am feeling better today. can talk again although only the cat is here to listen. such is the life of the bachelor. i think i realized just how much i talk to myself. anyway i have felt like a monk with the vow of silence thang going on.
this morning had no coffee in the crib and so i went out and grabbed some then went to target and dropped a bundle on household sundry supplies. got some more coffee and headed over to midland antique mall in my hood. the duchamp moma poster that i want is still there but i bought a couple of herman miller fiberglass chairs. one in orange and one in yellow. they need a little tlc. i guess i will steel wool the legs and one of the shells needs to be reattached to the metal frame. they both have gum stuck underneath them.
Steve you are freaking me out now. I've been out of office a total of 7 weeks now with 2 projects in design detail stage. I have one over zealous co worker that likes to re design my details (i'm big and chunky, she's design the design out of it). Nonetheless one of my parting gifts for the office happens to be one of those big chucky things made from rough, unrendered concrete, the full works. I know she's detailed them with colour, render | plaster, and metal.
I am excited in a super-geeky way. I've just been teaching myself all the programs I need to know, and am generally pretty good. However recently I decided that I was in over my head with the production and otherwise technical capabilities of InDesign, and went out and bought myself a Visual QuickStart Guide for it (based on recommendation of man I do not know also perusing same section of bookshop). Whooo boy! I'm getting one of these for every program I thought I knew to see what little joys I've been missing by just plowing through it on the "I'll-figure-it-out-eventually" principal.
The joy of perfectly organized tool palettes is almost incomparable.
I spent a full hour yesterday trying to come up with a new signature for myself, and voila!, not only did I come up with one, I have both a rectilinear and a curvalinear version. I am quite pleased.
Clearly, I am trying very hard to not do work today.
Wow, really? You mean like the signature you use when you sign checks?
I'd say it's a bold statement on your impending grad school/life changing activities that you are willing to change your signature at this time in your life. Good for you.
I always think my signature is messy - and definitely getting messier as the years wear on - but then I look at how my sister the doctor signs her name and feel like I'm anal.
i changed my signature last year. i always thought the old one was ugly, slowly evolving since some time in high school. so i just decided what i wanted the new one to look like and - changed it. i think by now it's on all of my current records and accounts the new way.
lb, I've always thought my signature was ugly. Like Steven said, it was derived from a time in high school that wasn't really representative of who I am now, and I always figured I would change it. I've been changing it bits at a time for the last couple of years, but this latest iteration is a major overhaul.
I guess I think that my signature - like my face, my body, and every aspect of my life - is a composition. Waiting to be improved....
WonderK also finds mdler's use of third person very humorous.
architechnophilia has slowly been evolving his signature to resemble le corbusier's. It is part of his assimilation aka continuation of his architecture
I sign documents in two ways....one is Architectural.....feel good signature the other....is "THE ARTIST" which is on every credit card slip is sign, just incase.
last year in my month long paid-to-do-nothing-but-show-up-in-the-office spring time, I created an alternative signature... but I haven't been using it (since I sign more checks/creditcard slips they anything else) and think I lost it.
I've started signing new credit cards with 'see ID' and no signature... no, I haven't changed my name to ID, See.
I use my legal name to sign checks and credit card receipts. I use my "everyday" name to sign Contractor's Applications for Payment. Which is difficult because I sign my legal name a lot more than my "everyday" name.... Typically after I sign multiple Pay Aps, I check to make sure they all look the same, then keep the "worst offender" (i.e. the one that doesn't match) as my copy.
About 4 years ago I set out to completely change my handwriting to something more "adult". I like it, very 19th century. But it has a side-effect of being illegible.
My first name is long, so it takes forever to sign. Yet I can't bring myself to sign O. Dream instead of Outside Dream. It feels like I'm chopping off a piece of myself.
my japanes co-worker has the coolest thing. Its a signature stamp...she doesnt use it at the office though simply because we don't speak japanese. I want one like that. Like hers. Pocket size.
wow, DCA, do you really think the contractor looks at your sig to make sure it's you?! ;)
In my final year of undergrad I created 5 sigs for myself, for different applications. I'm mostly still happy with them. I'm hoping they'll last until I get married, at which point I will indeedy be changing the hell out of my last name.
vado... the comment you made about photos/videos of kids made me think... for the longest time I thought my youngest memory was at around age 3, sitting in a high chair at the kitchen table in our old house and turning over my shoulder and staring out the window at the blue sky and the hydrangea in the yard.
Then, years later, I came upon a picture of myself in our high chair in roughly the same pose/orientation as my memory, and through the window beyond me in the picture you can see the blue sky and a small part of the hydrangea.
