And the Campbell Apartment is closing as well, presumably to be replaced with another overpriced bar that plays terrible house music and panders to bros from White Plains wearing salmon-colored shorts. Seems like everything I love about NYC is being destroyed by greed.
The greed is relative, the Four Season's for all intents and purposes, was built and sustained upon greed, I suppose it's only fitting it would be destroyed by the same processes. Doesn't make it any less a loss, but hey, we will always have the pictures...
Wiggum: True, NYC has always been the world capitol of greed. I just wish the new money didn't have such terrible taste. We've gone from the Rockefellers and Stuyvesants to the Trumps and Kardashians.
Thanks archanonymous. I've seen material plus labor, square inch, and linear inch. They all seem to come out around the same range dependent on rate. Definitely not trying to sell for millions of dollars.
Josh, I briefly looked at $/inch but I found it unreasonable since I often use 24x36 & 36x48 canvases. But then again, I've never had to shop for wall art since I've always produced my own. I understand from my people that plenty spend real money to decorate their walls, something I'm clueless about.
This reminds me, I have 3 or 4 pieces in productions which are sitting in a corner. I bought a house in November 2015 then proceeded to carve myself an office/studio out of the basement. It's not finished yet but the new project (baby boy) is taking all my free time. I'm hoping I'll be able to carve up some time when he starts sleeping in his crib for more than 15mins at a time.
I'm back at the office now and I've established a 4am to 1am(next day) schedule. Up at 4 to feed & change then get to office by 7:30am, Leave somewhere around 5:30-6pm, baby cuddles until 1am where the mom takes over while I get my 3hr beauty sleep. So far so good. Little dude passed the 6lbs mark this week and is now 6weeks old.
Keep in mind some of the most beautiful pictures ever are of a dad/husband asleep, exhausted, on a couch with a baby snuggled on top of him, sound asleep too. Those pictures melt my heart every time. So set up LOTS of opportunities for that to happen!
There really is nothing more enjoyable than sitting at the DMV... except maybe paying parking tickets... yeah... I think Im going to get parking tickets for stocking stuffers this year. Merry Christmas! Have a parking ticket.
It was announced today that a project I worked on received one of the 2016 AIA / HUD secretary awards. Kinda stoked about that - and it's on Arch Daily!
I just had to pick up my Washington state drivers license a few weeks ago, and the process made NY look like a model of efficiency by comparison. (Fortunately, my experience of getting my reciprocal registration was the inverse.) I'm pretty sure the DMV pipes in the sound of babies screaming on the speaker system just to spite the people waiting in line.
Can I just say how cool it is to see your first completed project, one you designed on your own, labored to make sure the GC didn't fuck up, on television? I know it makes me a geek, but everyone loves it.
Even better? My client is building more spaces throughout the country.
Even better +? Now they want me to design them a farm.
Even better ++? Looks like my goal of being on my own by end of 2016 is on schedule.
Does anyone us a stylus to markup drawings and renderings in Photoshop or Autodesk Sketchbook Pro? Anyone recommend a good stylus that doesn't cost as much as a bottle of good scotch?
Not looking to start a fight, just thinking out loud, which usually starts a fight... in construction, an apprentice (intern) gets paid shit... $10/hr no bennys until they can learn the skills needed to demand a higher wage AND they know they dont know shit... same is true for architorture, except interns all come out of school thinking they know everything and the practitioner knows nothing, except that nuts and bolts crap. Apprentices are almost hazed in many ways whereas interns are tolerated??? Anyways... low cost production makes the world turn. I too would not look for a partner but a paid position with 0-2 years experience...
A road trip to Mt. Rainier National Park yesterday -- and almost a full day out of cell phone / internet range -- was just what the doctor ordered. I can't imagine moving back to a city where I can't get to places like this on a Saturday and still be home in time for dinner.
My firm designs mostly urban multi-family projects, which is all well and good, but just once in my career I'd love to design a custom house, a ski cabin, or a visitor center somewhere up in the mountains.
there is a big difference between free intern and $10/hr. somewhere in the range of $10/hr. i don't know if that's really where you want your staff in today's dollars or that's where it was 10 years ago, but either way something > nothing.
b3ta, you should post an ad on archinect for a recent graduate looking to work for experience, that can be self-directed, has 10 years of experience in all relevant software, and can bring in new business and clients. you should include a head shot while you're at it. it probably wouldn't be the worst ad from an architecture firm.
I just had a delightful dinner with two graffiti artists from LA. They are both well-known, well-versed in art history and graffitis' place within it, and have both spent time in jail for painting graffiti. I can't get my head around how it makes sense to put someone in jail for an aesthetic enhancement of a public place?!
^^Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the law doesn't differentiate between Banksy and a gangster. Graffitti is also not always restrained to a public place.
