do load bearing walls for SFR…
Kill the Ludwig in your head and vibe.
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Kill the Ludwig in your head and vibe.
You're right though. The whinging about NLV is because the entire country needs therapy. It's the new builds
Yet somehow these are all probably load-bearing walls!
Yet somehow these are all probably load-bearing walls!
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
You're right though. The whinging about NLV is because the entire country needs therapy. It's the new builds
Yet somehow these are all probably load-bearing walls!
Yet somehow these are all probably load-bearing walls!
At least in this case it's traditional veneer with prefab tile lintel casings.
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
At least in this case it's traditional veneer with prefab tile lintel casings.
I dunno the UK is up there in terms of building dodgy tat.
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I dunno the UK is up there in terms of building dodgy tat.
It seems to me that large swathes of Americans identified with the content, happy with the decision to move to opportunity, but missing their roots. The people who shaped our built environment, up until the 1960s, misunderstood this.
www.jstor.org/stable/1594527
www.jstor.org/stable/10.23...
www.jstor.org/stable/1594527
www.jstor.org/stable/10.23...
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It seems to me that large swathes of Americans identified with the content, happy with the decision to move to opportunity, but missing their roots. The people who shaped our built environment, up until the 1960s, misunderstood this.
www.jstor.org/stable/1594527
www.jstor.org/stable/10.23...
www.jstor.org/stable/1594527
www.jstor.org/stable/10.23...