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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 4 1 2 3 4 attic faith (what's the stor-e-y?) #61197 03/14/02 08:37 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin B belligerentyouth OP old hand OP belligerentyouth old hand B Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin Okay. So there's a French word, which is also used in German to describe an artist's workshop. I can't think of it. It's not atelia, or Atelier, depending on your lingo, but there's one that refers specifically to a well decked-out studio/gallery, originally situated in Paris, I guess. Anyway, the name is definitely an eponym of a French artist - which means it is probably glaringly obvious to our art lovers here. So what is it? p.s. Why do artists always have to inhabit the top floors of buildings, and then make fancy names for what is essentially a loft? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: attic faith (what's the stor-e-y?) #61198 03/14/02 08:44 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Why do artists always have to inhabit the top floors of buildings? So they can get the skylight light, much better than window light for illumination. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: attic faith (what's the stor-e-y?) #61199 03/14/02 08:50 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin B belligerentyouth OP old hand OP belligerentyouth old hand B Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin > So they can get the skylight light Me, fool! Of course, that diffuse light source seeping in from above the picture-plane makes portraits a dream, huh? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: attic faith (what's the stor-e-y?) #61200 03/14/02 09:01 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park and not just any sky lights, but preferable a north facing one. so they never have direct sun light and harsh shadows, but rather always subdued light.. my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: attic faith (what's the stor-e-y?) #61201 03/14/02 09:27 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Plus the fact that top floor rent is often less. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: attic faith (what's the stor-e-y?) #61202 03/15/02 01:12 AM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 477 Sydney, Australia H hev addict hev addict H Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 477 Sydney, Australia Plus the fact that top floor rent is often less. Hmmm, might be where you are Dr. Bill, but up here in Oz it's normally the other way around. Get a ground floor apartment and you can expect to pay less for rent and more for insurance. Nasty criminal types don't have as far to climb if they want to break in and start carting your gear away. Hev Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: attic faith (what's the stor-e-y?) #61203 03/15/02 01:33 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear hev: I lived in Boston for four years going to medical school. The houses were all getting close to a hundred years old, built in rows with common walls. They had been built as town houses for wealthy people who had left long ago. In most of them the owners lived in lowest two levels. Though there were four murders less than a few hundred yards from where I lived on top floor, I never heard of any burglary. I could walk a couple miles up to theater district late at night without having to worry about being robbed. The girls in the class did too. How things have changed. My daughter was mugged close to the medical school in late seventies, and students were robbed inside the medical school. Right after WWII all the Southern States gave their welfare recipients bus tickets North. A friend from South Carolina told me this, and thought it uproariously funny. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: attic faith (what's the stor-e-y?) #61204 03/15/02 01:22 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia stales old hand stales old hand Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia > but preferable a north facing one Hey - there IS a southern hemisphere you know. Leaves - muttering about northern-centric, monocultural unawareness of politically unimportant countries south of zero degrees latitude......which just happen to be fantastic places to live - and paint (with light from a south facing window) stales Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter north/south #61205 03/15/02 01:31 PM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 10 Massachusetts Bay/Bahamas A Abagogo stranger Abagogo stranger A Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 10 Massachusetts Bay/Bahamas Is there a word that could be used interchangably that would describe the proper direction to face that is away from the sun that would be appropriate for both the northern and southern hemispheres? Nobody stranger Nobody stranger Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: attic faith (what's the stor-e-y?) #61206 03/15/02 02:12 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass > but preferable a north facing one Hey - there IS a southern hemisphere you know. are we to assume, then, that there are no Ascian artists? http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 1 of 4 1 2 3 4 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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