January 2012
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Long time... No Post.
If anyone is out there, and anyone out there can spare a minute, could you please tell me what your understanding/ definition of architecture is? Please please please! And a few thanks you’s as well!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N239ZHS
Thanks internet friends!!!
October 2011
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WatchCollages Take II.2
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Collages Take II.1
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Collages Take I
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September 2011
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Would You Look At That Floor!
Arch Daily posted this recently. Trees, yes. Okay. I like trees. But I like the fact that there is art ON these trees much more than I like these trees themselves.
It’s great! I love any kind of art incorporated into nature. Seeing how the two can blend and create a harmony and a rhythm that play wonderfully off of one another is refreshing and inspiring. This installation is in Sweden,...
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Landlocked, y'know?
Fair trade just got fair-er.
I’m so excited about this project!
Some brilliant person discovered that you can roast coffee beans AT HOME. In an air popcorn popper! I can’t wait to try this experiment!
The instructions for this project state that home roasting is an activity best left for outside, so, it looks as though I’m not going to be able to try this until I go to my...
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"It looks like a wet weed!"
I love tea pots. It’s a grandma thing. She loves tea cups and tea pots, and I always grew up having tea parties with her friends.
Now they’re just a comforting thing. They are cozy, functional, classic yet whimsical, and reminds me of gram. Oh, and Beauty and the Beast. There is no wrong.
I love this idea of reuse.
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Artist: Melanie Bonajo
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Artist: Dominique Appia
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Goodnight Frank.
M*A*S*H is one of my all time favorite shows. It’s old, and most of the people I know who are my age can’t stand it, but overall the series was pretty amazing. It wouldn’t have been on for 11 years if it wasn’t.
Alan Alda was more or less the start of the show for all 11 of those years, and if it weren’t for him the show would have been nothing. One of my favorite...
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Just a hoff. Just a hoff.
You know. Like half. Only hoff. Eh, nevermind.
This teacup moves. And is very adorable. Also much too much money for me to ever own. But there are 12 in this collection, so you could own one if you want.
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Artist: Rune Guneriussen
August 2011
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White rabbits and the longest short tunnel there...
I think it’s time for a craft project. I think it’s time for many craft projects.
Craft project #1
I think this piece is a nice jumping off point.. But if I were to build it I’d make it a tad more refined. I’m sure the end result is what the designer was after, but, it’s just a little too… random for me.
What would I change? I’m glad you...
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Paradox much.
At this point it’s pretty indisputable how I feel about tall buildings, many levels, visual connections both inside and outside of buildings… But get this (I’m about to throw a wrench in the system) I’ve never cared for high rise buildings.
I can’t explain it. It’s completely the opposite of everything I seemingly believe in, but it’s true. For some...
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Swim through it, minus the butterfly.
The work that Tang Yau Hoong does is fascinating and beautiful to me. Especially the image above.
Lights are a very “feeling” thing I’ve found. I have always been aware of how light can evoke emotion, but I didn’t completely understand this experience until it was my job to create it for other people without their realizing it.
That is the cool thing about lighting...
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No umbrella. Just steps.
It’s not like this is a new idea to me. But I’m beginning to realize just how much I like heights and levels. Or anything that brings anything else off the ground in increments. Even if it’s a towel.
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Glow in the dark is awesome, unless you're a...
It broke my heart a little bit to realize that this is a firm based out of Arizona. Arizona is one of the only places in the country I have absolutely no desire to visit. Be it the heat, or the fact that I’m irrationally terrified of scorpions, I’m not sure.
Anyway, I’m a huge fan of this theater. Well, not such a huge fan of the sculptural roof. But it serves a purpose, so I...
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Fireballs doused with the lack of magenta ink.
Something I love about architecture, and architects is that it’s not all buildings. Or at least it doesn’t have to be all buildings.
Take this firm, dEEP Architects from china. They made a light exhibition art piece.
Architects can pretty much design what they want to, which is why I’m so drawn to it. Industrial design, interior design, art of all kinds, architects pretty...
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Lopsided and lacking vanilla.
I know this is supposed to be an inspiration blog, and inspiration is generally a good thing, but is it possible to be negatively inspired?
Well, I’m not sure if there is such a thing as negative inspiration, but I dislike the form of this building so. much. that I felt inspired to post about it.
Maybe it’s because I love to cook, but the only thing I see when I look at this...
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Dandelion Seeds.
That place is a court house! Well, that, and a few other things. But imagine having to go to court in a building that looks like that!? It’s beautiful. It’s a shame most of the people that go to a court house would probably really rather not be there. I’m sure it takes a great deal away from their architectural perceptions.
I love the vertical elements that comprise this...
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The key to learning fractions or, how to spell.
I’m beginning to understand that buildings often have a life cycle. They’re built, and from that moment on they start to weather. Often they are not maintained properly, and then in 50 years, they’re so out of date, it’s more cost effective to start over again.
I’m starting to see this trend happening with schools. Apparently, they are suddenly all out of date, and...
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Wow.
This is amazing, powerful, insightful. Wonderful.
5,084,000,000 people, 5,360 pages, 3,700 years, 243 countries, 7 books, and 1 shelf. For the first time, the world’s most influential religious texts are brought together and presented on the same level, their coexistence acknowledged and celebrated.
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I can't stand the heat, but I'm stubborn.
If I didn’t decide to become an architect, there were two other options. 1. Lighting designer. (Something I still somewhat aspire for…) 2. A chef.
