Architecture enthusiast watches mother! just to see the house
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
- If you’ve wanted to watch this movie, because the house is cool, but you thought the movie would be too scary I have made a video exactly to your specifications. Enjoy a video on the very silly history of Octagon houses, along with tangents on knob and tube electrical, lath and plaster, and why fire and wood houses don’t mix.
Previous title: Watching mother! just to see an Octagon House (not scary)
Honorable mention to my friend Julia Whitney Barnes who has her work on view at the Armour-Stiner Octagon House.
00:00 Intro and watching mother!
07:45 Victorian history of Octagon Houses
10:30 Back to watching mother!
13:40 Details on knob and tube wiring
17:00 Final thoughts
Sources:
The House: A Manual of Rural Architecture by D.H. Jacques
The Octagon House: A Home for All by Orson Squire Fowler
Armour-Stiner Octagon House www.armourstiner.com/
Julia Whitney Barnes website: www.juliawhitneybarnes.com/oct...
Octagon City Story: news.google.com/newspapers?id...
Someone Lived Here Henry Davis Sleeper’s Beauport podcast episode: someonelivedhere.com/beauport/
Edna St Vincent Millay’s Steepletop podcast episode: someonelivedhere.com/steepletop/
And bonus episode: / bonus-steepletop-83554382 - Розваги
I was literally restoring a old historic house when I watched this movie in theaters and I was so much of a nightmare to see everyone laughing at destroying it I don’t remember too much of the actual plot.
that honestly feels traumatic
Savages. Vandals.
So, octagons are used in church architecture as a reference to Creation. I haven't seen the movie, but I have read a summary and it seems like there are some strong parallels to Genesis in particular. The fact that so many things are octagonal seems to me to be a constant reference and reminder that this is all part of "Creation."
"If only she had a kitchen garden" hehehe loved it
This is that kind of content niche you would only find on the internet. Loved it.
I just happen to live in a totally awesome octagon house. It was built in 1850 and, yes, it still has some lath with horse hair plaster, a couple of octagonal door knobs, and a little knob & tube electrical.
Wow !!!
Okay the music edit when she was painting 😂 I was just waiting for you to add a ridiculous VO
That was so funny. The clapping did me in.
I'm a major horror buff. This movie wasn't scary, but it was anxiety-inducing. Won't say why to avoid spoiling it for anyone. Cool house, though.
after watching i realized it was far more thriller than horror, but i was still horrified by the movie in general
@@kendragaylord I hadn't noticed the octogonal theme, down to the 8-course meal. Pretty cool analysis. 🤔
@@kendragaylord I fee like its horror its just a different kind of horror because there are definitely horrifying moments. Poor Jennifer Lawrence was traumatized filming it. She said she wouldn't do another movie like this again.
The movie is about Darren Aronofsky being a terrible boyfriend
I feel like movies recently have just been disturbing and upsetting but not intelligent or scary. I see this trend being exploitative of women ad our suffering and issues especially :/
I think one of my favorite parts of your videos is when you pull out a text and go "and here is what they said"
I've never heard of this film, the sink stressed me out, thank you for cutting out the scary parts, would watch another reaction video!
I absolutely LOATHED this film, seriously loathed it, but really appreciated revisiting it from an architectural perspective, as two of my favorite things are horror movies and interior design! I honestly never ever noticed all this octagonal stuff when I was watching it,which is nuts, but I DO remember being fascinated by her plaster/paint technique on the kitchen walls because I've always wanted to try that. SO tired of watching horror movies where the beautiful young ingenue is terrorized by all and sundry and hasn't the wherewithal to get herself out of the awful mess she's in. FUN FACT, one of my friends is in this, Patricia Sommerset, she plays the beautiful blonde who is sitting on the unbraced sink with the brunette, who is of course Emily Hampshire who plays Stevie on Schitt's Creek. Ergo, this was filmed in Toronto. Thank you so much, Kendra, I just recently discovered you, and your podcast, which is fabulous. Love from Montreal!
I literally hate scary movies and have an old house that I DON"T want to be afraid of, so this was great thank you for making this the way you did! 😅
the way you perfectly foreshadowed everything that was about to happen? excellent
the focus on architecture? excellenter
when i went back through to edit i was like... damn. i really called some of these
We both said, OMG built in trundle, at the same time. I guess you're my favorite youtuber now.
obsessed with your tone of commentary. “they’re being really terrible tour participants” lmao!
I loved this! Please edit all the interesting but scary movies and add commentary about the non-scary bits. May I request Hereditary? Also, the comment you made about wishing the movie was more about the house restoration really resonated with me. The first couple of minutes of The Grand Budapest Hotel convinced me it was going to be about how the hotel changed through the years and I was so disappointed when it was instead about Ralph Fiennes' character.
