#Wallace K. Harrison

[germanpostwarmodern]

New York Hall of Science at the 1964 World's Fair in New York, USA, by Wallace K. Harrison & Max Abramovitz. Photo by Ezra Stoller.

#1960s #expo 1964 #concrete #architecture #usa #architektur #max abramovitz #wallace k. harrison #ezra stoller

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The United Nations' New York headquarters opened on October 14, 1952. The complex was designed by an architectural board led by Wallace K. Harrison, with input from Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier. The tall building is the Secretariat, which contains offices, and the low building (difficult to see in this photo as it's as white as the ground it sits on) is the General Assembly.

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1950s #United Nations #UN New York #U.N. #architecture #Oct. 14 #October 14 #14 October #14 Oct. #Wallace K. Harrison #Le Corbusier #Turtle Bay #Oscar Niemeyer

[noconcessions]

#Albany #Wallace K Harrison

[deadpresidents]

2 and a half weeks until JC passes Cactus Jack!

It took me a little bit to figure out what you were referencing, but yes, Jimmy Carter will pass John Nance Garner as the longest-living President or Vice President in American history on September 18th. And if he is still with us on October 1st, Carter will be the first President or Vice President in American history to celebrate their 99th birthday.

And since I'm a huge dork who finds this stuff interesting, here's the big, complete list of longest-living to shortest-living Presidents and Vice Presidents in American history: (Presidents are in bold text, Vice Presidents are in italics, and those who served as both POTUS and VP are in bold italics.) John Nance Garner: 98 years, 351 days Jimmy Carter: 98 years, 337 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Levi P. Morton: 96 years, 0 days George H.W. Bush: 94 years, 171 days Gerald R. Ford: 93 years, 165 days Ronald Reagan: 93 years, 120 days Walter Mondale: 93 years, 81 days John Adams: 90 years, 247 days Herbert Hoover: 90 years, 71 days Harry S. Truman: 88 years, 232 days Charles G. Dawes: 85 years, 239 days James Madison: 85 years, 104 days Thomas Jefferson: 83 years, 82 days Dick Cheney: 82 years, 216 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Hannibal Hamlin: 81 years, 311 days Richard Nixon: 81 years, 104 days Joe Biden: 80 years, 287 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) John Quincy Adams: 80 years, 227 days Aaron Burr: 80 years, 220 days Martin Van Buren: 79 years, 231 days Adlai E. Stevenson: 78 years, 234 days Dwight D. Eisenhower: 78 years, 165 days Alben W. Barkley: 78 years, 157 days Andrew Jackson: 78 years, 85 days Spiro Agnew: 77 years, 261 days Donald Trump: 77 years, 81 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) George W. Bush: 77 years, 59 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Henry A. Wallace: 77 years, 42 days James Buchanan: 77 years, 39 days Bill Clinton: 77 years, 15 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Dan Quayle: 76 years, 211 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Charles Curtis: 76 years, 14 days Al Gore: 75 years, 156 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Millard Fillmore: 74 years, 60 days James Monroe: 73 years, 67 days George Clinton: 72 years, 268 days George M. Dallas: 72 years, 174 days William Howard Taft: 72 years, 174 days John Tyler: 71 years, 295 days Grover Cleveland: 71 years, 98 days Thomas R. Marshall: 71 years, 79 days Nelson Rockefeller: 70 years, 202 days Elbridge Gerry: 70 years, 129 days Rutherford B. Hayes: 70 years, 105 days Richard M. Johnson: 70 years, 33 days William Henry Harrison: 68 years, 54 days John C. Calhoun: 68 years, 13 days William A. Wheeler: 67 years, 339 days George Washington: 67 years, 295 days Benjamin Harrison: 67 years, 205 days Woodrow Wilson: 67 years, 36 days William R. King: 67 years, 11 days Hubert H. Humphrey: 66 years, 231 days Andrew Johnson: 66 years, 214 days Thomas A. Hendricks: 66 years, 79 days Charles W. Fairbanks: 66 years, 24 days Zachary Taylor: 65 years, 227 days Franklin Pierce: 64 years, 319 days Lyndon B. Johnson: 64 years, 148 days Mike Pence: 64 years, 88 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Henry Wilson: 63 years, 279 days Ulysses S. Grant: 63 years, 87 days Franklin D. Roosevelt: 63 years, 72 days Barack Obama: 62 years, 30 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Schuyler Colfax: 61 years, 296 days Calvin Coolidge: 60 years, 185 days Theodore Roosevelt: 60 years, 71 days Kamala Harris: 58 years, 318 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) William McKinley: 58 years, 228 days Warren G. Harding: 57 years, 273 days Chester A. Arthur: 57 years, 44 days James S. Sherman: 57 years, 6 days Abraham Lincoln: 56 years, 62 days Garret A. Hobart: 55 years, 171 days John C. Breckinridge: 54 years, 116 days James K. Polk: 53 years, 225 days Daniel D. Tompkins: 50 years, 355 days James Garfield: 49 years, 304 days John F. Kennedy: 46 years, 177 days

