only two more days, make it last.

reuse [reduce?]

some time this past fall i fell for straight lines and simplicity - of course with one's personal vibrant touch - and then i met the whole refurb shipping container thing, some have called it cargotecurte [ok, mainly HyBrid in seattle], and everything really started to come together. ISO shipping containers line the shores of the U.S. as goods are shipped to the U.S. from all over the world but with little exporting going on state side there's not much to fill those bad boys up and ship them out again. so some very creative people have begun making due with what they've got - and they've done it rather nicely. Here are 15 of the hundreds of shipping container projects from 2010 - there are so many more and some architectural firms are really doing beautiful work. These are some works from 2006... my my my, we've come a long way

the xx [never not good]

the cure :: close to me

shall we sail?

it is not for them but for you [please understand].

"She liked the rare occasions when She met Roark at some gathering where heller or enright had brought Him. She liked the polite, impersonal 'miss francon' pronounced by His voice. She enjoyed the nervous concern of the hostess and her efforts not to let them come together. She knew that people around them expected some explosion, some shocking sign of hostility which never came. She did not seek Roark out and She did not avoid Him. They spoke to each other if They happened to be included in the same group, as They would have spoken to anyone else. it required no effort; it was real and right; it made everything right, even this gathering. She found a deep sense of fitness in the fact that here, among people, They should be strangers; strangers and enemies. She thought, these people can think of many things He and I are to each other -except for what We are. it made the moments She remembered greater, the moments not touched by the sight of others, by the words of others, not even by their knowledge. She thought, it has no existence here, except in Me and in Him. She felt a sense of possession, such as She could feel nowhere else. She could never own Him as She owned Him in a room among strangers when She seldom looked in His direction." a.r. the fountain head p.294-95

5 days to ego... here.

what's a girl to do with this abundance of free time? 5 days in the woods followed by days of lounging and indulging is the finest written words. ahh freedom.

i shall never escape my first studio at pratt

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/12/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-parking.php

free parking isn't free. nothing ever really is. think about this you BQE parkers... although after a discussion with my professor i'm re-considering the role said amenities play in the a world where the poor are given nothing and everything is taken.  it's holding onto the small things in order to feel some control when you have very little. it's a form of self-destruction that allows one to maintain the feeling of existing. how long can one exist in this manner, under such disparity?

today i started 'the fountainhead' this song seems fitting for now

gauntlet hair :: i was thinking

james blake :: CMYK

framing energy for a moment

as told by l magazine: laps trinity horoscope 

*sagittarius ::11.22'12.21 :: we all lie. we do. and if we think we aren't lying then we deceive ourselves. are you deceiving yourself [said astrological sign]? and would you even know if you were? i reckon you probably are - but that's ok[ay]. just don't make a habit of it, please.

*leo :: 7.23'8.22 :: somewhere right now, in some suburb, a train is passing in the distance, blowing its whstle. and some kid in that suburb is hearing that whistle, and is hearing that whistle, and is imagining the great big world out there, far from the ugliness of the milk-sour cafeteria, the grim mall. and that kid feel a little better [said astrological sign]. (are there still trains?)

*aquarius :: 1.20'2.18 ::  who you gonna call when the shit really goes down, [said astrological sign]? you need to think about this. everyone's your friend when it's all cocaine and lollipops - but what about when it's nothing but dry bundt cake and lint, hrmm?

but more importantly....

*cancer  :: 6.21'7.22 :: you seem a little [feral] in the eyes, cancer, like you haven't slept in a while. look, when's the last time you had a square meal and a clean pillow? come on, man, come inside and i'll crack some beers, make some soup, and everything'll be alright. i promise, pal, you'll see.

The Man Who Planted Trees

my favorite short film. have 30 minutes? take a seat and enjoy the 4 short parts of the whole story that is the man who planted trees; a french story written by jean giono in 1953 and then in 1987 made into a short animated film by canadian film director frédéric back. it's an absolutely beautiful [quiet, soft] story of one man living in nature [the wild, the under-known landscape] and his large impact on the land. on a silly relate, it's think globally, act locally at its finest, one person can make a difference, let's never forget that. ENJOY!


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the xx :: heart skipped a beat

people love stormwater runoff

yet another amazing way to manage runoff
creative way to make function out of art

from pomo to studio real quick

sketch by me ::
restructuring of the BQE stormwater runoff system.

collection. detention. release. retention. filtration.

just add open space

"in orthodox city planning, neighborhood open spaces are venerated in an amazingly uncritical fashion, much as savages venerate magical fetishes"*
      *e.g. "Mr. Moses conceded that some new housing might be 'ugly, regimented, institutional, identical, conformed, faceless.' but he suggested that such housing could be surrounded with parks" [NYT, jan. 1961] :: jane jacob's the death and life of great american cities

i dunno

"we know nothing of vast multiplicity - we cannot come to grips with it - not as architects, planners, or anybody else." - aldo van eyck quoted in splintering urbanism

just my luck

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 Sweet Deal.

oh it's coming together real nice

"postmodernism, from this point of view, has its roots in American democratic egalitarianism and is not a joke artists, writers, and architects are playing on everyone else, as elitists might suggest. The stylistic eclecticism found in postmodern architecture, then, is a reflection of a democratic society that wants buildings to work for many different kinds of people and does not reflect a loss of identity and a lack of center in people" a.a. berger the portable postmodernist

pollock's no.1