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Mar. 27th, 2005 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
constanceAesthetically speaking, I live a Cottage Living life. When I follow my natural inclinations, my tendency is to fill a room with battered, dark-stained, clean-lined furniture, fabrics that run more to cotton than to brocade, cheerful clutter. Ideally, any given house of mine in would not look out of place in an Ohio homestead circa 1940. I don't mean this to be my agenda, but clearly it is.
That doesn't mean, though, that I don't have a fascination for modern design, for prefab and deconstruction and minimalism. I may live a Cottage Living life, but I read Dwell too, and love it. I remember falling in love with sculptor Donald Judd's enormous, concrete-floored hangar of a house way back in high school, and Rem Koolhas and Frank Gehry and those old Memphis Studio designs make me flushed and overheated.
I say this because I don't want you to think I am unimaginative and reactionary when I say that this is just wrong. I mean. If you're going to let someone kill a cow in order to set your sofa on top of its skin, man, the least you can do is leave it looking like a fucking cow.
That doesn't mean, though, that I don't have a fascination for modern design, for prefab and deconstruction and minimalism. I may live a Cottage Living life, but I read Dwell too, and love it. I remember falling in love with sculptor Donald Judd's enormous, concrete-floored hangar of a house way back in high school, and Rem Koolhas and Frank Gehry and those old Memphis Studio designs make me flushed and overheated.
I say this because I don't want you to think I am unimaginative and reactionary when I say that this is just wrong. I mean. If you're going to let someone kill a cow in order to set your sofa on top of its skin, man, the least you can do is leave it looking like a fucking cow.
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Date: 2005-03-27 08:15 pm (UTC)I've been trying to fight off the urge to write them a nasty message on that little form they have on their main page, because they won't pay any attention to it--just another unreasonable whack job out to kill everyone's fun, that's me. But every time I let the flash show run through to the one WHERE THEY HAVE A CAR PARKED ON TOP OF A COWSKIN RUG, I just get pissed off all over again.
I was always fonder of cows even than I am of most other farm animals. Which I am very fond of. So maybe I am overreacting a little. But this site just makes me want to join some vigilante animal liberation front, goddamn it.