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Greg Lynn Form VS Dildo Arch-Studio

Kristix You! Black Emperor

Can you find the difference between this

and this


...so difficult...

and population is growing

 
Sep 23, 05 4:35 pm
sameolddoctor

slowly i am
losing the respect i had
for greg lynn

and his endevours
which are being
reduced to form finding only

Sep 23, 05 4:39 pm  · 
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ochona

the latter object actually has a function

Sep 23, 05 4:39 pm  · 
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Kristix You! Black Emperor

ochona so you're a girl...like...

Sep 23, 05 4:46 pm  · 
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mdler

sameolddoctor,

you once had respect for Greg Lynn?

Sep 23, 05 4:48 pm  · 
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cynic

was greg lynn ever about anything other than form?.....i don't think he has ever denied his passion for glossy, blobular forms...it's just that now he doesn't even try to pass it off as architecture anymore. now it's just playing with play-doh and calling it an exhibit. Duchamp and Warhol would be proud....

Sep 23, 05 4:51 pm  · 
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el jeffe

Aside from Greg Lynn curating an exhibition, why does Roxy Paine get dragged down into this?

Sep 23, 05 5:15 pm  · 
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Manteno_Montenegro

the second picture
would make me think of my own
if I were a girl

Sep 23, 05 5:24 pm  · 
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Israel Kandarian

his office IS called form...pretty sure he knows what he is doing.

Sep 23, 05 5:30 pm  · 
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ochona

i've seen "the office", i know what that thing is.

Sep 23, 05 5:38 pm  · 
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Francisco David Boira

Do you even know what those projects are?
That's not Greg Lynn's work. This was part of a show called Intricacy, curated by Greg Lynn two years ago. Those "red globby things" are called Scumak a project by artist Roxy Paine he builds machines that reproduce the vagaries of man-made actions. His work is amazing.
Some googling around might "enlighten" this thread.
have fun!

Sep 23, 05 5:39 pm  · 
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Manteno_Montenegro

you know what girls say...
it's the girth and not the length
so that dildo rocks!

Sep 23, 05 5:41 pm  · 
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el jeffe

M_M,
Is today your day off? You're gonna need to get seriously drunk to get the 5-7-5 OCD outta your head tonight.

BTW, that's Preston Scott Cohen's model above Roxy's work.

Sep 23, 05 5:48 pm  · 
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Francisco David Boira

Yep. A lot other projects were part of this exhibition, Peter Eisenman, Karl Chu and many other artists as well.

Sep 23, 05 5:51 pm  · 
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ochona

if i'm not mistaken, the initials on the -- um -- onanism assistance device -- say "OJ".

Sep 23, 05 5:51 pm  · 
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Manteno_Montenegro

If it helps el jeffe, I'll camoflauge my haiku, with one line sentence.

Sep 23, 05 5:53 pm  · 
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Yeah, Roxy Paine is heavily into reenactment (whether he knows it or not).

Anyone here also actually visit/see the Intricacy exhibit? I wasn't all that impressed. "Force fit" often came to my mind, besides reenactment, that is.

Sep 23, 05 5:58 pm  · 
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el jeffe

Rita,
This remined me of you when I came across it today.

You can change the form all you want M_M...

Sep 23, 05 6:02 pm  · 
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Manteno_Montenegro

[list=1]
[*]that's fine then el jeffe
[*]that's exactly what I'll do
[*]even with bullets!
[/list]

Sep 23, 05 6:06 pm  · 
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Manteno_Montenegro

CONFOUNDED MACHINES!

Sep 23, 05 6:08 pm  · 
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el jeffe

ha!
you blinked!!!!

Sep 23, 05 6:09 pm  · 
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Thanks el jeffe, and the link you offered then remined me of this.

And here's some more on Intricacy.

Sep 23, 05 6:20 pm  · 
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el jeffe

Rita,
I was able to see Roxy's work here (I'll take what I can as it blows thru the high desert like a tumbleweed) but tell me more about the reenactment reading.

Sep 23, 05 6:28 pm  · 
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el jeffe, I want to tell you more, but right now I'm not sure if I'm confusing Paine with another artist. There is an artist that devised a machine that 'reenacted' the human digestive system, which ultimately produced turds. I can't readily find any exact reference online right now (but I know its in a magazine I have somewhere). This digestion machine looks a lot like the blob making machine of Paine, so maybe that's why I'm (possibly) confused.

Paine's aluminium tree and the specimen display cases of "second nature" have a strong reenactment quality. Plus the whole notion of "second nature" implies a reenactment (albeit with degrees of separation) of "first nature".

If I'm correct in thinking that Paine also did the digestion machine, then the notion of reenactment within his work is even more sound.

Sep 23, 05 6:52 pm  · 
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innes

^
the artist is wim delvoye.

see also AVL, under new projects/total faecal solution.

Sep 23, 05 7:17 pm  · 
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el jeffe

wish i had....experienced...this.

Sep 23, 05 7:32 pm  · 
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lifeform

you sure you dont mean the uberorgan by tim hawkinson:

Sep 23, 05 10:45 pm  · 
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vado retro

great idea for the science fair.

Sep 24, 05 8:58 am  · 
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Louisville Architect

in some of the other conversations there are heated discussions about why architects can't command respect from the general public, why we don't make more, and why people think architecture is frivolous. should i just link them to this thread?

i mean - the greg lynn exhibit at the top and that pic lifeform posted (which i hope is the work of an artist) - wtf are we doing? if it's experimental and can lead to something useful, great, but let's keep it to ourselves for now, shall we? don't want the public to see what 'architecture' is about if this is what we've got.

