ricki do me a favor - post an image of OSB and then tell me how wide a finish nail. where do you drive the finish nail? the largest chunk? this is blasphemy.

nice edit ricki

rick said glue and finish nails.

thanks for the endorsement, olaf.

beta, look in your linkedin mail.  

Rick - crafting a portfolio is all about narrative -  I've put together a story-board of my process:

so - here I am scouring the internet for the latest job postings:

once I find a posting that appeals to me I cater my portfolio to what they are looking for, as you can see in this picture I'm applying for a design position:

Later I meet with my friend who has a job and can give me critique and encouragement:

(are you shitting me?  who the hell puts "design" on the cover of their portfolio?  you are an idiot).  After I make a few revisions I send it out - and low and behold - an interview!

I want to make a good impression, so I show some of my unique "digital hand" skills:

("as you can see, ladies, holding a pen with your left hand makes you look more distinguished") they seem impressed, so they bring in the principal who says "we'll let you know after we review your salary requirements."

(woman on the left only started smiling at me after I told them how much money I wanted).

About a week later I get a call - I got the job (a little less than I asked, but at least it mostly covers rent)!  I start right away doing toilet partition details for a prison hospital in rural texas on "state of the art" hardware:

(you sure the client wants a two-way mirror in the restroom?  that seems illegal...)

And here i am today looking through what the consultants sent us for review before the CD set goes out:

haha - just kidding - the consultants wouldn't send us something early enough for review.

Hope this helps!

lol, that is the most realistic narrative of what architecture entails I've ever seen...like EVER!!!

what are you talking about, you'll have plenty of time to review.  in fact, after they send you something at 4:00 on friday, they'll remind you that you've had 3 days to review on monday morning.

'i use a laptop for work, but if you look, i do know how to hold a pen in my left hand for when hand sketches are required'  i laughed.

aside from that, best post ever.  that should be a link to that post at the top of a thread somewhere.

Yeah, situationist, that's some brilliance there! Love it. That guy with the scarf and fedora makes me slappy, though.

its a god damn NEWS post!

With the decriminalization of it is becoming hard to fill all those new cells in these privatized prisons...it's like law enforcement has to actually work on putting actual pedophiles into these cell, which actually takes work.....Balkins?

That probably why you didnt get your "asking price"...

see, when i look at this, i can't but think that this is applied to a plywood, or mdf substrate and construction adhesive is used, but honestly it's possible that it's countersunk fasteners with wood putty covering the holes, i mean, who'd know the difference? this surface also looks less like epoxy resin, and more of a clear lacquer finish.

I'd think twice about putting the word "analog" behind a column and then getting it photographed.

what's wrong with "anal folk"?

"I really like that new building that Rem Koolhaas and Michael Stipe designed." "The Rem Koolhaas R.E.M. Coolhouse?"

OSB looks like shit, regardless of application....my opinion

and sand this into the air -

"Health and safety

The resins used to create OSB have raised questions regarding the potential for OSB to emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as formaldehyde. Urea-formaldehyde is more toxic and should be avoided in home use. Phenol-formaldehyde products are considered to be relatively hazard-free. Some newer types of OSB, so-called "New-generation" OSB panels, use isocyanate resins that do not contain formaldehyde and are considered non-volatile when cured.[7] Industry trade groups assert that formaldehyde emissions from North American OSB are "negligible or nonexistent".[8]

Some manufacturers treat the wood chips with various borate compounds which are toxic to termites, wood boring beetles, molds, and fungi, but not mammals in applied doses."

I just build some OSB shelves in my basement.

It did not require stamped permit drawings so I guess I could have hired a certified building designer for $8 to set them up right? $12 only if they hold a ph.d from a reputable diploma mill institution.

Wall Finishes:

EXIT ENCLOSURES AND PASSAGEWAYS            B

CORRIDORS                                       B

ROOMS AND ENCLOSED SPACES                               C

Good eyes, situationist.

OSB as cabinetry looks cool but it doesn't hold up well over many years.  Once those crisp corners get beat up a little it doesn't look as good. For a space like a restaurant or cafe that might change its interior scheme in ten years it's cool.

its perverse to use OSB this way. adolf loos wouldnt be happy.

I quite like OSB in a concrete setting, it looks quite nice. If treated and built correctly OSB furniture can last.

This fad will be over before it has begun. Thankfully.

i'm considering this as a finish material

Volunteer,

People have been doing this for several years.  I wouldn't say it's been a short lived fad. 

It's still fugly in most applications. 

didn't rem use gold painted osb in a theater somewhere like 15 years ago?

I'm not sure about Rem's gold OSB, but this was done 15 years ago. 

OSB for the majority of the wall finish with OSB battens covering the vertical joints.

Closer view showing the OSB (plus Kelvin "KC" Caeser and hand gestures)

case da musica - koolhaas, only it used plywood and gold leaf

OMG plywood and gold leaf, how have I not known about this until now?!? That's so fabulous.

i think there was some sort of deep meaning behind the use of "humble" materials in a "high society" function.  I'm curious now about the acoustics, looks like a lot of hard surfaces

Tonight I'm having tacos! What a coincidence!

soft or hard? over OSB or not?

I am interested in hearing what do you all do for data backup/ archival? Personal or your firm's solution?

I currently have data spread across 8 hard drives (most of it duplicated 8 times) hoping that if one fails, the stuff I need is on another drive. There has to be a better way.

We do the most stupid thing, We leave the data on the server for about 2 yrs then dump all the larger files in shitty Samsung/WD hard drives and expect them to last, wouldn't be my exact choice.

Nightly backups to a server off site somewhere. I keep copies of my revit models on thumb-drives just in case someone else decides to mess with them as a learning experience.

archiwut - seems about right for most firms.

NS - might want to remember to transfer those to another format for long-term archival. Flash memory isn't very reliable past about 1 year. Pesky thermodynamics. 

What do you all do for your personal data? I can't be alone in having almost all of my portfolio, work product, financial records, bills, etc stored digitally. If there was a solar flare or something, I'd be thoroughly fucked.

i am no longer employed, which is very exciting. when i was employed (yesterday) we used amazon s3 for offsite backup.  We also kept nightly backups on a hard drive in the office, for when files get deleted or corrupt, or if the server blew up, or something like that.

i love NAS devices.  you can use them for remote backup too.

for personal data, i just figure you should let everything fall apart every now and then anyway.  give you a chance to rebuilt.  if you don't like losing everything and starting over with nothing, use google drive or dropbox or amazon or any of the other remote storage solutions out there.

What happened, curt? New opportunity, I hope.

curtkram - what's the story?

I backup most of my stuff on a combo of yahoo and google web drives

Ya, i'll be working in a new office next week.  I have high hopes.  Looking forward to it.