and a fantasy zillow search
renders a
mouse in a maze
girl in a phase
coast in a craze
12/31/15
12/30/15
4" steps exist
breakfast sausage egg mcmuffin coffee with one cream
lunch first a latte with a hair in it, second a latte without hair, for free
snack stupid sourdough toast with hard cold butter and two plastic tabs of 'fruit jam'
three miles of slow walking to and fro up and down Santa Monica pier, beach, and city hall measuring comfortable 4" steps which do exist, perfect retaining walls two feet by five inches for sort of leaning against, admiring some perfect public beach house after the latte with the stray hair, free parking, and now five hours refreshed.
one hundred and forty nine days until I graduate is one day less than one hundred and fifty.
lunch first a latte with a hair in it, second a latte without hair, for free
snack stupid sourdough toast with hard cold butter and two plastic tabs of 'fruit jam'
three miles of slow walking to and fro up and down Santa Monica pier, beach, and city hall measuring comfortable 4" steps which do exist, perfect retaining walls two feet by five inches for sort of leaning against, admiring some perfect public beach house after the latte with the stray hair, free parking, and now five hours refreshed.
one hundred and forty nine days until I graduate is one day less than one hundred and fifty.
12/21/15
12/12/15
12/10/15
light at end of unlit tunnel
LAST Studio
This past semester, I got to make a chair, many triangles, and a few squares. With ups and downs and all-over-the-places, the studio experience has been nothing short of indescribable. Sometimes it feels like torture, sometimes the most delightful thing - design studio is a strange and special place to be - a pleasure and a pain.
12/8/15
11/19/15
Poet of the Streets
EXCERPT from Poet of the Streets by Jack Micheline, 1960
...
a poet walks in the cold wind
his head raised humble and unafraid
death around him filled with waste and banners
death all around him
walking alone with birds above the canoe shaped moons
sounds are heard and the sky glows in darkness
I am not afraid.
...
a poet walks in the cold wind
his head raised humble and unafraid
death around him filled with waste and banners
death all around him
walking alone with birds above the canoe shaped moons
sounds are heard and the sky glows in darkness
I am not afraid.
11/17/15
Fire and Memory
BOOK Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy by Luis Fernandez-Galiano translated by Gina Carino, 2000
p. 59
"natural processes alter the homogeneity of mechanical time: flowers open and close at different hours of the day, and the branches of a tree bloom on different days, depending on their cardinal position."
28:20
In relation to a call beyond mechanistic thinking, student of Rudolf Steiner, Alan Chadwick, references biodynamic theory where "none of the planets and the stars have been in the same position. The whole aspect of them is different. The whole story is a new story."
p. 59
"natural processes alter the homogeneity of mechanical time: flowers open and close at different hours of the day, and the branches of a tree bloom on different days, depending on their cardinal position."
28:20
In relation to a call beyond mechanistic thinking, student of Rudolf Steiner, Alan Chadwick, references biodynamic theory where "none of the planets and the stars have been in the same position. The whole aspect of them is different. The whole story is a new story."
11/10/15
color
Remember dreaming in color and joy
Don't filter or desaturate it
Let them move in accidental life
And love in ridiculous wonder
11/7/15
This to That
SCHOOLS + space
Researching the lineage of spatial patterns in schools and places of learning in cities. The research goes all over the place, from Foucault's Discipline and Punish, the Industrial Revolution, to the cool schools of the Netherlands.
Site here and listen, please.
Researching the lineage of spatial patterns in schools and places of learning in cities. The research goes all over the place, from Foucault's Discipline and Punish, the Industrial Revolution, to the cool schools of the Netherlands.
Site here and listen, please.
11/4/15
10/29/15
poem for anxiety
POEM for anxiety - The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
When despair grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
When despair grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
10/19/15
Meals
MEALS Josephine - Home cooked meals in the East Bay
I remember when I was little and hanging out in Taiwan with my grandpa, he took me to play tennis. We played, and I tired out with side cramps pretty quickly. After that, he drove me on his motor scooter and we stopped at someone's apartment. It was someone's kitchen, and everyone was familiar. We ate rice noodles and it was a nice place, like a friend's house. My grandpa paid and we left.
On Friday, I'll be doing the same thing, but in the present day through this Josephine website. I don't know why it's a person's name, but what ever. I'm looking forward to having a special meal that I didn't cook, and for once not eating grad school food truck caffeine food. While supporting my friend and my stomach soul of course.
I remember when I was little and hanging out in Taiwan with my grandpa, he took me to play tennis. We played, and I tired out with side cramps pretty quickly. After that, he drove me on his motor scooter and we stopped at someone's apartment. It was someone's kitchen, and everyone was familiar. We ate rice noodles and it was a nice place, like a friend's house. My grandpa paid and we left.