#History #Presidents #Vice Presidents #Longest-living Presidents and Vice Presidents #Presidential Data #Presidential Statistics #Presidential Facts #POTUS #VP #Jimmy Carter #President Carter #John Nance Garner #Vice President Garner

[antronaut]

Les Plongeurs by Fernand Léger  installed in the living room of  Wallace K. Harrison, Huntington, New York

#Fernand Léger #Museum Ludwig

[roosterzebra]

if I had a nickel every time a hit harrison ford movie gave him a kid in the future as a way to continue the story, I'd have three nickels

It's not much but weird that it keeps happening

more spoilers:

Also!! One of the most intriguing things about the original was the ambiguity; was Decker a replicant?! WHY did the answer that!?!?!?!

This movie is also Super reductive with humanity qua reproductive ability. Like, couldn't the replicants just seize the means of production and make themselves?? Was Rachael more Human than K. because she could reproduce?? Was the Child more human because they were born?? The counter-movement put the child in "blue cloths" to throw them off - how did that work??? What did that mean in the context of how gender operates in the narrative? The replicants being more than their programing - humans being, similarly, more than a pre-determined bio-destiny - is something that the movie does not seem prepared to handle. The new replicants can lie (by omission, obfuscation, obstination) and therefore move beyond their coding - also, WHERE WAS THE QUEER-CODING?!?! - but were still distinct for not being "born" in the way "real" humans were.

And then! The movie turned desire for replicant or "real" women into a fetish?? K/Joe supposedly prefers "real" women, something Joi knew she couldn't Provide. Oyyyyyyy this movie was really sloppy with it's allegory.

Also, bold choice for the attempted reboot (requal? is that actually a thing or did Scream 5 make that up?) to somehow Double Down on techno-orientalism!!!!!!!!! Furthermore, to have All the scenes with Wallace/Leto saying he wants to have replicants as slaves he can breed - in a film seemingly uninterested in how racialized sexuality is depicted and perceived - felt like it was very quickly thrown aside as the movie turned into finding a macguffin

#blade runner 2049 #blade runner 2049 spoiler #spoiler #just watched it so my opinions will probably change #media rambles

[vintagemanhattanskyline]

Aerial view looking northeast of Midtown Manhattan in late September, 1970 with many new office skyscrapers.

The 102-story Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) with the 40-story 1250 Broadway Tower (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1969) are on center, foreground with the 77-story Chrysler Building (William Van Allen, 1930) are visible at backgroud. The Park Avenue’s modern skyscrapers corridor, with Pan Am Building (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) are visible at background, at left. The United Nations’ Secretariat Building (Wallace K. Harrison, 1950) are at background, at right. The building under construction that can be seen just behind Empire State is the 45-story 600 Third Avenue Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971). The steel skeleton that be begun to rises up at extreme left, on foreground, is the future W.R. Grace Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1972) under construction.

Photo: The Scheller Co.

#1970 #1970s #aerial #Empire State Building #Shreve Lamb & Harmon #1250 Broadway Building #chrysler building #William Van Allen #pan am building #Walter Gropius #Pietro Belluschi #emery roth & sons #united nations secretariat #skyscrapers #construction #Skidmore Owings & Merrill #union carbide building #500 fifth avenue #w.r. grace building #600 Third Avenue #international style #art deco #Architecture #building boom #cityscape #urban renewal

[tackysapphic]

if somehow i’ve just been a huge dumbass and wallace harrison (painter) and wallace k. harrison (prominent architect and in-law to the fucking rockefellers) have somehow been the same person this whole fucking time. i may just scream. i think i will actually have to go on a very long drive and smoke a cigarette or something.

#kj.txt #wallace harrison #i like actually genuinely feel like im losing my mind. #fuck it i'll email one of my art history professors and ask if HE knows goddamn anything.

