dia, the little ARKit looks great.  Wish I could come to NYC to help!

I would just add another hundred bucks to the bill each month. And I need some help. One of our clients has this beautiful painting in his home, and I have to know the artist. The painting is formal, and in the style of Girl with a pearl earing, but parts of the portrait are shifted, like the painting was cut and carfully reassembled. Please, someone must know who this is.

sarah, do you have a picture?

sarah, why not just ask the client?

window cleaning is a sport from some.  nothing wrong with that!   looks like a fun job (never seen the robot solution, though that sounds cool too)

dudes from the age of terracotta probably complained about new-fangled glass skyscrapers and how they needed to install window cleaning equipment too.

I don't have a picture; it seemed wrong taking photos inside someone's house of their things, and since I'm quiting the window business, I doubt I'll see said client again. Gah, the painting was just so perfect!

Shine on you crazy jla-x!

Going to measure a three story house this morning, by myself.  The whole thing, plus yard.  Will be exhausting.

Donna, sounds like you need one of those fancy laser scanners. Be sure to take some Pink Floyd

This?  Or something similar?  Not much to go on there.

donna.. hope you have a laser measurer...I've had to do a lot of site measurement over the years and it made my life so much easier...also in the past i brought my laptop to enter in dimensions immediately so that i didn't miss anything...it made it take a bit longer, but i didn't have to go back as often.

hope it wasn't as bad as you thought.

Really?  I haven't had great luck with laser measurers in houses - although will admit it was great when I was doing large, empty commercial tenant fit out spaces.  Houses to me have a combo of extra necessary detail + high level of "crap in the way" that prevents laser measurer from being of much use in my opinion...

Donna too bad I'm not in town, could have driven down to assist for the day.  Free of charge if you served me lunch ;-)  I miss measuring.  Although I'm shocked to hear myself admit it.  It's always one of those things one looks forward to until one gets there and the monumentality of the task ahead begins to dawn...

re: the painting - my first thought was john currin but he doesn't actually cut and re-assemble bits of people, just emphasized / de-emphasized certain of their features in order to make a subtly disturbing grotesqueness.  I love his paintings.

I realize this doesn't help you though, Sarah, sorry.

"Nice 'n Easy" 1999

(couldn't resist)

Curt, similar, but not quite. The painting that I saw was shifted in both directions, and they were larger sections, so it wasn't really noticeable at first. That, and the woman wasnt quite so current looking. Is that Blair Waldorf from gossip girl? And manta, I can't help but think of awful, catty comments from those ladies.

Somebody here had a great example of why the last comma in a series is important. Anyone know what it was? Thanks in advance!

oxford comma?

Just saw this [img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7bjacWa9R1qcyj2vo1_1280.jpg

Can someone post that properly? The iPhone isn't working right

The Comment field is required, says archinect

What comment field? I couldn't even find the picture button. My returns still don't show up, either.

I tried posting only the picture but it errored out and said i needed to type stuff.  it's easier for me because i'm on a computer instead of an iphone :)

toaster, that's it... thanks.

so archinect now has facebook integration? ew.

ew.

just ew.

rusty I actually just started noticing that a few days ago and wondered... you are referring to the "pop up" window with suggested nect posts referenced against Facebook likes, right?

I have been seeing one some computers but not all also.

hi all, been cleaning and moving into a new place after work over the last few days. fun!

Jeepers, I'm embarrassed - I can only get about 2/3 of those architecture alphabet images!

I only get seven, which is about a third less than you, Donna. So you are twice as smart as me.

i bet i'm about half.  isn't 'N' at disney?  and 'O' is every building in london after wren rebuilt after the fire.

i get 18!

I get 17. Anyone get M? Definitely not one you'll hear about in arch history class. Does feature in one of the 99% Invisible podcasts though.

Yeah, I think N is in Switzerland, and then copied at Disney. Hell if I know the name, though, so I didn't count it in my seven.

And Steven, quit show-boatin'.

