GPCB

Howmanyarchitectsdoesittake!

2011-12-29T15:51:00.001-08:00

Tobuildagingerbreadhouse!
2&abakernocandlestickmaker!
LittleMrsHumpyDumptysatonthewall!
Andweallfalldown!

- guest post by Lori
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Merry Christmas!!!

2011-12-24T23:49:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas everyone!

Photos by Lori: Iphone meets coffee, blurry Boat Parade photos ensue!

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Space taken by 60 people

2011-12-10T11:58:00.000-08:00

A redesign of a Müenster planning office poster by Aza Ruskin.

Original: makeitgreen.webs.com/img/cbb.jpg

MUG'GED_ f. EC(H)O PARK POTTERY

2011-12-04T19:48:00.000-08:00

A few weeks ago we headed over to Echo Park Pottery to color mugs for LA artist Peter Shire and The Ecology Center. Having missed the mug making session the previous week, we met Mr. Shire for the first time and spent a Sunday hard at work dipping a few hundred mugs in glaze. Mugs are one of Echo Park Pottery's staple items, and the mugs we dipped are now on sale at the studio of their making and the Eco Center's store. Nearly a dozen of them made it home with Lori and I!

The mugs are a rolled slab construction with variously pointy and half round handles that are surprisingly comfortable to hold. They are glazed in stripes of yellow, green, pink, blue, and brown with white rings around the lip.

Click through for some process shots.

Pre glazing

bucket-o'-glaze

glazed mugs

whole lotta glazed mugs

ready to fire

ready for use

more pics on flickr
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Itineraries

2011-10-23T21:21:00.000-07:00

These drawings track my movements in the second half of September 2010... walking, biking, driving, train-ing. This was supposed to be a long-term project over many months but that never happened.

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High science / Low art

2011-10-08T20:14:00.000-07:00

Top: Mount Wilson Electronics Reservation towers
Bottom: Simon Rodia's Watts Towers

LA river

2011-10-02T14:18:00.001-07:00

Birthday picnic

2011-09-26T23:27:00.001-07:00

In the belly of the whale part 1

2011-09-19T22:19:00.000-07:00

we woke up to this above our showerhead...

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What is this?

2011-09-18T16:47:00.000-07:00

You are invited...

2011-09-18T16:34:00.000-07:00

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

2011-02-28T22:01:00.000-08:00

Train People

2010-09-23T00:45:00.000-07:00

A Su Gusto

2010-09-08T13:40:00.000-07:00

Months and months ago, I flew to Costa Rica and labored in a jungle to build a hut.

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Someday I will...

2010-07-22T19:05:00.000-07:00

Eric Fisher

2010-06-09T17:11:00.000-07:00

These are all over the place right now, but they are so incredibly awesome I have to post them here. Eric Fisher mapped geotagged images on Flickr of cities around the world, and came up with these beautiful and somewhat abstracted maps. Too bad LA's is not as pretty as the rest. I want these on posters.

Black shows where images were taken, red denotes they were taken by tourists, blue by locals, and yellow undetermined.

Cities shown: LA, London, Paris, New York_

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Bottleshop

2010-05-23T23:30:00.000-07:00

A new project at The Ecology Center...
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Ohne bruder kann man leben nicht ohne Freund

2010-05-03T20:14:00.000-07:00

Small tent... Small house... Small country...

2010-03-18T23:08:00.000-07:00

2010-03-15T22:10:00.000-07:00

I think I just connected Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr...

Testing...

The Insanity...

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Holy Ground

2010-03-15T16:24:00.000-07:00

-ish

2010-02-17T21:36:00.000-08:00

Dugout...

2010-02-11T11:29:00.000-08:00

PHAT DESK

2010-01-19T18:00:00.000-08:00

The Phat desk is all about storage, providing extra space for a small place. Prodigious in volume, it wants to gobble up your stuff for a rainy day. Designed for a 10x10 room, it sits opposite your bed. Awesomely long, it is narrow enough to not crowd you out, while providing that work-surface you so desperately need. Currently under assembly, expect more to come...
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Junkyard of Dreams

2010-01-11T08:00:00.000-08:00

Care of Pick Your Part, the past dreams of others can fulfill your dreams of now. Pay $2, bring some tools, parts galore!