On Friday, I'll be doing the same thing, but in the present day through this Josephine website. I don't know why it's a person's name, but what ever. I'm looking forward to having a special meal that I didn't cook, and for once not eating grad school food truck caffeine food. While supporting my friend and my stomach soul of course.
10/16/15
schools cities learning play
COLLAGE of childhood and cities
Did this set for class with my parallel studio partner for // actions x // places in reference to schools, cities, learning, and play. Looking back, I'm grateful to have had all of that and I still do, thanks to good parents and good fortune.
10/9/15
timshel
BOOK East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
Reluctantly, I came to the last page of the book this morning. It seems as though it's taken just about 55 years to read, in a good way. There are too many good quotes to quote, so I won't because I don't have to. Is that the point?
Reluctantly, I came to the last page of the book this morning. It seems as though it's taken just about 55 years to read, in a good way. There are too many good quotes to quote, so I won't because I don't have to. Is that the point?
10/6/15
risk, opportunity
BRAINSTORM list of words
fire, flood
________
prevention
protection
management
mitigation
damage
hazard
safety
insurance
________
instigation
exposure
spontaneity
uncertainty
repair
protection
inevitability
recurrence
urban-rural as f(disturbance, order)
urban-rural, order-reorder, whole
snapshot conditions, rates of change
mosaic v linear bands, scale 0 to ∞
how can a serious problem be made into an asset through design?
how can a set of risks be co-opted?
how can multiple scales be communicated instantaneously?
fire, flood
________
prevention
protection
management
mitigation
damage
hazard
safety
insurance
________
instigation
exposure
spontaneity
uncertainty
repair
protection
inevitability
recurrence
urban-rural as f(disturbance, order)
urban-rural, order-reorder, whole
snapshot conditions, rates of change
mosaic v linear bands, scale 0 to ∞
how can a serious problem be made into an asset through design?
how can a set of risks be co-opted?
how can multiple scales be communicated instantaneously?
9/29/15
alchemy
ALCHEMY of thoughts and things
After all, letting the unlit processes of the subconscious matter to turn and bind in our sleep; allowing for the formation of thoughts and things for our rational minds to have for breakfast when we awaken.
9/17/15
CASFS catsfists
FARM & GARDEN Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems CASFS
This is where I learned about poetry and met a few cool cats:
This is where I learned about poetry and met a few cool cats:
9/15/15
most of all
most of all
via Tom Robbins' Still Life with Woodpecker:
9/2/15
2015
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| January - Hope Language School - Miaoli - Taiwan |
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| March - Vertical Cities Studio - Pinnacle at Duxton - Singapore |
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| April - Lowell Park - Oakland - California |
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May - Carrizo Plain - California
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| May - Landworks - Argenteria - Sardinia |
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| June - Forestry Camp - Meadow Valley - California |
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| August - Bahay Kubo - Union City - California |
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| September - Wurster Hall - Berkeley - California |
8/1/15
Neighbors Barbecue
how to be a poet
says to let words come out of silence
so the fleas are flying out from nowhere
so I'll ignore it and it doesn't bother me
play some eighties music around the fire
after a barbecue dinner off highway 70
on a warm evening of dry lightning
sugar pine cones drop like bocce balls
bitten off by Douglas squirrels
our shoulders safe for now
7/4/15
5/5/15
Big Idea
BIG IDEA Bahay Kubo 'Little Hut'
It's been a longtime dream of my friend, Aileen, to set up a "little hut," a place to practice culturally rooted gardening and cooking with Filipino-American youth. Once a vision, it's now materializing as an official, first place Big Idea. "Tradition is invented."
It's been a longtime dream of my friend, Aileen, to set up a "little hut," a place to practice culturally rooted gardening and cooking with Filipino-American youth. Once a vision, it's now materializing as an official, first place Big Idea. "Tradition is invented."
5/4/15
5/1/15
4/27/15
4/16/15
4/13/15
4/8/15
photoshop is my friend
PERSPECTIVE Island City
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| Quick competition sketch: photo of clay model, stolen bridge, and bats! |
4/7/15
3/13/15
3/5/15
Desire Lines
HIKE Desire Trails
In my inbox today via Merritt Horticulture's Landscape Design Forum: Desire Trails, a Sunday walk hosted by the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin.
"where the ground becomes imprinted evidence of a place that wants to be discovered"
And in my personal mental box, desires to build a massive, daunting thing out of sticks and things, with a bit of color, frenetic pieces looking like they are decomposing from a mass very straight, and lots of light filtered, dappled, and omitted. Which leads me right back, to the Headlands.
In my inbox today via Merritt Horticulture's Landscape Design Forum: Desire Trails, a Sunday walk hosted by the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin.
"where the ground becomes imprinted evidence of a place that wants to be discovered"
And in my personal mental box, desires to build a massive, daunting thing out of sticks and things, with a bit of color, frenetic pieces looking like they are decomposing from a mass very straight, and lots of light filtered, dappled, and omitted. Which leads me right back, to the Headlands.
3/3/15
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