A little off topic... but not really.

American Horror Story has got to be one of the best series my husband and I have ever seen. We really got into the first season and are excited for the newest season to come out. Call us weird or dark? I think it is really more about the intrigue of the superstitious, supernatural in culmination with history. What has been and what could come to be.

While I realize we're not on Art Deco yet I have learned something about Art Deco and the Arts & Crafts movement. There is quite a bit of overlap with the two periods.

I have always identified the font used in the title as being very art deco, but after this last section I now realize that it could have also some straight from the Arts & Crafts movement. It is reminiscent, for me, of a giant Frank Lloyd Wright window.

1993, Rennie Mackintosh. Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

 Anyway, I'm sitting here working with the TV on and I guess I had a bit of an epiphany. You have to admit - the font rocks and if you want to check out the entire font Click Here. There are some very interesting glyphs worthy of a look. The really cool thing - the font is only $35 bucks. Really! Compare it to ITC Franklin Gothic Complete Family Pack at around $500. It's a big deal.

Also, the home that the show is centered around is right from the turn of the century, the 19th century that is, making it right out of the A&C movement. Actually, if you go back to the very first or second episode it talks about the doctor who commissioned the building of the house for his wife and how much pain staking work went into the stained glass windows etc.

For me, this has been a very cool instance of the classroom crossing with "real life" and it actually pulled me away from my work to write about it.