FREE-WAY

2010-01-10T22:03:00.000-08:00

I got a new camera for christmas, just a new point and shoot Casio, but it's nice to be able to take pictures anytime again. Yesterday, on a drive up I-5, I just started snapping away and couldn't stop. The freeway is a strange place, and I think these pictures are even stranger. The cars here are suspended in motion, driven by unknowing subjects, creating oddly voyeuristic and often intimate shots. The sidewise view renders a busy freeway as open, and captures an anonymity of place common here. As much as I can't stand the landscape of a freeway bound culture, I am fascinated by its imagery and its obsession with control against all odds.

It's January Every Day this Month!

2010-01-05T08:00:00.000-08:00

This month, and this month only, Meghan and I are doing an Urban Edit a day... They will be posted on our temporarily de-defuncted blog, The Kids At The Top of The Stairs. Check it out!
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À La Montero

2010-01-04T12:57:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday to mE!!

HAPY MEW (GNU) YEARR!!!

2010-01-01T12:44:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year!!!

2009-12-25T18:25:00.001-08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS_

2009-11-15T23:19:00.001-08:00

Eye

Golden

2009-11-13T19:08:00.000-08:00

LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne wrote an interesting piece on the expanding transit network in Los Angeles. Citing the pessimistic view of most towards Southern California's hopes and objections to building a cohesive transit network, he looks at the pending opening of the Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension (Sunday!) and the transformative nature of projects like it:

The real significance of the stations' debut on Sunday flows from the fact that with every substantial extension of the rail and subway network, another piece of the future Los Angeles comes startlingly into focus. More transit means more pedestrians, more people who pay attention to the shape and design of the city up close. That, in turn, means a growing constituency for shared space in Los Angeles and new interest in our long-neglected streetscapes and public sphere.

To put it another way: Transit and the life of the street are inextricably intertwined, and a boost to one is almost always a boost to the other.

At the same time, as trains trace new paths across the city, some of the divisions that for generations have made Los Angeles a balkanized collection of neighborhoods may begin to wobble or fall away.

That's not to say that some homogenization of L.A.'s various parts is on its way or should be our goal. Quite the opposite: New transit lines tend to throw the vibrant differences among neighborhoods into high relief.

The new line is an extension of the Gold line to Pasadena, and picks up from Union Station heading towards Little Tokyo/Arts District before turning east to Boyle Heights and East LA. It stitches together the up and coming urban neighborhoods downtown with the historic working class neighborhoods to the East, adding newly pedestrian destinations of, some say, the best Mexican restaurant in LA (La Sereneta de Garibaldi), Mariachi Plaza, and the rich culture of the Eastside. Sounds like it's time for some exploring!

Check it out: Eastside Extension Website

Also: An interesting and not so positive view on the effects of the Gold Line's construction on a community that relied on now-canceled buses to get to work: More on the Metro Gold Line and transportation racism . . .

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2009-11-13T17:33:00.000-08:00

Blackboard

Masters Edit

2009-11-03T11:11:00.000-08:00

UPDATED!
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SuperAndrew

2009-10-31T14:37:00.001-07:00

UPDATED!

Lately I haven't been feeling very super, but it being Halloween on Saturday I decided to change this by dressing up as super Andrew! aka David Bowie! aka Mr. Awesome! aka Anonymous Man! I love akas, can you tell? Anyways, i took an old long sleeve thermal and drew a logo and stenciled it in spray paint CMYK. I also love CMYK. Luckily, I had a party to go to so I flew my super self to LA and picked up Josh aka Karl Lagerfeld and Joanna aka Dorothy to drive across the "city" to Venice and said party. Greeted by Martha Stewart and crows and all manner of other confused beings, we partied aka sat by a fire into the wee hours of 2 am aka 1 am PST. Thanks DST, I'll miss you until next year. Thanks Halloween, this may be the only time you've ever cheered me up...

