In the grand staircase of the castle hangs a modernist chandelier. Longtime visitors may recall that this beautiful piece used to hang in the ballroom, but with the transition of that space from a grand meeting hall to an art gallery, it was deemed necessary to install more mutable and inconspicuous track lighting, and move the chandelier to a place where it could be appreciated. Or maybe it wasn't deemed necessary but it was deemed something. It was deemed would-be-nice-if-it's-not-too-much-trouble. It wasn't any trouble at all.
The chandelier is made of over 15 absolutely positioned divs, hanging from a silver rod. These custom, bespoke, artisanal html elements slowly spin, and the whole thing inevitably swings slightly from side to side due to movement in the castle. If there's no one there does it still sway from side to side? I'm going to go ahead and say maybe, and then continue to think about this (and related questions) until the end of my life.
The important thing here (I think) is that the chandelier is a bridge between something that's a representation of a thing and something that is the thing itself. The stairs in the stairwell, to be quite honest, are just a suggestion of stairs, and the doors are just drawings of doors. The chandelier is a drawing of photons scattering through rectangular plexiglass, but at the same time, it really is photons scattering through rectangular plexiglass! Unless you're looking at it through an e-ink display, or a printout on a piece of paper. To put it another way, if you're in the dark in your room, and you turn on your computer and behold the chandelier, there's going to be more light in the room than there was before. It really and truly is a lamp! It might not be enough to read by, but who wants to read in the stairwell? There isn't even a place to sit.
The other stairwell news is that I have now instigated keypad control for scrolling:
Links / Misc
- To visit the stairwell, go to the entryway of the castle and click on the stairs. Or click here and be transported immediately: [link]
- While in the stairwell, check out Greg Harvester's photo show in the ballroom, it's on the second floor, first door on the right side, just before the bathroom. The previous show, by Tom Bubul, has been archived in a brand new dollhouse just outside the gallery door. All gallery shows will be archived here from now on, I think it's a really elegant solution.
- Maybe you missed it last week but we're still doing these wild shirts for a minute-- probably going to take orders for another week then move to some kind of Halloween design. :)))) [fujichia storefront]
- Work in the castle is supported by readers like you! Join the Fujichia Feast Society for just $6 a month and get weekly emails, a quarterly zine, a very cool membership card, stickers, 10% all Fujichia products, and a small replica of the castle for your actual mantle. [link]
We are currently at 43.7% of our goal, I would love to hit 50% before Halloween!!! I have my own dashboard for this subscription drive and my motivational spectrum has been on green for EVER, let's push to CYAN at LEAST!
- OK I didn't want to put anyone on blast but while we're talking about castle news, the mirror in between the game room and the movie room has been on the fritz, can we get someone on that?? It's not a big deal (you just have to tap it) but I'm worried it might be endemic of a larger issue. Also it's SO DUSTY!!!
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As always, if you're bugging out or need a respite from endlessly scrolling the feed, you are welcome to hang out in the castle as long as you want. :)
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I'm working on something fun with this, with like, cool little icons. but for now all this does is allow you to sign your name in a way that identifies you as the writer, so no one can spoof you. And it turns your name gold. :)
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