Ever since then, I've been nagged by the question of whether my memory is indeed true or was fabricated after having seen that photograph years ago. It's bugged me since that day.
a girlfriend of mine got me a signature stamp in china w/ the syllables of my name roughly in chinese characters. it's pretty cool but since i am not chinese nor have any connection to the culture i would feel like the world's biggest poseur using it. in that way it has a kind of pretentious FLW taint to it.
myriam, i bought one of those things (they call it a seal) when i studied there...in fact, a bunch of us did. i used it on postcards sent while still in China...it would seem perfectly inappropriate for real life use... my mom probably has the seal now...
haha myriam. The GC doesn't care about my signature, but the owner and the bank sure do! (Last Friday, the GC's courier tracked me down at lunch to get my signatures on revised pay aps so that the owner's accounting department could cut a check that day. I felt like a rock star, but at the same, time I just wanted to eat my crabcake sandwich.)
I think you should get the Chinese signature stamp tatooed on your arm. Now THAT would be poseur-esque.
I have a memory of getting stitches under my left eye when I was 2, except it's in 3rd person like I was standing in the room watching it. Dunno if it is fabricated from hearing my family talking about it or what, but they weren't allowed in the room as it happened.
DCA- I'll trade you a day of snowboarding for that crabcake sandwich....
yeah, really. what the hell has been going on here lately.
anybody else digging the new air album, pocket symphony? one of those guys studied architecture and the influence is obvious.
oddly enough, i've always kind of resented it when people tried to compare architecture & music. but recently i observed that music does resemble architecture if (and it's a big 'if') it is played on repeat. that is, if you play a single song continuously then you do start to read it in the same manner that you experience architecture. a few bits & pieces tend to catch your eye or ear...but most of the time it is just lingering on the periphery chatting up your subconscious while you're distracted by everything else in the world. something about setting a track on repeat gives the experience of permanencey (spelling?) akin to standing in a room.
Puddles: One of the things I have always found most interesting about Bruce Goff is that he actually wrote music based upon graphic visualization. I know it sound wierd, but I did have the opportunity to Listen to a score of music he had written in Chicago at the Chicago Art Institute. It was amazing!
Bruce Goff is an interesting character... IIRC, he wrote his music in the form of scrolls for player pianos.
Speaking only for myself, I've often found a powerful connection between music and architecture. What would Blade Runner be without the Vangelis score? In my own designs (at least the ones I really care about), I usually have some musical piece in the back of my mind that sets the mood or feeling I'm trying to convey with the project.
i one time bumped tc from second page. it was around 11 th page or so.
there is a guy looking for somebody to built his answering machine set and thinks it is a fun project. now that is a little underestimating architectural subject matter.
Gin, I am guilty of the same. I just hope that the netizens of Thread Central know that when we neglect them, it's for their own good, so that they don't have to hear/read us whining about our pathetically empty mailboxes, and stressing over whether or not the postal service actually decides to do some work on any given day.
I worked on a film once. About an architect that goes nuts. Took me a day or so. Got free food. I am in the film, but hiding behind and under a desk so you cant see me. I have never seen the film.
dia, can you tell us the name of the movie? Might be a fun/painful topic to see on screen!
So tonight I'm hosting upwards of 15 female architects in my house for an AIA Women in Architecture meeting. I'm currently frantically cleaning and simulataneously planning how to find seats, arranged for watching a brief presentation, for this many people. Which puts me in an occurrence I enjoy: the utter random chaos of a house while it's being cleaned vs. the calm organization of it after the cleaning is done.
My husband's work used to deal with randomness, and he made the comment that true randomness really only comes out of circumstances like moving - you cannot purposfully place furniture randomly in a room. But when you are moving into the room, you put things where they can fit temporarily and thus end up with a random arrangement (subject to physiscs, of course).
So I have an Eames chair stacked on the couch, all my son's car toys piled in the hall, the rugs pulled up awaiting shaking out on the porch, dishes still piled from breakfast ...it is chaos. And soon all will be calm.....
That is, all will be calm IF Iget my butt in gear and vacuum so as to facilitate the calmness. Later all, I'll be pretty busy today!
good luck lb! sounds like fun actually...i enjoy hosting get-togethers.
diabase, I would also love to check out that film...
i'm not sure why i'm gonna admit this, but, speaking of being on tape, i did a commercial in Mexico when i was 10 or 11 years old...for a fruit drink...it involved dancing in a classroom (myself and another 10yr old kid), an avian mascot doing flips and tumbles (roto-scoped over a 15 year old gymnast guy)...never saw a tape of the final product...
