Well pretty seriously, anyway. Okay, so I went to see Adm. Mike Mullen speak at Columbia U. after which there was a question/answer session. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to ask my question, but I was able to write my question down and give it to his aid, with the assurance that the Admiral always reads all these questions… *although his aids most definitely answer them.. he’s a pretty busy guy… so this email is probably in fact from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff anonymous aid.. but oh well. I still think its cool.
Brooklyn Bourgeois Bohemians - “Young, comfortable and inclined toward creativity, they enjoy a utopian-seeming existence marked by strolls down tree-lined streets, carefully chosen foods and leisurely weekends spent in coffee bars and parks. An existence only occasionally marred by the realization that this is not the hopped-up New York they came to conquer.”
This is my friend’s blog. It’s still in it’s infancy, but if his intellect and ambition are any indicator, base-12.net will be a website you will want to frequent.
He talks about emergent design, media, systems of organization, and other good stuff.
So I’m starting a tumblr for this crazy NetLab that I’m helping out with over the summer and beyond. It will include musings, cool things, and if all goes according to plan… RESEARCH.
NetLab is a research lab affiliated with Columbia University GSAPP. It is headed up by Kazys Varnelis, who I’m very glad to be able to know.
It’s rather tragic that the Fondation Le Corbusier insisted that this replica of Ronchamp in Zhengzhou be destroyed. It would have been his most important work, and a great example of atemporailty today. Via Zoohaus.
“A 12 page newsprint periodical collecting and collating the best of literature from travel guides, treatises, pamphlets, books, receipts and ephemera. Each looks through the lens “of to-day”, revelling in the present and present history, whether from the 18th Century or the 20th.”
For some time I’ve been intrigued by the lives of Gen X and Gen Y cast-offs from middle class society. Admittedly, this observation served as a mirror to my own life as a new single parent; my radar detected no fewer than ten persons - two degrees of Facebook separation or less - who also fit the bill.
@kazys Of course. The historian has already done the work so I presume it’s more efficient not to backtrack within the limited time of the class. Not advocating for the reverse chronology; just exercising a thought.
“The design of the space relied heavily on input from the users, appropriate for a flatly structured company that weights every employee’s opinion equally.The Facebook platform was used to conduct company-wide polls about design decisions, post construction photos and updates, and keep everyone informed of the thought process behind the project…”
The printed version of the Catalog Tree website archive. It is generated and printed on demand and reflects the dynamic nature of the source, allowing each edition to be revised and updated. The book will continue to expand untill it reaches 801 pages.
The role of the family photo changed at a glacial pace over its first hundred years. Initially they emulated paintings, the subjects formally posing for long exposure times. The Kodak Brownie and Instamatic made photography portable, allowing for more casual photographs to be taken. Still, a degree of formality was necessary and photographs were expensive objects, largely serving to mark special occasions and the passage of time.