What do you think? Aesthetic enhancement or jail time ? :)
Think I will kick back and watch the Circus of Republicans....enjoy a beer or two and fall asleep. This Monday has been Hot and Humid and filled with activity. Night All....
Seriously, you guys - I think Drumpf is in for a long con. He's going to clinch the nomination then after the DNC announce that he was kidding all along, he's not really running, he just wanted to expose the US people to how truly gullible and useless we actually are....right?
Yes, I've thought that same thought, Donna. Fingers crossed.
Three recent nights I've dreamt about people in wheelchairs not having enough room. In one dream, I was in a crowded elevator that a 'capper tried to get into. All of us on the elevator shuffled left and right and packed together but this person could still not fit. I suggested this person wait for the next elevator cab. As if triggered by the sound of my voice, suddenly the ground shifted and the backwall and floor of the elevator shot backward (and up a little bit).Out from underneath the elevator floor a giant segmented ramp unfolded into a bridge out towards the handicapped person. This extension was easily 100 ft long and had no side protection. The handicapped person wheeled up onto the ramp and started towards us but we were still moving backwards too and they could never catch us. The ramp was twisting with the movement and I was afraid they would fall off. Woke up.
My stress dreams are always architecture-related. Crazy 100' long unfurling ramps sound similar. The Piranesi prison drawings are similar, too. Last night it was a version of Philadelphia that was ocean front and a maze of apocalyptic city streets.
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And the Campbell Apartment is closing as well, presumably to be replaced with another overpriced bar that plays terrible house music and panders to bros from White Plains wearing salmon-colored shorts. Seems like everything I love about NYC is being destroyed by greed.
The greed is relative, the Four Season's for all intents and purposes, was built and sustained upon greed, I suppose it's only fitting it would be destroyed by the same processes. Doesn't make it any less a loss, but hey, we will always have the pictures...
This seems like it would appeal to everyone here: http://artscrub.tumblr.com/
Wiggum: True, NYC has always been the world capitol of greed. I just wish the new money didn't have such terrible taste. We've gone from the Rockefellers and Stuyvesants to the Trumps and Kardashians.
notto - Looks like shit, the website looks like a 4yr old set it up.
Dating is fun, y'all.
Josh, usually artists who are not in the high-art scene charge per square inch... rates vary obviously.
P.S. I think its fuckin wonderful the 4 seasons is being auctioned. A fitting end. Now to tear down the glass house.
Josh, I briefly looked at $/inch but I found it unreasonable since I often use 24x36 & 36x48 canvases. But then again, I've never had to shop for wall art since I've always produced my own. I understand from my people that plenty spend real money to decorate their walls, something I'm clueless about.
This reminds me, I have 3 or 4 pieces in productions which are sitting in a corner. I bought a house in November 2015 then proceeded to carve myself an office/studio out of the basement. It's not finished yet but the new project (baby boy) is taking all my free time. I'm hoping I'll be able to carve up some time when he starts sleeping in his crib for more than 15mins at a time.
Hang in there, Non Seq. The baby schedule is seriously rough but it will, slowly, get better.
Thanks Donna.
I'm back at the office now and I've established a 4am to 1am(next day) schedule. Up at 4 to feed & change then get to office by 7:30am, Leave somewhere around 5:30-6pm, baby cuddles until 1am where the mom takes over while I get my 3hr beauty sleep. So far so good. Little dude passed the 6lbs mark this week and is now 6weeks old.
Keep in mind some of the most beautiful pictures ever are of a dad/husband asleep, exhausted, on a couch with a baby snuggled on top of him, sound asleep too. Those pictures melt my heart every time. So set up LOTS of opportunities for that to happen!
Babywise, read it...
I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty afraid of having kids. Pretty sure I'm too damn selfish for it.
damn, josh. You ARE the total package! lol
There really is nothing more enjoyable than sitting at the DMV... except maybe paying parking tickets... yeah... I think Im going to get parking tickets for stocking stuffers this year. Merry Christmas! Have a parking ticket.
"Have you been to the DMV? It's a leper colony out there!" - Jerry Seinfeld.
It was announced today that a project I worked on received one of the 2016 AIA / HUD secretary awards. Kinda stoked about that - and it's on Arch Daily!
http://new.aia.org/showcases/14671-dorchester-art--housing-collaborative
http://www.archdaily.com/791401/four-outstanding-housing-projects-win-aia-hud-secretary-awards
Congrats!
The State of Connecticut has announced more State Layoffs......wonder if their going to be letting people go at the DMV......?
I just had to pick up my Washington state drivers license a few weeks ago, and the process made NY look like a model of efficiency by comparison. (Fortunately, my experience of getting my reciprocal registration was the inverse.) I'm pretty sure the DMV pipes in the sound of babies screaming on the speaker system just to spite the people waiting in line.
