The Missed Opportunities

Hey!

2008-07-04T00:03:00.000-04:00

watch this video

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23964285-5014108,00.html

finally

2008-05-15T07:56:00.002-04:00

A place for all those studio supplies.

http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html

but, even more interesting (from Wikipedia):

The word "acme" means "pinnacle" or "highest"^[1]. About 80 years ago, when categorized business telephone directories (such as the Yellow Pages) began to be popular, business owners realized that businesses whose names began with "A" would get listed at the beginnings of their categories. A name implying that its company was the best was so much the better. The result was a flood of companies named Acme (some of these still survive^[2]); the name was so heavily used that it became something of a joke. The joke spread to Warner Bros. cartoons; in 1949, it made its first appearance in a Road Runner cartoon.

Since the fictional Acme's products are typically mail-ordered, it is likely that the famous Sears mail-order catalogs were a strong inspiration for the fictional company. Early Sears catalogs contained a number of products with the "Acme" trademark, including anvils, which are frequently-used props in Warner Bros. cartoons^[3].

wicked wit?

2008-05-07T14:48:00.001-04:00

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1932536/Architect's-wicked-wit-cuts-through-red-tape.html

New Software

2008-05-01T15:27:00.001-04:00

with special guest appearance by a young Ricky

2008-04-29T13:06:00.004-04:00

I Am a Rock

2008-04-25T11:18:00.001-04:00

As seen on the RISD architecture building last Saturday:

Link to scripts

2008-04-19T01:08:00.002-04:00

This archinect blog has tips for working in rhino and some links to scripts that will draw stairs for you automatically, or clean up a boolean union nicely, to name a few.

Enjoy!

this is where i need to get out my desires to share youtube videos

2008-04-13T02:05:00.001-04:00

Happy Birthday Ana!

2008-04-10T15:33:00.002-04:00

There were no opportunities for surface treatment missed here.

loosing t-shirt entry #1

2008-04-06T17:34:00.004-04:00

just couldn't let it die on my desktop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampage_%28arcade_game%29

User's Manual Music Video

2008-04-02T12:07:00.005-04:00

This is the most amazing video. I may just show it to Meejin as my final animation. Perhaps it is a user's manual for LIFE.

It might be better with the audio turned off.

Rigor!

2008-04-02T00:14:00.001-04:00

If one must choose between rigor and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

René Thom

Mathematician, 1923 - 2002

Still Life

2008-03-13T18:29:00.003-04:00

Composition with Wall and Haircut

new pics of column testing

2008-03-07T00:03:00.001-05:00

Excuses...

2008-02-22T04:46:00.002-05:00

Uhhh, a killer goldfish ate my project?

So that's what we're doing...

2008-02-15T15:51:00.001-05:00

And excerpt from Nicolai Ourossoff's review of Piano's Broad Contemporary Art Museum in the Times:

"But architecture is about more than the quality of light. It’s where our dreams collide with practical realities, which makes it perhaps the most difficult of arts."

I have something to say about that

2008-02-15T08:37:00.002-05:00

No comment.

2008-02-15T05:35:00.001-05:00

vector active surfaces

2008-02-12T23:04:00.001-05:00

anyone know of useful links, definitions, or wikki(s) for either vector active, surface active, or "form active" structures?

MetaMaps

2008-02-10T11:42:00.000-05:00

Hey:
This is one of my college professors. Check out all her other work too, especially the animals and the Car Park that is under misc. She's awesome.

Her maps are pretty neat, though the resolution isn't very high.

Self Portrait

2008-02-09T00:47:00.001-05:00

Check it out

Thoughts on Mapping

Mapping requires the trace. It does not invent any information or data that doesnt already exist. It is only the act of taking what exists in the trace (anything and everything) and reconstructing the way that information is presented. Through selection, isolation, vizualization and all those other 'tions mapping presents unseen relationships that were not before apparent. That is all that it can do. Not an easy task

La Moustache

2008-02-08T01:15:00.000-05:00

excerpt from an email sent on 11/26/07:

"nadir:
noun
1. an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything

hopefully his name applies more to his height than the state next semester...."

I guess time will tell...

Fuck Da Police

2008-02-08T00:21:00.000-05:00

transitpolice.us/Photo Policy/Photo Policy 1.pdf

Foldable Displays (tracked with the Wiimote)

2008-02-07T23:32:00.000-05:00

Thanks Robin

2008-02-07T21:21:00.001-05:00

Have you guys found this yet: http://timdevin.com/bus.html
some demographic data for particular routes and STORIES

Websites

2008-02-07T17:29:00.000-05:00

I think these websites might be helpful/inspiring for the user manual project. edward tufte = mapping and information graphics guru

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

http://infosthetics.com/

Diplo at GreatScott Feb 23

2008-02-06T08:47:00.000-05:00

http://www.tourfilter.com/boston/diplo

im there

Break Click Here

2008-02-05T19:38:00.001-05:00

Read the rest of Learning from las vegas, for an architecture of reality, kitchen confidential

Saw Cloverfield, There Will Be Blood, and the New Museum and this most awsome architecture from julian schnabel

What did everyone do over the break?

2008-02-05T17:56:00.001-05:00

1. Slept (goes without saying I guess)

2. Read (Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture by Mario Salvadori - easy fun read, Ideas that Shaped Buildings by Fil Hearn, a bit of Modern Architecture: A Critical History by Kenneth Frampton, and a few other things)

3. Snowboarding in Utah

4. Built temple (see first post) for art gallery in Charlottesville Va. (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=168739863)

5. Painted and installed wood floor at my folks place

6. Found a ton of useful (I guess) Arch. Podcasts for free on iTunes.

someone else post something here so I don't feel like I'm talking to my self.

p.s. a few of us are meeting at the Cellar (http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-cellar-cambridge) for a few get back into the swing drinks at 8PM..... not planning on staying all night

BT book on AMAZON for $79

2008-02-05T17:52:00.000-05:00

Anyone know how much they want for this at the COOP?

Bill Mithell Article Ref in Studio Handout

2008-02-05T17:45:00.000-05:00

save 'yall a google search

welcome back

2008-02-04T21:43:00.000-05:00

Ladies, Gents...
Thought we might be able to use this to talk studio smack... and more importantly other stuff such as what we're up to over breaks, gatherings, informal suggestions, thoughts, other drivel.
Good Idea?
See you on Tuesday
-Dave