Frank & I

Over the past six months I've been asked many questions. Questions that I signed confidentiality agreements to, so that I was beyond paranoid to ever disclose more than on these questions that I obviously got more right than wrong. And while I was never asked questions about organized religion,The American Legion, or mercy killings (like Frank was), I was asked many, many, many questions. I traveled to Portland and Eugene many times for the nine tests known as the A.R.E. and yesterday I made one final trip to Salem to seal the deal, so to speak, allowing myself to join the company of others known as Architects.

Well, make that an Architect and social critic. Yes, indeed. Well, here's where one architect known as Frank Lloyd Wright and I share something. I remember back prior to getting into architecture school I visited Taliesin West and while on the tour I was told that Mr. Wright had said that "anyone over six foot one was a waste of good materials". The outrage, and something only a short person with a big ego could proclaim.

I guess for far too long I could never get that quote out of my head. Of course, at some point you realize that people make statements like that to get a reaction or otherwise make a statement stating that because they think they know best. Of course he was wrong. Frank Lloyd Wright was one of those types. With that said, here is an interview with Mike Wallace from 1957. It's from two shows and about an hour in length, but it is VERY GOOD. If you can spare the time, watch it.

The fact that Mike Wallace smokes like a chimney during the entire interview is classic. Just watching this interview you can get into the mind of one of the great architects (and one with the greatest ego). You might not get him because you are part of the mobocracy or the mob. Simply put, in an age of conformity, he was a non-conformist.

While the monkey might not be quite as extreme, he does agree that Marilyn Monroe was good architecture. Time to add some more black to my wardrobe and get some black rimmed eye glasses. It might take some time before I am the social critic he was, but Frank Lloyd Wright never had to deal with Roundabout Art now, did he?

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