PS Unfortunately we took no photos, so if anyone knows the man in the black cape that was lurking in the shadows snapping away, do tell.

2009-10-29T13:30:00.000-07:00

SF-Upside-Down-Cake

Ode to a Billy Goat

2009-10-11T11:00:00.000-07:00

There once was a Billy Goat named Gene
Who lived in a time machine
But it whirred real fast
And flung him to the past
And he never again was seen

Billy Goat Billy Goat Billy Goat gray,
bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat
Why oh why are you so gray?
bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat
But it's so nice to see you today!
bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat
What!! don't say those things I pray!

bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat
You ate my foot now get away!
bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat
Not my arm no please I say!
bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat
Ouch my leg! It's no fillet!
bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat

Don't touch my hair, don't touch it! Hey!
bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat
Billy! Stop! My life I-
bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat

"I havent even finished eating my lunch burrito
face of concrete equals face of plywood"

What's your Ode? Send it to me and I'll post it here!

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Back in the USSR

2009-10-10T16:13:00.000-07:00

Recently rediscovered in my boxes of junk, I purchased these while in the Czech Republic a few years ago, where Angela and I wandered into an antique shop in the "Art Nouveau" district of Prague. Full of the typical antiques and curiosities, it was also full of boxes and boxes of old Soviet era trade union pins being sold for cents apiece. It was hard to find repeats in the thousands of pins, and each design was unique and beautiful, sometimes identifiable to the trade but most mysterious acronyms or illegible (to me) czech.

Plumbers and gardeners? Card players? Electrical engineers? Atomic scientists? Rocket scientists?

What do you think they're for?

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Food of Lime

2009-09-28T18:17:00.000-07:00

Sequoiadendron Giganteum Sunrise

2009-09-26T18:18:00.000-07:00

HBLM!

2009-09-25T17:35:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LORI MARMOLEJO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Timeline

2009-09-16T10:51:00.001-07:00

What Would Donald Judd Do?

2009-09-16T09:46:00.000-07:00

Someone needs to find these and guerrilla attack Josh's truck's bumper!

seen on Ready for the House
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2009-09-11T11:29:00.000-07:00

En Memoriam +8

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Urban Edit

2009-09-04T21:59:00.000-07:00

Wall Test

2009-09-03T18:09:00.000-07:00

If I were a Macbook...

2009-09-03T12:10:00.000-07:00

Dumbbox Display

2009-09-01T21:00:00.000-07:00

Here, classic produce packing boxes are recreated in fresh wood and used as a very simple means of display. Their simplicity belies a certain versatility, and their lack of handles keeps them off the farm.

Nice to meet you Mr. Salk

2009-09-01T08:00:00.000-07:00

Waffle My <3

2009-08-31T14:36:00.000-07:00

Waffles are great, Norwegian waffles are greater. Heart waffles are a tradition in my family, a Norwegian tradition brought out on special occasions for breakfast or dessert (don't all great foods fit these two categories?) . The waffles are thin and can be served like other waffles, with syrup and butter, but are best with a little butter and a lot of raspberry jam. A while back, my mom's heart waffler started leaving it's crunchy nonstick blackness on the waffles, and got tossed out in a fit of anti Teflon-eating fury. Finally a new heart waffler has entered our lives, and the joy of waffles anytime is again upon us!

California From Above

2009-08-30T19:05:00.000-07:00

1. Sidewise view of greater LA/OC showing Palos Verdes in the foreground with (from left) Mt. San Antonio and Mt. Harwood, Anderson Peak, San Gorgonio Mountain, San Jacinto Peak, Modjeska and Santiago Peaks (aka Saddleback mountain).

