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Horace Gifford
Horace Gifford
This past fall, John Ike mentioned Horace Gifford - a little known architect who designed beautiful modern beach houses on Fire Island. Christopher Rawlins, who, like me, is an alumnus of both Georgia Tech and Princeton, has recently written a much-needed book on Gifford. “Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction” is set to be released in less than two weeks, on May 30th.
I usually go to Fire Island Pines once or twice a summer, where I stay with my friends Steve and Jim, both house freaks like me. They were my introduction to Gifford and his Fire Island architecture.
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Why Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches" Video Makes Me Uncomfortable... and Kind of Makes Me Angry
So this video started going around my facebook today, with about a dozen of my female friends sharing the link with comments like, and “Everyone needs to see this”, and “All girls should watch this,” and “This made me cry.” And I’m not trying to shame those girls! I definitely understand why they would do so. And I don’t want to be a killjoy. But as I clicked the link and started watching the video, I started to feel a slight sense of discomfort. I couldn’t put my finger on why that was, exactly, but it continued throughout the whole thing. After watching the video several more times, I have some thoughts…
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