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Sep 11, 05 1:30 am

1. mini coopers
2. architecture books
3. my blog

Sep 11, 05 1:33 am  · 
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bigness

aerial pictures of railway junctions. they look like zaha's plans. i love them both.

Sep 11, 05 6:06 am  · 
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johndevlin

the numerological underpinnings of the architecture of the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.

Sep 11, 05 7:53 am  · 
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citizen

Floor plans @ 1/4"=1'-0"

Sep 11, 05 11:19 am  · 
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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...

Sep 11, 05 11:32 am  · 
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norm

carbon fiber

Sep 11, 05 12:37 pm  · 
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liberty bell

An impeccable line weight system on 2-D drawings.

Sep 11, 05 3:20 pm  · 
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abracadabra

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

Sep 11, 05 4:48 pm  · 
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sameolddoctor


call me a teenager, but i dont care!
Sep 11, 05 4:56 pm  · 
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doberman

beat me to the post doc i was just about to write 'ferraris', childish and immature, i know, i know...

Sep 11, 05 5:18 pm  · 
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le bossman

tools, mostly drafting and construction tools, books, nudity. downhill skiing.

Sep 11, 05 7:26 pm  · 
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Schnurrbart

Polished wood
Waxed red Venetian plaster
Featherbeds

Sep 11, 05 7:43 pm  · 
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Josh Emig

Tower cranes. Turns out I'm not alone.

Sep 11, 05 7:57 pm  · 
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bigness

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?

Sep 11, 05 7:58 pm  · 
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3ifs

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'...

Sep 11, 05 9:36 pm  · 
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Richard - you don't touch the old box escorts too? Dem them were sweets

Sep 11, 05 10:29 pm  · 
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upside

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

Sep 12, 05 3:15 am  · 
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lletdownl

girl singers in rock bands

girl bass players in rock bands

rail road tycoon

let down

cold weather

Sep 12, 05 10:03 am  · 
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MysteryMan

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

Sep 12, 05 11:01 am  · 
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johndevlin

Austin Mini

Sep 12, 05 1:23 pm  · 
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Francisco David Boira

my ride

and my girlfriend of course!!

Sep 12, 05 1:35 pm  · 
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FRO

the most recent object of my lust:



and they work even better than they look.

Sep 12, 05 1:51 pm  · 
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ochona

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/


Sep 12, 05 2:01 pm  · 
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Fixed gear bikes

Axonometric assembly drawings

My G5

Girls in general

Making stuff

Sep 13, 05 7:50 am  · 
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BOTS

my current technology fetish

Sep 13, 05 9:01 am  · 
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liberty bell

Pixel, I too fetishize exploded axonometric assembly drawings, along with perfect line weights. Oh, to have the world so organized, so elegantly fit...

Sep 13, 05 10:01 am  · 
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liberty bell

Also The Public's crane site is beautiful.

Sep 13, 05 10:01 am  · 
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SuperHeavy

industrial sites, esp power plants.

I get all giddy when I see smokestacks, all that concrete...

*shiver*

&

*chills*

Sep 13, 05 10:36 am  · 
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AP

hybrid architectural documents, such as:

sectional perspective (a la Paul Rudolph) aka the persection

drawdel (the drawing/model)

perspectronometric renderings


and the like...

Sep 13, 05 1:15 pm  · 
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Alana

rooftops: finding ways onto them. The always changing view from them.

Sep 13, 05 6:24 pm  · 
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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,

Sep 13, 05 6:49 pm  · 
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johndevlin

the gardens of mental institutions

Sep 15, 05 9:23 am  · 
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AP
"styling"
Sep 15, 05 12:11 pm  · 
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AP

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..."

Sep 15, 05 12:13 pm  · 
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johndevlin

spelling






(this has become a OCD with me. I have stopped correcting others'; try to concentrate only on my own)

Sep 15, 05 3:30 pm  · 
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French

houses

Sep 15, 05 3:32 pm  · 
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French

oh and sci fi movies

Sep 15, 05 3:33 pm  · 
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SuperHeavy

jd, I too fetishize over spelling,

and I find it funny neither of us seems to care too terribly about proper punctuation

Sep 15, 05 3:39 pm  · 
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johndevlin

oh no: I fetishize about proper punctuation, too: it's just that I haven't mastered it, and never will...

Sep 15, 05 3:44 pm  · 
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Dazed and Confused

FAILURE - I AM OBSESSED WITH FAILURE

(stemming with a healthy fear of success)

Sep 15, 05 11:04 pm  · 
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el jeffe
U B U W E B

, thankfully back online

Sep 16, 05 2:25 am  · 
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guiggster

jackets

Sep 16, 05 2:27 am  · 
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el jeffe

making fun of ironic detachment while practicing it.

Sep 16, 05 3:07 am  · 
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levasser

chimneys
mechanical pencils
thighs
and i'm there with the spelling, too (and grammar, except online)

Sep 16, 05 7:51 am  · 
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bobross

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...

Sep 16, 05 7:08 pm  · 
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Ms Beary

coffee
internet

Sep 16, 05 8:50 pm  · 
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fordified

iPod's packaging makes me quiver.

Sep 16, 05 11:44 pm  · 
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fordified

also, purging. in autocad. i love me a clean set of layers.....

Sep 16, 05 11:50 pm  · 
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newuser

late night drives to the zoo.

Sep 17, 05 12:30 am  · 
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newuser

somebody in my area owns a private zoo

Sep 17, 05 12:31 am  · 
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