2. View after takeoff showing the bay and SFO to Pacifica and PCH (lower left).

3. The bay, creeping fog and the Crystal Springs Reservoirs.

4. View over San Luis Obispo to the Sierras.

5. Landing approach showing the Pacific coast from Bolsa Chica to Long Beach.

6. Former Pacific Electric right of way cutting through the sprawl.

7. Saddleback and the Tustin MCAS airship hangars. Landing.

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Garbage

2009-08-19T08:00:00.001-07:00

By Amy Mahnick

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2009-08-18T17:54:00.000-07:00

2009-08-18T08:00:00.000-07:00

California Luv

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Memphis, Tennessee

2009-08-17T08:00:00.000-07:00

By Wiliam Eggleston

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Mountains to the Sea

2009-08-16T17:15:00.001-07:00

The Ecology Center

2009-08-14T23:01:00.000-07:00

2009-08-14T11:16:00.000-07:00

Daisy Chain
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Communiqué

2009-08-13T15:14:00.000-07:00

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Pick a card, any card!
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Anatomy of a Produce Box

2009-08-07T13:20:00.000-07:00

2009-08-07T11:54:00.001-07:00

Love Your WaterShed

2009-08-05T13:47:00.000-07:00

"Ormsøy er til salgs! vi tenker a kjope den.
Va syntes du?"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

081309 s'plainer: Ormsøy is a small island off of the larger island Flekkerøy off the South coast of Norway near Kristiansand. It is accessed by small water craft, and until the nineteen seventies was the home of my grandpa's family. He lived there at some point, his father grew up there in a small red house, and his father's father et. al.. Anyways, it's for sale, but we don't really know if that means part or all or what. The price we were told is accessible- queue dreams of re-establishing the family homeland. It is large enough for some farming, has easy access to abundant fish and has four small summer houses including the small red one (see above).

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There's a lizard in my pocket

2009-08-04T13:27:00.000-07:00

Of Kings and Barbecues

2009-08-04T13:23:00.000-07:00

2009-07-31T12:20:00.001-07:00

SLO Sunrise
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Design Room/The Ecology Center

2009-07-30T15:27:00.000-07:00

Design Room

We're putting together a timeline/educational/inspirational display in The Ecology Center's design studio. The room itself is an educational space that accommodates a variety of uses including teaching on a blackboard, workshops, luncheons, hanging out and design consulting. The space is intended as a studio where in the future design/construction/landscape/sustainabilty professionals will have office hours to consult local residents on private projects. The room is in a house from the 1870s on one of Orange County's last working farms (South Coast Farms), the house being the domain of The Ecology Center.

So far, the main idea behind the installation centers on a series of sort of curio boxes that set narratives on specific topics. The topics are Waste, Water, Shelter, Energy, Transportation, Environment and Culture, and are part of the center's educational mission teaching people about sustainability through design and practical solutions at home. Each of these topics have a timeline that places them historically within the region and society/environment at large. The boxes will contain images, objects, water samples, soil samples, taxidermy, etc. etc. etc., and will be the starting point for explaining the timeline and concepts behind each topic.

Supporting the boxes will be additional framed images/ephemera that connect to tell the story of each topic/timeline.

This is the starting point, any ideas???

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Urban Edit

2009-07-30T15:04:00.000-07:00

Urban Edit Installment

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2009-07-30T08:53:00.000-07:00

Venice apartment

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Relationships

2009-07-29T16:54:00.000-07:00

Relationships

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Johnny Five is Alive!

2009-07-29T08:00:00.000-07:00

Jalopy

Word of the day: Jalopy

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WPA 2.0

2009-07-29T07:59:00.000-07:00

WPA 2.0

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3rd Grade Urbanism

2009-07-28T19:03:00.001-07:00

3rd grade urbanism

More on this later...

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2009-07-28T18:50:00.000-07:00

from city hall

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Limonadenverkäufer

2009-07-28T16:34:00.000-07:00

!!!!!!

from here

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040506070809

2009-07-08T04:05:00.001-07:00

04:05:06 07/08/09

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2009-06-27T16:53:00.001-07:00

!!!!