Yessss, I cannot emphasize how much I agree with you that Wes Anderson ABSOLUTELY wasted an idea with grand Budapest to tell a stupid and frankly uninteresting story.
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Beautiful movie with no substance
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Much Love!!
OMG this concept is GENIUS. Now you're gonna have to do it with all horror movies to apease our hunger 😅 I nominate 1999's The Haunting next. I watched that movie just for the house 😂
I’m glad I’m not the only person who spent the whole film drooling over the awesome house.
Your commentary is hilarious “you scared me to” lol it’s like my inner monologue personified
i am just grateful my life doesn't have an intensifying instrumental soundtrack, because i would be scared constantly
Thank you for making it not scary 😅
Thank you for editing out the scary parts. I loved hearing your thoughts on the house!
I love this, I need more horror movies edited so you can enjoy the architecture. Absolutely hysterical that the movie ended up being how you burn down an octagon house. It's so beautiful though~
the happy music edit omg 😭😭
Yes, I loved that!
An a lover of architecture, and as a lover of octagons, I had to click on this.
I feel a kinship with you. More and more, I find myself only caring about the architecture of a movie. I went through a phase where I was watching family guy and American dad and basically only paying attention to the architecture.
To clarify, I love all architecture. There is not a single building in existence I don't love, so I'm not just talking about "interesting" buildings. I'm talking about all buildings. More and more, I'm just watching all the buildings in movies.
I could listen to you talk about your shopping list, honestly, you make everything you talk about so interesting! Great video as always!
you're so kind! my shopping list this week included cucumbers and frosted mini wheats
@@kendragaylord great to know! 🤣
Basically this film is an allegory for the Biblical story of Genesis. JLaw is Mother Earth, fertile and tending to her home. Javier is God, her protector. The uninvited guests are humanity. They even break what’s precious to him (the crystal skull) and he casts them out of his paradise. Mother‘s home grows more and more violated throughout the film (a not so subtle allegory for the way humans treat the planet).
The brief comment about "finding new rooms in my house" reminded me of House of Leaves. Many rooms and interesting spaces placed within an uncanny story. Worth checking out, either with the actual book, or video synopsis of it.
Loved this. Was like a 99% invisible episode brought to life
This is a fun format! Weirdly, I’ve only listened to a handful of episodes of 99% Invisible, but one of them was the one they did on octagon houses.
i haven't heard that one but i will have to check it out! i feel like os fowler was a big enough character that he could get a full podcast on him
I really appreciate you specifying (not scary) in the title. Excellent video
goddd that sink scene makes me so sick to my stomach, if this were my house i'd be in JAIL
Same. So much same.
I'd love to see more of these. Hereditary is another horror movie with a rich sense of architecture.
engineer here. and you are kinda correct. He takes a very long winded way to say that an octogon with the same perimeter (he says circumference for some reason) as his example rectangle has more interior space then the rectangle. There is no reason he needed to use the number 8. he just wanted the octogon to seem more obviously correct. Even though his math is actually wrong.
I was obsessed with architecture and door hardware as a child (haven’t been tested for autism yet, but it wouldn’t be surprising if I was on the spectrum 😅), so your admiration of the octagonal front door knob at 10:44 was appreciated!
Baldwin’s Estate line of hardware used to include some pretty unique designs, and I believe I saw that exact knob and matching rosette in one of their PDF catalogs, years ago. In their current, much condensed product lineup, there’s a single octagonal knob available, unfortunately not the same style.
I don’t think there was a coordinating octagonal turn-knob available to match the doorknob, so that explains why the front door’s mortise lock in mother! has a standard oval thumb turn, turned 90° to allow it to fit above the larger-than-normal octagonal rosette.
Oh, and regarding amethyst/purple glass knobs: I believe that color has something to do with chemicals in the glass changing with time and UV exposure. So they were probably clear glass when new in the 1800s.
#doorknobfacts
I watched the AD UA-cam videos analysis and this video and am now subscribed
I adored this video! This was really well edited, I appreciate you editing out the scary bits. It was super calming and nice to watch. Your videos are a joy to watch. Great analysis and information on octagon house, and I loved your little humorous lines occasionally. I like your takes on the film. Also nice to see your face in a little bubble on the screen
I walked out of the theater when the "yuck" part (the one that is skipped over) was playing because it was just too much. The movie became so abstract that it was hard to understand or empathize. As a horror fan, I was very disappointed, so totally missed the cool set designs, thank you for reviewing that on your channel.
Leave it to Kendra to stumble upon 1856 Fyre Festival
I very nearly lost my shit when you brought up the article “octagon city for vegetarians.” 😅😅😅
Omg you're such a nerd! (this is a compliment) I'm amazed at the amount of knowledge you have about houses
I doubt youll read this but im navajo, a tribe in the southwest, and our traditional homes are usually hexagonal or octagonal shaped! Theyre called hogans and a similar type of home would be something like a yurt 🛖. Aside from my culture, I didnt know octagonal homes were a thing for some upper class americans ! (Even if it was for a decade)
I often am torn between having a modern day hogan or having a regular house with a traditional hogan off to the side (many people usually do this) when im older but now i have non navajo representation and inspiration!
