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You Can Never Go Home

I was responding to this post on reddit when I thought I could do one better than just driving by the house. We actually had the opportunity to go in the house the last time it was on the market and took the opportunity to take lots of photos. Apparently that sub only allows one attachment per post, so I had to assemble the photos I had in mind into a single image.

(Yes, there was a bit of Photoshop restoration work done on the two photos from the 70s.)

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What Say You?

1963 Cliff May-designed Robert and Alice Power Residence in Camarillo⁠
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⁠In the second half of the twentieth century, the Ranch style came to define Southern California living; with its rambling, low-slung profile, shallow-pitched roof, and open concept floor plan connecting it to its landscape, the ranch house embodied the effervescence of the buoyant post-war years. By the early 1960s, architectural designer Cliff May had been perfecting his take on the Ranch style for over thirty years, distilling the original adobe and Spanish Colonial forms into the sweeping ranch houses of the jet age.⁠
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⁠The home is a classic May design, featuring an expansive roof line, indoor/outdoor floor plan built around a semi-sheltered pool, walls of glass, skylights, and adobe-inflected details such as viga and latilla style ceilings. The house is prominently planned around a central pool—a classic May design choice—and, with it’s walls of windows and sliding doors, invites the pool to become the central social space within the home, a true California original.⁠
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87 Vientos Road, a 4 bedroom, 4 bath, 3,569 square foot home located on a 1.09 acre lot, is currently listed for $2,360,000.⁠

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Yesterday Was Cindy’s Birthday

She absolutely loved the Disney princess I’d generated of her a few days ago and asked if I could do the same with a picture of the two of us. This of course lead down the rabbit hole and ended up doing Muppets, which I happen to like a lot more.

I know I’ve relentlessly disparaged AI, the datacenter impact on the environment, and the evil, evil men running those companies, but damn if some of the images I generate by using it don’t take my breath away.

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