The Beer Can House, a must see.

[texanwitch]

I live near this house, you should hear it when it is windy. The house is covered with beer cans. Very famous.



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[Squeech]

1. Artwork or obsession?

My first wife had this coffee table book dedicated to architectural follies of this sort. I remember a mortician had enough bottles of embalming fluid saved up to build a house out of them. He said the hard part was concocting a mortar that would adhere to the glass. Of course it looked like the bottle wall of this house.

There was also the paper house, made of rolled up newspapers, permeated with glue to solidify them. Even the furniture was made out of paper cylinders.

The coolest amateur architecture I've ever seen in real life is the dinosaurs of Cabazon, CA-- the very same ones that were featured in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. I understand that they have since been bought out by some fundie moran who displays anti-evolution propaganda in them.

[Bridget Burke]

2. The Beer Can House is being renovated....

The creator & his wife died, but The Orange Show bought it from their kids--who wanted it preserved but could not afford to do so. Collectors donated many beer cans to the project. (The first link didn't work, but you can access it through the second link.)

The Orange Show is another Houston Folk Environment. The folks who banded together to preserve it eventually started the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art. They help out other weird art in Houston & elsewhere--& sponsor the annual Art Car Parade.

www.orangeshow.org/orange.html

(Yes, Houston does have its good points.)

[texanwitch]

3. For the afternoon crowd.

I love the Beer Can House.

[BrotherBuzz]

4. Borrring, Captain Nitt Witt liked to mix his medium up

Nitt Witt Ridge is billed as the poor man's Hearst Castle. Arthur Harold Beal, alias Capt Nitt Witt or Der Tinkerpaw, had a well known reputation for being a bit odd. Beal constructed his 'castle' from bits and pieces he picked up in the area, and as a trash hauler for the Hearst Castle. Beer cans and abalone shells were his staple building material, that, and cement.

[Suich]

5. How cool!

I love the wall made out of bottles...thanks!

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