I graduated HS with a Women in Construction Scholarship! they are a very equal opportunity organization, since I happily have been and continue to be a guy.
have fun with the archibabes tonite- will there be a calender?
regarding film- I'm not even going to go beyond that I'm listed on IMDB - student films are still a waste of time, especially from a for profit hack school like NYFI/LA...
The Last Castle (2001) (set designer)
Stigmata (1999) (set designer)
"The Secret Lives of Men" (1998) TV Series (set designer) (unknown episodes)
Living Out Loud (1998) (set designer) (uncredited)
Spawn (1997) (set designer)
The Dentist (1996) (set designer)
Stigmata .44 (1996) (set designer)
"The Wayans Bros." (1995) TV Series (set designer) (unknown episodes)
archiphil- *gasp* you've outted me! There are many reasons why I left hollywood- but my credits says lots, most of those projects aren't things that I really desired to work on, but a job is a job and I had my fun.
what's missing from that list are the years of selling my soul to MTV as an art director, can you say the 'cindy margolis show' and not crack up? oh, and there are a few porn shoots too.
yes, there starchitect set designer/art directors... and I wasn't one of them. All my tv work was with one design team and permutations of that team. the film work was all one off, never worked with the same people twice...
my first real film was 'Spawn' - worked on that in 1995 and got my union card.
TV people are the nicest in hollywood, since they may be working together for 7+ years on a hit series. Film people are primadonna's and think that they are the best. Commercial people are pricks and get the best money but only have to tolerate each other for a day or two at a time.
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am feeling better today. can talk again although only the cat is here to listen. such is the life of the bachelor. i think i realized just how much i talk to myself. anyway i have felt like a monk with the vow of silence thang going on.
this morning had no coffee in the crib and so i went out and grabbed some then went to target and dropped a bundle on household sundry supplies. got some more coffee and headed over to midland antique mall in my hood. the duchamp moma poster that i want is still there but i bought a couple of herman miller fiberglass chairs. one in orange and one in yellow. they need a little tlc. i guess i will steel wool the legs and one of the shells needs to be reattached to the metal frame. they both have gum stuck underneath them.
uhmm vado are those chairs used?
Steve you are freaking me out now. I've been out of office a total of 7 weeks now with 2 projects in design detail stage. I have one over zealous co worker that likes to re design my details (i'm big and chunky, she's design the design out of it). Nonetheless one of my parting gifts for the office happens to be one of those big chucky things made from rough, unrendered concrete, the full works. I know she's detailed them with colour, render | plaster, and metal.
I am excited in a super-geeky way. I've just been teaching myself all the programs I need to know, and am generally pretty good. However recently I decided that I was in over my head with the production and otherwise technical capabilities of InDesign, and went out and bought myself a Visual QuickStart Guide for it (based on recommendation of man I do not know also perusing same section of bookshop). Whooo boy! I'm getting one of these for every program I thought I knew to see what little joys I've been missing by just plowing through it on the "I'll-figure-it-out-eventually" principal.
The joy of perfectly organized tool palettes is almost incomparable.
of course they're used. you don't think i 'd buy a new chair with gum on it do ya?
Maybe the chair is part of the Derelicte collection?
I would tell you to "derelicte my balls," but I don't have any...
balls said the queen...
I spent a full hour yesterday trying to come up with a new signature for myself, and voila!, not only did I come up with one, I have both a rectilinear and a curvalinear version. I am quite pleased.
Clearly, I am trying very hard to not do work today.
Wow, really? You mean like the signature you use when you sign checks?
I'd say it's a bold statement on your impending grad school/life changing activities that you are willing to change your signature at this time in your life. Good for you.
I always think my signature is messy - and definitely getting messier as the years wear on - but then I look at how my sister the doctor signs her name and feel like I'm anal.
If I ever get married, I'll have to offend my husband's family by not taking his name, because I like my signature as-is.
Others may not agree with her, but liberty bell is really enjoying mdler's current use of the third person when posting.
i changed my signature last year. i always thought the old one was ugly, slowly evolving since some time in high school. so i just decided what i wanted the new one to look like and - changed it. i think by now it's on all of my current records and accounts the new way.
my christian name has too many loops in it so my signature has devolved into an ekg looking thang.
lb, I've always thought my signature was ugly. Like Steven said, it was derived from a time in high school that wasn't really representative of who I am now, and I always figured I would change it. I've been changing it bits at a time for the last couple of years, but this latest iteration is a major overhaul.
I guess I think that my signature - like my face, my body, and every aspect of my life - is a composition. Waiting to be improved....
