The Future of L+S...

A few design ideas for Lines + Stars, done by my talented pal Wiena Lin (www.wienalin.com)....

Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum (Netherlands)

The architects invented a new kind of glazing with the collaboration of a multi-media artist, Jaap Drupsteen. An amazing exterior of color and movement for a building that is primarily used for storage of film and soundtracks from Dutch radio and television.
Check it outhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/arts/design/26visi.html
http://www.drupsteen.nl/

Alyssa-rama-lama!

Some photos from Friday's opening...

Building-Plundering and Other Sundries

I'm working on an article for my old employer (Preservation Mag) about copper theft from historic buildings (which, of course, totally screws up the buildings). Found these two cool sites in the searching process:

http://gowanuslounge.blogspot.com/ -- blog about development/preservation in the Brooklyn waterfront area
http://www.saveindustrialbrooklyn.org/ -- Brooklyn-based preservation group that focuses on sustainable reuse of industrial structures....the interactive map is cool!

Max Roach dies this week.

click above for NPR story aired today (Aug 17th)

Tunnel Hizzle and Other 'Sundries

Check out the link above for a ridiculous/great thing.

Also: www.woostercollective.com. Street-art loveliness!

tracing made pretty thing

I was tracing a cornice today in CAD from a blk and white line drawing. My eyes were hurting and then I realized there was quite a pretty thing in front of me.

Fabulous Fringe

Reds! We should go to some of these performances:

www.capfringe.org

Looks like they haven't posted the schedule yet. Bound to be good. Let's!

BTW- Have you all seen my new bionic arm?

lime plaster on the outside

earthen plaster wall it is beautiful!

straw bale plaster column and wall before and after

sight!

This boring looking machine allows a person to actually take in visual information through the tongue! basically a person without site can wear a video camera on a headpiece, the video information goes into a computer- the out into a small postage stamp size thingy that you put on your tongue, this transmission goes into the tongue and is then reorganized as a visual picture in your brain! I emailed them last week to see if I could try it, maybe make some drawings or something. cool huh? their website www. wicab.us/ soo cool
also other links
www.heatherboaz.com
www.myspace.com/heatherboaz
www.heatherboaz.blogspot.com
things I like:
http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/2007/01/02/jim-bumgardners-time-graphs/
http://www.americanbattlefield.com/video.htm (my fave ghost video)

Poetry in the Crapper

Despite my totally crass blog-title, this is totally cool:

http://bathroompoet.net/

I'm in the process of befriending the poet. We can write things in bathrooms together!!