Sep 24 2024 - Real or Fake

 

I couldn't help but notice now many fake items are in the picture below that shows up on Pinterest quite often.  It is cute in a Pinterest way. But it seems to be staged for a picture and not real.  It looks like there is fake grass and the plants are all in pots, especially the potted Chrysanthemums.  I wondered if I was being harsh and thought I'd look up this decorative path. There's a feature in Google to find the source image.  This image occurs in more than 100 references.  Perhaps it is a stock image. But it should show up with a search on daisy stone path.  It is even ranked in a Bored Panda article on creative path designs where it is rated against other ideas. But mostly it shows up on Pinterest where images get "shared" unendingly.  There were no stock images like this for sale, so I wonder how it got shared into the hundred plus places it is used.  This turns out to be a mystery.  Likely this is another of the many AI generated path images.It just seems to look so real compared to the fantasy paths.   So I guess Pinterest has moved into a lot of AI-generated images and a lot of duplicate pins.  I guess that was what my experience was.       So where did this get to?  I think the answer is in the cartoon below.

I was surprised to see these butterfly chairs at Fallingwater.  Could they be Frank Lloyd Wright designs?  No it is not.  It was originally designed by Antonio Bonet, Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy and made available through Corbusier. It was through architect Edgar Kaufmann Jr whose father commissioned Wright's Fallingwater that the chair became wildly popular.  He got some for Fallingwater and he added the chair to the permanent collection of MOMA.

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Sep 16 2024 - Fallingwater

 

What are the top architectural destinations for a bucket list?  It depends.  Do you want the big items like the Pyramids?  Perhaps a bucket list for those under 30 years old?  If you pursue just one architect, and it is Frank Lloyd Wright, there are 16 Frank Lloyd Wright houses for a bucket list. So if my list is just one architect and one house, then we fulfilled the bucket list.  We visited Fallingwater, considered his most revered residence..  That was a thrilling experience -  we join the reverees. If this is a place to visit before you die, are you then supposed to die?  How does a bucket list actually work?   As compared to "things I'd like to do" - that sounds like a normal person.  The bucket list makes me think of someone who is manic and everything has to be in superlatives.   Fallingwater is spectacular.  Our visit to Fallingwater was when the water was very low, yet still falling.  I am glad it wasn't spring as the falling water would have been crashing water and we would have had to use the ear pieces to hear the tour.  Made me think that's why they have them. As well, last week was pre-Autumn colours.  The peak of peaks for a visit is with Autumn colours..   The favourite picture was from the "Iconic View" spot.  That's its name on the sign.  Makes sense to me.

Sea returning to bucket lists.  Perhaps they need to be specific be truly a bucket list item - here's the "not my picture" because it is in autumn with the colours, and then my picture.   Are you a bucket list sort of person?  If so, Autumn colour is just a few weeks away and it is only 4 hours drive to get the "truly iconic view"  and truly fulfill the bucket list.

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