[emvisual]

Una foto de Ezra Stoller. Construcción del edificio de las Naciones Unidas.  New York, 1950. Obra de  un equipo multinacional de arquitectos liderado por Wallace K. Harrison. Se acepta que su elegante arquitectura es el fruto de la visión de Oscar Niemeyer.

via: @warriorofdune

#arquitectura #Architecture #1950 #United Nation #ONU #oscar niemeyer #new york

[this-is-the-ticket]

Shownotes

The Trail of Tears wikipedia page - turns out this occurred from 1830-1850. It started during Andrew Jackson's presidency, but also included Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and James K. Polk.

Up Simba by: David Foster Wallace - his essay that was originally published in Rolling Stone I guess? It's about John McCaine.

#podcast #shownotes

[clearpaperpersona]

My personal reading challenge this year is 40. I'll keep track of them here.

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine by Sai Englert

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta

The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov

Time and Again by Jack Finney

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

Traitor to the Living by Philip José Farmer

The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold

Waldo & Magic, Inc. by Robert A. Heinlein

Half Past Human by T. J. Bass

Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein

The Godwhale by T. J. Bass

Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz

Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky

The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Great Secret by L. Ron Hubbard

Do the New You by Steven Furtick

The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

[germanpostwarmodern]

Egg Performing Arts Center (1966-78) in Albany, NY, USA, by Wallace K. Harrison

#1960s #arts center #concrete #brutalism #brutalist #architecture #usa #architektur #wallace k. harrison

[wanderingmind867]

My US Voting Record:

I made this with the help of wikipedia, google and posts like voting guides which I found online.

Note: I would have been a Monarchist during the Revolutionary War, but I'd probably still vote if living in America (No matter how displeased the revolution made me, I'd probably still always be willing to vote). But to show my dissatisfaction, every vote until 1824 is a protest vote:

1788: Nobody (I refuse to vote for George Washington). Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1792: Nobody (I refuse to vote for George Washington). Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1796: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1800: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1804: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1808: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1812: Protest Vote for King George III (I can't vote for anyone after the War of 1812 got started)

1816: Protest Vote for King George III (again, I don't know if I'd be able to forgive anyone after the War of 1812)

1820: Protest Vote for King George IV (I can't support Monroe after he helped fight 1812 against Canada and the British).

1824: Henry Clay/Nathan Sanford

1824 Contingent: John Quincy Adams

1828: John Quincy Adams/Richard Rush

1832: Henry Clay/John Sergeant

1836: Daniel Webster/Francis Granger or William Henry Harrison/Francis Granger

1840: William Henry Harrison/John Tyler

1844: Henry Clay/Theodore Frelinghuysen

1848: Martin Van Buren/Charles F. Adams

1852: John P. Hale/George W. Julian

1856: John C. Frémont/William L. Dayton

1860: Abraham Lincoln/Hannibal Hamlin

1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson

1868: Ulysses S. Grant/Schuyler Colfax

1872: Horace Greeley/Benjamin Gratz Brown

1876: Samuel Tilden/Thomas A. Hendricks

1880: James A. Garfield/Chester A. Arthur

1884: Grover Cleveland/Thomas A. Hendricks

1888: Benjamin Harrison/Levi P. Morton

1892: James B. Weaver/James G. Field

1896: William Jennings Bryan/Thomas E. Watson

1900: William Jennings Bryan/Adlai Stevenson I

1904: Eugene V. Debs/Benjamin Hanford

1908: William Jennings Bryan/John Kern

1912: Eugene V. Debs/Emil Seidel

1916: Allan L. Benson/George R. Kirkpatrick

1920: Eugene V. Debs/Seymour Stedman

1924: Robert M. LaFollette/Burton K. Wheeler

1928: Al Smith/Joseph T. Robinson (although Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis aren't bad either. I might've been a prohibitionist then, considering I hate the taste of alcohol. But Smith opposed lynching. So he gets my vote).

1932: Norman Thomas/James H. Maurer

1936: Norman Thomas/George A. Nelson

1940: Norman Thomas/Maynard Krueger

1944: Norman Thomas/Darlington Hoopes

1948: Henry A. Wallace/Glen H. Taylor

1952: Adlai Stevenson II/John Sparkman

1956: Adlai Stevenson II/Estes Kefauver

1960: Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Solely because I hate JFK)

1964: Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey

1968: Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie

1972: George McGovern/Sargent Shriver (although I still really like Thomas Eagleton as VP)

1976: Gerald Ford/Bob Dole

1980: Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale

1984: Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro

1988: Willa Kenoyer/Ron Ehrenreich (I hear Michael Dukakis went to high school with the guy who founded the Judge Rotenberg Centre, which is a terrible place. So I can't vote for Dukakis. Can't take a chance on him with that history).

