Philip, what matters is if there is a citation for the population statement, not that they are saying so... In the world of scholarly sustainability papers, that 50% urbanized is significant and is posited at the start of most articles (and will be until we get to 55%% or 60%...) Why so many known facts have to be regurgitated escapes me, but it's just part of the genre.
well it means all the problems we are taking on now as planners architects and researchers will be almost exclusively issues of urbanism, and that means we are qualified to talk about them. We weren't before. When poverty was rural it was not something we could talk about. Now with years of forced villagization (like zimbabwe) and city of slums and so on all that we know as designers is important to the way the current and future world works.
Jencks said architects are irrelevant. this says maybe not so much. so we keep repeating it. it's probably a matter of shock.
feel like we're waking up from a strange dream weekend without power. have to retrieve the freezer/refrigerator items from my brother's house, can finally clean out the basement which took on water, and can mow the overgrown lawn. BUT it was a fun weekend! beautiful cool fall weather, family meals out, lots of reading and drawing, and a movie with friends! if we could schedule these outages so we could be prepared, they may not be so bad. wonder if our power bill will be 1/30 less.
Oh no, Steven, what happened? I haven't had hot water or central air in over a month (since my basement flooded) I'm on the tortoise path to getting both fixed, but I really just can't afford it right now. I am excited to see if my utility bills reflect living in the dark ages.
If it helps Nam, the new archinect puts links inside a frame. If you hit the 'x' on the right side of the black bar it removes the frame and should work better.
wow steven. that's intense. glad you were able to enjoy the power outage. i have this felling lately it might not be always necessary to be plugged in and using power quite as much as we do. planned outages may be enough to remove the need for more power plants even.
here's hoping you see rain again soon sarah. keep safe in the heat.
I had a yoga class for the first time in 9 weeks today. it kicked my ass. Yet it must have still given me that endorphin rush because I came home and cut 6" off my hair, and I'm happy about it!
Thanks for the techie advice to get rid of the frame, curtkram! I'm so bad at technology.
I'm still alive. Was on stay-cation all last week (there was a brief Wonder-melting) and am just starting to get back into the swing of things.
Myriam - Unfortunately I have little new to add to the critique of your design. I agree with snook that the hours need to be dropped a bit, but then again, I like when things have a good grounding.
Now that I know the context of the R, I say keep it. What does it look like when the R is scaled up slightly? It just seems too close in size with the other letters for its intricate design.
Donna, that's crazy! Are the the 'craftsman' standing off by yourself while the others are conferencing?
Jump, I thought of you last night. Abe chose a book from the library about a girl who lives in Japan, but is half American. Her grandmother "Gram" from Maine comes to visit and she and Baachann and the girl go to the sea to collect Wakame. I'm sure I butchered the Japanese words in the book, but daijobu. The book was called "The Wakame Gatherers." It was a bit long and detailed on the process of gathering wakame for a 3 year old, though.
That is completely awesome Donna. I shared it with a co-worker and he was very impressed as well. Just out of curiosity, how expensive is it to harvest a tree that size and move it to an off-site location. Can't wait to see the final product. Keep the photos coming. Rock star indeed. I am constantly amazed by the amount of brilliance and beauty that my fellow archintectors design and work towards. Glad to be graced by it. Hopefully some of it will rub off onto me some day soon.
Could someone please reassure me that the beige that bisque color I had to use to substitute the other that I'm not sure exists any longer is close enough for posterity sake. In other words no mormal person is going to tell that one has more orange in it than the other, especially considering they've never seen the original selection. Having a high color accuity sucks from time to time.
coolio sarah. love wakame in my miso. you should make some for abe so he can understand the story better. am curious if that is even possible in texas ?
I'm just an uber perfectionist. The preferred color goes better with the other finishes. The other one is just slightly muddier but isn't noticeable by anyone but me and another co-worker who suffers the same affliction.
300' of rope light? That's a lot of rope. Now you've peaked my interest.
donna awesome project. did you know them previously? how does one get picked as local architect of record? I suppose it is because they aren't licensed in USA?
snook what ***melt said. when i tried to open image in new tab it took me to Facebook so maybe that is why didn't post?
hey - any of you NYC people know what's up with the new NYCECC? any small renovations/alterations that require a permit are no longer exempt? plus building owners are required to submit energy reports every 10 years? has a cottage industry sprung up yet?