Does any work actually get accomplished on Friday afternoons?
I am writing this while I leave early. Ha! But beer awaits.
I might need a glass or three of scotch after this week.
yes donna, a military coup in turkey gets done on a friday afternoon. wtf is wrong with this year?
david cole, i'm right there with you
#cheers #tgif
Even better? My client is building more spaces throughout the country.
Even better +? Now they want me to design them a farm.
Even better ++? Looks like my goal of being on my own by end of 2016 is on schedule.
Exciting.
Now, if I can just find a partner.
Congrats Ken. If it is the project I think it is, they would do very well in Colorado.
Does anyone us a stylus to markup drawings and renderings in Photoshop or Autodesk Sketchbook Pro? Anyone recommend a good stylus that doesn't cost as much as a bottle of good scotch?
Why do you need a partner? What you need is a free intern! (j/k please no one use this joke against me in my future run for AIA National president!)
Not looking to start a fight, just thinking out loud, which usually starts a fight... in construction, an apprentice (intern) gets paid shit... $10/hr no bennys until they can learn the skills needed to demand a higher wage AND they know they dont know shit... same is true for architorture, except interns all come out of school thinking they know everything and the practitioner knows nothing, except that nuts and bolts crap. Apprentices are almost hazed in many ways whereas interns are tolerated??? Anyways... low cost production makes the world turn. I too would not look for a partner but a paid position with 0-2 years experience...
And I'm pretty sure if God wanted Architects to rule the world he wouldn't have invented alcohol.... or was that the Irish...
I want a partner to co-generate business. I'm not big enough to have unpaid interns.
A road trip to Mt. Rainier National Park yesterday -- and almost a full day out of cell phone / internet range -- was just what the doctor ordered. I can't imagine moving back to a city where I can't get to places like this on a Saturday and still be home in time for dinner.
My firm designs mostly urban multi-family projects, which is all well and good, but just once in my career I'd love to design a custom house, a ski cabin, or a visitor center somewhere up in the mountains.
there is a big difference between free intern and $10/hr. somewhere in the range of $10/hr. i don't know if that's really where you want your staff in today's dollars or that's where it was 10 years ago, but either way something > nothing.
b3ta, you should post an ad on archinect for a recent graduate looking to work for experience, that can be self-directed, has 10 years of experience in all relevant software, and can bring in new business and clients. you should include a head shot while you're at it. it probably wouldn't be the worst ad from an architecture firm.
I just had a delightful dinner with two graffiti artists from LA. They are both well-known, well-versed in art history and graffitis' place within it, and have both spent time in jail for painting graffiti. I can't get my head around how it makes sense to put someone in jail for an aesthetic enhancement of a public place?!
Anybody watching "The Night Of"?
^^Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the law doesn't differentiate between Banksy and a gangster. Graffitti is also not always restrained to a public place.
What do you think? Aesthetic enhancement or jail time ? :)
Hey TC!
@archiwutm8 late with an answer, but definitely travel more and also earn more equity/save more.
Also, congrats on the licensure archanonymous and publicity Josh!
@Donna, if after 4 on a Friday no, unless I am staying past 5... Which actually happened this past Friday.
@beta, might you become their in-house corporate architect? Have they nation-wide shipping now?
jail time for the above.
If graffiti quality is like the above then by all means graffiti the wall but for gawd sake, have a real art skill.
Even this one above is acceptable in my book.
I've been grilling a lot of vegetables lately. Ever since it was talked about on TC!
Think I will kick back and watch the Circus of Republicans....enjoy a beer or two and fall asleep. This Monday has been Hot and Humid and filled with activity. Night All....
Seriously, you guys - I think Drumpf is in for a long con. He's going to clinch the nomination then after the DNC announce that he was kidding all along, he's not really running, he just wanted to expose the US people to how truly gullible and useless we actually are....right?
Yes, I've thought that same thought, Donna. Fingers crossed.
Three recent nights I've dreamt about people in wheelchairs not having enough room. In one dream, I was in a crowded elevator that a 'capper tried to get into. All of us on the elevator shuffled left and right and packed together but this person could still not fit. I suggested this person wait for the next elevator cab. As if triggered by the sound of my voice, suddenly the ground shifted and the backwall and floor of the elevator shot backward (and up a little bit).Out from underneath the elevator floor a giant segmented ramp unfolded into a bridge out towards the handicapped person. This extension was easily 100 ft long and had no side protection. The handicapped person wheeled up onto the ramp and started towards us but we were still moving backwards too and they could never catch us. The ramp was twisting with the movement and I was afraid they would fall off. Woke up.
My stress dreams are always architecture-related. Crazy 100' long unfurling ramps sound similar. The Piranesi prison drawings are similar, too. Last night it was a version of Philadelphia that was ocean front and a maze of apocalyptic city streets.
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