UPDATE: SOLD!
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Inconceivable

2009-06-25T12:04:00.000-07:00

Main Entry: of inconceivable
Pronunciation: \ˌin-kən-ˈsē-və-bəl\
Function: adjective
Date: 1624

: not conceivable: as a: impossible to comprehend b: unbelievable
— in·con·ceiv·abil·i·ty Listen to the pronunciation of inconceivability \-ˌsē-və-ˈbi-lə-tē\ noun
— in·con·ceiv·able·ness Listen to the pronunciation of inconceivableness \-ˈsē-və-bəl-nəs\ noun
— in·con·ceiv·ably Listen to the pronunciation of inconceivably \-blē\ adverb

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Ross Racine

2009-06-22T10:00:00.000-07:00

Dave first described the work of Ross Racine to me when he saw it at Like the Spice Gallery in Williamsburg. Naturally, descriptions of aerial images of dream suburbs piqued my interest, but the lack of a name and the closing of the show kept me from seeing them. Then one day, browsing the internet (I hate the term browsing for some reason, and I think it may have been on Ben's blog), I found Ross's work!

With names like "Goldenwood Shores" and "Beachview Buffs", his images immediately fulfill my love for traveling via Google Earth and obsession with maps and aerial images. Drawn freehand into the computer, without the use of of photos or scans, his work evokes the surrealness of real life American suburbia. Houses clustered into innocent looking cloud formations, crazy arrangments of streets and cul-de-sacs, or masses of concentric arcs, seem as detached from a larger reality as real suburbs seem to be. Further, the work seems especially appropriate during this time of soul searching for the battered American Dream.

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THIS IS (amazing) CAKETOWN!!

2009-06-21T16:52:00.000-07:00

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An amazing remix of "this is caketown" inspired by the life affirming 300 trailer pg version. Caketown has since become a term widely used in über hip architecture circles to describe the current state of pop architecture, epitomized by buildings of faux/foam detail freakishness smeared with stucco icing that are often featured on New York Shitty and Curbed, among others.

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The Putting Lot

2009-06-20T00:00:00.000-07:00

Well I may be a little late to the game on this one, and a little far away, but the friendly folks of Meat Pallet never cease to delight with their tastefully seasoned offerings. Introducing the Putting Lot, of Bushwick New York. A brooklyn-ized revival of the revered form of childhood recreation commonly known as Miniature Golf. Good job guys! Now if only I can get there and play me a round!

Pachinko Putt Putt by Meat Pallet (image c/o Nummy Nimms)

@ The Putting Lot

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Urban Edit

2009-06-19T00:00:00.000-07:00

Urban edit is art in the tradition of art. It is a continuing project.

Landscape painters traditionally paint landscapes in their idealized form. Following that lead, the modern landscape is painted (in this case photographed pre painting) and edited into an idealized version of itself. Through the simple act of covering (often through a color mask of the CMYK range), the new landscape reveals impact and relief, man and nature and often the patterns of both. It is a diagrammatic abstraction fused with the long tradition of fine art, resulting in something unexpected, and often rather nice.

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AR(c)TIC in OC?

2009-06-18T10:36:00.001-07:00

Design aside, this is one exciting building. HOK's above image for a new regional transit hub in "downtown" Anaheim represents a major step forward for Southern California. Intended to be built by 2013, the building will connect Metrolink, Amtrak, Disney monorail, local transit and high speed rail underneath a vaulted roof inspired by the rail stations of days past. Can this building really be designed for Orange County? (Check out the map below)

View Larger Map

The pedestrian neighborhood this hub will serve is as speculative as pedestrians in Orange County. But who says a parking lot sandwiched between a freeway and a dry drainage ditch today, across the freeway from Angel Stadium and next door to Honda center, can't be the planner's pedestrian paradise of tomorrow? Maybe it's name says it all: ARTIC (Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center). Don't kid yourself, there's no ice in the OC.