Thanks. I'm the local architect because I'm very friendly with the Indianapolis Museum of Art curators - benefit of having an artist husband - and when the Swedish architects came to town last winter I volunteered to show them around town and hosted a dinner party at our house for them.
The IMA is fucking amazing - they are doing such incredible stuff lately, not *only* my husband's first major solo museum show (which opens 8 September, Steven!) but hosting the Miller House symposium, opening the 100 Acres sculpture park (where the Chop Stick will be located), and winning the commission of the American pavilion at the Biennale this year (which is why we went to Venice in June). It's the most forward thinking general art museum in the country, in my honest opinion, due to the visionary director Max Anderson and the amazing contemporary and design curators. They don't even blink when something as nutty as Chop Stick is proposed - they just set about making it happen!
that whole post is all very coolio donna. and here i was under the impression america was mostly composed of people who go to the creation museum and homeschool their kids so they won't ever be exposed to blue people with icecream selling houses.
but there are a few here and there who attempt to undermine those protective types, tricking them into thinking differently by luring them with the temptation of fun. it sometimes works, at least until those folks go back to their mega-church on sunday and their charismatic leader hits the reset button.
Never, Nam. I used to eat Ice cream sandwiches for breakfast. Eggs and milk are a regular part of breakfast, and since ice cream is composed of such things....
I went to a creation museum once. I was still in high school, and my dad decided we should pop in while we were camping. It was actually fascinating. It was still in its early stages, all they had was a lecture for us, but it was the first time I learned that lectures could be fun. The place was doing experiments on "world before the flood," and they contend that before, the earth was super-saturated with oxygen. The hypothesized that an oxygen-rich environment would make things grow extra large. Since things like reptiles grow as large as their environment allows, they figured that's where dinosaurs came from. The decided to do a few different experiments with reptiles and plants.
First, the planted crops on two sides of a road, and one side they watered regularly with regular water, and the other side with oxygen-rich water. The oxygen side grew 3-4 times larger!
Then, with the reptiles, they placed them in cages that they pumped with pure oxygen, and those grew larger than most as well.
It was pretty cool. I wonder if they have photos online.
Also, I'd like some opinions on a creative project I'm working on here.
i would actually like to go the one in kentucky. They did a 3 hours special on it this weekend with a famous japanese journalist and a panel of media personalities making comments every 15 minutes or so in a studio. They were shocked. I mean like jaws on the floor gobsmacked that anyone believes in such things, but also totally fascinated by the whole idea. One of the folks asked how is it possible that America has invented so much of the modern world if they believe this kind of thing. a good question.
@ sarah i have no advice about the project but am looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
as long as you're willing to accept that the dinosaurs huddled around campfires with early humans, KY's creation museum is great!
get this, the state just pitched in 30yrs worth of tax breaks for the creation museum developers to make a theme park: Ark Adventure! the old testament come to life, but improved with soft drinks and rides!
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pursuit of happiness?
jump: pursuit of happiness?
Awesome! Although I have never seen that version of video before. This is the one that played on the teevee. 80's at its dumbest.
@ rusty, haven't heard them in a while but moe berg is not bad. takes me back to HS days.
cool to see the northern pikes on same youtube page. apparently they are making a new album in 2012.
Philip, what matters is if there is a citation for the population statement, not that they are saying so... In the world of scholarly sustainability papers, that 50% urbanized is significant and is posited at the start of most articles (and will be until we get to 55%% or 60%...) Why so many known facts have to be regurgitated escapes me, but it's just part of the genre.
well it means all the problems we are taking on now as planners architects and researchers will be almost exclusively issues of urbanism, and that means we are qualified to talk about them. We weren't before. When poverty was rural it was not something we could talk about. Now with years of forced villagization (like zimbabwe) and city of slums and so on all that we know as designers is important to the way the current and future world works.
