I've tried being savagely honest a few times lately and it's gotten me nothing but scorn. Men hate when women aren't caretakers of their emotions. But Judith Chafee is my spiritual guide these days.
Friday morning creative thought: you know how people who have been caught drunk driving have to have breathalyzers in their cars? I was just thinking that there should be a similar device for people who constantly tell lies, even if it's the ones they tell themselves, could benefit from a similar device that was fixed to their body like a patch on the wrist or something that had lie detector technology and would zap them everytime they lied.
Dammit donna! If you have truly felt this way for the past couple weeks I hope you can find something positive to focus on, otherwise it will be a very long 4-8 years, life is far too short to waste energy like that
You guys recall that I work not in an architecture firm but with a bunch of people without degrees, or with a general BA or something that just sort of landed in whatever career/job they are doing. Architects tend to be passionate and driven and committed about our work, and that makes for a certain workplace dynamic that can be great, or not. I'm surrounded by lots of people who really just see their job as a means to make money. It's gotten depressing.
To piggy back on Quondam, I'm pretty sure the fact my dating life is awful is that deep down I don't want to have to take care of anyone else. Maybe my exes were right and I'm a selfish prick.
I work too much and enjoy spending time by myself doing hobbies too much. No room left after that.
Josh that is because you know you can depend on your work and have faith in your work because you are the person who performs the work. You can always count on the work, even if there is none because its what you do and what you want to take care of. Accept your mad genius or workaholic self and someone will take care of you. Sometimes you get mad at the work and depressed and loose faith in yourself, that other person will just let you know on that day the work did not matter. I suggest you try other types of people, not other professionals or persons with like interests.
what ninja? so NS, I am thinking of a new blog project. AOR and theorist and critic but for my kids project. thinking, Youngminds AOR or Freeminds AOR. simple premise, asked my daughters 5 and 8 to design a much needed car port under the pine tree. Tree sap is hard to get off a car (gasoline). The 8 year old went gamer after I explained plans and elevations, a four section drawing on one page, top view, side view, etc....the 5 year old proposed bombs as part of the building elements. as the AOR would take those designs into a very serious AOR role, CDs, code analysis, etc.....on the theory end, was thinking to ask them to do old real design competitions and see what they come up with and then wax heavy on the theiry....lastly, imagine a studio pin-up with a toddler showing their block models and scribbles and a crowd of black wearing jurists with legs crossed and hands to chin seriously deliberating about the proposal, maybe getting animated and yelling about the abuse of post modernity in the toddlers colorful block proposal.....thoughts?
I got my toddler a book about design earlier this week and we have been reading it every night. She loves it and has been creating some great stuff with play dough... Landscapes with colorful and well formed flowers and play dough clothing for her dolls. She is very in tune with color, size, shape, number, contrast, & composition already. Link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/Book-About-Design-Complicated-Doesnt/dp/0805075755
That's one fun critique you describe Chris. I'd go one step further and draw right on the presentation, just like in the good old days of my studios.
What's this pile of blocks? Rubish, why don't you stack them on their corners, bend gravity to suit my poorly thought-out criticism! I think pre post-modernity will make a comeback.
Josh I just built myself a beast of a pc with a SSD. Great stuff.
well Non, i have done that to the models or little worlds the kids build, you know - move a piece here and there just to be a dick. the typical reaction is panic, arms flapping, screaming and crying and being called "Rude". then I say something like "yeah, wasn't symmetrical." and the reaction is something like "what is symmetrical" or the older getting more smarter makes everything symmetrical and goes into a tirade ending with "is your life really that sad? see i made everything symmetrical blah blah.". for those moments, messing with the models is just worth it. wonder if thats why studio profs did such things?
popping back in to say, to Donna re: your comment earlier: I've been thinking a lot about why I'm so happy lately, and quite honestly a LOT of it has to do with my colleagues. I'm at a firm currently where literally everyone I work with is great. Nice people, good workers, funny, engaging -- I could be stuck on a long drive to a job site meeting with any one of them and thoroughly enjoy it. I fully realize how rare (in the larger world) that is. (Every single colleague at my spouse's workplace is truly awful.) However, I do think that it is usually one of the perks of working as an architect. Architects are generally intelligent, articulate, and hard working. We don't always agree on everything, and not all architects have the greatest sense of humor, but most of us do, and most of us are pretty great to work with. Over the years I've made a lot of true friends out of colleagues, and I think that's probably fairly unusual in the larger working world.
