The halfcat, attracting newly revived interest on Twitter thanks to this blog post, appears to have first been spotted in this blog post in August 2009. But there are no attributions. The latest reports pin it to Street View - not mentioned in the original posting - and it certainly appears to be Street View image, but, lacking coordinates, the halfcat seems destined to be a mystery forever, one of any number of mythical beings, lost in the Clouds.
More interesting than the halfcat’s strangeness, perhaps, is its unknowability. Someone saw the halfcat, snapped it, but the route back is lost. The databases contain such multitudes of new myths.
“She became herself earlier than most of us do. The vision of a fierce five-year Flannery pleases me, but it also rings true. The true Flannery could never be denied, not even by childish impulses.”
As part of what must be an extraordinary exhibit of the late architect’s work, SFMOMA is sharing selected pages from his sketchbooks on their tumblr site (see below).
Reminder that you can browse all of the pages we’ve shared so far here, and to stay tuned daily for new pages from Lebbeus Woods’s sketchbooks through the run of the exhibition!
