posted 08-16-2003 02:15 PM               

Dwellmate, what you're describing is what mobile homes were, initially. It's ironic that, after decades, people who owned them wanted to give their mobile homes (or "trailers," as they were then called) more permanent roots, and so adapted them to permanent foundations, and now we have people who, like yourself, want to do the reverse, in response to economic conditions of the present. I think that mobile homes are still capable of being mobile, though the industry long ago shifted its focus to the demand for permanent siting by building units without wheels, to be trucked to the permanent site. There may still be the option to have one built with mobile capability, however, there is very little, if any, modernism to be had in the mobile home market, as I'm sure you're aware. Good luck finding what you need.

posted 08-19-2003 09:11 PM               

Anyway. I just invited the following Dallas folks to our party:

Cliff Welch, Architect
Cunningham Architects
Urban Edge developers
Guy Brown, Architect
David Griffin, Realtor (their office sponsers the Preservation Dallas, Mid-Century Modern House Tour)

posted 08-20-2003 06:15 AM               

Rous, great job! Thanks.

Gary

posted 08-20-2003 06:11 PM            

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Originally posted by Rous:
It does to me too. However, I have not "met" one other person on the ubb from Dallas, let alone 50-100. I am hopeful that when we get "modern house net" of the ground, I'll be able to find more like minded people in the Dallas area..

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Rous,

I am from Dallas. I am fairly sure we are like minded. I greatly admire Diane Cheatham of Urban Edge for what she has accomplished, as well as the work of Gary Cunningham, Ron Womack, Frank Welch and Bud Oglesby to name a few.

posted 08-20-2003 08:24 PM               

Not familiar with Ron Womack, and though I have heard of Frank Welch, I don;t know any of his stuff.

Try to check out the Howard Meyer designed house at 5831 Nakoma in Greenway Parks and especially John Barthel's house (he designed it and still lives there) at 8931 Capri Court in Northeast Dallas.

If we want to discuss Dallas any further, we should probably go off list. My email can be found under the little icon with a face at the top of this posting.

posted 08-21-2003 07:00 AM               

Thanks, Greg! I'll try to do likewise, though I'm sure your list of contacts outnumbers mine.

posted 09-26-2003 01:25 PM               

I am going on a modern house tour sponsored by Preservation Dallas on Oct. 11th. I'm not sure if the organizers would like it, but I would be willing to put a stack of flyers, announcing our fledgling organization, out by the coffee and doughnuts.

Is this a good idea? If so, what should the flyers say (the whole LiveModern.com thing makes this a bit more compicated.)?

posted 09-26-2003 05:19 PM               

On the other hand, If I made a flyer it would be in Word and all I would be able to do is play with Word's graphics and font capabilities (and then maybe print it out on colored paper). I would surely be appreciative of a professional's eye. Perhaps you could take a first cut at it and post it to see if others have comments (on either design or content). I think it would be great to come up with something that could be used by others if they have the opportunity.

posted 09-26-2003 11:27 PM               

Hmmm....you know, given the audience, they may be like the folks on Lotta Livin'; interested in preservation of mid-century modernism, but maybe not so interested in new modernism. Then again, you would think there may be a few among them who are interested in both. Personally, I don't see how anyone could take an interest in one, but not the other.

posted 09-27-2003 12:58 PM               

I'll get started on this today. I think I'll borrow a little verbage from the mission statement and blend it with a little of my own writing. When I have a rough draft ready, I'll post it here in this thread, first, and we can work out the "editing" between us. When it's finished, and we're all satisfied with it, we can decide whether or not to include a graphic or two, and what and who's those shall be, etc. When it's all been settled, I'll make a PDF of the final version and post it here, also. Then you can print it out and distribute it. Also, I'll try to make this applicable to more than just the venue you're going to. That way, it can be used by any of us to promote LiveModern. By the way, I see this as a promotion of LiveModern, since that will be the home of the network, and that is where we want people to go to, on the web. It's not like there are two separate entities: LiveModern AND the network; they are one-and-the-same.

Gary

posted 09-27-2003 05:42 PM               

Well, as it turns out, I'm having a software problem, anyway, and will probably have to hand it off to someone who has Adobe Acrobat Plus, or any other software that can save in PDF format. I first tried creating the flyer in Word 2000, and saved it as an RTF. That left the LiveModern logo out, though (sorry, Marshall; didn't mean to appropriate your title graphic, but it's for a good cause, right?), so I tried saving it as a Word 6.0 file, instead, since CorelDraw 7.0 (the only program I have that will save anything to PDF format) will import Word 6.0 documents, too. I wound up still having to insert the logo separately, but I finally had all the elements in place and it looked as good as it did in Word. However, when I saved it as PDF, some of the text formatting got garbled badly, and the logo came out pixelated a bit. So, I'm thinking, at this point, there are two options: (1) Get someone who has Adobe Acrobat Plus (their authoring software, which costs around $500, NOT Acrobat Reader), or (2) Just post a link to the Word document and anyone who has Word can download and print it, while those who don't have Word will be left out. Which should I do?

As for the text, I preserved most of Marshall's original statement, editing for brevity, to get it onto a single page, and changing "Modernist House Net" to LiveModern.

About demphasizing affordability, that would severly limit the whole flyer, including the slogan that is in the logo graphic. So much of the reason LiveModern exists at all has to do with affordable modernism that I don't think there is anything else to say to a crowd who can afford to build big, rambling expensive houses. Since these folks can afford to hire an architect and get custom modern homes without having to resort to alternatives such as stock plans, prefab, etc., I don't know what we have that would motivate their participation. Or am I missing something?

posted 09-28-2003 02:56 AM               

I used Verdana, Greg, which should be available to you, unless Macs don't have the usual True Type fonts. I'll send you both the file. Since Word can save it with the graphics intact, I do't see any reason why you'd be unable to save it to PDF that way.

Gary

posted 09-29-2003 11:32 AM               

As for the LiveModern logo, use it, but know that there is a discussion on LiveModern on the tag line.

posted 09-29-2003 12:12 PM               

i am going to work on a livemodern.com flyer and post it on my personal site so if people want to print some out to post wherever, or take to an event such as the dallas one, they can.

i think the "manifesto" is good, but it does make for a kind of text-heavy flyer. do we have any ideas for some bullet points we could put on a flyer and make it a little more visually appealing?

posted 09-29-2003 02:45 PM               

keep on truckin'!

posted 09-30-2003 12:35 PM               

share it with someone you love ...

:: christy ::

posted 09-30-2003 09:57 PM            

Well, I signed up for the livemodern site tonight and left after about 10 minutes. It's a visually pleasing site, but the forums are incredibly cumbersome to use. Just my opinion, of course, but I didn't find the forums very well designed (a bit of a turn of for a site about design ;o)