i write the manifestos (to be sung to "i write the songs"
i have been around forever and i penned the very first manifest-o sure there may have been others but undoubtedly mine is the best-o.
i decreed those passionate convictions and condemned the decadent bourgeiousie so when you think manifesto i am the best so think of me.
i write the manifests that make the architect geeks weep i write the manifests that put a normal person to sleep i write the manifests read by those who wear all black those who chain smoke and develop that hack i write the manifests that are just so unfun but you got to read them for arch theory 101 i write the manifestos that make the young girls cry
My current manifesto summed up pretty well by Michael Pollan in this excellent interview on Econ Talk:
Michael Pollan: Yeah. Well, the line--one of the things you learn is the line between profundity and banality is very fine--
Russ Roberts: It sure is--
Michael Pollan: And, our brains are tuned for novelty, you know? We are--you know--with good reason. It was very adaptive to notice new things in the environment, and take familiar things for granted. And one of the things that happens on psychedelics--and this can happen through meditation, too--is a deep appreciation of the familiar. You know, of the woman you've been in a relationship with for, you know, 30 years. Of your children, the wonder of having children. And the wonder of love. And, so, I work very hard in the book to describe that, and kind of--
Russ Roberts: you do a great job--
Michael Pollan: and finally I conclude that, you know: Yes, these are platitudes: that love is the most important thing. But what is a platitude? It's a truth from which all the emotion has been drained.And you can re-saturate that dried husk, in a way. And psychedelics can help you do it. And suddenly youfeel it with that full force. And it's a wonderful thing when it happens.
So: truth. I'm interested in truths.
Sep 26, 18 7:41 pm ·
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Wilma Buttfit
I can make a lie detector with a battery and a notebook wire.
there are those who don't touch the stove because they listened when they were taught. there are those who had to touch the stove to learn. then there are those....
6. learn first aid
Sep 26, 18 9:47 pm ·
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Wilma Buttfit
We call this Indian lessons. This is out of respect.
i started reading don quixote. i think i'm going to bring chivalry back. bring the golden age back into the iron age. that might be my new manifesto for a while.
Sep 26, 18 9:49 pm ·
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Wilma Buttfit
Congrats on starting to read.
Sep 26, 18 10:35 pm ·
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curtkram
it's hard to read. but then, what doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.
#X. the use of shipping containers is equal to killing two rocks with one bird... except that the bird is an over-ripe avocado and the two rocks is a metaphor about terrible first year studio ideas.
Sep 26, 18 11:00 pm ·
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Wilma Buttfit
This is a good one. Who first thought of the shipping container building? Where are they now?
Sep 26, 18 11:17 pm ·
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Non Sequitur
Thanks... I won't reveal how long it took me to compose it.
#X. Know what you know, and know what you don't know. Work on knowing the things you don't know. "Fake it 'til you make it" is not something to aspire to, nor to admire in others.
Sep 26, 18 11:51 pm ·
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curtkram
X++ if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit.
i write the manifestos (to be sung to "i write the songs"
i have been around forever and i penned the very first manifest-o sure there may have been others but undoubtedly mine is the best-o.
i decreed those passionate convictions and condemned the decadent bourgeiousie so when you think manifesto i am the best so think of me.
i write the manifests that make the architect geeks weep i write the manifests that put a normal person to sleep i write the manifests read by those who wear all black those who chain smoke and develop that hack i write the manifests that are just so unfun but you got to read them for arch theory 101 i write the manifestos that make the young girls cry
I love beer and I come from a privileged background. This is the only language I am including in my resume from now on. It means I'm highly qualified for manly positions.
Mine, from the same thread as vado's above, still works for me:
Toward a quiet architecture.
Modern architecture has often privileged the programmatic object-figure over considerations for continuity of the environment-field. The field remains unconsidered, underdeveloped, or ancillary to the disengaged and attention-grabbing object-figure.
In contrast, pre-modern urban forms evolved with a normative environment-field as the primary condition of urban engagement and cohesiveness which, once established, could then accommodate complementary incidental figures.
Architects’ desire for recognition has prompted us to take every opportunity to draw attention to our projects, thereby continually adding to the visual clamor and chaos that defines the contemporary cityscape.
Declare your manifesto
Perhaps you know Bruce Mau's manifesto, perhaps you just heard of it. I think we should start manifesting right here, right now.
1. Open a book and it will in turn open you. The point of education is not to get smarter but to reduce ignorance.
2. Take today off. You'll probably get more done this way anyways.
(Ok to be in draft form. It is an incomplete manifesto. For growth.)
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the barry mani(fest)low
i write the manifestos (to be sung to "i write the songs"
i have been around forever
and i penned the very first manifest-o
sure there may have been others
but undoubtedly mine is the best-o.
i decreed those passionate convictions
and condemned the decadent bourgeiousie
so when you think manifesto
i am the best
so think of me.
i write the manifests that make the architect geeks weep
i write the manifests that put a normal person to sleep
i write the manifests read by those who wear all black
those who chain smoke and develop that hack
i write the manifests that are just so unfun
but you got to read them for arch theory 101
i write the manifestos that make the young girls cry
i write the manifestos
i write the manifestos...
Learn from those around you. If Rick thinks it's a bad idea, then it is probably a good idea.
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3. Just say ok. Ok can be the best sentence you can speak. It makes everything ok.
This is why it is a good word. It means yes now but no later and you will understand someday.
4. Avoid negativity. You don't want that stuff all over you. If you are accidentally exposed to it, seek refuge. Perhaps in a stairwell.
Don't open Autocad. Keep it open. Opening and closing it all the time shortens telemeres. Or something.
Wherever you go, there you are.
