Game Design Open House
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Benjamin Colling, Head of Admissions at Vancouver Film School, welcomes Game Design Expo 2010 attendees to the free Open House at VFS’s Game Design program.
Learn about Game Design Expo at gamedesignexpo.com.
Find out more about VFS's one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign
I've been Tagged! You get a free texture designed by me.
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Texture is free for you to do what you wish, just please do not pass it as your own. :)
I've been tagged by the amazing Dessi, and now I must give up 16 random facts about myself, and in turn, I can tag 16 people of my choice. Fun!
1. I am obsessed with all things related to ancient civilizations and mythology.
2. I love to read. My pile of books to read is usually massive, I can never catch up.
3. My favorite part of the day is walking my oldest daughter to school in the morning, rain or shine.
4. I have way too many knick knacks, such as vases, candles, and decorative bowls-but I love them all too much to give any of them up. They're my treasures!
5. I have boxes of artwork done by my girls, I have a hard time parting with any of it.
6. I love the color green. It makes me feel at peace.
7. I drink large ammounts of herbal tea on a daily basis. I should probably drink more water.
8. I love chocolate.
9. I love to take long, hot baths. I was in for three hours a few nights ago, I came out quite wrinkled...lol.
10. I love fresh flowers in the house, especially anything wild.
11. I make hair bows and novelty hair clips for my daughters as a hobby. I love how excited they get when I make something new for them.
12. I love to bake cakes and cookies with my girls. I also love eating them together when we're done.
13. I am a total homebody. My entire family however, likes to go out and about all the time, so we do. I'm outnumbered!
14. When we do go out, I prefer being close to nature rather than the city. Nature trails, the beach, rowing a boat on the lake...
15. I absolutely loathe bugs, but i'll stop and look at them or even touch them, because my girls find them interesting.
16. My four great loves are my husband, my children, my family, and photography!
Whew! That was hard!
House of the Day #34: 3234 W. Washington Boulevard
Image by reallyboring
This house at 3234 West Washington Boulevard, in East Garfield Park, is of multivalent significance, listed on the National Register and as a Chicago Landmark. Built in 1901, it was designed by George W. Maher. Maher was an early colleague of Frank Lloyd Wright, and the horizontality that so defined Wright's work shows up in this and many other of Maher's homes, melded with a variety of more traditional styles. Though Maher was one of the few Prairie School-linked architects never to work for Sullivan, the finely-carved arches, capitals, and molding on this house are all suggestive of Sullivan's influence.
This house, at least from the front, is far from the most remarkable of Maher's works. The house was built for Patrick J. King, but is remembered for its second occupant, Patrick Nash, who lived here from 1925 until his death in 1943. In 1931, Nash became chair of the Cook County Democratic Party, and upon the 1933 assassination of Mayor Anton Cermak (the architect of Chicago's first multi-ethnic Democratic machine), Nash became the most powerful figure in Chicago politics. He backed Edward Kelly for Mayor, and the two presided over what became known as the Kelly-Nash Machine, which was potent and corrupt, but also progressive enough to reign for a decade and a half and leave the city debt-free upon the end of Mayor Kelly's reign in 1947.
The house is a remnant of Garfield Park's more genteel days. While it appears generally well-maintained, the area around it has not fared nearly as well, hit hard by white flight and rioting in the 1950s and 1960s. The real estate boom of the 2000s spurred a wave of speculation in real estate which has since broken, leaving the future of some of the area's remaining historic homes and buildings in doubt.
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