1992: Ross Perot/James Stockdale

1996: Ross Perot/Pat Choate

2000: Ralph Nader/Winona Laduke

2004: Ralph Nader/Peter Camejo

2008: Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez

2012: Barack Obama/Joe Biden (Beginning in 2012, I'd probably start voting for Democrats more often because I felt I had no choice. But I'm still a bit unhappy with them. Haven't been since 1988 or 1992).

2016: Gloria La Riva/Eugene Puryear

2020: Joe Biden/Kamala Harris (My heart says Howie Hawkins/Angela Walker, however).

#us politics #politics #my voting record #If I was american or alive then #my random thoughts #autism #asd #autistic #adhd #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #audhd #random thoughts #my thoughts #ramblings

[lavi1avi]

Bladerunner 2049

Fantastic movie. Def want to watch it again at some point.

The shots and sets looked amazing. Soundtrack baller (the bladerunner theme kicking in at the very end is peak). Ryan Gosling, amazing actor. Love everything about K's story. It's nice to see Harrison Ford give a shit while acting.

I enjoyed Jared's performance, mainly for his performance playing into Wallace being a pretentious loser (at least for me). Him acting all aloof going off about angels and heaven to cover up the fact he's just talking about slavery and breeding replicants to keep up with production. Reminds me of Bob Page from Dues Ex.

JOI is interesting in regards to that scene with the giant JOI later on. I feel the main interpretation is the idea that the JOI he was with, was nothing but a program in the end doing what it was programed to. Tarnishing any memory he had of her. But it's just doesn't taste right to me. In a world where replicants exists it doesn't feel right to think that JOIs can't possibly be human either. I think back to that scene of her in the rain.

The scene of JOI and the sex worker is amazing, a really good show of VFX. The line about if the dog was real or not is great. Wallace saying he has millions of children really nailed in how pathetic he is. There are more lines I wish I could remember (which makes me want to watch the movie again).

Also very funny the last fight in the movie is very similar to ending of Drive.

This image of ryan actually getting punched by harrison is going to live rent free in my head.

#personal #spoilers

[dfroza]

what we’re “conserving” in this life is the path to eternal life

A world now invisible to us, but much more real than this world is.

A place where Love is real, constantly, where Light illumines everything.

this is why words mean so much, to bear more weight than gold. words are a “store of value” worth more than money. even our Creator is known as the Word of God.

and so, what we think and believe and write and speak truly matters. we will give account for all of it. our very lives are being recorded into real books. and we can see a “glimpse” of this in how people are sharing things online all over the world, recorded and stored on servers. for better or for worse.

there’s inspiration for building things in this world. for creating. but not all things are pure in nature. some start good, and turn from it. and some good things do keep on being good.

the Spirit was sent to earth nearly 2,000 years ago to build the Body, the Temple of a pure Church as the Bride of the eternal King, to One day depart to meet Him in the air for a heavenly “marriage”

(A secret elopement)

and so, in the meantime people have built many different kinds of churches on earth. some uphold spiritual truth, and sadly some do not. people have gone astray into many idolatrous rituals in worship. but Love seeks purity of heart & mind, and humility. Love seeks to unify in its pure Light (inside & out) to turn people back to Love and its truth.

nobody on earth is a “perfect” person, that much is True, but we worship the Perfect One.

(have we realized that grace perfects us through sacred Blood?)

please don’t adulterate the Genesis and its rebirth.

(inside, Anew)

A tweet that crossed my path from Connecticut about the inspiration of building a church from the eyes of an architect:

@SavingPlaces

“Have you ever thought what it would be like to live in a giant sapphire?” architect Wallace K. Harrison asked before designing First Presbyterian Church of Stamford, CT.

See the result of his jewel box inspo:

#SavingPlaces #SacredPlaces @sacred_places

5.7.23 • 1:00pm • Twitter

the Master Architect of the universe is our beautiful mysterious Creator who has prepared a heavenly city for those who “believe…”

A new Jerusalem

[delux2222]

Happy Birthday, Wallace K Harrison (1895-1981)

United Nations Building, NYC

#Sep 28