Maybe it's time to give firm life another shot...?
Does anyone have access to a simple graphic representation of the differing densities of urban environment from core downtown through medium density through streetcar suburb through donut suburb through exurb? Someone must have produced one since the 70s.
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That's a trade secret. Also, beer.
Cool.
Well, I got the email too hence the foreplay.
I've never gotten anything good for being savage but honest.
I have no idea why I keep doing it.
Oh yeah. It's fun.
I've tried being savagely honest a few times lately and it's gotten me nothing but scorn. Men hate when women aren't caretakers of their emotions. But Judith Chafee is my spiritual guide these days.
I'm exhausted and haven't had more than 20 hours sleep this week. Anyone else just want to stare at a wall?
Have you tried to get the 6 month old to change its own nappies yet? Train them early.
Not yet. We've currently working on teaching him not to rip my glasses off of my face.
That's just an excuse to get shiny new glasses, innit?
make sure they're obnoxious glasses otherwise you're not a real designer.
They obviously are obnoxious... please.... and I have several pairs with the same prescription. 3 cheers for free eye-care plan!
Strange thing is, mine are the only glasses he grabs. His mother's glasses are oddly free of teeny-tiny finger print smudges.
That's cuz he wants to see more of your handsome kisser!
Friday morning creative thought: you know how people who have been caught drunk driving have to have breathalyzers in their cars? I was just thinking that there should be a similar device for people who constantly tell lies, even if it's the ones they tell themselves, could benefit from a similar device that was fixed to their body like a patch on the wrist or something that had lie detector technology and would zap them everytime they lied.
The Lie-alyzer.
We're gonna need about, oh... seven billion of 'em.
^most of them I feel will need to be shipped to Astoria, or.
I'm a few posts late, but this article about the Ghost Ship fire really sums up my thoughts:
America Has Abandoned Its Artists
Good link, tduds, thanks.
This is a beautiful remembrance of Zaha from the Guardian, written by Zaha's niece, an architect. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/dec/11/zaha-hadid-remembered-by-rana-hadid-niece-architecture-obituary
Things aren't getting better. Everything is getting worse. Everything makes me more sad.
Dammit donna! If you have truly felt this way for the past couple weeks I hope you can find something positive to focus on, otherwise it will be a very long 4-8 years, life is far too short to waste energy like that
Is it wasting energy to work towards a world that's better than the one we have? Why bother being an architect if one believes that?
I'm trying, I'm seriously trying. But the complete shattering of many recent illusions is a hard thing to be skippy happy about. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Has the fan literally been hit that hard Donna?
Dang, forum looks like it must be the end of the semester, lots of virtual dogs eating the homework...
To piggy back on Quondam, I'm pretty sure the fact my dating life is awful is that deep down I don't want to have to take care of anyone else. Maybe my exes were right and I'm a selfish prick.
I work too much and enjoy spending time by myself doing hobbies too much. No room left after that.
Josh that is because you know you can depend on your work and have faith in your work because you are the person who performs the work. You can always count on the work, even if there is none because its what you do and what you want to take care of. Accept your mad genius or workaholic self and someone will take care of you. Sometimes you get mad at the work and depressed and loose faith in yourself, that other person will just let you know on that day the work did not matter. I suggest you try other types of people, not other professionals or persons with like interests.
... oh my, the ninja mask has been cast aside.
what ninja? so NS, I am thinking of a new blog project. AOR and theorist and critic but for my kids project. thinking, Youngminds AOR or Freeminds AOR. simple premise, asked my daughters 5 and 8 to design a much needed car port under the pine tree. Tree sap is hard to get off a car (gasoline). The 8 year old went gamer after I explained plans and elevations, a four section drawing on one page, top view, side view, etc....the 5 year old proposed bombs as part of the building elements. as the AOR would take those designs into a very serious AOR role, CDs, code analysis, etc.....on the theory end, was thinking to ask them to do old real design competitions and see what they come up with and then wax heavy on the theiry....lastly, imagine a studio pin-up with a toddler showing their block models and scribbles and a crowd of black wearing jurists with legs crossed and hands to chin seriously deliberating about the proposal, maybe getting animated and yelling about the abuse of post modernity in the toddlers colorful block proposal.....thoughts?
