Things You Should Probably Know, pt. 1

Drawing Practice Precedents

Rem Koolhaas: Two Libraries for Jussieu
Perry Kulper: Drawings
Petra Kempf: You Are the City
Carlo Scarpa: Drawings for Brion Cemetery
Cedric Price: The Fun Palace
Wes Jones: Shanghai North Bund Plaza
James Corner: Taking Measures Across the American Landscape
Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis: Projects from Situation Normal
Mark Lombardi: Global Networks
Peter Eisenman: House VI
Bernard Tschumi: The Manhattan Transcripts
Daniel Libeskind: Micromegas
Daniel Libeskind: Chamber works: Architectural Meditations on Themes from Heraclitus
Thom Mayne and Andrew Zago: Sixth Street House
Diller Scofidio Renfro: Slow House

taking up mental space

• Schrodinger's cat. The measure of reality vs. living.
  
• Mr. Darcy and Charlotte Lucas. Romance vs. practicality.
  
• The basic plots: man vs. man; man vs. the society; man vs. nature; man vs. himself; man vs. god
  

Obsessed With:

• Erwin Olaf
  
• Henry Cartier-Bresson. Saw today at Moma; on through June 28th.
  
• quantum physics

Oh and of course Obsessed With

• (and simultaneously repulsed and intrigued by) the KFC Double Down

Obsessed with:

• Digby and Iona. Good craftmanship, unique themes. I hope they do a "shark" or "predator" series.
  
• Bánh Mì. Again.
  
• Planck's constant.
  
• trying Stonyfield Vanilla Chai Ice-Cream.
  
• Camper's spring line is really doing it for me. They're usually not my type of lesbian shoes.
  
• Alexander McQueen Fall 2010 Caliper Heels. There is a white satin ballet pair that I can't find on the web but was featured in Gotham Magazine's March issue. Want.
  

Right Now Obsessed With:

• the difference between whose and who's.
  
• what malt balls are made of.
  
• Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
  

Right Now I Am Obsessed With:

• finding out who Alexander Skarsgård is dating? Who?
  
• unicorns and cakes and pie and stabbing!
  
• figuring out what a future crazy cat lady who is allergic to cats becomes.
  

Right Now I Am Obsessed With:

• Loeffler Randall, specifically their shoes (always obsessed)
  
• (always obsessed with) Roland Mouret, SS2010
  
• sifting through the material artifacts of my childhood at imremembering.tumblr.com
  
• the FBI's evil minds research museum
  
• FBI podcasts

Right Now I Am Obsessed With:

• Marwencol
  
• The Mourners
  
• The Ghost Who Walks
  

I Am Always Obsessed With:

• La Tapatia burritos
  

Right Now I Am Obsessed With:

• my new game: trying to choose seven people from the people on the subway train that I'd want to be stuck with in a life-or-death situation, i.e. stranded with on a desert island.
• Conan's Freckles
  
• Michael Jordan's tweets.
  
• deciding on a grad school.
  
• checking astrology zone for advice with the above. Aware this is not a good sign.
  
• my neighborhood florist/skateshop/babyclothes purveyor. Yeah. All of that in one.

Right Now I Am Obsessed With

• making these curtains
  
• designing a shelf from pipes that is pressure mounted (not sure if that is the correct term) but also aesthetically pleasing and won't beggar me.
  
• not being obsessed with my local coffee guy who, it turns out, is not single.
  
• everything to do with Erykah Badu's new album, mostly gleaned from her and questlove's twitter convos.
  
• having a love like theirs. (in the "one love" sense, you know).
  

Right Now I Am Obsessed With:

• having a dinner party where everyone is given a pen and paper and no one is allowed to speak.
  
• getting to know the guy at my local coffee shop without having to buy coffee every morning.
  
• circuit symbols
  

This Week I am Obsessed With:

• McCormick Montreal Steak Seasoning
  
• gay Tylenol PM ads
  
• the wood works of artist gehard demetz
  
• Cannibal! The Musical
  
• Luca Luca Fall 2010 collection
  

This Week I Am Obsessed With:

• Capitalization in Titles
  
• William Kentridge
  
• pinpointing the accent of the guy behind the counter of the local coffee shop
  
• searching "architecture" at the grad cafe to see if anyone's heard from Berkeley for mArch III.
  
• Marina Abramovic and Ulay's relationship and "reunion".
  

Another article on depression

from the NY Times.

It's a pretty theory:

The alternative, of course, is that depression has a secret purpose and our medical interventions are making a bad situation even worse. Like a fever that helps the immune system fight off infection — increased body temperature sends white blood cells into overdrive — depression might be an unpleasant yet adaptive response to affliction.

But it doesn't address the overwhelming grays and perhaps more serious sufferers of depression.

Old thug beats young thug up

On AC Transit. All these fights on busses makes the Bay Area look...not so great...

Old thug's explanation:

In Which Ernest Hemingway Is The Finest Quivering Sensitive of Our Time

link to excerpt from Intellectuals.

Hemingway sounds like a fantastic brute. I love hearing about selfish brilliants, as long as they don't touch my life.

Today

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public
doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
-Auden

Bad Ass: Vardzia

Vardzia is a ruined honeycomb of arched passageways and artificially enlarged caves on a steep mountainside in Georgia. It is on a "tentative list" for UNESCO World Heritage status.

From bldg blog.