Hey, I'm Kendra Gaylord! I talk about architecture in pop culture and how it connects to the places we live. I have a podcast called Someone Lived Here where I go to historic house museums and tell their stories. I also talk about stamps on TikTok.
My sister and I used to build our own dollhouses for our Barbies out of a chair and books, and use VHS tapes as beds and sofas. We'd spend a good half-hour building our sets before starting play. Every time they were different, and it's something I look back on very fondly. I did have an actual wooden dollhouse built for me by my grandfather, but it was too short for Barbie, so it was a house for my Beanie Babies.
I'm not that surprised they have the same stuff. Hollywood is quite small, they all kinda sorta know each other, and they have trends within their own circles. They know what the other celebs are doing, because those are their coworkers and neighbors. And then they're like "A PINEAPPLE TABLE?! Cute! Need! Assistant, find me that!"
1:53 That's it!!! My character lives in a house just like that. That's the house I've had such a specific but unplaceable vision in my head of. Thanks for finding it!
all of my fav movies and now I know why lol I think they should feel very lucky to have anything in one of their movies be "a thing" because it only draws more attention to their movies :) Some of it reminds me of Studio McGee.
I've recently decided that I want to build a house close to my parents in my hometown. I've been looking for smaller, cute houses with an older aesthetic on google and pinterest, I've found a lot of houses that are almost EXACTLY like I want it....but 99% of them are AI. It is honestly so infuriating. Imagine sending an AI house reference to an architect or something, showing what you're looking in a house, just to have them wonder why there are three chimneys, six different roofs and a hexagonal window in a random corner.
Another issue with fluorescents and cheap LEDs is the lack of color band broadness, or, it only emits small narrow wavelengths of light rather than a wide range of colors like the sun does, or even incandescents (which also emit a lot of infra red), this broad range of colors allows a wide range of colors to bounce off objects so they look more saturated, so fluorescent and cheap leds will make things look desaturated and grey on top of looking cooler. We have a scale for this called CRI, low CRI makes things look "grey" and higher CRI looks more saturated. You can add different phosphors (powders that react with UV light to produce different wavelengths of light) to coat the inside of fluorescent lights to get a wider range of colors though, so it looks less "gray". We coat neon lights with phosphors to get a wider range of colors too. Its unfortunate people don't take HOW neon lights work into account when making LED counterparts, because you end up with a harsh narrow wavelength light, instead of the nice warm glow of neon lights coated with phosphor or shown through colored tubes. People still like the more saturated color of incandescents because of the higher CRI compared to low end "warm" leds, and they're cheaper to produce which is another reason people used them even if it was a subconscious choice.
And even if the water towers themselves are no longer used for their original purpose their structure can be used for cell phone antennas; I guess that means they go from a publicly funded purpose to a private one, but it can still be seen to serve the public in a way.
I've seen that same facebook page. A lot of the comments are generated by AI language models, the profiles are generated pictures of people, the likes are mass farmed from bots or like farms. You get a couple of real people but majority of it is just bots interacting with bots.
Those Amazon "homes" remind me somewhat of the "earthquake shacks" that were constructed after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and firestorm. They were rent-to-own, a better option than the tents that were initially provided, and there are still some in San Francisco to this day. If you're interested there are a lot of resources online, and Atlas Obscura has a good article on them with a good selection of photos.
Holy shit. You feel the need to explain what a Superfund site is? Holy shit. Something is seriously wrong. Everybody needs to know what superfund sites are. Very important
This has become a hobby of mine: How fast can I recognize an AI image. answer: pretty fast. For many of the reasons and things you mentioned here. There are so many things off. Textures and geometrical shapes especially. You fill almost always find a sport in the image where the textures and lines are somewhat blurry in a weird way. Shadows sometimes make no sense etc. It's a fun experience to keep my eyes trained for this.
I don't really mind if they're not real because I was never going to find a cute house like that anyway (even "realistic" cute). Why not just enjoy a cozy little house picture? I doubt anyone is purchasing these house pics ...so what's the point beyond accruing worthless internet points? I suppose one could argue a few people might be saddened by the pic because it makes them feel like their own life is shitty in comparison--but that's true of the entire internet. So until AI starts posting fake people videos giving me bad advice in RU-vid DIY tutorials I'm not invested.
We're working with an architect to renovate our home. I started with wanting storage space for books and art supplies...and somehow that got lost. Now we're trying desperately to downsize, giving up things that we use to make our art.
The automat was about as low tech as you can go. It was nothing more than a wall full of glass faced boxes that separated the kitchen from the dining room. You bought a slice of pie, and someone on the other side of the wall replaced it with another one. It was cheap because the food was cheap and the only labor in the dining area was the one employee who at the change booth, and another one cleaning tables. Everything was self serve. You could eat lunch for under a dollar, but remember a dollar was a lot of money back then.
I couldn't care less about dollhouses but I watched or listened to this entire video and I found it fascinating. I'm not sure what that means, other than you've got writing chops and charisma, but I just thought I'd let you know. No, the closest I can come is that a friend of mine had a Hoth playset that his dad built out of Styrofoam from a set of plans in Women's Day magazine published sometime in 1980. We played with that thing like crazy; it was far and away my favorite set piece of all time. But hey, that's pretty far off the topic. Thanks for your very entertaining work. I really enjoy your channel a lot.
i have an answer pre-video watch: "check out the prices at this hole-in-the-wall! everyone come check this restaurant out i cant wait to post it to my million followers"
It's such a "rich celebrity" thing to do, going around and tearing down significant, yet not protected, houses. Chris Pratt just did the same thing to a Craig Ellwood house this year.
8:09 At this point, I (house painter) would rather deal with Carson Mansion than another multi-million dollar neutral-toned collection of maybe a half dozen straight lines. Under the right circumstances - getting paid appropriately - it could be a lot of fun!
I wonder if for some reason Shel Silverstein's estate/publisher would only license that one drawing to the USPS for a stamp. It certainly seems like a natural for a variety.