I got my toddler a book about design earlier this week and we have been reading it every night. She loves it and has been creating some great stuff with play dough... Landscapes with colorful and well formed flowers and play dough clothing for her dolls. She is very in tune with color, size, shape, number, contrast, & composition already. Link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/Book-About-Design-Complicated-Doesnt/dp/0805075755
I bought myself a new iMac with an SSD - holy shit is it fast. Apps open in seconds, not minutes like my old Macbook Pro.
That's one fun critique you describe Chris. I'd go one step further and draw right on the presentation, just like in the good old days of my studios.
What's this pile of blocks? Rubish, why don't you stack them on their corners, bend gravity to suit my poorly thought-out criticism! I think pre post-modernity will make a comeback.
Josh I just built myself a beast of a pc with a SSD. Great stuff.
I found this video about smarter cities, it's interesting that people are now making popular videos about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOOWk5yCMMs
well Non, i have done that to the models or little worlds the kids build, you know - move a piece here and there just to be a dick. the typical reaction is panic, arms flapping, screaming and crying and being called "Rude". then I say something like "yeah, wasn't symmetrical." and the reaction is something like "what is symmetrical" or the older getting more smarter makes everything symmetrical and goes into a tirade ending with "is your life really that sad? see i made everything symmetrical blah blah.". for those moments, messing with the models is just worth it. wonder if thats why studio profs did such things?
and cool book tinnt, they should make that suggested reading for final studio, right after you think you have mastered parametricism.
"But Judith Chafee is my spiritual guide these days." I don't know if I should run or go grab another bottle of bourbon.
I listened to Obama's press conference today. He sounded tired, frustrated, and in disbelief over the blisteringly stupid reality of our situation.
That's how I feel about that "why don't professors like my PMS" thread. Good lord.
Sorry 'bout that.
I just watched the interview on NPR, if that's what you saw too Donna, I agree.
Come on Donna, every time a woman gets mad, it must be her period-time; every man knows that much.
A thread name here until recently was bold, I like it. Suddenly, it's not. Nothing escapes my notice.
Where was that thread on mansplaining? I want to read more about guys telling women how women feel during their period.
popping back in to say, to Donna re: your comment earlier: I've been thinking a lot about why I'm so happy lately, and quite honestly a LOT of it has to do with my colleagues. I'm at a firm currently where literally everyone I work with is great. Nice people, good workers, funny, engaging -- I could be stuck on a long drive to a job site meeting with any one of them and thoroughly enjoy it. I fully realize how rare (in the larger world) that is. (Every single colleague at my spouse's workplace is truly awful.) However, I do think that it is usually one of the perks of working as an architect. Architects are generally intelligent, articulate, and hard working. We don't always agree on everything, and not all architects have the greatest sense of humor, but most of us do, and most of us are pretty great to work with. Over the years I've made a lot of true friends out of colleagues, and I think that's probably fairly unusual in the larger working world.
Maybe it's time to give firm life another shot...?
any denver archinectors want to add a few beers to untapped at lunch today?
Not in Denver... but since I don't have much else to do... I'd love to.
Sadly, i can't.
Does anyone have access to a simple graphic representation of the differing densities of urban environment from core downtown through medium density through streetcar suburb through donut suburb through exurb? Someone must have produced one since the 70s.
Donna, this is for Australian cities, but should hold true across western liberal democracies as the land use planning is similar.
https://chartingtransport.com/2012/10/19/comparing-the-residential-densities-of-australian-cities-2011/
Also, obviously not in denver, but I'd love to join for brews,
Ooh, some good info there, archanonymous, thanks. Love this one:
Donna, you're very welcomed... but perhaps those thanks are meant for archanonymous?
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