A few weeks ago, I visited a RC model shop with my friend Stephen. These types of hobby shops are getting more rare, I think. But, as Stephen and I noticed, the technology for these little vehicles is phenomenal. For about $20 you can by a little helicopter with a thin lithium battery and a [...]

This is a working post… after shitting the bed at my mid review, I’m trying to edit up a new thesis statement.
I’m kinda tired of trying to be smart, so I’m going to write this more conversationally. When I first presented my thesis I described the proposal as mostly driven by aesthetics and the criticism [...]

Last Friday was thesis mid review. Bad news: I sorta bombed my presentation. I was tired and incoherent. Good news: My graphics were good enough that everyone understood the project and I got great feedback. I tried to resolve the building a little too quickly and produced some ugliness but now I know how to [...]

Two new games that you architects have probably already heard of:
Echochrome.

(Check out the java and downloadable demos here.)
And Portal

Playing in space never seemed so fun! I’m really excited to play these games. Especially if there’s a co-op mode in portal.
I remember trying to explain to my friend T what it was like to be really [...]

This is nuts.
I was right brained first, but then got her to spin the other way.  Makes me wonder what I could do with a rendering…

The statement, again (ty, K, B, and J):
“We are not coeval / With a locality / But we imagine others are, / We encounter them. Actually / A populace flows/ Thru the city. This is a language, therefore, of New York” George Oppen
In 1914, a small theater was constructed in South Williamsburg, [...]

Pulling an all nighter. I’m up to one a week, which is actually pretty good. I’ll have to start doing more, though.
Approximately six weeks until detonation. The umbilicus will be cut, an omphalos will form and I will gaze at it. I promised myself one week of this (until my eyes bleed) when finish thesis:

btw, [...]

T was kind enough to alert me that Cosma’s genius was now in a delicious new form.
Well, I think it’s paid off already. Stolen from his links is a reference to this new graphic novel:

Martin Rowson, who I’ve never heard of, but wish I had, has rewritten T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a hard [...]

Today’s Mantra “Be Aggressive”

I’ll say this first. Sin City is a not a good graphic novel and a really bad movie.
Buuuut, considering my thesis has been in black and white, stealing some of Frank Miller’s style might not be a bad thing. He knows how to throw down the ink. There are times when it seems like he’s [...]