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20 October 2007

That is completely fantastic.
posted by chrismear 20 October | 10:26
It is! But I think it's a pink bunny on a hillside. to explain the meager comments

I wish I would see something like that in my neighborhood. The closest (which wasn't close at all, not even a tiny teenyweeny bit close) was one day when I was walking by this empty lot between homes near where I live, and I saw a perfectly perfect and perfectly pink little fancy dollhouse sitting in the front of an abandoned lot.

Now, that lot has never had a perfect thing in it. Day by day, that empty lot collects more and more rubbish and weird garbage... I don't even understand why, because the tossers could just stack up whatever they want to throw away next to the regular dumpsters (one is like, three yards away) that are used to take away regular neighborhood trash... The city is not supposed to take away certain stuff, of course, but mostly they do. You can't demolish a house and expect to get away with putting everything in the regular bins, but otherwise, stick it by the dumpster, and it gets scavenged or picked up by the city garbage collectors. But for whatever reason empty lots collect inexplicable garbage, this one does.

So, about three or four times a week, I walk by this lot and sort of check out what new stuff has been dumped there, and always feel sort of melancholy when I see it. But one day there was this amazingly lovely dollhouse, sitting right at the front of the lot in a cleared space. It felt like art to me, somehow. I was kind of sad I couldn't hide myself in some nearby nook and watch the reactions of other passersby and see what actually happened to it in the end.
posted by taz 20 October | 10:55
Ah, I wondered if it might be a double... it seems like I might have seen it or something like it before.

That image of the dollhouse in front of the vacant lot is just enchanting, in a way. I'd love to have seen that!
posted by BoringPostcards 20 October | 11:12
Well I hadn't seen it before so thanks for double-posting, BP. Very cool.
posted by gaspode 20 October | 11:45
Delightfully terrifying.
posted by youngergirl44 20 October | 11:56
That's amazing, BP. I love it when people shake things up like that. Thanks for posting it.
posted by elizard 20 October | 12:06
Actually, BP, I wanted to shoot it... but there was a car parked right in front of the lot, so there is no way I could have captured the poetry of it; I would have to have been essentially shooting down towards the house, and missing the whole lot behind it. Pity.
posted by taz 20 October | 12:24
BP, where was this located? Atlanta?

Also, did anybody else notice the inexplicable page banner featuring a bunch of kids wearing Naruto headbands?
posted by pieisexactlythree 20 October | 16:08
I think this was in L.A., pie.
posted by BoringPostcards 20 October | 17:22
How very house of leaves...
If you dig this you might like a project some architecture students did not far from me. Video of the house in action here. (articles here, here, and here)
posted by kellydamnit 21 October | 16:59
WHOA, kelly, that is wild! I love it!
posted by BoringPostcards 22 October | 08:17
56 dollars? Why? || Jazzy Jeffs, Jazzbos and Jazz Aesthetes Lend Me Your Knowledge...

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