Jencks said architects are irrelevant. this says maybe not so much. so we keep repeating it. it's probably a matter of shock.
feel like we're waking up from a strange dream weekend without power. have to retrieve the freezer/refrigerator items from my brother's house, can finally clean out the basement which took on water, and can mow the overgrown lawn. BUT it was a fun weekend! beautiful cool fall weather, family meals out, lots of reading and drawing, and a movie with friends! if we could schedule these outages so we could be prepared, they may not be so bad. wonder if our power bill will be 1/30 less.
Oh no, Steven, what happened? I haven't had hot water or central air in over a month (since my basement flooded) I'm on the tortoise path to getting both fixed, but I really just can't afford it right now. I am excited to see if my utility bills reflect living in the dark ages.
here's what happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfw-V5griCM&feature=player_embedded
gets really crazy at about 1:50. this is just a few blocks from our house.
steven sounds like "fun" although that video doesn't seem to be working at least for me..
If it helps Nam, the new archinect puts links inside a frame. If you hit the 'x' on the right side of the black bar it removes the frame and should work better.
curtkram that does thanks...
God I miss those!
sarah rainstorms?
Yeppers
wow steven. that's intense. glad you were able to enjoy the power outage. i have this felling lately it might not be always necessary to be plugged in and using power quite as much as we do. planned outages may be enough to remove the need for more power plants even.
here's hoping you see rain again soon sarah. keep safe in the heat.
I had a yoga class for the first time in 9 weeks today. it kicked my ass. Yet it must have still given me that endorphin rush because I came home and cut 6" off my hair, and I'm happy about it!
Thanks for the techie advice to get rid of the frame, curtkram! I'm so bad at technology.
I'm still alive. Was on stay-cation all last week (there was a brief Wonder-melting) and am just starting to get back into the swing of things.
Myriam - Unfortunately I have little new to add to the critique of your design. I agree with snook that the hours need to be dropped a bit, but then again, I like when things have a good grounding.
Now that I know the context of the R, I say keep it. What does it look like when the R is scaled up slightly? It just seems too close in size with the other letters for its intricate design.
Donna - yoga tends to do that to people... kicks your ass while boosting your endorphins. It's like a natural high for me.
This is the super-secret project I'm working on as local architect-of-record. It will be fun!
donna the superstar! woo hoo!
Donna, that's crazy! Are the the 'craftsman' standing off by yourself while the others are conferencing?
Jump, I thought of you last night. Abe chose a book from the library about a girl who lives in Japan, but is half American. Her grandmother "Gram" from Maine comes to visit and she and Baachann and the girl go to the sea to collect Wakame. I'm sure I butchered the Japanese words in the book, but daijobu. The book was called "The Wakame Gatherers." It was a bit long and detailed on the process of gathering wakame for a 3 year old, though.
That is completely awesome Donna. I shared it with a co-worker and he was very impressed as well. Just out of curiosity, how expensive is it to harvest a tree that size and move it to an off-site location. Can't wait to see the final product. Keep the photos coming. Rock star indeed. I am constantly amazed by the amount of brilliance and beauty that my fellow archintectors design and work towards. Glad to be graced by it. Hopefully some of it will rub off onto me some day soon.
that looks like a fun project - I'm jealous.
Could someone please reassure me that the beige that bisque color I had to use to substitute the other that I'm not sure exists any longer is close enough for posterity sake. In other words no mormal person is going to tell that one has more orange in it than the other, especially considering they've never seen the original selection. Having a high color accuity sucks from time to time.
If they've never seen the original, then you could change it to purple and they wouldnt care, as long as it still looks good!
coolio sarah. love wakame in my miso. you should make some for abe so he can understand the story better. am curious if that is even possible in texas ?
sounds safe enough to me melt.
will this work...fingers and toes crossed..
ya we be working on x rated projects...so they will not post...damn~ I wanted to show the dancing pole...ya right!
I have actually been working on stringing 300 feet of rope light so it is just a small glow...
I'm just an uber perfectionist. The preferred color goes better with the other finishes. The other one is just slightly muddier but isn't noticeable by anyone but me and another co-worker who suffers the same affliction.
300' of rope light? That's a lot of rope. Now you've peaked my interest.