The octagon is such a beautiful shape and it's so cool to learn of its origin in the hogan. I hope you find a house or hogan that has everything you want and need. Thank you for leaving a comment!
Loved this video! My education in film far outstrips the one class I've taken on historic architecture, but learning about the sort of pseudoscientific appeal to nature that was so intrumental to the octagon house's marketing really does a lot for the allegory at play in the film, and it was really cool to see you dig into that!! If this format is a way for you to take some stress off of your production schedule, I would be psyched to see more like this.
That house totally reminds me of LongWood In Natchez, MS. I saw it in person twice it’s gorgeous
This video inspired me to finally visit the Armour-Stiner Octagon House, which I have walked by every day for a year and a half!
This was awesome ❤ would love to see more
I just discovered you today. and I'm so glad I did!! I watch a lot of movies, but when the set is beautiful this is exactly how I'm watching and making commentary even when no one else cares lmao
I’ve been to the Armor Steiner house and it’s beautiful! I think the problem with an octagon house is the rooms are sort of like slices of a pizza. The angles are no 90 degree so you’d need to have at least some furniture custom made. Obviously this means it’s going to be the wealthy who can afford such a house. Because every room has windows it’s full of natural light and easy to get fresh air. If you have a central skylight that opens, the house would catch every breeze and ventilate hot air out the top of the central staircase. Loved the video!
This was fantastic. I love films, and can visually appreciate good architecture in them, but this is wonderful to learn about specifics and history and references. I wonder if horror especially has good houses because they usually embody the theme so are intellectual in design ✨🌙✨
I used to refuse to watch all horror, but I watch now just because they are consistently doing the best interior and exteriors.
I would love more videos like this especially with the tangents about old house related things IE doorknobs, plaster, the light fixtures. Maybe go make list of movies that have cool houses and rank them based on their bones and such. but that might be more research then you want. This style was good too!
I love your channel so much and this video was so much fun to watch
Love this video and the others you did. So fascinating and I learn alot. Could you (someday) do the house from The Housesitter with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn? Or the MoneyTrap with Tom hanks and Shelly Long? I love both houses and would like to know more… it’s the porches for me. We don’t really have them in the UK
Love the idea of Money Pit! And I haven't seen Housesitter, but it sounds great!
I love your voice and your comments are hilarious!
I loved this! I have also avoided the movie because I'm not a fan of scary stuff, but now I got to kinda watch it, and I didn't even know there was such an amazing house and interior details in it! Thank you for watching, making and sharing
There is nothing more horrific than the way that woman emptied the washing machine.
I think about it when I do laundry now
I still haven't seen this film, but this actually made me want to watch it. No one else talked about the architecture before.
It's a very very stressful movie.
Oh, Sister. Thank you so much for making this video. When is your Netflix series?
It's a time loop. She lives through her death over and over cause he keeps rebuilding the house. And it begins again. That woman died in the fire.
It's like a phonenix but not alive
You reminded me I wanted to watch this movie! Renting it now for later tonight.
let us know what you think!
Get ready to be really really stressed
Finally watched the film. I noticed many more details because of this video. Thank you! It was quite the ride. 😅
I had no interest in watching mother! so I appreciate you taking one for the team haha. I loved this format and hearing all the architecture tidbits. Have you seen The Haunting of Hill House? Not sure if that would make for a good video as well.
I also want that version of that movie.
I love the way they illustrate how the poem makes her feel, like healing the scorchmark of her soul. My beloved has done quite similar healing to the scorchmark in my own soul.
I would live in the Practical Magic house. Charmed also had great spaces. Witches have the best interiors
I was hoping you chose Elvira’s great aunt Morgana’s house from “Elvira Mistress of the Dark”. It’s a great movie that doesn’t get enough credit. Casandra Peterson said in an interview with RuPaul that the production company went bankrupt when the film was released killing box office sales. I think this movie is a cult classic.
This was so fun. I hate this movie but I loved your facts and thoughts about the house! I saw this movie one time and dont get me wrong its really good but the ANXIETY I felt watching it was awful. I love the symbolism and metaphors (he is god and she is mother nature). I feel like its the kind of movie you watch once because its good but then never touch again lol. Now I need to learn more about octagon houses!
yes, i feel like i saw enough of it for a lifetime after editing this
Yes! The most stressful movie I have ever seen. And I'm traumatized from the baby thing
@@janebaker4912 Thanks for your comment- I won't try to watch it. I seem to have a low tolerance for entertainment-induced stress.