HaHA! I figured out how to get returns to show up with the iPhone. Just have to type less than, P, greater than. Maybe I won't suck at teaching computer programming after all!!

all of the above

there is no "I" in alphabet!  or 'Z'

i wonder why it says 52 if it's missing 2 letters?

N is in southern Germany, not Switzerland.

chitty chitty bang bang is a good hint for 'N'. does that help? 'M' was one i didn't know...

I counted and I got 17.  What are I, K, V, M, Q, O, X, Y, and Z?

I recognize I but could never tell you its name, same with Q.  I keep coming up with Quetzalcoatlus, but that's a dinosaur not a building.

Is O Aalto? And is Y that pier in Japan?

I learned world geo from a coach that chewed on his hands, daily.

Donna, why do you know that dinosaur name?!

Nine-year-old's Dinosaurs A to Z book.

ok, i found this on google.  pyramid of Kulkulkan/Quetzalcoatl which is actually Chichen Itza.  I think it's sketchy that they could count it as a "Q." 

also, i think the palace of Versailles might be one of the ones you're missing.  an intern in our office helped me with that one :/

'K' is the one that upsets me that I don't know.  I can see the building in  my head but can't think of the name.  I keep telling myself 'K' is "Kunst-something" but I don't think that's right.  I think 'O' could be another name for steeple or church or something?  like the building element rather than the building itself since it's so generic?

O is the Old North Church in Boston. 

Y is the Yokohama Ferry by FOA, yes. 

i'm with you on the chichen Itza, curtkram. it's got to be right, but the 'Q' is suspect. 

I looks like the japanese tower in brussels, but i can’t find why it would be an ‘I’…

I do know the name of N, because it's fun to say. 

Thanks for Versailles, curt.  Seems there might have been a better, more significant V building? I agree the legitimacy of Q is questionable (get it?).

What is Z? Is it by Zaha?

steven, I assumed that I was for Imperial Palace...

that's not the imperial palace though.  i think 5-tier pagodas are common throughout japan and maybe china too.  maybe there is one in the back yard of the imperial palace i'm not sure of?

I guess now that I google it, it looks more like the central element of the Imperial Palace (hotel) in Vegas than like the actual Imperial Palace...

I feel like Sydney Opera House would be better than Sears Tower...especially since it's not even called that anymore.  (I could also be partial to Stave churches..but that's just because I'm half Norwegian)   P is a particularly tough one... Parthenon, Pantheon, Pyramids.  The Chrysler is pretty nice..but does it beat the Coliseum?  Or even CCTV? The Glass house vs Golden Gate? Old North Church confused me..cause it'd definitely urban (even though there are some trees). 

Seems a bit too NY centric.

Yes, it's me back from the dead...

I got stumped on some of the same letters mentioned above, but I can't believe how many in an architecture forum don't recognize Neutra's Kaufmann House, an icon of postwar Modernism.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/10/30/arts/20071031_KAUFMAN_SLIDESHOW_index.html

Wow, you're right Emilio, about Kaufmann! But in my defense in that pic in the poster I was reading the dark color as solid not void.  I did *not* see big sheets of glass in that icon!

What's X?  It must be some obscure temple in a city - China? - starting with X.

Here's a hint for M if you want it (building not pictured but mentioned in his works)

I'm pretty sure the image is the A-Z of buildings that Roman Mars has talked about in his podcast 99% Invisible. I've only listened to a few of the first episodes so I'm not 100% certain its of buildings he's mentioned on air, but given a few of them I think it's reasonable. Probably also explains larslarson's critiques.

that image is linked from the 99% invisible podcast site.  i've never listened to him, so i don't have any history there.

This is a temple to Tianhou in the Xiamen province of China.  However it seems it's really not very significant at all with respect to architecture or even temples to this particular deity.

i stumbled across 'a' too, which i did not recognize before.  i'm pretty sure it's one of the wonders you can build in sid meier's civilization :)

I never imagined we'd have so much fun with this when I posted it. Thanks, curt for making it right. Together, we brought loads of traffic to TC. It's almost like the old days!