Um, donna, thats awesome. Interested in seeing what the final use is of the roots.
good morning all,
donna awesome project. did you know them previously? how does one get picked as local architect of record? I suppose it is because they aren't licensed in USA?
snook what ***melt said. when i tried to open image in new tab it took me to Facebook so maybe that is why didn't post?
hey - any of you NYC people know what's up with the new NYCECC? any small renovations/alterations that require a permit are no longer exempt? plus building owners are required to submit energy reports every 10 years? has a cottage industry sprung up yet?
Beautiful Donna!
Thanks. I'm the local architect because I'm very friendly with the Indianapolis Museum of Art curators - benefit of having an artist husband - and when the Swedish architects came to town last winter I volunteered to show them around town and hosted a dinner party at our house for them.
The IMA is fucking amazing - they are doing such incredible stuff lately, not *only* my husband's first major solo museum show (which opens 8 September, Steven!) but hosting the Miller House symposium, opening the 100 Acres sculpture park (where the Chop Stick will be located), and winning the commission of the American pavilion at the Biennale this year (which is why we went to Venice in June). It's the most forward thinking general art museum in the country, in my honest opinion, due to the visionary director Max Anderson and the amazing contemporary and design curators. They don't even blink when something as nutty as Chop Stick is proposed - they just set about making it happen!
Great project Donna, and well done to Brian.
Why you do this to my house?
Because this way your house will also sell you ice cream, Navi!
That drawing is so great.
Still haven't seen Avatar.
"Because this way your house will also sell you ice cream, Navi!"
Win!
Next stop, Washington.
lol
that whole post is all very coolio donna. and here i was under the impression america was mostly composed of people who go to the creation museum and homeschool their kids so they won't ever be exposed to blue people with icecream selling houses.
well, you weren't under the wrong impression.
but there are a few here and there who attempt to undermine those protective types, tricking them into thinking differently by luring them with the temptation of fun. it sometimes works, at least until those folks go back to their mega-church on sunday and their charismatic leader hits the reset button.
TGIT?
donna per dia's post. that image isn't a drawing, at least not a hand one is it? I figured it must be a computer (aided) image...
I have felt particularly unproductive lately in terms of writing etc. although i suppose i am still in process of post-move settling in..
Mmmmm... ice cream.
isn't it a bit early for ice cream?
"but there are a few here and there who attempt to undermine those protective types,"
But there are a few here and there who don't qualify for EU long-term work visas or haven't New-York-City-worthy credit ratings.
Fixed that for you, Steven. :D
Never, Nam. I used to eat Ice cream sandwiches for breakfast. Eggs and milk are a regular part of breakfast, and since ice cream is composed of such things....
I went to a creation museum once. I was still in high school, and my dad decided we should pop in while we were camping. It was actually fascinating. It was still in its early stages, all they had was a lecture for us, but it was the first time I learned that lectures could be fun. The place was doing experiments on "world before the flood," and they contend that before, the earth was super-saturated with oxygen. The hypothesized that an oxygen-rich environment would make things grow extra large. Since things like reptiles grow as large as their environment allows, they figured that's where dinosaurs came from. The decided to do a few different experiments with reptiles and plants.
First, the planted crops on two sides of a road, and one side they watered regularly with regular water, and the other side with oxygen-rich water. The oxygen side grew 3-4 times larger!
Then, with the reptiles, they placed them in cages that they pumped with pure oxygen, and those grew larger than most as well.
It was pretty cool. I wonder if they have photos online.
Also, I'd like some opinions on a creative project I'm working on here.
i would actually like to go the one in kentucky. They did a 3 hours special on it this weekend with a famous japanese journalist and a panel of media personalities making comments every 15 minutes or so in a studio. They were shocked. I mean like jaws on the floor gobsmacked that anyone believes in such things, but also totally fascinated by the whole idea. One of the folks asked how is it possible that America has invented so much of the modern world if they believe this kind of thing. a good question.
@ sarah i have no advice about the project but am looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
as long as you're willing to accept that the dinosaurs huddled around campfires with early humans, KY's creation museum is great!
get this, the state just pitched in 30yrs worth of tax breaks for the creation museum developers to make a theme park: Ark Adventure! the old testament come to life, but improved with soft drinks and rides!
"Ark Adventure! the old testament come to life, but improved with soft drinks and rides!"
They should commission Donna for an ice cream stand.
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