WonderK also finds mdler's use of third person very humorous.
just dot your i's with hearts and stars!!!
architechnophilia has slowly been evolving his signature to resemble le corbusier's. It is part of his assimilation aka continuation of his architecture
I sign documents in two ways....one is Architectural.....feel good signature the other....is "THE ARTIST" which is on every credit card slip is sign, just incase.
last year in my month long paid-to-do-nothing-but-show-up-in-the-office spring time, I created an alternative signature... but I haven't been using it (since I sign more checks/creditcard slips they anything else) and think I lost it.
I've started signing new credit cards with 'see ID' and no signature... no, I haven't changed my name to ID, See.
I use my legal name to sign checks and credit card receipts. I use my "everyday" name to sign Contractor's Applications for Payment. Which is difficult because I sign my legal name a lot more than my "everyday" name.... Typically after I sign multiple Pay Aps, I check to make sure they all look the same, then keep the "worst offender" (i.e. the one that doesn't match) as my copy.
i am swathed in vick's vaporub for the first time since i was a kid. ah the proustian memories that it has unleashed...
About 4 years ago I set out to completely change my handwriting to something more "adult". I like it, very 19th century. But it has a side-effect of being illegible.
My first name is long, so it takes forever to sign. Yet I can't bring myself to sign O. Dream instead of Outside Dream. It feels like I'm chopping off a piece of myself.
initials only, AP... character is derivative of the high school sign, which included my full name...it's a reductive process.
my japanes co-worker has the coolest thing. Its a signature stamp...she doesnt use it at the office though simply because we don't speak japanese. I want one like that. Like hers. Pocket size.
wow, DCA, do you really think the contractor looks at your sig to make sure it's you?! ;)
In my final year of undergrad I created 5 sigs for myself, for different applications. I'm mostly still happy with them. I'm hoping they'll last until I get married, at which point I will indeedy be changing the hell out of my last name.
vado... the comment you made about photos/videos of kids made me think... for the longest time I thought my youngest memory was at around age 3, sitting in a high chair at the kitchen table in our old house and turning over my shoulder and staring out the window at the blue sky and the hydrangea in the yard.
Then, years later, I came upon a picture of myself in our high chair in roughly the same pose/orientation as my memory, and through the window beyond me in the picture you can see the blue sky and a small part of the hydrangea.
Ever since then, I've been nagged by the question of whether my memory is indeed true or was fabricated after having seen that photograph years ago. It's bugged me since that day.
a girlfriend of mine got me a signature stamp in china w/ the syllables of my name roughly in chinese characters. it's pretty cool but since i am not chinese nor have any connection to the culture i would feel like the world's biggest poseur using it. in that way it has a kind of pretentious FLW taint to it.
myriam, i bought one of those things (they call it a seal) when i studied there...in fact, a bunch of us did. i used it on postcards sent while still in China...it would seem perfectly inappropriate for real life use... my mom probably has the seal now...
haha myriam. The GC doesn't care about my signature, but the owner and the bank sure do! (Last Friday, the GC's courier tracked me down at lunch to get my signatures on revised pay aps so that the owner's accounting department could cut a check that day. I felt like a rock star, but at the same, time I just wanted to eat my crabcake sandwich.)
I think you should get the Chinese signature stamp tatooed on your arm. Now THAT would be poseur-esque.
I'm gonna stamp it on my ass and them sign contractor payment apps with it.
Nice, myriam.
hrmm.. has someone started a "Best of Thread Central" thread yet? I guess the top ten of 2006 thread captured some of the best quotes.
does anybody here have any thoughts and/or opinions about anguilla, bwi?
I have a memory of getting stitches under my left eye when I was 2, except it's in 3rd person like I was standing in the room watching it. Dunno if it is fabricated from hearing my family talking about it or what, but they weren't allowed in the room as it happened.
DCA- I'll trade you a day of snowboarding for that crabcake sandwich....
Yikes, Thread Central was about to drop to page 2. Can't allow that to happen, can we?
I've been so obsessed with the M.Arch. comisery thread that I momentarily forgot there are also other threads on archinect.
yeah, really. what the hell has been going on here lately.
anybody else digging the new air album, pocket symphony? one of those guys studied architecture and the influence is obvious.
oddly enough, i've always kind of resented it when people tried to compare architecture & music. but recently i observed that music does resemble architecture if (and it's a big 'if') it is played on repeat. that is, if you play a single song continuously then you do start to read it in the same manner that you experience architecture. a few bits & pieces tend to catch your eye or ear...but most of the time it is just lingering on the periphery chatting up your subconscious while you're distracted by everything else in the world. something about setting a track on repeat gives the experience of permanencey (spelling?) akin to standing in a room.
