"what was it? 13.5 or something? that was awesome."
~ hanan <w/ 1 N>, rhymes w/ brannan
note to me:
before i forget, i wanted to remember that...
phases of immediate (temporary) disaster relief for natural disasters as they occur.
hurricane/flood, earthquake, tornado, blizzards. damm 3 of them are the wind, two are water, and one is the ground. i guess all we miss is fire. i guess i'll throw that in there.
damm nature always wins huh? well man needs to rebuild after getting knocked down.
other things i learned today.
bucky's streamlined weiner bus car. 1/3 fatality rate. his floating baloon, floating pyramid on alcatraz. should be a class on humanitarianism. gaudi's door in a door. ghery wanted stone for bilbao. jet ski rentals juxtaposed with bum towers is awesome. alberto concluded with what i was thinking the whole time, computer is a tool like a pencil or a t-square. and other dude wasn't such a douche. digital mehodology remix of "in what style shall we build in?"
maya made avitar. flem Z made zaha's things. +1 pL, -1 digital morph dude.
since last we talked, gotta catchup. completed 300/360, which is 80%. B, yet still fail. 'method' slap x3 success. i'm not bored anymore, ready for slappin board like 8th grade again.
last few days of mid-twenties. "do you want the responsibility of firing someone." yes. i give a damm.
hait palace i~ before and after
what's the most important profession in the world?
whatever they are, architects need to make sure their situation is nominal for whatever important thing they need to do. if the architect fucks up, the important person can't do their important duty as best as they can.
so would that mean the architect is the most important person in the world? i think so. i keep trying to thing of something to trump that. God? God's an architect too.
so not couting him/her/it, we have doctors. is that what you were thinking? i would say the best way for doctors to save lives is to have all the sick people in one location. is there such a place? oh yea, a hospital.
the hospital nees to be well designed right? that's not the doctors job to do that.
what about teachers? they need a classroom. president? government needs to be organized all in one place. it needs places to do debate what the people demand.
everythin needs a space to happen in. help me find a counter-argument. prove me wrong.
someone might say we need engineers and builders just as much. yea we do, but with out us, what will they do with themselves?
they're good at what they do. but they need us. and if they say they don't, it's because they think they can be us.
i gotta cut this short. so much more to say, but i realized today what the politics of school taught me about my profession. it's that the poltics of my profession need political solutions.
i'm learnin how to play the game, but sometimes you realize that the game is not important.
we are the ones who are supposed to make life <the act of living> better. we design a better life.
we need to stop playin the game sometimes and help others live < the act of staying alive>, before we can help their lifestyle.
long story short, Directed Study Thesis Topic #3: Rebuild Haiti.
the client, chillin with the final product (w/ pacman)...
trying to be published or bought. don't steal it! that's mean...
there's two sides to every story. the first story is the one told vicariously through the man/woman restroom icon couple. for those graph illiterate, it goes a 'lil somethin like this:
Once upon a time, a wonderful unity amongst two individuals also resulted in the unity of possessions.
After the honeymoon stage was over, a realization of double the belongings in a single space, proved to be an issue of individual belonging.
But then, a magical form of simple efficiency with a striking statement of ownership came along to save the day. Now his and her belongings belonged once again.
But where did this magical form come from you ask?
It lived in the creative realms of imagination. Conceptualized by the mystical Big Ant, (a mysterious, yet loveable creature)
and materialized by the master craftsman of Guiney Co.
In the end, the union of two lovers and the materials they possessed found a home of their own, together.
THE END.
and the real story...
Once upon a time, Ant and Dennis went to Kyoto, Japan for a study abroad semester in the summer of '05. Earning the nicknames 'Mel Gibson' <dennis> and 'Danny Glover' <me>,
the Lethal Weapon alliance was formed. United by the common love of architecture and craftsmanship, the shenanigans filled adventures of these two brothers from another mother
would ultimately result in the collaboration of skill and excellence.
The first attempted collaboration idealized the conception of a custom bed frame, as it was already successfully in the repertoire of Mel Gibson.
For reasons which shall remain undisclosed at this time[the other person who was supposed to sleep in the bed had many doubts], this dream was never realized.
Attempt #2 was abandoned and forgotten, as it was another parade rained on by a shadow of doubt. <i think it was supposed to be a coffee table?>
But then, one day, justification was met with the culmination of frustration and creativity. Tired of having the unorganized chaos of the unnecessary necessities in life, immediately greeting him when returning to the supposed sanctuary of his home, Danny Glover had an idea.
"I'm tired of all this mail cluttering up our bar/counter. It just leads to a messy kitchen. And I'm tired of all our shoes taking over the whole entryway. There's not enough room on this stupid shoe rack.
Is this even a shoe rack? My shoes [size 13-15 depending on brand] don't even fit on this thing....AHA! We should build a custom shoe rack where my and her shoes would fit nicely,
and we could have our own mailboxes at the top of it! [and i could display my signed talib kweli adidas shell toes and her signed chrishette michelle cd, and it would be just the right dimensions
so we could open the door comfortably and not block the heater valve]." (or something like that)
Thus, we have 'Lethal Weapon 3."
so there you have it. basically i was bored of architecture*, and wanted to build something with dennis.
then i realized i could use this whole design thing to solve some problems that bothered me.
design is pretty clever. who'da thunk it?
* bored of architecture school and work. i just wanted to build something real. shout out to the woodshop crew that keeps the motivation fresh.
jbanes, jaivset1 (i'll build something for u to slap monkey laserface on one day...), and the other one, whoever you are.
makin it happen...
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.
he epitomizes a willingness to succeed. a determination to surpass other people's expectations
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don't be what they want you to be.
be a champion.
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don't be what they want you to be.
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