Excuses...

Uhhh, a killer goldfish ate my project?

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

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

No comment.

vector active surfaces

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

MetaMaps

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

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

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

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

Foldable Displays (tracked with the Wiimote)

Thanks Robin

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

Websites

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

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

im there

Break Click Here

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?

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

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

Bill Mithell Article Ref in Studio Handout

save 'yall a google search

welcome back

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