Puddles: One of the things I have always found most interesting about Bruce Goff is that he actually wrote music based upon graphic visualization. I know it sound wierd, but I did have the opportunity to Listen to a score of music he had written in Chicago at the Chicago Art Institute. It was amazing!
Bruce Goff is an interesting character... IIRC, he wrote his music in the form of scrolls for player pianos.
Speaking only for myself, I've often found a powerful connection between music and architecture. What would Blade Runner be without the Vangelis score? In my own designs (at least the ones I really care about), I usually have some musical piece in the back of my mind that sets the mood or feeling I'm trying to convey with the project.
It is also known that Frank Loyd Wright spoke of, "Eye Music" Those small darts along the eaves of many of his projects.....
speaking of music...check out the intro jingle at this website...priceless
i one time bumped tc from second page. it was around 11 th page or so.
there is a guy looking for somebody to built his answering machine set and thinks it is a fun project. now that is a little underestimating architectural subject matter.
Gin, I am guilty of the same. I just hope that the netizens of Thread Central know that when we neglect them, it's for their own good, so that they don't have to hear/read us whining about our pathetically empty mailboxes, and stressing over whether or not the postal service actually decides to do some work on any given day.
I worked on a film once. About an architect that goes nuts. Took me a day or so. Got free food. I am in the film, but hiding behind and under a desk so you cant see me. I have never seen the film.
dia, can you tell us the name of the movie? Might be a fun/painful topic to see on screen!
So tonight I'm hosting upwards of 15 female architects in my house for an AIA Women in Architecture meeting. I'm currently frantically cleaning and simulataneously planning how to find seats, arranged for watching a brief presentation, for this many people. Which puts me in an occurrence I enjoy: the utter random chaos of a house while it's being cleaned vs. the calm organization of it after the cleaning is done.
My husband's work used to deal with randomness, and he made the comment that true randomness really only comes out of circumstances like moving - you cannot purposfully place furniture randomly in a room. But when you are moving into the room, you put things where they can fit temporarily and thus end up with a random arrangement (subject to physiscs, of course).
So I have an Eames chair stacked on the couch, all my son's car toys piled in the hall, the rugs pulled up awaiting shaking out on the porch, dishes still piled from breakfast ...it is chaos. And soon all will be calm.....
That is, all will be calm IF Iget my butt in gear and vacuum so as to facilitate the calmness. Later all, I'll be pretty busy today!
good luck lb! sounds like fun actually...i enjoy hosting get-togethers.
diabase, I would also love to check out that film...
i'm not sure why i'm gonna admit this, but, speaking of being on tape, i did a commercial in Mexico when i was 10 or 11 years old...for a fruit drink...it involved dancing in a classroom (myself and another 10yr old kid), an avian mascot doing flips and tumbles (roto-scoped over a 15 year old gymnast guy)...never saw a tape of the final product...
LB-
I graduated HS with a Women in Construction Scholarship! they are a very equal opportunity organization, since I happily have been and continue to be a guy.
have fun with the archibabes tonite- will there be a calender?
regarding film- I'm not even going to go beyond that I'm listed on IMDB - student films are still a waste of time, especially from a for profit hack school like NYFI/LA...
i've been in a number of "amatuer" videos...i should probably just stop right there.
TK's imdb...
The Last Castle (2001) (set designer)
Stigmata (1999) (set designer)
"The Secret Lives of Men" (1998) TV Series (set designer) (unknown episodes)
Living Out Loud (1998) (set designer) (uncredited)
Spawn (1997) (set designer)
The Dentist (1996) (set designer)
Stigmata .44 (1996) (set designer)
"The Wayans Bros." (1995) TV Series (set designer) (unknown episodes)
LIBERTY get the numbers of any cute single architect ladies who have money for me!
Wayans?! hilarious.
archiphil- *gasp* you've outted me! There are many reasons why I left hollywood- but my credits says lots, most of those projects aren't things that I really desired to work on, but a job is a job and I had my fun.
what's missing from that list are the years of selling my soul to MTV as an art director, can you say the 'cindy margolis show' and not crack up? oh, and there are a few porn shoots too.
yes, there starchitect set designer/art directors... and I wasn't one of them. All my tv work was with one design team and permutations of that team. the film work was all one off, never worked with the same people twice...
my first real film was 'Spawn' - worked on that in 1995 and got my union card.
TV people are the nicest in hollywood, since they may be working together for 7+ years on a hit series. Film people are primadonna's and think that they are the best. Commercial people are pricks and get the best money but only have to tolerate each other for a day or two at a time.
The film is Tom White - I am not credited. It was released in the theatres just after I left Australia.
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