You’re funny!😂
The house was my favorite part of the movie, I'd live there in a heartbeat.
If you like octagonal architecture, there are a couple of houses from pre-civil-war Mississippi you should see. Longwood in Natchez, MS, is huge, and unfinished (they abandoned it when the war started). Waverly, near West Point, MS, is not octagonal, but the foyer is four stories tall with octagonal balconies.
I've seen the movie and it depressed me so much, b/c I loved the home, but the occupants were just a royal pain. What kind of husband disregards the safety of his family - letting anyone live in their home?
I think that octagon houses might also have something to do with the occult?
Just started the video and I know I can continue watching thank to the « not scary » disclaimer. Much appreciate. 😅
Update: can’t continue cause I’m a wuss and I’ve seen too many clips of the movie already.
House IS amazing though.
Great video idea.
Cause the main character is a Ghost. That's why she never leaves the house
The only thing I can ever remember about this movie is Michelle throwing that wet laundry on the gross floor. Horrifying
Youll probably never see this comment. But their is this old Victorian house in a movie that always intrigued me. Theirs a few beautiful homes featured in this home that ive always wished i knew more about. But its the spice girl movie called spice world. Lol
Idk why it stands out. But boy from the few shots in the movie, it looks like the an actual house. Idk how they filmed there.
Do A movie review of the Gothic house in crimson peak
There’s an octagon lodge for sale near me, it’s very underutilised on the inside 😢
10/10 👍
Oh I figured out horror movies a third the way through. Like I spoil shit constantly. Cause ghosts are something I'm familiar with.
She's attached to the house
You should pitch a collab/guest episode on the popular QAnon Anonymous (snarky debunking) podcast about the whole OS Fowler thing via incoherent numerology ending up in an early cult Fyre Fest debacle. It sounds like you did all kinds of arcane research on it and it would be right up their alley!
i LOVE beauport!!
And I am talking ghost nonsense to architects lol
"This woman's a really bad tour participant" - lost it. That's actually, like...man, if someone told me that, I would be really hurt. XP
Also how do you find these archival/antique reference books for houses and architecture?? I feel like the answer is obvious and yet...I don't know where these things are found.
This is hysterical with no context. I know so little about it but I think that improved the experience.
Oh yes, the references! I bought a cd on ebay called "House Plans and more book collections" for about $10. It has compiled a bunch of pdfs of very old house plans and books, all out of copyright. I am sure I could have found many of them online for free if I knew what I was looking for, but it was the best jumping off point for me. And now they are just on my computer whenever I am trying to find a reference.
@@kendragaylord What a great find! They seem so, so, so helpful!!
Looks like it has good actors in it, though one often wonders why a good actor would choose a bad movie to be in, so no guarantee. I was more interested in the house but it's probably created digitally. That is always woefully disappointing. I grew up with a view of the Armour Stiner house out my bedroom window, when Carl Carmer still lived there. Our house was full of salvaged elements from the grand estate our house used to service, which had been torn down in the 1950s. Octagon houses, and round houses, are cool concepts but are impractical because either the curve of the wall or the odd corners are hard to utilize.
"I wanted to relax and watch something" oh hun, this movie was far from relaxing 😂😭 It made me so stressed out omfg I will never watch it again. I hate this movie. Very well done, but yeah, never again
me too girl I'm scared of scary movies 😭 but i love mother!
The 1850 was a spiritual movement. The spiritual movement...like the Fox Sisters. To live in an octagon house is like a sigyl or creating a Portal to the other side of the veil
The octagon represents the earth or the universe, God's creation. I guess it's the closest thing they could get to a round or spherical building. Strangely enough, the message I got from the movie was: "God (or nature) doesn't really care about you as individual, it just wants to create. Creation is a purpose itself."
It's about the number eight.
Eight is a pernicious number. Like she made an eight course meal during her eighth month of pregnancy and the number 8 is a universal symbol/number.
It means infinity and infinity can become hell
I'm guessing she's the one that was murdered
Sorry I am kinda a spiritual ecclasical esoteric type as well as into old houses.
Old houses literally talk to me.
They always have
I can't wait to learn how to burn down an octagon house
OMG I WAS 888 OF THUMBS UP. LIKE IT TURNED TO 889 AFTER I THUMBS UP
THATS CREEPY AF
What movie is this? The name..
This movie was stressful to watch. I felt so bad for her. And I hated her useless husband so much 😂
GO AWAY NUMBER 8!
OH GID THAT GUY DAVID BORN ON 8-8-88 GONNA SHOW UP NOW AND SHIT
This show actually looks so good visually but it ends there.
I couldn't believe how beautiful the set design was, but the places this movie went 😬
Ew, why'd they make her kiss that gross old guy on the lips? He looks like he could be her grandfather!
This movie was utter shit. Really pretentious
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