A chef was somewhat out of the question, because one of the best schools in the country for culinary arts is in my back yard (and I still haven’t eaten there!). I needed to leave for college.
That aside. I am still a passionate...
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Secret keys and asbestos.
I love theaters.
That’s really all you have to know. I’m also obsessed with theater lighting (Ahem, lighting in general). I haven’t been able to get too involved for the last four years, but I really hope that my theater days aren’t over.
Because of this love, I’m posting these pictures. Do I love the theater? Not really. Do I like it? Yes. Truth be told,...
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Conference meeting in the pool, 3:30. Cocktails,...
I wonder what it must be like to work in other countries. From some of the things I’ve seen and read, it sounds like a walk in the park. Check this headquarters out! They have a recreational space, a pool! A fitness center! It’s like they want their employees to enjoy life. Huh.
They don’t have cubicles! There is ample daylight! Open space. Everything seems so different there...
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With or without the berries, just come back!
Well, that looks like a really fun place to be, doesn’t it? How much do flights to Taiwan cost these days? You can go! Well, not really. But maybe someday.
What is it exactly? It’s a park! It’s a museum! It’s a sculpture garden! Its! Well, it’s all of those things, and even a few things more.
Also, that elephant. I love that elephant. It lives right outside of...
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Scrub a dub dub, Rudyard Kipling in the tub.
As I promised at the end of my last entry, I’d share with you the poem that is on the bottom of the Dr. Bronner’s bottle. The poem on the bottle is a little different, but it was inspired by this, and this is pretty good inspiration if I dare say.
If
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt...
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Everyone.
Fair Trade is an exceptionally important aspect of my daily life. It’s also something I try to support as avidly and frequently as possible.
The fact that farmers all around the world are in near slave labor conditions to bring the rest of the spoiled world a $5.00 cup of coffee sickens me. And it doesn’t stop there. Bananas, vanilla, sugar, rice, chocolate, even flowers… The...
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Things I once knew.
Random Introduction: By the time I was 3, my dad could take me to the hardware store…
(back in the good old days when you could go to a real hardware store. The kind of establishment that understands the sentence “I need a do-hicky that fits with the thingamabob, that fell off of the whatcha-macallit” and an employee would promptly lead you to and entire aisle dedicated to the...
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I just don't understand how people just don't...
California has a extremely intense (and commendable) goal ahead of them. They are aiming to build only net zero houses by 2020. Good for California. Good for the world!
I can’t deny that fact that I’m not the best with technology. The only exception to this is sustainable technology. I love hearing, seeing, learning about, and utilizing in my own designs any sort of sustainable...
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Very Small Hands, and No Windows.
Harvard now has 50 LEED certified buildings.
A. That’s pretty cool B. That’s even more cool because I can say that I had a very small role in making that happen!
You wouldn’t believe some of the things that people / a building need to go through and do in order to become LEED certified. I learned a lot about the process. Including the fact that even though a building is LEED...
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Bigger Than Spoons.
I am totally captivated by this!! A tunnel from Siberia to Alaska! Wow!
And it’s going to have clean energy? Double wow! And it’s going to be high speed, and efficient at carrying goods and cables and all sorts of nonsense? So cool.
I just want no part in building that! None. Scary.
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“We the willing, let by he unknowing, are doing the impossible for the...”
– Mother Teresa
I wish I could explain why I love this quote so much. I love lots and lots of quotes. There are actually 11 years worth of quotes saved on my computer from friends and family…. This one is clearly not from my family.
This particular quote I read a long time ago, and remembered...
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For the retinas, not against them.
I encourage anyone who’s reading this to look at the rest of these works here. This was a display at MOCA, but sadly it’s gone now.
It wasn’t until recently that I really thought about “graffiti” as being art. Let alone public art. This is probably because I have only really been exposed to people tagging things that shouldn’t be tagged in order to be cool....
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Suspended disbelief. Grounded.
If study abroad taught me ONE thing, and one thing only. It would be:
It can be done.
All throughout school (and life), studio teachers, and regular people have constantly told me “That can’t happen.” “That wont stand up” “Those don’t exist.” “That wont work.” Etc. etc.
I’ve so very over believing anyone who utters those words...
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Not Enough Color.
There have been a few things I have not posted about yet. Among those few things are some really important themes that I care a whole lot about. A. Whole. BIG. Lot.
Here is a very small example of one of those things.
Lighting.
If I’m not mistakin’ those shelves in the background there. They have individual accent lights. How cool. Really! Imagine the possibilities. If each...
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No Floods Here
Seeing that shelf reminded me of another shelf I saw online once. I’m probably going to make this myself at some point.
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Wouldn't Be Nothing Here.
I saw this today… And WOW! What a spectacular idea. Hats off to the designer.
It moves. People and interact with it. It changes to suit the needs of anyone, at any time. Oh… Brilliant.
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Get Happy.
When I surround myself with settings such as these. I am happy. Calm. And happy.
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And What Happens, Happens
When I first saw this house, I was interested, but not really impressed. I bookmarked it anyway.
Then I went to go look at it again, in order to put it here, and I decided I liked it a lot more.
Check out that… Wood… Panel… Framed wood? I don’t even know what that material in these pictures is considered to be. But I like it. It’s inventive. Not to mention,...
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Artist: Mary Iverson
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Artist: Virginia Wagner