places that are lived in. inhabitation, and designing/making buildings founded on its anticipation, is always a difficult sticking point with colleagues, sometimes clients...it must be a fetish cuz i cant splain it rationally...
i am into timing my tops. 18 seconds to 4.34 min., reached.. over 4 minutes happen ones in a while. it is all about, fabrication, materials, balance, physics and throwing skills. comparing to some of these high performance turbo's, eames' tops are just an opening act. ;)
i have my films too.
they gave me a screwdriver and a broken radio in preschool (too hyper for naptime), and ive been trying to turn broken white goods into a death-ray ever since.
Pixel, I too fetishize exploded axonometric assembly drawings, along with perfect line weights. Oh, to have the world so organized, so elegantly fit...
"inanimate object thought to be endowed with magical and mystical powers. In Egyptian times this was an animal skin hanging from a stick. It was used by the cults of Osiris and Anubis."
or
"excessive or irrational devotion to some activity..."
what is your fetish?
Share your obsessions on archinect, you know you can't stay in that domus lined closet forever. Step to the light. Share your dark complusions.
1. mini coopers
2. architecture books
3. my blog
aerial pictures of railway junctions. they look like zaha's plans. i love them both.
the numerological underpinnings of the architecture of the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
Floor plans @ 1/4"=1'-0"
places that are lived in. inhabitation, and designing/making buildings founded on its anticipation, is always a difficult sticking point with colleagues, sometimes clients...it must be a fetish cuz i cant splain it rationally...
carbon fiber
An impeccable line weight system on 2-D drawings.
i am into timing my tops. 18 seconds to 4.34 min., reached.. over 4 minutes happen ones in a while. it is all about, fabrication, materials, balance, physics and throwing skills. comparing to some of these high performance turbo's, eames' tops are just an opening act. ;)
i have my films too.
group portrait
call me a teenager, but i dont care!
beat me to the post doc i was just about to write 'ferraris', childish and immature, i know, i know...
tools, mostly drafting and construction tools, books, nudity. downhill skiing.
Polished wood
Waxed red Venetian plaster
Featherbeds
Tower cranes. Turns out I'm not alone.
tuning up vespas...
tuning up city cars
tuning up old fiats.
making anything old, rusty and ugly, go faster than it normally does and probably should.
all of this done with the least care for details possible.
stickers, specially skateboarding/snowboarding brands
crome
apple products
cromed apple products
porn. the more gigabytes the better
an empty desktop on my laptop.
man, ii've got loads...
is an obsessive compulsive personality common among Architects?
cliche of course, but i have a genuine fountain pen fetish.
i was into VWs for a long time, but lately its been BMWs and Audis... basically any european car sets my heart a flutter.
i also really enjoy fixing things, anything i can fix or think i can fix, i will try.
and then there's my personal 'projects'...
Richard - you don't touch the old box escorts too? Dem them were sweets
they gave me a screwdriver and a broken radio in preschool (too hyper for naptime), and ive been trying to turn broken white goods into a death-ray ever since.
melted cheese.
skinnydipping.
mangos and icecream
dungeons & dragons
girl singers in rock bands
girl bass players in rock bands
rail road tycoon
let down
cold weather
I'm wit' The Public on the 'Tower Cranes'
Also,
* Muscle Cars (that sometimes run & don't drop chunks of rust)
+ Mainly '67-'71 MoPars
* Coffee
Austin Mini
my ride
and my girlfriend of course!!
the most recent object of my lust:
and they work even better than they look.
cycloid vaults, but nobody's let me use one yet...but i shall someday...and they shall all see...ha!
also vespas (except for the ET models) and the moscow metro system.
http://www.metro.ru/
Fixed gear bikes
Axonometric assembly drawings
My G5
Girls in general
Making stuff
my current technology fetish
Pixel, I too fetishize exploded axonometric assembly drawings, along with perfect line weights. Oh, to have the world so organized, so elegantly fit...
Also The Public's crane site is beautiful.
industrial sites, esp power plants.
I get all giddy when I see smokestacks, all that concrete...
*shiver*
&
*chills*
hybrid architectural documents, such as:
sectional perspective (a la Paul Rudolph) aka the persection
drawdel (the drawing/model)
perspectronometric renderings
and the like...
rooftops: finding ways onto them. The always changing view from them.
Nice obsession Alana, very amelie-ish,
Right now I find myself obssessed with portfolio making, and oveall grad school stuff.
My other enjoyment is the occassional vegan chocolate chip cookie with a tall glass of milk.
And ofcourse my wife, without her, I dont get the energy to work on the grad-stuff, or the cookies,
the gardens of mental institutions
define: fetish
"inanimate object thought to be endowed with magical and mystical powers. In Egyptian times this was an animal skin hanging from a stick. It was used by the cults of Osiris and Anubis."
or
"excessive or irrational devotion to some activity..."
spelling
(this has become a OCD with me. I have stopped correcting others'; try to concentrate only on my own)
houses
oh and sci fi movies
jd, I too fetishize over spelling,
and I find it funny neither of us seems to care too terribly about proper punctuation
oh no: I fetishize about proper punctuation, too: it's just that I haven't mastered it, and never will...
FAILURE - I AM OBSESSED WITH FAILURE
(stemming with a healthy fear of success)
, thankfully back online
jackets
making fun of ironic detachment while practicing it.
chimneys
mechanical pencils
thighs
and i'm there with the spelling, too (and grammar, except online)
Los Angeles Freeways...driving them, photographing them, watching them get built and most especially, aerial photographs of them...ummmm
I liked the crane porn too...
coffee
internet
iPod's packaging makes me quiver.
also, purging. in autocad. i love me a clean set of layers.....
late night drives to the zoo.
somebody in my area owns a private zoo
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