Archinect
anchor

a good feeling on a friday

+i

"my portfolio is me, everything i am and everything i'm not. it's my weakness and my strengths. my self-confidence and esteem. my past, present, and most definitely my future. my portfolio is where i'm going , where i've been, places i shouldn't go. it's everything and just a book. it's my inspiration, my generation, and it's never finished, never done, always a work in progress. it's everything i've ever seen, heard, touched, smelled, sensed, and believed, and my worst fears and all my hopes at the same time. it's beginning of the beginning, and the end of the era. and so much more than a phase. it's my portfolio and describing it is describing me." (that was an aau san fran ad in dwell)

i found this particularly uplifting to read on this glorious friday :)

what are your good feelings?

 
May 25, 07 10:07 am
postal

...this is entirely not uplifting... as my portfolio is to me only one thing... not done

May 25, 07 10:16 am  · 
 · 
won and done williams

can we go back to sarcastic wednesdays?

May 25, 07 10:20 am  · 
 · 
+i

it's never DONE. but it does get you places- ie. a job, grad school, etc.

May 25, 07 10:26 am  · 
 · 

when you get to be my age, you don't use a portfolio anymore. it's not at all relevant in a job interview. does that mean that, if 'my portfolio is me' that i am now irrelevant?

wait.....don't answer that.

May 25, 07 10:34 am  · 
 · 
+i

all the architects we admire have portfolios- we look at them all the time. we walk down the street and see a part of someone's portfolio. maybe when you are older- you don't put it in a binder and call it a day... but you still have a portfolio of the work you have done... physically or metaphysically.

May 25, 07 10:38 am  · 
 · 
+i

80yr old man works in my firm. when he came to interview here, he took two of the VP's on a taxi ride and showed him, quite literally, his portfolio. he built many of the office buildings in this city. that is still a portfolio... and he is still a work in progress- those were his words...

May 25, 07 10:40 am  · 
 · 
simples

the good feelings on friday start at 5pm or so...

i try to pair projects in my portfolio with photos of the finished buildings, along with sketches, a small rendering, and some working details...trying to show the design process...

May 25, 07 10:47 am  · 
 · 
Blue202

that today is my last day at this job.

May 25, 07 11:02 am  · 
 · 
postal

i'm not knockin the quote +i... the literal portfolio is j just something I have to do... and perhaps i'm not proud of some of the work i've done...i'll need to add that footnote...

actually, i think i'll start a most embaressing project thread, i've got to have everybody beat

May 25, 07 11:24 am  · 
 · 
vado retro

actually everything you are is the way you are perceived by others. its the post modern condition.

May 25, 07 11:28 am  · 
 · 
24out1in

fight club reference?

May 25, 07 12:09 pm  · 
 · 
Chili Davis

Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned- Tyler

May 25, 07 12:22 pm  · 
 · 
mdler

knowing that you will be in the office all weekend

May 25, 07 12:29 pm  · 
 · 
+i

this has turned into the worst friday. i hope it ends soon or someone puts me out of my misery.

May 25, 07 1:19 pm  · 
 · 
PetePeterson

all i can think about is beer and JD right now.... my boss is out of the office, what is the earliest I can leave?

May 25, 07 5:23 pm  · 
 · 
mdler

pete

my boss left at noon...beer was opened soon after

May 25, 07 6:15 pm  · 
 · 
mightylittle™

ohhh the beer i will consume in just a few short hours.

first...


and then...


and then...


and after all that...


which will inevitably lead to...



But don't try this at home, folks.

I am a fully licensed professional.

May 25, 07 6:37 pm  · 
 · 
vado retro

you need a rug to pull that room together...

May 25, 07 9:02 pm  · 
 · 
garpike

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

May 25, 07 9:03 pm  · 
 · 

skunk - yummy

May 26, 07 1:41 am  · 
 · 

3 day weekend here. I got to start some working drawings and make some headway on a design proposal too

May 26, 07 1:43 am  · 
 · 

Block this user


Are you sure you want to block this user and hide all related comments throughout the site?

Archinect


This is your first comment on Archinect. Your comment will be visible once approved.

  • ×Search in: