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December 22, 2005
seminar journal
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December 20, 2005
Detours Dance Crew
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OMA process
read Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies by Moneo
Koolhaas chapter
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Things Magazine
things magazine - objects may be closer than they appear
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December 19, 2005
demarcation
Maryam Kaykavoosi
Bill Moyer communicates this blurring of boundaries through the metaphor of distance. I chose to study blurring the boundaries through the use of light and shadow to develop the sense of embodiment rather than the customary way that we carry the image of ourselves and our place in a space.
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titles to follow up on: from cranbrook
Chris Ware [cartoons and diagrams of cut-out, fold and assemble 'things']
Architectural Synaesthesia by Marco Frascari [a 'good intro to thinking about how we draw']
Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge by Alberto Perez-Gomez [studio reading list last year...]
“The Space of Architecture: Meaning as Presence and Representation.” from Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture. Architecture and Urbanism. Stephen Holl, Juhani Pallasmaa Alberto P�rez-G�mez. July 1994, Special issue. by Alberto Perez-Gomez
Make Magazine published by O'Reilly [exciting new 'mook' about making things]
ReadyMade Magazine [oddly enough, i have never read this mag, but it sounds like i should look into it...]
How to Make a Contact Mic [a site i learned something from recently... might as well give credit]
Digital Ground by Malcolm McCullough [not necessarily related, but sounds good and relevant to my current interests...]
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natural materials and fricken lazers
"Is your work interesting, or is it good?"
my thesis will take on the role of fusing natural building with digital fabrication with fricken' lazers.
99% natural. ingredients:
water
abaca
nuts and bolts - taken out
straw fiber - 290Oz. roughly 36 cups. w/water pressed out. a tiny fraction of a bale.
sodium carbonate
jute - soon to be rendered out
time
weight: less than 1 lbs
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| Comments (0)December 18, 2005
independent study proposal
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December 15, 2005
Artist Statement IV
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Sullivan Paper
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December 13, 2005
sullivan presentation notes draft
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December 12, 2005
Sullivan rough draft
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December 09, 2005
Sullivan paper notes
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utterly neutralising its radicalism
Telegraph | Arts | What's really shocking about modern art
This year's Turner Prize shows how far contemporary artists have been sucked into the mainstream. Whatever happened to angst, anger and rebellion, asks Mark Hudson
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the new underground
Here's the news from the revolution. We lost - Arts - Times Online
I replied without thinking: “Well, the Establishment is the new underground.”
Perhaps they have come to the conclusion, as did Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter in their book, The Rebel Sell, that subversion and counterculture were always a vital part of the consumer system and that The Man needs weirdo kids who can coolhunt and brainstorm and bluesky to supply product to a market addicted to newness and “credibility”.
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December 07, 2005
A Great Man
ESPN.com: Page 2 : The definition of A Great Man
That season, Chamberlain scored over 50 points in 44 different games, but people barely noticed. They were too busy watching Wilt define himself through his most profound failure: He simply did not get it. Wilt was a smart guy and a good businessman, but things that were obvious to everyone else completely escaped his understanding. He could not comprehend why fans and writers would dislike an egocentric superstar (he oddly assumed the world must have been intimidated by his honesty and skill). When he led the league in assists in 1967-68, he thought that accomplishment proved he was unselfish (of course, everyone else immediately recognized that passing for the sole purpose of racking up assists is not that different than trying to score 100 points by yourself). Wilt's defining failure was not that he couldn't win the league championship, because he did that twice; Wilt's defining failure was that he could not see the difference between (a) things that are impressive; and (b) things that are important. That failure is central to the portrait of Chamberlain -- it makes him a misguided, tragic hero. And within the context of contemporary history, it makes him A Great Man.
You can see this relationship between accomplishment and failure everywhere. Michael Jordan scored 32,000 points, won six championships and sold about 70 billion sweatshop Nikes, but those things tell us almost nothing about "Michael Jordan." It was MJ's failures -- his attempt at baseball, his comeback with the Wizards, his compulsion for gambling -- that define his true legacy: Jordan was the most hypercompetitive person alive, and that made him both unstoppable and unsatisfied. Charles Barkley has developed an entire on-air TV persona around the fact that he supposedly doesn't care about having never won an NBA championship, even though it's patently obvious that he does; it seems to color his perceptions of everything. I cannot think of any major boxer (from any era) whose legacy isn't dominated by the melodrama of his specific Achilles' heel. John Elway was far more interesting before the Broncos won a title, because all those soul-crushing Super Bowl blowouts made him seem doomed and rarified; now he just seems like a normative Hall of Fame QB with a few less yards than Dan Marino and a few fewer rings than Joe Montana. By erasing his greatest failure, Elway has actually lost his definition. The same thing happened to the entire Boston Red Sox organization: Ten minutes after the 2004 World Series, that franchise was no longer captivating, and all their long-suffering fans immediately became lost, boring and strangely self-absorbed. Today, being a Red Sox fan is almost meaningless.
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December 04, 2005
art and writing competition clearing house
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December 03, 2005
Plato: Meno
The Internet Classics Archive | Meno by Plato
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minnesota internet radio
KFAI - Radio Without Boundaries
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archinect:consumerism and monumentality
Archinect : Discussion Forum : Consumerism and Monumentality
metamechanic
Total Entries: 16
Total Comments: 124
12/02/05 11:27
so i've finally decided to create architecture that is analogous to organisms via formulating the construction of materials, forms, energy, and spaces with mathematics that not only mimicks nature but makes man made objects natural - sustainable design basically.
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