Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Video of the spinning penny, a commentary on Autism..
Thank You ^_^
Illustration for my story about the bus system.
Just Thinking....
Architecture of Colorado Springs
The architecture in Colorado Springs is something to marvel at. I was downtown this weekend and noticed all the old Victorian houses and the Pioneers museum. I love the architecture of the “old day” compared to the cold restrictive architecture of today. I like going downtown because out of all the places in Colorado Springs it is the most inviting. Every time I’m down there I dream of some day living in a place like that. I believe that architecture plays a key role in how we live our lives.
Colorado Springs, a Trash Heap!
I went on a walk today and was appalled by the clutter along the side of the street. As I walked I began to wonder why people litter. The thing I saw most was cigarettes and bottles of all different varieties. I saw so much junk that it made me sick. Why doesn’t our city care to clean its streets? I want to do a project about the filth on the streets to bring awareness to the destructiveness of the citizens in this, and other cities around Colorado. In this project I would go on a walk and collect the junk along the streets and label with the cities name. I know when I come to Colorado Springs I don’t want to see it as a trash heap!!!
Friday, May 14, 2010
Connections between Chapter Three and the McAllister House
Friedberg also asserts that glass was used as an indicator of wealth and status. This notion of material being a measure of an individual's wealth also parallel's my research of the McAllister House. First of all, Fountain Colony did not have the timber available to support the construction of homes for the invading Colorado immigrants. So Major McAllister, like all his neighbors, imported the materials for his home's construction. However, since he was a man of means, Major McAllister spared no expense and brought only the best bricks, steel, wood, marble and GLASS by train from Philadelphia for his quaint Victorian cottage. Could you imagine shipping glass from so far away on the rickety trains of the nineteenth century? I couldn't. I've been on my fair share of twenty-first century railways and I don't know how panes of glass could survive contemporary voyages, let alone a voyage more than a century ago. The McAllister's also had the marble for their fireplaces and mantles quarried and shaped in Pennsylvania then transported to the Colorado prairie. Perhaps its because I'm a pessimist...but I don't think I would have had the faith to let such precious materials travel so far with no guarantee that they would survive. Anyway- both the glass and marble as well as the fortune it took to ship all the materials so far are what attest to the financial value of the McAllister house. If any of you have ever visited, you'd know that the place is so teeny that its value could not be accurately estimated by its size alone, unlike it's colossal cousin- Glenn Eyrie.
Please come see me at my favorite spot in all Colorado Springs- McAllister House Historical Museum!
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Snow in May
We've all been wondering when is it going to get warm. Come on already, I mean its May. Especially this morning when it was trying so hard to snow. Just be glad you're not in Lander. Over the last two days they got twelve inches of snow. Already today most of it has melted and the weekend temps are forecasted to be in the 80s this weekend so it won't last. And we think we have weather extremes.