This is what the gypys (GPS) says. Don't trust it.
#2: It's all relative.
Relatives are relative.
Where there’s a will, there’s a relative.
where some relatives are relatives, other relatives arent relative.
What the heck did I just type, lol
Does aphorism equal manifesto?
Aphorisms create manifestos. Excellent thinking.
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, lady.
That last one would be a womanifesto
#X. I accidently watched the news today. Oh boy.
That's not a manifesto...
My current manifesto summed up pretty well by Michael Pollan in this excellent interview on Econ Talk:
Michael Pollan: Yeah. Well, the line--one of the things you learn is the line between profundity and banality is very fine--
Russ Roberts: It sure is--
Michael Pollan: And, our brains are tuned for novelty, you know? We are--you know--with good reason. It was very adaptive to notice new things in the environment, and take familiar things for granted. And one of the things that happens on psychedelics--and this can happen through meditation, too--is a deep appreciation of the familiar. You know, of the woman you've been in a relationship with for, you know, 30 years. Of your children, the wonder of having children. And the wonder of love. And, so, I work very hard in the book to describe that, and kind of--
Russ Roberts: you do a great job--
Michael Pollan: and finally I conclude that, you know: Yes, these are platitudes: that love is the most important thing. But what is a platitude? It's a truth from which all the emotion has been drained. And you can re-saturate that dried husk, in a way. And psychedelics can help you do it. And suddenly you feel it with that full force. And it's a wonderful thing when it happens.
So: truth. I'm interested in truths.
I can make a lie detector with a battery and a notebook wire.
Or MDMA.
Do good work. Work hard. Be nice. Get paid.
1. Bacon is a way of living.
2. Salamida before Lupos.
3. Lupos fries before Salamidas.
4. O&H not Racine.
5. Landscape is a verb.
On a tangentially related note: I saw a diet book called Eat Bacon, Don't Jog and thought "I can do that".
How is that tangential?
You're right. Bacon is a one-word manifesto.You should delete items 2-5.
there are those who don't touch the stove because they listened when they were taught. there are those who had to touch the stove to learn. then there are those....
6. learn first aid
We call this Indian lessons. This is out of respect.
Reminds me of ... There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) those who can count, and B) those who can't.
i started reading don quixote. i think i'm going to bring chivalry back. bring the golden age back into the iron age. that might be my new manifesto for a while.
Congrats on starting to read.
it's hard to read. but then, what doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.
What doesn’t kill you just beats the living crap out of you.
7. Most good designers take their work seriously, but do not take themselves seriously.
^Ive found this to be a pretty accurate bullshit judgment meter...
Architects are assholes.
#X. the use of shipping containers is equal to killing two rocks with one bird... except that the bird is an over-ripe avocado and the two rocks is a metaphor about terrible first year studio ideas.
This is a good one. Who first thought of the shipping container building? Where are they now?
Thanks... I won't reveal how long it took me to compose it.
#X. Know what you know, and know what you don't know. Work on knowing the things you don't know. "Fake it 'til you make it" is not something to aspire to, nor to admire in others.
X++ if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit.
In a room full of yeses, be the k[no]w.
If you're the only one in the room who knows what's going on, leave.
If the contractor is paying for the job with the client's money, fire the contractor.
Good, cheap, or fast - pick two, you can't have all three.
Nice, cheap, fast - pick ONE.
Your mother doesn't work here. But we all kinda wish she did so she can keep you in line and clean up after you.
"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms."
- Muriel Rukeyser
"Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me?" - Jack Handy
We are living in post-manifesto times.
"This is just a tribute." https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2BDpNV6DaL._SX330_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
from another era of archinect...circa 2006
the barry mani(fest)low
i write the manifestos (to be sung to "i write the songs"
i have been around forever
and i penned the very first manifest-o
sure there may have been others
but undoubtedly mine is the best-o.
i decreed those passionate convictions
and condemned the decadent bourgeiousie
so when you think manifesto
i am the best
so think of me.
i write the manifests that make the architect geeks weep
i write the manifests that put a normal person to sleep
i write the manifests read by those who wear all black
those who chain smoke and develop that hack
i write the manifests that are just so unfun
but you got to read them for arch theory 101
i write the manifestos that make the young girls cry
i write the manifestos
i write the manifestos...
Barry Mani(fest)low is pure gold...
Coffee, black. Tequila, neat.
a manifesto
has to work as a haiku
or it is absurd
Learn from those around you. If Rick thinks it's a bad idea, then it is probably a good idea.
Use words no one else does. I used the word penultimate today. I think it made me look smrt.
"The purpose of life is not happiness it is usefulness"
When you find yourself being judgmental, use it to reflect upon yourself.
Brush and floss. Thanks for the reminder, Senator Graham.
Yes.
One term in office followed by one term in prison.
orchestrate your conceptual manifesto
I love beer and I come from a privileged background. This is the only language I am including in my resume from now on. It means I'm highly qualified for manly positions.
Mine, from the same thread as vado's above, still works for me:
Toward a quiet architecture.
Modern architecture has often privileged the programmatic object-figure over considerations for continuity of the environment-field. The field remains unconsidered, underdeveloped, or ancillary to the disengaged and attention-grabbing object-figure.
In contrast, pre-modern urban forms evolved with a normative environment-field as the primary condition of urban engagement and cohesiveness which, once established, could then accommodate complementary incidental figures. Architects’ desire for recognition has prompted us to take every opportunity to draw attention to our projects, thereby continually adding to the visual clamor and chaos that defines the contemporary cityscape.
Why can’t we just be quiet for a change?
x++. get off my lawn
ignore settings are the best setting.
Hey, it's just business.
can't see it from my house
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