BUT, there will be ice in the OC!!

As a not so side note: This hub and it's immediate neighborhood will tie into Anaheim's Platinum Triangle (I know cheesy right?), a partially built, partially under construction, partially stalled by economics project that's attempting to bring some dense, mixed use, walkable urbanism to the area between the 5 and 57 freeways that is Angel Stadium, Honda Center, Convention center and Disneyland adjacent.

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2009-06-17T15:46:00.000-07:00

So I'm working the aforementioned youth design ecological summer workshop and I've been given the task of developing a day-long curriculum for introducing high school age kids to architecture and design with a specific eye for sustainability. Seeing as architecture is a huge thing to comprehend, distilling everything I know/can research about it into a day long charrette/presentation is somewhat daunting. Any thoughts? They'll already have had a week long introduction into design and sustainability, just not the architecture component.

More to come...

urban edit

2009-06-07T00:19:00.000-07:00

2009-06-05T01:09:00.001-07:00

"We are men of action, lies do not become us"

I Am Summer Camp

2009-06-05T00:13:00.001-07:00

i am an old lady

2009-06-03T10:30:00.000-07:00

june 20 - june 17, 2007

old ladies paint. i think i do too. on the above dates i am participating in paint san clemente, a plein air painting competition focused on painting the city of san clemente, ca. i've participated in this twice, and am usually pretty cool for doing it. i even got an honorable mention once, just don't call me an old lady!

fyi: "plein air" translates literally as "full air" but is used to mean outdoors and has come to represent a whole genre of painting. mostly pretty boring painting if you're not an old lady, but people usually think it's pretty so...

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2009-06-01T10:43:00.001-07:00

and this is lori's!

...this message is intended for one laura sperry!

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2009-06-01T10:42:00.000-07:00

this is my take on the hammer museum...

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my work week

2009-05-31T12:00:00.000-07:00

cabinet: sided in 100 y.o. redwood planks, framed in reclaimed lumber, filled with junk

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de-

2009-05-30T00:53:00.000-07:00

TROIT

from Curbed: "Starting in the early 90s, photographer Kevin Bauman took photographs of 100 abandoned houses in Detroit, Michigan" (photographs are his)

...

i want to go here. must. see. this. must see before gone. now.

these places fascinate me. they are at once depressing and incredibly beautiful (melancholy?). it strikes me that these neighborhoods that were at once subdivided from larger parcels have been reverse subdivided by the deleting of their neighbors. imagine a new era of urban homesteading where new yorker's sick of their tiny apartments but still desiring the cachet of a big city move to the abandoned blocks of detroit and buffalo to establish farms amidst the street grid of a disappeared city.

the once fertile grounds are consolidated block by block and the streets disappear to rows of crops and windbreaks... the once abandoned apartment houses are reborn as bunkhouses for migrant workers who report to the ruralized townhouse for their daily directions. plowing digs up children's toys and abandoned fragments of heirlooms, sprinkler systems, forgetten fire hydrants, furniture... and a collapsing sewer system inverts itself into marshes and slowly establishing creeks.

the migration west of the last fifty years that continues to develop the farms of the west results in the re-establishment of farms in the east. could this be measured? could the continuing (?) displacement in the west be replaced with an equal amount of new farming in formerly urban neighborhoods like those in detroit? new development across the country could be required to subsidize the urban homesteaders as an act of recompense for the farmland they've erased... the same could be applied to logging!! the detroit of the future: a city amidst farms and forest?

EDIT: lori brought up a good idea... could the ordos 100 project be reworked and implemented in a place like this, a sort of ordos meets 8 mile concept? sounds like a recipe for michigan drug plantations, rapping architects, hmm...

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the only corn i like

2009-05-30T00:35:00.001-07:00

From GPC

also i just read on eater that Cafe Habana of SOHO fame is coming to Venice and Malibu! crazy

maybe I won't have to move back to New York! heck, if it keeps movin' out here.... another sign LA is the New York of this century, yay!!!!!

