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The turntable is an infinite musical device used to mix melodies of all kinds for parties, events or just for personal use. It is made up of several components for use of records mixing together to create unique and continuous songs.
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ONE OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S MOST FAMOUS DESIGNS
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rank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 projects, which resulted in more than 500 completed works.Wright promoted organic architecture (exemplified by Fallingwater), was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture (exemplified by the Robie House and the Westcott House), and developed the concept of the Usonian home (exemplified by the Rosenbaum House). His work includes original and innovative examples of many different building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums. Wright also often designed many of the interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass. Wright authored 20 books and many articles, and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. His colorful personal life often made headlines, most notably for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio. Already well-known during his lifetime, Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as “the greatest American architect of all time”. Frank Lloyd Wright was born in the farming town of Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States, in 1867. Originally named Frank Lincoln Wright, he changed his name after his parents’ divorce to honor his mother’s Welsh family, the Lloyd Joneses. His father, William Carey Wright (1825–1904) was a locally admired orator, music teacher, occasional lawyer and itinerant minister. William Wright had met and married Anna Lloyd Jones (1838/39 – 1923), a county school teacher, the previous year when he was employed as the superintendent of schools for Richland County.
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Originally from Massachusetts, William Wright had been a Baptist minister but he later joined his wife’s family in the Unitarian faith. Anna was a member of the large, prosperous and well-known Lloyd Jones family of Unitarians, who had emigrated from Wales to Spring Green, Wisconsin. Both of Wright’s parents were strong-willed individuals with idiosyncratic interests that they passed on to him. In his biography his mother declared, when she was expecting her first child, that he would grow up to build beautiful buildings. She decorated his nursery with engravings of English cathedrals torn from a periodical to encourage the infant’s ambition. The family moved to Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1870 for William to minister a small congregation. Later in his life and well after his death in 1959, Wright received much honorary recognition for his lifetime achievements.
He received honorary degrees from several universities (including his “alma mater”, the University of Wisconsin) and several nations named him as an honorary board member to their national academies of art and/or architecture. In 2000, Fallingwater was named “The Building of the 20th century” in an unscientific “Top-Ten” poll taken by members attending the AIA annual convention in Philadelphia. On that list, Wright was listed along with many of the USA’s other greatest architects including Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Louis Kahn, Phillip Johnson and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and he was the only architect who had more than one building on the list. The other three buildings were the Guggenheim Museum, the Frederick C. Robie House and the Johnson Wax Building.
In 1992, The Madison Opera in Madison, Wisconsin commissioned and premiered the opera Shining Brow, by composer Daron Hagen and librettist Paul Muldoon based on events early in Wright’s life. The work has since received numerous revivals. In 2000, Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright, a play based on the relationship between the personal and working aspects of Wright’s life, debuted at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.
Magazine, Editorial Ar ticle on the late Frank Lloyd Wright on his life and architechtural work.
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Los Angeles artwork.. . . . . . . . .2-3 Map of LOcal Spots.. . . . . . . . . . . . .4-5 Street Anarchist: An Interview with Artist Eliot Saachrian.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-9 A Threat To society.: Thoughts on street art by Los Angeles Natives.. . . . . . . .10-13
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A Realm of GrafďŹ ti in the City of Los Angels
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any thoughts come when it comes to art. Some are considered high class, while others are considered just “nusances”, especially when these nusances are displayed on public walls, freeway signs, or just about anywhere. What is considered art? Who amongst us defines it and what is it about street art that makes it distasteful and undesirable to society? “I never really thought about it,” said Adriana Rodriguez, a 51-year old mother of three children, who grew up in the heart of Los Angeles. “Yet now that I do, I really don’t like it. I mean, I grew up with it around me, especially with my brothers hanging around gang members in the past, but I never liked it. It looks ugly and makes our town look trashy.” Yet others take on a different out look on graffiti. Writing on walls with
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spray cans, markers or any kind of tool that produces marks on public areas has been around for decades. Whether to send a message to the world at large, or to show ones artistic ability, there are many controversies surrounding the graffiti world. “I like how some of it looks on the walls,” says Ryan Atherton, a California native who also grew up in an area filled with graffiti. “It really depends on how it looks when you pass it by. Like some of it doesn’t appeal to me, where the writings are not artistic looking, or looks like a bunch of scribbles. But if you pass by a wall where there’s some scribbles and a visual that looks like a painting, that’s impressive.” Ofcourse, there’s always a difference in opinion that can sharply contrast with the old and new generations of Los Angeles natives.
“It’sall allininthe theeye eyeof of “It’s thebeholder beholder the socall callititwhat what so youwant.” want.” you (Continued from page 13) Priscilla, a 31-year-old school teacher in the Los Angeles district, is crossed between like and dislike for the graffiti world. “It’s all in the eye of the beholder so call it what you want,” says Priscilla. “Like the ones at Venice beach or on 50th and Crenshaw are amazing. But the writings on the freeway or on neighborhood look tacky or trashy.” “I don’t mind it and I don’t actually pay any attention to it,” says Jose, a college student at a local university in Los Angeles. “I mean, who cares. It’s not leaving, and police and clean-up crew could try to stop it, but growing up here in LA, you see it everywhere. It comes and goes, but it will always be around, like cockroaches.”
Whether against graffiti in general or not, it is certain that this type of culture will be around for a very long time. From tags on trains to painted beautiful masterpieces created on walls, there will always be someone who’s willing to create it or destroy it. Some say it wrecks our community, leaving a distasteful thought of high crime happening in ones society where this type of culture dwells. Others see it as self-expression. An outlet for graffiti artists that some people can’t or choose not to understand. No matter what culture one is from, or how many times a clean-up crew “erases” graffiti tags, there’s always going to be another graffiti artist waiting around the corner for the opportunity, with a spray can in his hand.
Ezine Magazine article on the subject of graffiti in Los Angeles