Sep 24, 05 10:44 am  · 
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jss273nyc

wait a minute....somebody actually had respect for greg lynn prior to his dildo exhibit?

Sep 24, 05 11:31 am  · 
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the cellardoor whore

'wtf are we doing?'

who is this we? when did we become we?

'slowly i am
losing the respect i had
for greg lynn

and his endevours
which are being
reduced to form finding only'

as far as i can remember, greg lynn has always been greg lynn ( greg lynn as we know him - rather than a naurical creature,from shore to shore. as in gehry or graves ).
your respect lost must have nothing to do with how much more or less form finding he does now.

a columbia graduate who describes something as 'amazing' and 'globby'. what are they teaching kids these days. they probably smoke some hashish between max and maya tutorial *shock horror*.

if i care, i would have believed warhol wouldn't really have cared. first he was too much of an egoist to admire or admit much that wasnt of his making or publicizing(even garbage) and secondly it doesnt strike me as being his sense of humour. lynn seems a bit too goodie two shoes. and cummon, those forms are every bit dirtyminded as i am virginal. they're ultrahygienic. even alessi cutlery is more 'erotic'.

Sep 24, 05 11:39 am  · 
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vado retro

yeah but electric light orchestra was pretty damn good.

Sep 24, 05 12:29 pm  · 
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hotsies

What are all of you scared of? Krisitx!, why does this exhibition and the work shown frighten you so much that you feel the need to try and contain it through being hateful? The most enlightening fact about those of you who put this exhibition down is how little you actualy knew of it, who the artists were, what work belonged to whom, etc...which is what makes me believe that you simply are scared of what you dont know, instead of honestly critical or the work shown.

Confront your fears. Youll enjoy life and architecture much more.

Sep 24, 05 12:38 pm  · 
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vado retro

you scare me hotsies.

Sep 24, 05 1:00 pm  · 
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trace™

scares me too....is he suggesting we all buy dildos?

Sep 24, 05 1:11 pm  · 
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Sep 24, 05 1:16 pm  · 
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BigAaron
Sep 24, 05 1:30 pm  · 
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rajish
nice
Sep 24, 05 1:35 pm  · 
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Francisco David Boira

dear whore:
As you might have noticed the term "globby" was intented to fit more with the crowd usually found around these posts. Nothing usefull ever comes out from these threads given the fact that a grand majority relies on this posts to express their frustrations with the profession and architectural academia.
PS: I have to say that the dildo shown above works quite nicely as a "near figure" approach to architecture...gotta love the baroque. ;)

Sep 24, 05 1:37 pm  · 
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rajish

David, I think you gotta love dildos, right?

Sep 24, 05 1:42 pm  · 
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"Nothing usefull ever comes out from these threads..."

...talk about posts to express denial.

I'm not an expert, but I am interested in the subliminal effect of costly tuitions. I mean, how can you not automatically defend that which cost you so much to learn?



No one ever tells you how much fun it is to bite all the hands that don't feed you.



Sep 24, 05 2:00 pm  · 
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Kristix You! Black Emperor

Sep 24, 05 4:29 pm  · 
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liberty bell
Sep 24, 05 5:16 pm  · 
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lifeform: uberorgan was a great exhibit... gotta love MassMOCA

Sep 25, 05 12:33 pm  · 
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liberty bell

Does anyone know why sometimes an image post is successful, then the next day gives you an ad like the angelfire one above? Is there a way to circumvent this?

Sep 25, 05 4:25 pm  · 
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johndevlin

isn't the Real Thing much more aesthetic, and holy (yes: holy) than some abomination fashioned out of plastic??

Sep 25, 05 6:19 pm  · 
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vado retro

cognitions and judgements must, along with the conviction that accompanies them, admit of universal communicability; for otherwise there would be no harmony between them and the Object, and they would be collectively a mere subjective play of the reepresentative powers, exactly as scepticism desires. But, if cognitions are to admit of communicability, so must also the state fo mind, i.e. the accordance of the cognitive powers with a cognitiongenerally, and that proportion of them which is suitable for a representation(by which the object is given to us) in order that a cognition may be made out of it-admit of universal communicability. For without this as the subjective condition of cognition, cognition as an effect could not arise. This actually always takes place when a given object by means of Wense excites the Imagination to coolect the maniflod, and the Imagination in its turn excites the Understanding to bring about a unity of this collective process in concepts. But this accordance of the cognitive poweres has a different proportion according to the variety of the Objects which are given.

Sep 25, 05 6:31 pm  · 
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Louisville Architect

vado, i prefer the song lyrics.

Sep 26, 05 8:40 am  · 
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JohnProlly

Blah blah blah form blah blah blah dildo... blah blah anal beads

Sep 26, 05 9:52 am  · 
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vado retro

okay from kant to kiss:

the plasters gettin harder and my love is perfection.
a token of my love for her collection.
plaster caster plaster caster
grab hold of me plaster faster
if you wanna see my love just ask her

Sep 27, 05 11:30 pm  · 
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JohnProlly

The only problem I have with Greg Lynn is that in all of his experimentation with form, his ideas very rarely become an inhabitable building. Because his work relies so heavily on machining, it's hard to emulate the same intent at a larger scale.

The Dildo was a good comparison, everything is already phallic.

This still would be a good exhibit to see.

Sep 28, 05 9:27 am  · 
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