From GPCB

2009-05-29T23:58:00.000-07:00

so this is cool! lulu put me on amazon! i'm not sure lulu does this for everyone, but if not i feel super special, and if so, i'm happy about it anyways! woohoo, buy my book! (it's cheaper on lulu!)

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voy a patear sus computadoras

2009-05-29T10:20:00.000-07:00

so, of course i haven't been posting so much.

this is partly due to my broken computer. yuuup, one year after a $450 fix my computer is toast once more. well, toast is actually useful and tasty, so i guess it's more like really burnt toast without the smell (and i usually like burnt toast!)

i've already speant $40 for someone to tell me my computer is completely fine and that they didn't have any problems TURNING IT ONE, which i can't do. it's not really worth throwing $450 at it again for another motherboard fix, that's half the price of what would probably be an equally performing laptop, or 1/6 the price of the laptop to kill all laptops. grrrr.

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title: Voy a patear sus culos

2009-05-29T10:11:00.000-07:00

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2009-05-19T17:06:00.000-07:00

well, today is an exciting day, but before i tell you about my exciting day, i accidentally typed in the address: http://bcbg.blogspot.com/ before i got here, and wow! i'm not sure i really want to put a name on it for the sake of that person and ALL of their feelings, but is everyone like that? hmmmm...

anyways!!! dunt dun-aaaaa! to the exciting part...

a new word! a glorious new word invented just today!

EXCEPOT

excepot is it's own exciting thing! it has no etymological source. it is a free, wonderful, beautiful new word!

you are certainly an excepot and you are excepot

maybe when you leave you will excepot something.

with this word, you will feel like someone just handed you the moon and and you won't know quite what to do with it!

everyone excepotally (adverb) excepots (verb) excepot (adjective) excepots (noun) everyday!!!!

you see, it is at once a noun, adjective, adverb and a verb!!!! it is one of the most useful amazing new words ever heard or uttered by an english speaker of the late-post industrial/capitalist social construct! frankly, if someone calls you an excepot, you should be flattered. THEN!

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2009-05-07T14:52:00.000-07:00

so today i cut my finger off. no not really, but i did slice a little chunk off the tip!! haha, i was cutting some glass and got a little too excited and, voila, impromptu plastic surgery! hmmm, someone should do some rearch on this, maybe a hidden market? well, i guess band-aid probably has that one cornered. and psychologists... then i made bandage out of blue masking tape which turned into a little blood filled sac. what did you get yourself into?? glass cutting IS exciting. i broke pretty much a whole sheet yesterday, then i got excited and got to break it some more. woohoo. oh, and my grandma leaves on saturday. wierd. beach party!

NOTE: this pictures is not actually of my finger, i don't think it was that bad actually but it was a while ago and i didn't have a camera then. picture was found in a google image search and is from http://www.yourpalchrismal.com/.

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2009-05-06T09:59:00.000-07:00

happy seis de mayo

words:
sedate
comatose (comatoes?)
dubitable

girlfriend

also, check out this rather nice site. you've probably seen it since it won some huge award (webby) but if you havn't it's sweet! dreams!!!! http://www.dreamgrove.org/

also, i'm thinking on a project of architecture made of movable furniture, does anyone have any good casters or rollers that can support some weight but not get in the way??

2009-05-01T10:26:00.000-07:00

so sad news, our mailman at suite 923 passed away. i never new his name but everyday he would come in with the mail, smiling, saying hello to everyone. it was like happiness walked in the door with him. he had a special thing going with penny, they were buds, i like to think. the building was a classic twenties noirish office building, and somehow he fit right in... mailman, you'll be missed!

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2009-04-30T11:03:00.000-07:00

lori: PFT
kid sucks
word of the day
kid
drifinition: a) a young goat
Sent at 10:59 AM on Thursday
lori: b) an easy word to use to make someone give you the evil eye

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